Funny this should come up now. I'm in the process of redoing my office where I also store all my tobacco related stuff.
When we built the house this room, another spare bedroom and a connecting hall were left with carpet but we upgraded to hardwood and slate in the rest of the house.
I friggin' hate carpet.
So last week I decided to tear out the carpets, install hardwoods and repaint the room.
I even splurged and hired someone to install the flooring. I'm getting to old or too smart to spend all those hours on my knees and the guy is doing it for $1.35/sf. I bought Bruce Planop Plank which is a prefinished 1/2 inch solid hardwood. Amazingly cheap. $2.75/sf at Home Depot where engineered stuff is all $4 or more.
and my dear bride agreed to do the painting. so my only work was to pull the carpet and tack strips, pull all the base and sand and repaint it while it's up, and then reinstall in when complete.
I have a "locador" which is simple a palstic foot locker with a couple hoimemeade humidifiers and a hygrometer to keep RYO tobacco and cigars in. I have alos converted an old antique dresser as my pipe center. One drawer is the cellar, on drawer active stash, one drawer pipes and one drawer accessories.
I'm also building a corner credenza type thing to house my printer/fax etc that currently occupies a cheap printer stand.
When I'm done I should have a nice fresh, "manly", space.
Floors go in tomorrow.
