Daddy Needs an Office!

At the same time the kitchen was being gutted and redone we also had the crew create a space for Chris’s office. Even pre-covid, Chris had to have an office. At the time I worked each weekday afternoon 3:30-8 and Chris would come home for that time and finish his work day at home. In our previous home he had had a bedroom that he used as an office. When we bought our current home there was not a great place he could go and close the door and work. But there were 3 closets that backed up to each other. One was in what would be Gray’s room (Gray’s room pictured far left, his would-be closet pictured middle) one in what would be the playroom/4th bedroom (pictured right), and one in the hallway (don’t seem to have a picture of this). This part is a little hard to explain in words, but I will try and hopefully, the pictures will help even more.

The closets were combined to make basically an 8×8 room that would be Chris’s office. It isn’t huge, but it works. Since part of it was the closet in Gray’s room we had to create another closet for him. So we went into Clara’s room and redid her closet. Before the remodel she had had a long, skinny closet that sat in somewhat of a bump out. We took the bump out away and made it a deeper closet and then took the length and cut it in half, giving the other half to Gray. The closet in the hallway was just completely lost, which stinks since that was a big linen closet and storage was definitely lacking in the home once we got rid of it. In the playroom/4^th bedroom we created a new closet that bumped out into the room instead of the recessed one that had been there.
The moving around of all of these walls created huge problems for our flooring which meant we were going to have to change out flooring soon, but at least the walls were in the right places.

The first 2 pictures below show the doors to Clara’s old closet. The 2nd one shows what I mean by the bump out. The 3rd picture shows what would be the entrance to the new closet in Gray’s room. The 4th-7th pictures show how the ceiling for Chris’s office looked once the closets were combined. We did have the light centered. The 8th picture shows the new closet in the playroom.