Eat your heart out Ikea

We recently decided that we needed some more desk space in one of the rooms in our humble abode. There is an ol' desk in here that was holding up all sorts of stationary odds and ends and is serving its purpose at the moment of what we want it to do but it's chewing up valuable real estate. And it's right next to the cat's litter box. Ouch. After a well timed conversation with a good friend of ours a solution presented itself-build a cloffice! A cloffice is a clever mash up of words that describes a closet that has had its doors ripped off, all the clothes removed and a desk or flat surface thrown into the center to create a working surface. Some industrious souls even paint or decorate the walls with wire racks, dry erase boards, put plants on the desk, add lights or dart boards to give it the feel of a real desk or office space.

We've opted for something in the middle. We ripped the doors off and threw them to the curb with a quickness, painted the walls to match the walls in the room and hung some braces. We picked out a nice flat piece of unfinished pine to serve as our Tablet in Which We Will Rule the World From, others know it as a desk. But, not here, nay nay. So. The braces are hung, the wood is cut and settled in. Now we need to find a suitable polyurethane coating to cover it with so that the infinite beauty of the wood will be preserved for eternity. It's been a remarkably simple fun and super cheap little project, and the best part is we're gaining use of space we already have! Once it's finished we'll throw up some pics...of our closet....with a nice piece of wood in the middle.