The expenses that relate to your home office are deductible. For instance, if you painted the entire outside of the house, that would affect your home office so a portion of that expense would be deductible. If you just painted a bedroom that is not a part of the home office, it would not be deductible.
In the list you mentioned, the floors, porch and exterior are improvements to the house as a whole, so they would be depreciated as such and a portion would belong to the office. The kitchen work sounds like repairs that are not related to the office so they are likely not deductible. The backyard fence would apply to the office as it belongs to the house as a whole.
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