New Floor

What a very nice feeling to walk into our office yesterday morning to see the new flooring in our reception room. What do you think?

Before

After

I really like this floor. It looks like walnut. The baseboards are beveled and are very attractive. The book shelves were damaged a little bit in the move so are being repaired before returning them to the far end of the room.

Our new refrigerator and dishwasher arrived today. The refrigerator is very nice! It's the same style and make as Heidi's. The dishwasher, also a wonderful brand, came without any buttons to turn it on. Apparently Samsung produced 3,000 of these and we got one of them. A representative is supposed to arrive tomorrow morning to install the missing parts. So, things are progressing in our office.

What's left? The reception desk and immediate space around it. My boss has been given the assignment to design it. Yesterday he quizzed me on what I think it needs. I'm curious to see what he designs.

Redecorating the Reception Room

Yesterday they moved all of the furniture out of our reception room and the flooring man began to put the new flooring down. Originally our "decorating team" in my office had chosen a gray/white laminate flooring and after it was installed there were multiple complaints: "It looks like a laundry room floor," "It looks like a garage floor," "Is there flooring? I thought it was bare cement!" So permission was given to spend more $$$ and have a hardwood walnut laminate put down over the gray. I have no idea if the furniture will have been put back when I walk in on Monday, but it should look totally different. It could be interesting!

Much of the furniture had been moved out already.

Current reception area (not attractive!)

Dave, Andy and Dave standing by to help move the shelving unit once Steve and Jim have it disconnected from the wall.

Most of the reception room furniture was moved to the dining room.

Ready for new flooring (packages of flooring under the staircase)

Reception desk at 11 am while I was still at the helm. Later in the day, the desk was moved to the dining room.