Residence Health club Progress (Plus, Lighting, Window Remedy, Door Coloration & Shelving Selections)

I’m making progress on the house health club, though I’m on the level the place progress is transferring alongside fairly slowly as a result of I’m engaged on the trim. I now have the entire trim put in, and it’s all wooden crammed and sanded. Right now, I hope to start out on caulking the entire trim in order that I can begin portray it on Thursday.

I additionally spent a while doing a little wall repairs. When you’ll bear in mind, I really tried putting in crown molding on this room alongside the longest wall (i.e., the wall between the house health club and the grasp toilet), after which determined that I didn’t prefer it. Effectively, due to the best way that crown molding is put in (nailed into the wall and the ceiling, with the totally different instructions of nails creating pressure that helps to carry the crown in place), eradicating crown molding inevitably damages drywall. I had already achieved one coat of drywall mud on these areas, however they wanted one other coat, together with some sanding.

As soon as that the entire prep work is finished, particularly caulking the entire trim, I’ll be capable of get the entire trim and wall touchups painted, after which I can really begin on some ornamental stuff!

Talking of ornamental stuff, and due to your entire enter, I’ve determined to construct two shelving items, put them on casters, and have them flank a chest of drawers within the middle of the closet space. I hope to discover a chest of drawers on Fb Market or some place else native, and simply paint it. I’d quite not must construct one. After which I’ll mount a TV on the wall over the chest of drawers.

I’ve determined that every part that goes into the room shall be black and darkish stained wooden. I just about let my Water Rower decide that call because it’s a lovely walnut with black accents. So the cabinets have black helps (each vertical and horizontal helps) with stained walnut coloration cabinets. If I’ve sufficient walnut veneer left over from the toilet, I’ll even use that for the cabinets.

Many months in the past, I had already chosen a black flooring for the room, in order that works into my black + walnut plan very properly. I additionally bought black curtain rods (sure, I shall be hanging curtains in right here as a result of y’all know I like cloth!), and simply final night time, I made a decision to hold the Rustic Walnut Bamboo Shade that I used within the toilet into this room as properly. That shade is such good high quality, and it’s so just like what I’ve in the remainder of the home, however at a a lot decrease price, so I made a decision to go for it. So as soon as it’s all put collectively, my home windows will go from wanting like this…

To wanting like this…

I do know that there shall be many ranging opinions on that (the black curtain rod, protecting up a few of the stripes, and so on.), however I believe it’ll look very good as soon as it’s all achieved, and it’ll make the room cohesive with splashes of black and walnut all through the room. I believe it’ll additionally take the partitions from being front-and-center and the primary function of the room to appearing extra as a backdrop, which I believe Matt will recognize. 😀 So the partitions are for me, and the entire black and walnut is for him.

However that brings me to the entry of the room. After we moved this wall again (which made our hallway smaller and squared up the grasp toilet), that made the doorway into this room fairly lengthy. And it’s additionally darkish. I didn’t even suppose so as to add a light-weight right here, however I actually suppose it wants one. So I’m conflicted. It looks like an ideal space to place a semi-flush ceiling mild, and that might give me a chance to convey some black into this space as properly (though, I’ll do this with what I placed on the partitions as properly).

The opposite choices is to place an excellent skinny “recessed” mild, like I’ve all through the room. However that appears a bit boring to me, and like a wasted alternative, proper? I’m leaning in the direction of the semi-flush ceiling mild until somebody has purpose I shouldn’t do this.

After which there’s the door coloration, which I do know I introduced up a very long time in the past, however I’m nonetheless conflicted over. All the doorways within the hallway are a darkish teal. There’s none of that coloration on this room, so I don’t need to convey that in there. The doorways within the toilet are white, however I don’t like that for this room.

So since I’m attempting to make use of black accents on this room, what about portray the doorways black? What can we take into consideration this?

I believe that appears good, and provides a contact of sophistication to juxtapose the colourful striped partitions. It’s simply paint, so I supposed I may attempt it and see how I prefer it. And if I don’t, I can all the time transfer on to one thing else. I’m simply not fairly positive what different choices there are.

EDIT: I made a decision so as to add the flooring to the image above to see what every part would seem like collectively. Right here’s an concept of how this space would look with the black door and the flooring.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.

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