Now that the kitchen flooring plan determination has been made, I had each intention to place that stuff behind us for some time and refocus on my studio and studio toilet till these are completed. However to be fairly sincere, I didn’t do a single factor this previous weekend. 😀 I had nice intentions. However sadly, these intentions bought me nowhere. The final two weeks felt very hectic and mentally taxing (and a bit emotionally taxing at first) with discovering out that our flooring and subfloor within the dwelling gymnasium was destroyed, me throwing a mood tantrum concerning the addition being delayed, me realizing that I truly didn’t need the addition, developing with an alternate plan, planning for turning a bed room right into a closet and exercise space, after which designing a kitchen in time to be prepared to satisfy with the contractor tomorrow.
My life is mostly fairly uneventful, and I sort of prefer it that means. 😀 So two weeks of all of that wore me out, but it surely wore me out in a really totally different means than bodily work (which I’m used to) tires me out. So this weekend, after all the pieces had been determined and finalized in my thoughts, I simply wanted some downtime. I wanted a while with out having to consider my home. However right now, I’m able to get again to the studio. I’ve some trim to put in and paint, two doorways to color, a wall calendar to re-hang, a storage closet to complete and arrange, and a chair to reupholster. Then I have to get issues organized and put away in all the drawers and cupboards, after which I can transfer on to the studio toilet.
However within the meantime, there have been a couple of questions concerning the kitchen that saved developing time and again, so let me deal with these earlier than we get again to the studio. First, let me provide you with one other take a look at the kitchen flooring plan that I made a decision on…
And on our flooring plan, it appears like this…
How will you deliver groceries in?
A number of individuals appeared involved that there was no handy means for me to get groceries into the kitchen from the carport. In the event you take a look at the ground plan above, you’ll see that we’ve a wheelchair ramp that leads from the carport to the again doorways of my studio. If I stroll from the carport to the tip of the ramp (earlier than the “switchback” that results in the studio doorways), it’s actually eight steps from there to the place the again doorways of the kitchen will likely be.
Fairly truthfully, I could or could not even use that path to get groceries into the kitchen. I could follow my path that I exploit now, which is to deliver them up the ramp, into the studio, by means of the breakfast space, and into the kitchen. And let me clarify to you why I don’t have a difficulty with that.
So now, after I get to the grocery retailer to do my procuring, I get this bag out of the van and wheel it into the shop, put my groceries within the bag, take a look at and have them put the groceries proper again within the bag, zip up the highest, wheel it to my automotive, and elevate it up and put it on the ground in entrance of the entrance passenger’s seat. (But when it’s too heavy, I all the time have the choice of wheeling it up the again wheelchair ramp of the van, so I by no means truly must elevate it.) Once I get dwelling, I elevate it out of the van, roll it up into the carport (it truly rolls very properly on grass), roll it up the ramp, and roll it by means of the home into the kitchen the place I unpack it.
So at no time throughout my procuring and I wrestling with a bunch of grocery luggage, or lifting and carrying a bunch of baggage. I not must make a number of journeys to and from the van to deliver luggage in. Every thing we want for one week matches completely into this bag.
I notice that wouldn’t work for people who find themselves searching for large households, a number of children or grandkids, and so forth. Nevertheless it works for us. I’m solely searching for two individuals and two animals, however Matt orders all of his meat from Butcherbox, and Cooper’s meals comes from The Farmer’s Canine, each of that are delivered to our entrance door. So my grocery procuring every week has turn out to be fairly streamlined and straightforward. My kitchen may actually be on the very reverse finish of the home from the carport, and it nonetheless wouldn’t be an enormous deal for me in any respect. Matt is all the time encouraging me to search out methods to “work smarter, not tougher!” So I discovered a solution to make my grocery procuring very simple.
What colour will your new kitchen be?
Until you’re new round right here, y’all ought to know me properly sufficient to know this reply. 😀
Teal, in fact! I’ve had two teal kitchens now, and I ever bored with this colour. As a lot as I really like pink now, teal will all the time be my favourite. My go-to. My first alternative. I may drench my home in teal (which I’ve just about tried to do), and by no means develop bored with it. I had teal in our tiny rental kitchen…
And I’ve had a teal kitchen on this home since 2017.
Enjoyable truth: Each of these kitchens are painted the identical teal — Behr Hallowed Hush. It’s wonderful the distinction that totally different cameras and drastically totally different lighting make.
I don’t know that I’ll paint the brand new kitchen Hallowed Hush. I could department out and discover a new teal, maybe a shade or two darker for the reason that new kitchen could have a lot pure gentle. However I determine if it ain’t broke, don’t repair it. I’ve gone down that highway of looking for one other colour for my kitchen. Chances are you’ll keep in mind this little detour…
After which there was this detour as properly…
I all the time come again to teal. So this time, I’m going to keep away from all the pointless trial and error. I’m going to keep away from the temptation to persuade myself that I may be pleased with a special colour after I know I’m mendacity to myself. I’m simply going to keep away from all of that nonsense and follow my favourite colour. Teal cupboards, white tile backsplash (however not subway tile this time), some form of white quartz counter tops, matte white Café home equipment with brass accents, and crimson oak hardwood flooring to match the remainder of the home.
Why not add a door into the long run laundry room the place the window is now?
I thought of this nearly instantly. This might have been nice to have with both kitchen structure, and I used to be so hopeful that it might occur. However right here’s the issue. That door would open instantly onto the wheelchair ramp, and the step down from home stage to the ramp is 8.5 inches. Add a door with a threshold, and that will most likely make it a step of a minimum of 9 inches. The utmost allowable step top out of an exterior door is 7.75 inches in keeping with constructing code, so there’s no means I may get the contractor to do this. And truthfully, there’s no means I’d make it a behavior to return in a door with a 9-inch step. That’s fairly a step for somebody who’s solely 5 toes tall!
Just a few individuals recommended placing a Costco door there (i.e., a small door that’s not supposed as an precise egress, however is just used to place luggage of groceries into the home), however once more, due to my system of grocery procuring, I don’t want one. It could be a lot tougher for me to elevate my rolling bag right into a Costco door than it’s to only wheel it up the ramp and into the again studio doorways.
The place will you place your freezer that’s now within the pantry?
I don’t suppose I’ll want it. Matt and I’ve actually streamlined the best way we do issues. He buys sufficient meat from Butcherbox to final him a month, and it’s largely ribeyes. He eats all of them earlier than his subsequent field arrives. I solely purchase sufficient meat for me to final one week at a time, so mine stays within the fridge, not the freezer. So we simply don’t have a lot of a necessity for an enormous freezer anymore like we used to once we purchased issues in larger bulk. So I’m about 99% positive {that a} common fridge/freezer combo will likely be sufficient for us. However I’ll maintain on to each my upright freezer and the little chest freezer that we’ve till we’re positive.
Why not put your washer and dryer within the new large closet in order that it may be nearer to your bed room?
I thought-about that for a bit, but it surely simply makes extra sense to me to have the laundry nearer to the tip of the home the place I spend my days. I do laundry in the course of the day, after I’m typically in my studio or within the carport. And when I’ve a workshop, I’ll even be spending fairly a little bit of time in there as properly. So having the laundry on the reverse finish of the home doesn’t make sense to me. So far as taking issues from the laundry to the bed room, I can all the time get a type of rolling laundry carts to wheel issues to the opposite finish of the home to place them away. Work smarter, not tougher! 😀
These have been the most-asked questions that I made observe of, however in fact, I’m joyful to reply any extra! I’ll be assembly with the contractor tomorrow morning at 9:00, and I really feel ready and peaceable about all the pieces now. And excited!! I’m tremendous excited!!
Within the meantime, our new flooring was simply delivered, and I don’t know the place to place it. Proper now, it’s sitting exterior by the entrance porch.
So I’ve to deliver all of this inside, and determine the place I’m going to retailer it for the following few weeks whereas the present flooring and subfloor are taken up, and the brand new subfloor is put in. I’m glad it’ll have some time to acclimate earlier than it’s put in, however that is going to be such a ache to work and reside round for the following few weeks. However I’m selecting to have a look at it as a optimistic. Not less than it’s right here, and it’ll be prepared to put in as soon as the subfloor is down! I’m able to get this going!!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
