A Logo!

We have a new logo for our company!  We like the black and white color scheme; very classic, but we also have the logo in blue when we feel like we need a little pop of color!  The design of the four houses with the "X" in the middle was something that we felt like just fit with our business.

We are excited to start on this new venture, and to use the logo in all of our business correspondence!

Office Photos

I am happy today to share some of the photos that I've taken of Ryan's office.  It has turned out pretty well, although I'm still figuring out how to deal with the yellow-ish walls, florescent lights, and lack of a window.  None of these things are bad, but I think we need a different shade of lighting in his office to brighten things up a bit.  I haven't put my finger on it yet!

A larger view of Ryan's desk, and office space

The wood grain, and contrasting trim and bolts

Beautiful texture

Cropped view of his desk

Dual monitors connected to the desk top, very efficient

Working away

The piece behind his desk that holds all of his accessories

The top of the unique furniture piece, including his antique fan

A close-up so you can see how rusty this piece is!

Awesome leather chair that we took out of our home office

Client chair

Rustic detail of chair

Getting systems set up

We are still working on getting everything put together, but I like how it's turning out so far.

Fabulous Furniture

Ryan and I finished his Canton furniture projects and moved everything up to the office this week.  I want to share one picture I have, with the following disclosures:

• I took this photo with my iPhone
• It is not a good photo, and does not do the furniture justice
• I will soon post updated photos that I've taken with my camera, which will be much more detailed

Ryan finished his desk up with a handsome black matte base and a glossy chestnut top.  In addition, he added some handsome silver bolts to the corners of the desktop.  It's hard to see the contrast and details here, but it looks awesome!

The unique piece behind him holds all of his paper, files, folders, cards, junk, etc.  It is a rustic silver finish and it is in one word: cool.  We pressure washed it and added wheels to the base, but other than that we left it in it's original rustic state.  I like.

We brought up the old fan that Ryan got a bargain on, and it added some additional rustic-ness to the room.  The Texas flag framed up is a nice pop of color to the other neutrals in the office.

Ryan, being the technology lover that he is, made sure that he shoved up all of his cords and power strips under the desk so that they wouldn't show.  His dual screens are pretty cool because not only can he work more efficiently but he can also turn a screen around when he has a client in the office so that the client can view the screen. Which, by the way...the chairs in front of his desk that are for clients turned out well.  We cleaned them up a bit but again didn't do too much because we wanted to keep things rustic.

The big chair behind his desk actually came from my home office.  It's comfy and has a great leather hide on it and is really more fitting for him than myself.  And it also gives me an excuse to find a unique chair next time we go to Canton :)

More pictures soon, I promise.

Weekend Work

I spent the weekend (mostly Saturday since Sunday was Easter) working out in my shop.  My goal was to get the furniture refurbished as quickly as possible so that I could move it up to my new office.  The new office is a little executive suite in the town where we live.  Good-bye long commute every day.

Here are some photos that Jenny had our son (13) take of me working on the furniture over the weekend.

Photographic credits here

Me in the midst of all of our "treasures"

Ready to get started

The beginnings of my "new" desk

Cut the legs down some and stripped the current paint

Sanding the top of the desk

Looking pretty smooth

My little helper

I painted the base black and stained the top walnut

A classic Easter photo 

I'll have Jenny post pictures of the final office set-up once everything is complete.