Whenever Hunky Husband schedules a few days away from home, I take advantage of the opportunity to schedule maintenance on the house. This past week, I scheduled carpeting replacement for my den - which occurred Tuesday. It was as large a project as having the carpeting replaced in the parlor, living room, and hallway (Fall of 2013), in the two bedrooms that are on the main floor of the house (Spring of 2014), or having the vinyl goods replaced in the kitchen, breakfast room, dining room, and mud room (Spring of 2015). Why? Because I had the whole world jammed into my den. I spent a couple of hours each of 4 or 5 days getting nearly everything out of my den in preparation - everything off of the walls, all of the movable furniture out (except the 93" couch, a 6-shelf bookcase, and a recliner chair), and everything out of my closet. (When it came to my closet, Fibber Magee would have been proud!)
It took the guys only four hours to remove the three pieces of furniture, take up the old carpeting, lay the new carpeting, and bring the chair and bookcase back into the den. I had asked them to take the couch to the basement - and leave it there! It has taken me several hours per day since they left to get everything else back together.
Well...not everything is back together. I took the opportunity to throw out/give away much of the "stuff" instead of bringing it back in. (Fibber Magee would no longer be proud of the closet. It has a few cubic inches of space left!) In addition, I took a small cabinet downstairs to my bedroom and took a thick glass tabletop (about 2' x 3' x 1") down to the basement for storage (we've had it since about 1970 and still haven't figured out how to use it!), and brought up a tall, narrow bookcase from my bedroom. Yes, folks, much like Bogie, I am good at figuring out how to do things by myself.
The biggest challenge (physically) was finding a place to "store" this computer setup/desk where it could be in service during the upheaval. The desk and computer are shown in Done and done; but, the setup had been amended to include a small TV console on which my printer and printer papers reside. All told, the length of the setup is about six feet. I moved the server from one wall to another in the dining room to make room for the computer desk/setup and was quite comfortable working at my computer for a couple of days.
Before: Computer Desk parallel to built-in desk - 
After: Computer desk against wall perpendicular to built-in desk -

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