Comments on: Weekly Roundup – Home Office Options Edition

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:22:32 +0000

Frugal Dad – California in the national title game for sure!

I feel Tebow will be a big let down this year, and end up regretting not going to the NFL. He has nothing more to prove. Just downside!

Cal will beat USC at Cal this year!

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:45:27 +0000

If you’re looking to turn an outdoor shed into a workspace, this is perhaps the coolest post I’ve ever seen…..

http://lifehacker.com/397216/backyard-shed-turned-home-office

By: mewithoutdebt

mewithoutdebt — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:22:24 +0000

Thanks for the roundup. I enjoyed browsing through all of them!

How about wireless internet rather running the wires? New routers are pretty fast.

By: Kandace

Kandace — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:47:05 +0000

My husband and I each have backpacks that are our “bugout bags.” In addition to the basic listed in this post we added toothbrushes and toothpaste (can’t imagine going a couple of days with them!) a set of clean underwear, a clean tee-shirt and socks. I’d also like to stuff some cash into the crannies as well.

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:46:32 +0000

@Financial Samurai: Which title game? If you are talking the nat’l championship, I’m not so sure. Florida will likely make up one half of the championship game, and it’s hard not to like USC or Texas. I personally lean towards Texas with experience at QB.

I fully expect Alabama to be Auburn’s toughest opponent this season. Their line is just phenomenal, and we are young and a little undersized in the front seven. Actually, we’re young at every position on defense.

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:12:51 +0000

Ah yes, that’s right. Good luck against Mississippi State! Alabama is going to be tough come Nov 27!

I think California will be in the title game this year. How about that prediction?

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:09:06 +0000

@Financial Samurai: I’m an Auburn man. They had a good start to the season, but this weekend will be the first conference test.

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:37:34 +0000

FrugalDad – Can you remind me/us which NCAA football team you are rooting for? Because like you, I’m a NCAAF nut, and lover the banter.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:51:30 +0000

We just added on an office/studio for me this past summer. What DH did was add a 12′ X 16′ addition onto our attached garage on the backside, using the back outside wall of the garage as the back wall of the office. He built the addition “pole” style so it didn’t require a big concrete pad or foundation or excavating work. It is all insulated, two big windows, and a big french door let in a lot of light for painting, etc. I have plenty of space to kind of divide the room into computer graphics side and “real art” side. Instead of sheetrock (which I hate) he finished it off in OSB and I painted over that. I wanted something I could hang whatever I want to on the walls without getting in trouble for wrecking the sheetrock

He put in a small AC unit and cove heating. I LOVE this. I can regulate the temp in my own little space without spending the bucks to temp control the whole house all day long.

The french door opens out onto our patio and my other big summer project was to build a koi pond with all the left over boulders from when we built our house. I just got the waterfall running, so now I sit here in the new office and listen to the waterfall. It’s nice. I am not sure if I am going to like having to walk outside to get to the office in the winter, but it is a trade-off. I like having a separate space I can be messy in and not have to worry about it.

I don’t think the whole project for the office cost over $3K and will certainly add much more than that in value to our house. It was done inexpensively because we were creative with our resources and we did it all ourselves. And bonus– I can write it off come tax time.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:05:32 +0000

I have done a couple different things for office space in the past. Once I put a metal shed in the garage elevated on a short plywood wall to get the proper head-room. Then I ran a 4″ vent pipe in from the AC unit to stay cool.
Another time I actually constructed a stud wall with sheetrock to make a 4 x 8 office inside the garage that was ‘easily’ removed by the people who got the house next. Both options take up car space, but better than making the family eat someplace else I always say.