32 SQ FT SMALL Closet Turned CHIC OFFICE ✨ EXTREME MAKEOVER (From Start to Finish)

over the past year here on Lone Fox we have been transforming and restoring my 1929 Spanish style home bringing it back to its roots and really adding that character back this is the room we're working on next my little office space that was previously a small closet area that I just never really used so we started by demoing it out patching the floor where the Cabinetry used to be finding this incredible oak flooring that we're actually going to use as wood wall paneling and creating a desk where the Cabinetry was continuing around the room with this stunning warm oak wood and in today's video we're tying it all together and let me tell you it's pretty incredible hello welcome to part two of The Office makeover this is the final part now if you've not watched part one I kind of just recapped it a little bit but it will also be linked in the description box below if you want to check it out because we are continuing on from where we left off it really is looking so good so far and so I just can't even imagine like once we get all the wood paneling on and some of the decor elements in and kind of just adding some more color and some more brightness and even just a light fixture all the elements I'm very excited excited about but something else I'm very excited about is today's video is kindly sponsored by Helix and if you've been watching my channel for a while I've actually been a helix partner for many years now I absolutely love adore standby and will only and always use Helix mattresses when it comes to any design project or even myself like I have a helix mattress Marie does my parents have a helix mattress my aunt everyone in my family essentially has a helix mattress and whenever I actually do a new makeover I do a makeover and there is a mattress needed you know where I'm going because Helix really makes the process of ordering a mattress so convenient and also customized at the same time they have a sleep quiz that you can take online where you input things 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clean once it's all kind of attached together so as you may recall this used to have a door on it then it got removed and I just don't love having a door here and I asked you guys' thoughts on what I should do in the last video the number one comment was adding a secret door here and paneling over the top of it however I realized in the end since this is my bathroom in my office I really just like it being open and flowing from one room to the next wow wow wow that was actually very impressive carpentry out of the slots over the top of the doorway up to the ceiling and do keep in mind I'm still doing a door trim and a crown molding so it doesn't have to be perfect I then grabbed my circular sander to start sanding down those builtins and [Music] window I'm going to stain this window hopefully it's going to look good I got this stain and poly in one step by Minwax in the color Mission Oak which hopefully I think is going to be somewhat of a little bit of a darker tone than this we're going to see how this looks on the window that's a gorgeous color that's a gorgeous Mission [Music] Oak just want to give you an update on what I have worked on today so I went ahead stripped the rest of the window got that stained and it's looking pretty good so far it's kind of hard to see cuz it's back lit but then down under this built-in I was kind of mentioning how this is dead space essentially like if I don't have anything here I'm not going to put anything here it's just going to be kind of an open area so what I decided to do was actually cut down some of our wood panels and put them around here at 13 in high that way we can add a shelf across here and I'm going to add the Shelf with the same wood literally create the Shelf out of some long planks I'm then going to be paneling over the top of that as well paneling all right here and then I think I'm going to be painting this original built-in let's see if this fits yeah cool do we have the groove on the tongue and groove be in the front added in the last one and this is going to be the most satisfying tap that couldn't fit better then we'll just stain the front edge to match and it has this little kind of endent detail which is fun this is one of our last walls here and it was definitely the trickiest because the window and the outlets and also the built-in was on this wall so we had to kind of custom cut every single piece but we were able to use our smaller pieces which was nice here we are on the home stretch of adding the paneling to the walls we were able to use a bunch of our shorter pieces and just cut them all to length to meet the top of the window and the [Music] ceiling we're going to test a few stain options for our trim pieces that we picked up yesterday at Anderson trim which is a really great store in Los Angeles for trim brought a few of our offcuts down so that we can kind of match the wood that's already on the wall and hopefully we can do that it's going to be a little challenging I think but we'll make it work so we added a little of Ash Gray on it kind of has coolness more of this tone oh look at that look at that it's about as good that's pretty good poly Shades in the color Mission Oak and then adding a little bit of Rubio mono coat this is just a sample and the color Ash Gray give it a bit of a cool down I feel like this one right here kind of shows you a good example of how the Ash Gray just cools it down cuz it kind of goes on pretty warm and then we kind of cool it down to this middle tone but it's still warm it's still really pretty and it's going to match the wood in the [Music] office oh my gosh it looks so good it's like the perfect color if you can see what I was looking at right now it's just a stunning sight I'm a mill worker Justin I would like you to come and take a look at this look at this mill [Music] work okay it's even better than I expected right never underestimate the finishing trim on your pieces because they bring it all together it hides any imperfections any of the edges you don't want shown and you can kind of see the cased Oak opening here that leads into the bathroom and from the bathroom view as well it is so beautiful how do you feel it looks so good I'm obsessed I feel like I have not really done too many like camera check-ins because we've just been working away on this office and it's really turning out so much better than I could have expected today we are doing the trim so I already started doing the door trim and the next thing that we are going to be doing is actually kind of a fun little addition to the space because I decided to not do the wood on the ceiling actually I think it's just going to make it feel too dark however I thought why not add some wallpaper to the ceiling to still give it like a little bit of something the wallpaper is right here I actually got this on Amazon believe it or not I needed something quick because the idea just kind of popped in my head this one here is a light gray color way of the wallpaper and blue I think is also super pretty but I don't know like I mean it's so pretty when I see in the viewfinder right now the color really is so pretty in here it's going to be on the ceiling too and this is when I get to tell you guys that this was actually on Friday and we only ordered one roll of this so it definitely was not enough to cover the ceiling I don't know why I thought it was I think we're going to have enough so this didn't really go as planned I thought I'd spend the morning getting that patchwood floor nice and stained so I started off by getting a rag with water and cleaning this off it's kind of multi-purpose cuz we're cleaning it but it also opens up the pore of the wood so if you are staining wood floors darker you always want to go with a rinse of water first open up the pores of the wood and then go in with your stain that way it accepts the full pigment and that's exactly what I did here and I did two coats of it we just finished sanding down all of the drawers and we also finished sanding down the original built-in we s did this down and once we got to the grain I saw how pretty it was it's almost like this Pine and I just decided that we'd leave a little bit of the paint on in some areas kind of make it imperfect it also allows us to leave it in some of the cracks that were super hard to get out but something about this like built-in now just feels so perfect in this little space it has a different wood tone than this but we actually added all the wood paneling really nice and clean around it and if you've ever seen those really cute little skirts that you can add under like a pedestal sink sometimes people do them in a kitchen or around a table I'm going to add a little skirt curtain here add a little color it'll add a little fabric break up the wood a little bit I just love the way that this looks all of our drawers fit perfectly I'm going to put SD cards and like my CF cards and my little cords and cables in these drawers so I'm happy we kept this original builtin let's make this window blend a little bit more in now this is a vinyl window so of course it's not made of wood it doesn't really blend in with the current aesthetic so I'm going in firstly with the bin primer and I'm giving it a spray of the primer this is just going to allow our next spray paint color which is this one here this is the color nutmeg by rum and I used a satin finish on this and I just gave two even coats of this over the top of the window once I removed the masking I was actually really surprised with how perfect of a color this looked and the top piece of trim is also going to be covered by our Roman shade that's why it's not fully [Music] stripped it is now night time I turned on a little portable this is thing is great if you guys don't have one of these I got this for Christmas and the thing I like is all my stuff is from Ryobi so I can just pop all the batteries in the different things I ended up ordering two packs of floating shelves and I'm going to be putting them across the top of the desk here and then wrapping them in the same wood so I didn't really need the shelves to be pretty I just needed them to be substantial and also affordable because they're not going to be seen so I'll link the ones I use below but it essentially came with three of this size they're like 16 in and three will be perfect to go all the way across this entire area I feel like that's like a nice height I use my laser level to get the perfect straight line I highly suggest this if you hang up any pictures or you know shelves or anything like that this is a great tool to have I mounted the two brackets on either side cuz I decided just to use two shelves as they were super strong already okay I cut some boards down to the width of our shelf's going to go and I like when they're kind of a little pressure fit in there I'm not going to lie here the last thing I wanted to do was miter on a circular saw the length of these shelves four times so I decided to use the groove on the front as little detail and then just fill it in this is holding it as it glues a bit but as you can see we have a pretty structurally sound shelf in salt now I do have to stain just this front edge that's why it looks kind of darker than everything it'll be this color of course once it stained to match probably do that [Music] [Music] tomorrow for baseboards I opted for something super simple I didn't want to add too much height to the bottom here I didn't want it to feel different from from the bedroom or the bathroom when I add baseboard so I kept it super simple and just did kind of like a quarter round inverted baseboard I also added a Roman shade that I ordered from two pages you guys know I love my two pages curtains they actually have these on Amazon I will link below the Swatch book if you want to get like all the swatches that way you can check in your space to see which color and then also the listing as well I think today's the day we're going to finish up the office um I have just a few things to kind of tie up in here morning I headed out to the fabric store and I got there and realized it was closed so I actually had to go to Joann's but I got some really good fabric at Joann's two different options I figured I can use the other one somewhere else what we're going to work on now is kind of creating a skirt or a curtain that just kind of hangs here and that's going to hide what's behind here so I loved this one actually it felt really Lux and like cool for Joann's you know um it's silky and I honestly like that is such a Vibe it feels almost like men's tie fabric a little softer kind of more tonal as well we do need to install the rod first anyways so let's get that in I just picked up one of these Cafe rods they're from Lowe's it cost like $6 for one of these and I also noticed in the store I was able to take the little end caps off they just kind of pulled off which is great because I have this idea drilling a hole in either side of this little section that kind of Pops down it's just a little element of this it seems too good to be true is like the issue I'm having with it because how does this just fit perfectly I'm going to use a large drill bit like this one to create the [Music] holes this is going to be perfect look at that I'm to drape the fabric over just to kind of get an idea I do want to give them like a few kind of roues and complete so I'm kind of thinking it's going to be oh my gosh even just draping it on like that is so cute should I just make a pocket at the top I don't think I need Rings let's try the other one yeah I don't know I just like the red one more don't you guys think I'm just going to create a pocket just fold it over create like an inch pocket at the top we can slip it on the rod and then just hem the bottom and we'll be [Music] good for each of these little curtain panels I'm actually leaving it to be the exact width of the fabric that came on the bolt that way it can kind of be bunched up once there's two of them so on the top here I just folded it over about an inch and a half and then sewed a just straight line across that way it had enough space for the rod to go through I then measured down 27 in which just happens to be the length of how tall I wanted mine I added an additional inch on that way I can fold it over I always find adding an inch on these kind of like slinkier silkier Fabrics is a lot nicer than just a/2 in because they're really slippery and kind of hard to work with sometimes so I sewed the Hem along the bottom repeated the steps and went to install I tested out our first one and put it in and this is what it's looking like but let's add the second one just to kind of see the full Vibe I'm hoping this one I sewed pretty similarly I am Shook at how good this looks look at that you guys look how good I do need to give it like a little steam of course because the Fabric's been folded up all day this doesn't look better and then like need to access your shelves just kind of open it they slide pretty far open even if you just want to kind of like pull it up you know and just kind of check it's just a way to hide without having to create doors or anything and it's also really cute it adds like a little bit of fabric and texture I ordered some turned Pine knobs that just kind of feel like they could be original with the piece on Amazon so I'll link those for you guys and I love the way that they look they just really finish this off and make it feel fully original I really touched on the ceiling yesterday but clearly we did not have enough wallpaper to do this we actually had a strip that went in the center as well but I went to order it because I really want to get this up on Sunday for you guys it is Saturday right now and I am pushing so we headed to Lowe's and I actually ended up finding this really pretty kind of faux grasscloth looking wallpaper which I love and I think I'm going to apply this to the ceiling for now and I can always change it up if I feel like I want to add like more of a visual pop or something and I think that can also come with due time of my room being done please don't look she is a mess at the moment but I'm going to get this up on the ceiling so that we can hang up our light and add the crown molding all the actual like hard finishes in the space are going to be complete and we can start styling okay so I've never wallpaper to sealing before and it is a little bit tricky however if you cut your strips in the orientation of the room that's shortest so if you guys remember before we did the birds kind of longer it made it a bit harder cuz you have all that weight dragging you down um as the extra if you do the shorter side of the room if you happen to have that option like I am doing here it really made it a lot easier so that's a little trick if you go to do the ceiling just keep that in mind and I added four panels across did it myself really wasn't too bad at all only thing is just like the ceiling's high up so getting up there is kind of a little bit of a challenge but once you're up there you're good and then I did measure our crown molding pieces which we had previously stained and I cut them mitered them and installed them all the little details of this room have been taking me a while we just got got the crown molding up and I am going to hang the light in this room I actually don't know if I shared this when I got the light for the other office the one that's like the larger one that I'm going to be converting because I bought these at the same time he actually gave me a discount if I purchased two lights so I got this one cuz I loved it and it is a 1940s French chandelier it has tassels on it and when I saw this one and the price point that it was mixed with the discount on the other one it was just too good not to pass up and I've had this one saved for probably like four or 5 months now downstairs and I think it's just perfect for this room I love the idea of like a little chandelier something a bit more fun than a flush mount and we have the space so why not utilize it now we can give it a test yay we have [Music] light it is currently Sunday 1:16 p.m. and I am just getting to styling this room so when this video goes up you guys are going to see how back to back this is I've been editing all morning since 7:00 a.m. I have wood stained in my fingernails if you are curious finished all the hard finishes yesterday so we are going to do just some quick styling cuz I feel like an office space kind of grows with you like after you start working in it for a little bit you kind of realize what you want in there what you need what you reach for and grab for often so I'm just going to add a couple of touches that I've kind of been collecting for the space and I think it's just going to tie it together bring some colors in and then I'm going to do a reveal and I will say that the reveal of this room is a little challenging just because there's not that pretty of a bathroom on one side and then my bedroom on the opposite side I haven't done either so it's kind of like sandwiched between two undone spaces but let's get into styling I also totally forgot to order an outlet for this like a brown one with a cover and then a light switch of brown one so I already did but they're not going to be here till later so I'm going to put a little piece of art over this one just so it's not like an eyesore in in the I like the dark wood frame with like the white mat and it's just a really pretty oil painting on a recent flea market trip I actually found this cute little container it's like an art deco silver Chrome style container but I thought it'd be perfect for little SD cards or just like little tiny things I want to keep coralled in here so I got that but I thought these can just kind of be cute at the moment and over on this side I want to put some of my favorite books that I love to look at uh just kind of reference and I find myself reaching for often this marble candle from tone it's kind of pretty something I had to do last night was check and see if this vintage rug from my old breakfast nook fit in here and look how perfectly it fits just side to side it fits so perfectly I knew I wanted something underneath this chair because rolling chairs really do damage hardwood floor quite a bit and this rug just fits so perfectly such a beautiful color it literally goes like all the way up to the front over there as you can see so it's just a great fit I also decided that I'm going to continue using my World Market chair I've had this for years I love it it's like green velvet and I'll link it if it's still [Music] available look at this oil painting of the Sailor I mean look at him I want him in my office you know so I thought this would be like kind of nice A little additional touch I also love the fact that there was like a little pot right here and he's like drinking coffee in this blue it's just so cute with the boat subject matter and overall Vibe with the silver frame too it's just everything so I know I want to put this here o I can also turn the light on you guys can see next to him I thought this great just wooden old wooden box just a crafted wooden box and that's something I'll completely utilize like I'll put pieces of mail in there that I want to save and then I'll transfer them to something larger once it gets a little bit Fuller I'm going to turn these ones around and pop them on the Shelf there and look at this cute little silver Bud vase and you guys know I love my sculptures so this recent horse sculpture I found is a lovely little touch this room really is a hard one to film in but I hope you guys are able to see those pieces oh I actually forgot I have two little candlestick holders these ones here with gold balls and they're like silver as well I'm just going to put these I love when there's two candle holders next to each other just very like symmetrical mirroring each [Music] other this reveals a little bit more on the challenging side because a lot of the walls are kind of missing and then where I'm able to film is just such a tight cramped space it's hard to get angles I think that it looks unbelievable like I really wish I could invite all of you over in person to see it but I'm going to try my best and also I do feel like maybe checking it out over on Instagram as well as I start posting it there could be great because this is a space that totally lends itself to like a phone format you know like a vertical format I'm actually going to finish up editing this video sitting right here and upload it right here from this office and this is my new workspace so let me reveal it to you guys in 3 2 one [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you all so much for watching today's video and I hope that you enjoyed it I love my office space I mean I could sit here live here work here forever and I just I'm so happy it was such a labor of love but I really love that we put the time and work into a smaller space like this and of course everything that I shared throughout the video that I did use I will link in the description box for you I hope that you guys have an incredible rest of your day it is currently 1:43 p.m. so let's see how quickly this video gets up and I will catch you all in my next one bye [Music] guys