In April 2015, when we had the carpet removed from our home office space and replaced with hardwood floors. This space is our small 5th bedroom off of the kitchen that we use as a home office. We have two desk spaces set up in here and it works perfectly for Steve and I to each have our space. Our entire first floor has hardwood floors, and we decided to extend them into the office. I’m always amazed at the transformation when going from carpet to hardwood floors. Here’s the look of hardwood floors in our home office.
The Floors Before
This was the space with carpet. It’s not terrible, but we just felt the hardwoods would make the space more sophisticated and fit with the rest of the first floor.
The trim work is so pretty in this room, but it almost blends in with light carpet and light walls. It doesn’t stand out with the builder grade carpet.
The Process
We used the same company we used when we added hardwoods to our upstairs hallway and landing.
In wanting to keep a cohesive feel, the floors now flow flawlessly from the connected mudroom and kitchen. We used rustic maple wood, which we have throughout. It’s a bit rustic, but nothing over the top, and it has just enough dings and imperfections that actual dings and imperfections seem like they are supposed to be there! Here are the floors installed with the raw wood.
After the wood was installed, they were sanded and stained.
Then they added several top coats to make them nice and shiny! You can see in this photo they are still very wet.
The Final Look
Moving from carpet to hardwood floors was definitely worth the money and time to have it completed! It was a small investment that took this room from a 5 to a 10 in a few weeks time. Our office chairs roll easily and this room now looks like it belongs with the rest of the house. The room looks bigger and the dark floors really ground the light walls and trim work.
This office space is always evolving and changing like every other room in our home. For now, adding these hardwood floors was a total game changer! I hope you enjoyed seeing the look of adding hardwood floors in the home office. XO