The Office & The Bathroom

This is where our desk used to sit, inside our bedroom. This is the view you would see when entering our bedroom. The laptop carrying bag, Chad's work bag, several bags he receives at conferences he attends (what to do with all of those?), a large stack of the journals he receives in the mail but hasn't had a chance to look at yet...and that is just the floor. Plus the stacks of materials on top of the desk. Not really what you want in your bedroom.
Here is the desk's new home! (Thanks for helping Chad move it downstairs Justin!) It is so nice to have this space for the desk. (I would show a picture of the entry from the doorway of our bedroom now but all the stuff that was on the floor and on top of the desk is still on the floor there!) We would like to get some shelves for books and what not down there yet, (then we can move the stuff out of our bedroom - what will we do with the extra space in our room?) replace the socks under the desk with some furniture coaster things and hang some things on the walls. Probably some OSU paraphernalia! (You can see what the space used to look like here.)

This is the cork floor that Chad put down in the office and the nice trim work by Chad and Justin.

Here is the guest bathroom in the basement.

The shower.....

Chad stained the concrete floor in the bathroom. I will admit I was pretty sceptical about this. I wasn't sure how it would look. Plus it is a concrete floor and in the basement, so in the winter this floor could be quite cold! (Bring your slippers when you come to see us!!) But I really like how it turned out. Love the marble effect and the chocolate brown that pops out. It did turn out a little more orange than what the picture on the internet looked but we still really like it. We still need to hang a towel bar in here and get something for storage. (We did get an antique washstand but we have decided not to keep it in the bathroom. We would like to find something with a dark finish like the mirror for in here for towels etc. Maybe even just a large shelf for a spa like feel :) We plan on the putting the washstand in the guest bedroom or out in the semi-finished part of the basement to put toys/games in.)

Here is one of the 5 doors Chad has stained. He has one more to do and then the doors will be done. This one turned out really well. It is quite the process of two coats of stain plus two coats of top coat with sanding and allowing time to dry in between coats.