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Office renovation series - part 2

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Well it's been a couple weeks and things are moving along with the office renovations. With the craziness of Christmas it's been hard to find time to work on the new office let alone blog about it... But here we are to give you an update! Last time we checked in we had just decided to renovate a new office space and were just in planning stages of the whole process. Since then we've picked the flooring, moved all the furniture out of the room and begun ripping out the old ratty carpet. In case you forget, this is what the room started out looking like: Picking the flooring It tools us a long time to decide on flooring. The carpet that was in there had definitely seen better days and we figured if we were going to use the space as an office carpet wasn't ideal. Its hard to move around on rolling chairs, furniture sinks into carpet and becomes unstable and its just not as clean of a finish as we wanted. After weighing the pros and cons of other flooring o...

Office renovation series - part 1

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We're renovating our office!! Well actually we're renovating a new space and then moving into it. We succesfully run our company out of our homes. Most of the files are kept at Lynnette's house while I take stuff home with me and work from my home office and then bring it back for filing. It's a good system that has been working well for us. That's was until we decided to expand... In the last year and a bit the number of clients our company serves has tripled. Great for business; bad for space management. It was starting to get crazy!! There were to-do piles, not enough shelf space and we were always in each other's way when we were working in the same office. Then we brought on someone to do the filing part-time and it got even more cramped when the three of us were in our tiny office. Then one day my Aunt asked us, "Why is your office in the smaller bedroom when your master is huge?" At first we blew off the idea. Who wants to give up their mast...