I finally finished all the painting and cleaning of my new office today.  Then Patrick came over after work and set up my new desk…and then he moved my computer and all the peripherals and got them set up in the new space…and then he moved the tv and all the electronic equipment to a new spot in the family room and got that all set up!  Thank you, Patrick!  You are great!

The new office space is going to be fabulous.  I still have to move 3 more bookcases as well as one more file cabinet, but I should be able to get that finished tomorrow.  Then I’ll start in on making the family room habitable which also should also happen tomorrow.

I’ve really let the house go as a result of all the work in the office, so need to deal with a lot of that before heading back to work on Monday.  What a great week off this has been!  Even though I worked almost constantly getting all this work completed, it was sooo worth it.  Manual labor is entirely different than what I do week after week at work.  It was so nice not to have to think about anything other than whether or not the paint was going on smoothly and whether I needed to touch up the edges.

I still have to paint the closet doors as well as a small bit of trim around the doors, but that wasn’t necessary to get the office moved.  So I’ll finish it up as soon as I get the house back in order–which probably won’t be until next weekend if I really want to get the rest of this mess cleaned up.  But for now I am quite satisfied with all the redo work from this vacation.

What I’d like to know, though, is how they get all that painting and remodeling completed on all those HGTV shows in just 1-2 days.  It sure seems easier and goes more quickly on tv than it is in person!