Office renovation series - part 1

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 master bedroom to become the home office? But the more we thought about it the more it made sense. Where do we spend most of our time? In the office!! That's the room that needs to be large enough to function properly.

That settled it! We were going to move the office from our cramped little (it's actually not that small, just too small for us) room to the bigger room. Instead of simply swapping furniture in the two rooms we decided if we were going to do this, we were going to do it right!!! We were going to renovate the new room exactly how we wanted it and really take time to design the perfect layout for out situation.

Here's a picture of what the room looks like now:


 
Planning the layout

We wanted to take as much time as we needed while planning the layout of the office to maximize functionality. Lynnette came up with a great idea to map out the office on grid paper and make little pieces of furniture to scale. She then made the back of the furniture pieces slightly sticky so we could save the spots we thought everything should go in. We spent weeks moving things around and trying different combinations until we settled. Who knows, it might still change but for now the picture below shows what we are thinking of.
 

We will also have a massive walk-in closet to work with so we will probably be putting most of the finished files in there to store for the year.

Things to do

There are lots of things we will need to do in order to finish our new office but we are both really excited at the prospect of some new digs made just for us. <3

- move out all the furniture
- tear up the existing floor
- install new flooring
- talk dad/husband into the necessity of a bench in the bay window???
- finalize office layout
- purchase new furniture
- build new furniture
- build new organizational board (so excited for this one!)
- put all the new and old furniture into the new beautiful office
- hang all wall accessories
- revel in the glory of a job well done!

Taya de Baat
Owner
TayLynn Bookkeeping
 
 
Taylynnbooks@shaw.ca
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  1. TiihonenFebruary 6, 2014 at 10:34 PM

    This office renovation look's a little bit of work.I remember the accounting office in Finland where we also use to renovate and we change everything their and the atmosphere for a better works.

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