EXTREME MAKEOVER: Small Closet Turned OFFICE ✨ + DIY Wood Wall Paneling!

hi everybody welcome back to my channel Drew here from Lone Fox and today we are making over another space in my 1929 home if you happen to be new here welcome we have been making over so many spaces throughout my 1929 Spanish style home and it has been so much fun to document it here on the channel today we're working on a space though that kind of was never actually supposed to be what it is until I sat down at the beginning of the year and I kind of roughly brainstormed some of the projects I wanted to work on throughout 2024 one of the projects I wanted to start off by doing was is actually creating myself a new office space and so many of you have already watched me create an office space in my home but something I will tell you guys is I have only sat in that office space twice since creating it months and months ago I don't know what it is but I think having a room dedicated to being an office makes me not want to go work in there even more if that makes sense and in my previous apartment I had a little office just kind of Nook in my bedroom and I used that religiously like you could find me there 9 to 5 every day unless I was filming I really love that little office Nook and I realized in my current bedroom I have the perfect opportunity to create a office Nook so similar to my previous apartments that I absolutely loved and then in the future we are going to be turning the office space that is currently here at the home the one with the green Walls the stunning desk and the light fixture we are going to be transforming that into something else which I have ideas for it will come sometime this year sometimes things just need to change up you know I haven't found myself using that space and it's not because of the design or like the practicality or functionality of the room at all I really think I just find myself not going over to that area of the house to want to work and before diving into this project I did want to let all of you know that over on my website lone fox.com where we sell a bunch of different HomeGoods Decor even vintage furniture which some new pieces are coming they're right there I literally store everything in my home we are having a buy more save more sale throughout January I'm going to pop up the details on the screen this is just a great additional kind of savings on top of our already free shipping over $99 so if you are in the market to kind of spruce up your home for the new year so many new products I finally got around to shooting them posting them on the site so they're currently all active and there's just a lot happening over on the site so if you haven't been in a second take a look and buy more to save more but let's dive into this closet turned office transformation this right here is the little pass through that essentially goes from my bedroom which is the room that I'm in and when you walk through it leads into the bathroom now the bathroom door we actually accidentally threw away a while back when they did the floors they had to take the doors off and this one somehow ended up making it into the pile of trash so it is now missing however I don't really want a door here anyways so I need to find something or figure out potentially something to do here don't mind not having a door here but if I could find one that is an option in here is where we're going to be doing the wood paneling over on this left side there are these cabinets these are really large and they are newly installed and they're great they're really large and nice however I've been living here for a year and I have just a few random Blazers in here I've never opened this since I mean there's a cup in here lovely there's some shoes down here I haven't even opened this up since also adding the item so clearly you guys can tell the only reason that I opened this is I have my socks and underwear in these nice drawers the only drawers that I have so I'm going to be converting this little area into my office and I am so excited about this it just feels so much like the previous apartment if you guys remember I had that little office Nook in my bedroom that was formerly the closet I'm just going to pull out the cabinets and create my own little Nook so then I'll be able to put a built-in counter I'm going to have a chair that I can put in here there's Justin we're about to get started waiting to demo waiting to demo I haven't pulled out cabinets this large before so let's see how this [Music] goes so when it came to removing the built- tins I started off by removing the tracks and drawers the bar at the top and the crown molding and then I really wanted to be able to remove these all as one piece the top and and then the bottom piece that way we can like reuse them or repurpose them or even donate them however that was not the case with the bottom piece we actually got the top piece out pretty well it took us like 20 minutes or so to budge that out it was a super tight squeeze but I will tell you that they actually installed the bottom one and mounted all the sides to the wall as opposed to constructing it together maybe it's a little smaller towards the bottom and then underneath that I had to remove the tile that they had placed in here from the bathroom doing a little demo here oh oh a gorgeous purple a violet shade in a beautiful bright red I don't know if you can tell but this is the original countertop it was just like a wooden countertop and they added this disgusting like gray fake Stone over the top of it which just took away from first of all the character of this so we're going to bring it back isn't that crazy to think that someone painted it that color and had it like that all in this entire room this is cute that worked far [Music] [Music] better under the demoed cat tree they just laid some tile down as a foundation so I pulled up the Hardy Backer board that had the mortar on top of it because we're going to be laying down some new flooring all right everyone so there is a lot going on here essentially this has been in the process of being Stripped by Justin and I all morning and I filmed a little bit of it but it was not too exciting it's just taking a while to strip so we added some more same with with the window yesterday we ended up removing the tile and the Hardy Backer with the mortar on top of it and this is the subfloor underneath now none of this on top of here which looks almost like mold it's not just a little wet from these towels we had sitting on top of it so don't worry about that but we are now going to be essentially taking these planks which I picked these up at Lowe's thankfully they had literally almost the same exact plank as what's on the floor it's the same size it's not Quon Oak which is what this is this is just a red oak but that do not matter at all because this is going to look perfect we're going to be able to like finish the floor all the way back stain it to match I'm kind of excited to see how this patch looks so let's get started when I found out that I had to patch the wood floor in this room I was a little nervous because I've never patched wood floor I've never even done wood floor in general so I've never laid it at all however I figured if I had a patch anywhere it would be under the desk and I did a pretty good job I'm not going to lie I found these wood boards that were the same exact width and also the same thickness so they just were flush with the floor and it looked looks great and just like that our patched wood floor is done and that was honestly far easier than I thought it was going to be the wood looks so great we have the tiniest micro I mean there's not even a seam I was going to say there's a seam but there's really really not we're going to go ahead and stain this at the very end so this is going to stay as is for now now that we are at the point of basically adding stuff to the walls I want to share with you exactly what we are doing in this space because I have always always loved wood panel rooms I was kind of into wood paneling the room off of the living room the current office space however I just ended up painting that space and so I thought for this smaller area since it is on the smaller side kind of as a transition between my bathroom and my bedroom maybe having like kind of a moodier wood paneling on here would be kind of fun fully wood paneled with hardwood floor because I was trying to think to myself like what is an alternative that everyone can do I want to share with you guys how you two can take wood flooring turn it into really beautiful wood paneling here is said wood floor so I actually picked up all of this wood floor last week with Justin at Floor and Decor and we headed there first I actually went to Home Depot and Lowe's to start but they didn't have any hardwood floors that I love so I ended up going to Floor and Decor and I found this one here I will pop up the exact one for you guys now because this room is so small and we only needed under 200 ft of the material I did opt for a little bit more of a pricier wood because it's going on the wall it's going to be so visual and I opted for a really stunning solid red Oak because when I saw it on the wall at Floor and Decor you see it on the wall and it kind of is in like flaps and it's going to be on your floor in the future however I'm going to Envision it on the wall so it was nice to see it there I tipped over a box to open it to share with you look how pretty that coloring is and it's an oak so it has such a beautiful grain to it and I'm so excited to see this on the walls I think it's such a beautiful wood flooring I didn't want a wide plank even though that would go quicker I really wanted the paneling to look kind of more detail and more kind of mixed matched grain so that's why I went for the smaller plank using a laser level to Mark 29 in from our floor because that's where we want the desk to go so we're going to put that paneling up first oh my gosh I fell hurt myself kind of the amount of times he hurts himself in a day so I used a few pieces of the wood flooring and these clamps just to kind of put together this little contraption that allows me to then take the wood piece put it in press it up against this every single time I get the same cut cuz currently we're cutting 28 and2 in tall slide this in the green tape on the wall indicates where the countertop is going to be so I actually ended up cutting some wood pieces from our wood flooring down to sides that fit perfectly underneath this that also went down to the new floor that we patched we are going to be setting the tabletop on top of this because it's supported on the left side the right side and the back for a super secure [Music] bond this here is the wood that I got from Lowe's it's just a project panel that you can use to create shelves or benches or like DIY furniture pieces and it was already 24 in deep so I just had to cut it to the width that I wanted which was 50 and 1/2 in I mean ooh I mean that's a fa like I could like lay on this if I wanted to oh my gosh this looks so good this is just our base for the desk oh something else that we added Outlet yesterday I actually had my electrician come and he actually went all the way from this Outlet here up around the door and down so that we can have an outlet for my computer in the desk area because I didn't want to have to like string it across trip on it going into the [Music] bathroom so in order to get the wood panels on the wall you're just going to place them on and then I used a brad nailer to nail through the side of the wood these are about 3/4 of an inch thick so you can just nail straight through the side and then into the wall at an angle I used a hammer to tap the tongue and groove together of the hardwood it creates a really nice tight Bond and it really also makes the process go kind of like satisfying because as you piece the piece together the wall just gets really nice and sturdy you can kind of see it come together it's almost like you're creating and finishing a puzzle [Music] [Music] as you can see we are starting to work on the arch here which is actually quite a challenge um it's not like actually like super challenging it was more so a challenge to figure out how to start doing it so what we kind of decided on doing is just adding each panel as we go so as you can see we've already done all inside of here which is looking so good kind of coming up a bit bright on camera at the moment and then over here hammering in just a few at a time and then using just a little Sharpie to then Mark on the back side transferring it over to the jigsaw and just trimming off these little bits here [Music] something I think I forgot to mention is that this hardwood floor is tongue and groove which essentially means that one side of the hardwood has kind of a tongue on it and the other side has a Groove so the pieces actually fit together really perfectly you just need a hammer or a mallet to just kind of tap them into place I also used a brad nailer to secure the pieces of wood to the wall so I just placed the next wood piece used the hammer to tap it into place and then I shot the nails at a sideways angle almost into the tongue and groove siding and then went into the wall so I used a long 1 and 1/2 in nail I also on the desk or tabletop I ended up using Liquid Nails on the back side because I wanted this to bond with our project panel that we used as the base of the desk and really create a super sturdy thick desk base so this ends up being about 1 and 1/2 in of solid [Music] hardwood well hello good morning it is Saturday and I thought I would share with you guys kind of where we are at and where we got to this week with the office closet flip transformation so let me flip the camera because I also have a few questions for you that I would love your comments or just kind of opinions on totally feel free to give me any ideas because I do have a few decisions to make and I need to make them something you might be able to notice is that it is raining outside it's also extremely gloomy so please disregard that when kind of looking at this office space but I mean even in the Rainy gloominess how gorgeous is this looking so far here is the amount we've done it's probably a little grainy since it is dark at the moment and then of course down here we have the built-in desk and just to give you a little look at how clean and flush like all of this turned out please disregard my bed in the back because I am editing at the moment but as you can see I also love this view we are going to be doing the wood on the ceiling I think the desk is here we still have the floor covered and as you work your way up the ceiling is not covered yet and then as you kind of work your way over to the left we still do have to cover this entire section here with the wood paneling I am considering adding a shelf under here just because this is kind of just like dead space you can't really put anything under there you can't really walk there either so I feel I might add another shelf there and something else I would also like to do is add either one shelf here or two shelves here it is a pretty tall area so I wanted to know your guys's thoughts on like two shelves and I'm going to be wrapping them in the same exact wood that way it really feels cohesive I can put my books up here a lot of my design books and then I can also add some Decor elements my desktop computer we have the outlet as well which is so great this to me is warm it's inviting it's still bright and especially when it's sunny outside this room just feels incredible I cannot wait to get the wood over here and get it decorated which is going to happen in our next video so if you are not already subscribed to the channel make sure to click that red subscribe button and the bell icon right next to it that way you notified when I upload next part and any brand new videos and also before letting you guys go I did did want to mention one last time to check out our buy more save more sale over on Lone fox.com so many incredible New pieces I've been adding to the site the more you shop the more you save and orders over 99 domestically ship for free which is great so I will add that link to the top the description box below and again thank you all so much for the support here on Lone Fox I hope you are loving the way our office Nook is turning out until next part I will see you later [Music] bye