We have finally moved our computers out of the lounge room and into our super brand new study!

I’m so proud of the effort that we put into this room.  It’s the first complete room that we have done so far in this renovation project.

We hired a builder to put in a few new walls for us and to put in new skirting boards.  Unfortunately, he came and went as he pleased throughout the job and then once he was paid in full he didn’t bother coming back the next day to put the finishing touches on the job and to take away the rubbish that he dumped in our front yard.  So technically our study is not technically *complete*, but we will forget about the nasty builder and enjoy the work that we put into this room ourselves.

We used ‘Green Moss’ on the walls and also painted the ceiling the same colour. We weren’t sure about painting the ceiling but we’re glad we did.

I went around the timber window frame and the skirting boards with All-in-One stain and gloss and they came up reasonably well.

At first we were going to put timber floating floors in this room, so that it would match the timber floorboards in the kitchen and laundry, but we found out that you have to pull up the skirting boards to install the floating floors, and I didn’t feel like doing that after we just had them installed.  So we decided to paint the concrete floor instead. We hired a concrete grinder to grind the top layer of concrete off so that we had a nice smooth surface to paint. Unfortunately this meant that we had to put a third coat of paint on the walls and the ceiling, because the dust that came off the floor got stock to the walls and wouldn’t wipe off. Of course, had we known in the first place that we were going to paint the floor, we would have done the concrete grinding first

Because we were so confident that the painted concrete floor would work(!), we decided to continue the painted floor from the study out into the front entrance, so we had to pull up the old tiles that were there and we grinded that section too. 

Then when the floor was all nice and smooth and clean, we painted the floor.

We just need to go and buy some blinds and install our whiteboards on the walls.