How I renovated my home office for under $3,000

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For the past 10 years, my home office has doubled as my family’s unofficial storage locker. Last week, I used a staycation to finally give the drab, tiny room where I spend 60 per cent of my work week a much-needed glow-up.

The transformation involved considerable sweat equity, but for under $3,000, I transformed the space into what’s pretty close to the studio of my dreams.

For anyone interested in do-it-yourself renovations on a tiny budget, I thought I’d share a few lessons I learned from this and other projects I’ve done.

Start small, then work your way up to bigger things

The studio renovation involved bidding goodbye to the large Ikea Kallax unit that has stored my books, family paperwork and the overflow of my kid’s toys for the past decade. The vision was to replace t