This week, I’m centered on getting my studio completed. I made progress over the weekend, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not completed. I didn’t count on it to be. I haven’t even began on reupholstering the desk chair, and I nonetheless have a ton of organizing and cleansing to do. So I received’t be running a blog about my studio this week, however simply know that I’m exhausting at work behind the scenes making an attempt to get it completed. And I’ll let y’all know as quickly as I’ve something attention-grabbing (or completed) to share.
Within the meantime, I bought a touch upon a submit final week that I haven’t been in a position to get out of my thoughts. The remark was about my plan to show our present (visitor) bed room right into a closet/exercise space combo. The commenter mentioned,
“Might I make a suggestion? Earlier than you completely, 100% decide to the concept of utilizing half of what’s going to turn into your bed room closet as a exercise house, contemplate different doable exercise house options. Your exercise house wants to have the ability to be individually ventilated–for causes of collected humidity and Matt’s consolation whereas understanding, and in addition as a result of over time your garments are simply going to soak up and retain that boys’ highschool health club locker room odor! Every part will start to scent like low-cost gin and soiled sweat socks, and it rapidly turns into everlasting. I urge you to rethink this concept in the event you don’t need all the pieces you personal to scent like the within of a teenage boy’s health club shoe. There’s bought to be one other house you possibly can both convert or add onto cheaply with out going into debt for a exercise space.”
In fact, she wasn’t the primary particular person to counsel that. A number of folks urged me to not mix a closet and exercise space for that exact same cause, however I simply couldn’t discover anyplace else to place a exercise space. So I sort of deserted the concept, and simply resolved myself to the truth that I’d should have a closet/health club combo.
However the concept of getting that total room devoted to closet and space for storing positive did enchantment to me. I might envision a wonderful closet/dressing room sort of factor, with IKEA Pax wardrobes not solely lining one wall, however lining each partitions. After which I might have extra storage within the center. One thing like this, not in model (I’m utilizing IKEA Pax), however in the way in which it’s organized with storage on each aspect partitions and in addition in the course of the room…
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However we’ve got to have a house health club or exercise space of some type. That’s not even a negotiable merchandise for us. Matt wants to make use of his Theracycle day-after-day if doable, and whereas I don’t want any train tools, it positive is good to have. I’ve extra incentive to work out if I’ve a couple of completely different choices. So I need to maintain onto it if I can.
So as soon as once more, I seemed over our ground plan to see if I might provide you with an answer. There are two choices that I can see.
Possibility 1:
The primary choice is to mix the closet and laundry room into one room. I do know, I do know! I can already hear a few of you screaming at me. “Kristi, I advised that!!” 😀 I hear you. I do know so a lot of you advised that, and I didn’t love the concept on the time, however I’m coming round to it.
Initially, it could make issues a lot simpler. That room has a pier and beam basis, so getting the plumbing over to that room for the washer, dryer, and sizzling water heater, can be fast and straightforward. Turning the pantry into the laundry room can be a lot tougher and rather more costly as a result of it has a slab basis.
One other factor within the “professional” column for this concept is that it might be performed ahead of later. I imply, as quickly as our new bed room is finished and we’re moved into there, and as quickly as I begin turning the visitor bed room right into a closet, I might additionally get my washer, dryer, and sizzling water heater moved into that room. No extra ready to have a laundry room.
With this plan, that frees up the pantry to be our exercise space. The downside is that the room is barely 7′ x 12′. That’s not plenty of room, and there’s no method to increase it. That measurement is ready in stone. However it’s sufficient room for my new smaller treadmill, Matt’s Theracycle, my rebounder, our set of freeweights, and a few kettlebells. One other con is that will probably be proper there by the kitchen. That appears awkward.
Possibility 2:
The second choice I got here up with was to construct a very separate little constructing in our again yard. It might be near the bed room finish of the home, proper round right here someplace…
I went to the web site of the corporate that’s constructing my workshop simply to see what I might provide you with. If we hold it below 200 sq. toes, I don’t want a allow from town. So I got here up with this cute little dormer shed that’s 12′ x 16′ that may price about $9500.
That’s 192 sq. toes, so we might construct that with out town being concerned within the course of. And it’s cute! We actually have loads of room for it on our one-acre lot. The draw back is that Matt must go exterior to entry it. That’s effective most days right here in central Texas, however I do marvel about wet days or actually chilly days.
So these are my ideas thus far. As I work on the studio this week, I’m going to proceed pondering these concepts. I actually do like the concept of my closet not having to share an area with exercise tools and sweaty folks. I do know that’s not perfect. I may need to dwell with it for a minimum of a short while, however now that I’ve thought of different choices, I’m feeling extra satisfied that I’d like to search out one other residence for our train tools.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
