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A 104 degrees is no excuse for us to stop working. Let me show you what we're doing
in the home office. They say an eco-friendly house can't be built in a 150 days for $150,000,
and I say it can. I'm Allen Smith, join me as I push the limits with time, budget and
creativity with the Garden Home Challenge, exclusively on eHow Home. You know, this little
space was basically an under-utilized asset that we had for the house. We call it the
home office. It juts out over that den downstairs. Tony found some flooring, which got us to
about here, and he just had to add a few extra boards. So we actually had enough for the
flooring. So I said: Let's go ahead, even though it's not within the budget of the house,
let's go ahead and get this finished out. Because, remember, it was already insulated.
We just needed to put some flooring down, a baseboard, and the walls. For the flooring,
we just went with our 6 inch tongue and groove pine flooring. For the walls, we used that
#2 grade beadboard that we used outside in the hall. And we just trimmed it with 1x6s
around. Kept it really simple -- it follows in our farmhouse chic approach. Now, even
a farmhouse needs to be tech savvy. So this little home office will be outfitted for a
computer and so forth. Now the scale of it, I think, is pretty generous, actually. Because
it's 7 1/2 feet wide, it's 15 feet long, and it's about 7 feet tall here in the center.
We've put in floor receptacles here, a light switch -- and, of course, we'll do a ceiling
mount here for additional lighting. Thank goodness we used a lot of insulation in this
house, because as soon as they kick the air conditioning on, and it can't be any time
too soon, this house is gonna chill way down. Now, we don't have any vents in here, but
there is a vent here for the heat and air, which can blow air directly into this room.
So for it to stay cool or warm, they'll just need to leave this door open. And the door,
on the outside, matches our beadboard. And we have the trim just like you see inside
this room. So I think it's coming together really well. Now the next thing that we'll
do in here is just put a primer coat of paint on it, we'll paint the floors just like we're
gonna paint here -- we're gonna use that wonderful floor paint, called Black Bean Soup, all through
here. And we'll have some fun outfitting it. Hey, if you're enjoying our segments on how
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Home. I'm gonna take another measurement here.