My office is ready for demo. We emptied the four bookcases… moved them into DH’s office… I stashed everything in boxes, which are now staged all over the house…. I moved the other pieces of furniture and all my computer gear into the family room. It is a madhouse throughout the rest of this house, but this room — it’s ready for its transformation from a makeshift office into a Pam Cave.
Because I spend so much time in this room, and because it is in the basement and quite cold in the winter, I decided to ask my contractor — the amazing Kevin Sullivan of Colonial Restoration, Dalton, Mass. — if he could help do a few improvements. Amazingly, I did not have to wait like three months — he just happened to have about a 10-day window between two huge jobs, so it was Ready Set Let’s Go.
So how I am I spending the dough re mi? Kevin is going to take down all the paneling…. furr out the outside walls so we can double-up the insulation… replace all the insulation… then drywall. I will also get a bit more electric. A plumber is coming in to add plumbing for a sink on the wall shared with the bathroom. And then, I decorate.
It’s become more of a project than I planned (isn’t that always the case?), but it’s all good, because now that I am working fulltime from home, a purposefully-created room makes sense. I am super excited, but anxious because I am having to make decisions quickly, when I usually take, like, two years.
May the Retro Decorating Gods bestow their vintage gifts and not too many unexpected surprises upon me. Regular reports to follow. I hope.
Jason says
Might I suggest a vintage, Broyhill Brasillia desk?!! ANd a matching redenza/cabinet?!
denise says
Very exciting, can’t wait to see how it all comes out.
Quick decisions, I don’t do well with, but when you have to and it’s boom boom boom, done…how good it will feel that it isn’t taking two years to make the decisions. You’ll be put back together and ready to rock ‘n roll. Then onto the next project!
Nate says
Two words for you…spray foam!
Queen of Fifty Cents says
We call that having the Might-As-Wells…if we’re doing this we might as well do that. We once might-as-welled from needing a new shower door to renovating two bathrooms, a good bit of the kitchen, and the flooring in most of the house!
pam kueber says
Yup – that about says it. Once you have to clean out the room… then take down the walls, you Might-as-Well set it up for the next 50 years!
Tami says
Idea board time!
pam kueber says
Sure, send me yours!!!!
Annie B. says
Good luck and have fun with it. Anything you do will be “Pamazing”.
pam kueber says
haha i like that of course!
Stacey says
A Pam Cave! I love that!
I wish I could rip out all the dry wall in my entire house to double-up the insulation. These 70s walls of mine feels very thin in the middle of winter and the middle of the brutal southern summer.
pam kueber says
Seriously, I have been calling it my Computer Cave for the past several years – it’s in the basement, it’s cold. Now I will remedy the cold, at least. Will have to come up with a new name for the space though!
Nancy Stevenson says
Super Exciting Pam! We can’t wait to see it!
You will do great, too, we all have faith in you…
Just have fun! :o)
pam kueber says
I’m feeling a lot of pressure to make this fabulous… in a good way, pressure, though!
Alice says
A forced 10-day window to make decisions and have progress sounds divine! Revel in it!
Hey, did you know that your blog is mentioned in an article in the new Atomic Ranch Book? Congrats!
Puddletown Cheryl says
Ooooh, how exciting Pam.