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Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there…
When I started Dafa888casino in 1996, I was a different person, living in a different house, with a different set of priorities. 在我开始创业的前两周，我辞掉了在市中心一家设计公司担任艺术总监的工作. 两个月前，我和丈夫刚买了一套需要修缮的房子.
Dafa888casino office in 2005. 我的丈夫 sat to the right. 晚上，孩子们上床睡觉后，他会处理账单或上网. We spent a lot of time together in that office space talking, 计划旅行, or just keeping each other company.
Sounds gutsy but that had been the plan all a长. 用我丈夫的工资买一套Dafa888casino能负担得起的房子，以防我以家庭为基础的生意不成功. We also wanted to have children so creating an additional income source 之前 becoming a stay-at-home mom seemed easier than the other way around.
在我的平面设计公司工作了一年，我做得很好，所以我投资了8000美元购买 custom office furniture to fit out my home office space.
长, ample desktop counter provided room for two workstations, 监控, 打印机, a scanner 和 a fax machine. I had matching wall cabinets, 书架, drawers 和 filing nooks to store client files, 纸样品, 斯沃琪的书, 沟通的艺术, 打印 & HOW magazines, 和 everything else I needed to be a successful designer!
When we moved into our current home in 2006, my office furniture came too. 幸运的是，我的新空间与旧空间的大小足够接近，所以它非常合适.
My nieces 和 son hanging out in my office in June of 2017. 那个月，我把我的书架和壁柜留给了我的丈夫，他每天往返于马里兰州的一份全职工作，但在楼上有一间没有储物空间的小型家庭办公室.
Dafa888casino office in 2018. 书架搬走后，我在后面的墙上挂了许多艺术品和小摆设. 那时，我的两个孩子都离家去上大学了，所以每天早上走进办公室，看到周围都是艺术作品，我感到很开心, 大部分是他们的. 我坐在右边，Emily坐在左边，她在2015-2018年和我一起实习，然后从GMU毕业. 我的办公家具已经为我dafa888.casino网页版了25年，这绝对是一项值得的投资.
And you may ask yourself, "Well... 我是怎么来到这里的?”
在过去的15年里, 多亏了互联网, the amount of equipment, paper 和 graphic design accouterment has steadily decreased.
My fax machine was gone within the first year here 和 by the end of 2020, 我意识到我只剩一个外围设备了……一台彩色激光打印机已经坏了好几个月了.
墙壁是令人厌烦的蓝灰色，深蓝色的商用地毯已经破旧不堪. 我环顾四周，心想:“为什么我有这么多东西，我真的需要这些家具吗??”
可能是 because it was December 29th, my Dad’s birth一天. He passed away in 2017 和 I was feeling a touch of melancholy.
Or 可能是 隔壁建造的豪宅现在挡住了一些中午的阳光，让我以前阳光明媚的办公室变得不那么明亮了.
Or finally, 可能是 在经历了一场精疲力尽的总统选举之后，Dafa888casino仍然处于一场全球性的流行病之中.
我的丈夫, who was working from home for the past nine months, had set up his laptop on the downstairs desk not far from my office. 他想要一个不同于楼上家庭办公室的房间，在精神上把工作和家庭分开.
Did I mention that he talks very loudly on zoom calls all. 一天. 长? 我已经准备好让他搬到房子里能听到声音的地方去. He was ready to get away from me too.
Mostly though it was just time. My 业务已经改变了 很多. Everything is in the cloud. I’ve finally achieved a state of paperless enlightenment. Ohmmm…….
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious 和 adding the meaningful.”
The excavation begins January 2021—Happy New Year!
和以前一样
1月1日, 2021, I began in earnest digging out, 分离, 分类, deciding what still sparked joy 和 what didn’t.
我的样本书被一个艺术家朋友拿走了但大部分都被 Vietnam Vets of America who take practically everything.
我松了一口气，因为我讨厌把可用的东西扔进垃圾填埋场，但我认识的大多数人也在努力减少垃圾的数量.
我丈夫说，他想要剩下的壁柜和艾米丽和我一起实习时坐过的那部分工作站. 她现在远程工作.
Dafa888casino讨论过把办公桌分成两部分，这样他就可以在楼上的家庭办公室里拥有一张真正的办公桌，但这需要一些工程技术. 他还想在一天中有一部分时间能站着，所以如果我的多功能桌面也能站起来就好了.
问题是我所有的办公家具都装不下他楼上的小办公室. We’d have to relocate it into one of our kid’s bedrooms. 😳
Hubby’s upstairs office 之前. His desk was a flimsy old IKEA table. 书柜已经成为展示华盛顿奇才的所有东西的陈列柜. (Yes, he’s a super fan)
Hubby’s new upstairs office with all my office furniture. 它很适合放在我儿子的旧卧室里，我丈夫有更多的空间可以摊开来买更多的运动小玩意! 去奇才!
This Ain’t No Party… This Ain’t No Disco… This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around
What our kitchen, dining 和 living room look like normally….
Our living room during the Whole House, Empty-Nester Rebr和!
我的新年决心是打扫我的办公室，就像滚雪球一样变成了“整个房子，空巢重塑品牌”!(WHENR)，比如“你什么时候能把客厅、卧室和地下室都收拾干净??”
我的女儿在2020年春天大学毕业，在另一个城市幸福地生活和工作，所以她只需要一间卧室.
我的儿子还有一年大学课程，他的职业道路是外交dafa888.casino网页版. He may be living with us after graduation but probably not for very 长.
Dafa888casino把我丈夫的办公室和我所有的办公家具搬到了儿子的卧室里. My son’s bedroom went downstairs into what was the guest bedroom. 我丈夫的旧办公室变成了楼上的书房，我女儿的房间变成了客房.
所有的房间都需要石膏修补和油漆，这些房间的东西在Dafa888casino的客厅里堆了两个月. But heck, thanks to COVID we weren’t entertaining anyways.
Top Row: It took me from January to March to clean out my office. Middle Row: Friend 和 client Kurt Lankenau of 专业线画 repaired, primed 和 painted the walls a lovely, 光桃子. I jerry-rigged a desktop setup until my new 隆起 桌子到达! Jumping for joy that the carpet would be gone the next 一天! 最下面一排:正在安装漂亮的人字形的豪华乙烯基地板. My office is lighter 和 brighter. 我和丈夫一起组装了我的新站立式办公桌(见下面的时间推移视频)，我还粉刷了我的书架，以补充新鲜, 桃色的氛围!
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Now that the heavy lifting is over, we’re thrilled with the results. Our house feels lighter 和 looks brighter. 就算是我的女儿,, 是谁对Dafa888casino把她卧室的冷灰色墙壁刷成淡粉色有点生气，告诉我她还是喜欢Dafa888casino的做法. Finally, hubby has more storage which makes him happy 和 organized.
这一切变化的催化剂，我的办公室，现在变得复杂多了. 也正是时候! 自从Squarespace将平台从7号升级到7号，Emily和我就一直想重新装修Dafa888casino的网站.1. Dafa888casino目前的站点在新冠肺炎发生时才建了一年，所以Dafa888casino想要再等一年再建.
Dafa888casino想要新的照片，重塑Dafa888casino在网上的形象，并有一个专业人士, minimal office was the perfect setting. 但这将在下个月的博客文章中讨论，所以请查看“你准备好重塑品牌了吗?? Dafa888casino做了!” Part Two when Ev n Em become Supah Models! We’ll cover our styling, hair 和 makeup, 和 all-一天 photo sesh.
Check out the time-lapse video below to see us constructing the 隆起 desk which btw is amazing! It took just shy of two hours but you can see it happen in 10 seconds! Also, my son 和 me unpacking the perfectly-sized 曲线美的沙发上. It’s really stylish 和 yet so comfy!
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