Jun
23
Office Remodel
June 23, 2010 |
A year or so ago, we hired an additional employee. This new employee was literally housed in a closet. In discussions on how to split our offices, we worked out how we could take out our three “spaces” and make three “equal” spaces. I came up with the clever plan to be “innovative”. The goal? Have a “collaborative and adaptive” working space. This brings in those new cool buzz words in academic computing. Needless to say, in hindsight, Im regretting this idea, but I think it will work out.
I took some pictures on the way attempting to document the construction.
Heres a pdf of the initial situation.
This was our proposed modification.
The door to the “closet” was the first to go. In about 20 minutes actually.
Next went the wall between the closet and the office.
The next step was to cut the hallway entrance to be big enough to hold the door frame. Turns out the opening was 32″ and needed to be 36″ to hold the door frame.
The light switch? Yeah, that wasnt going to be staying in its original location.
Got the door squeezed in to place.
That hand railing… oh yeah, fits baby. By the hair on our chins, but it fits!
There is a little bit of the floor missing. Where the wall was anchored to the floor.
Drywall makes everything better.
A full section between frame had to be cut out to feed conduit up for power and networking. That section being cut out appears to be missing from my pictures. But it got buttoned up nicely. The cut did require removal of one of the shelf brackets, so no more shelves. Hey, who forgot to take down the coat rack?
Ah thats better. I came in at 5:30 at night and took down the coat rack. Then made the framers fix the holes the next day.
The new floor tiles blend in well.
New “double” light switch.
The network guys re-pulled all the phone and network into our space. This turned out to be 24 lines in the end. And an entire new patch panel in our rack.
At the end, my office becomes our “conference room”. We can use it for confidential discussions, interviews, conference calls, meetings, or introverted work time.
The main work room. A window with a view, multiple couches, a large table on casters.
A single workstation and desk. Currently being used for our Windows 7 64bit image host.
My little modification. My remote controlled car collection is subtly displayed on the HVAC plumbing. One mustang, one mini, one VW van, and one f150 truck.