For those who’re the kind of one that doesn’t like taking part in round with flooring plans and contemplating all (and I do imply aaaalllllllllll) of the chances, these subsequent few weeks might drive you completely loopy. It’s possible you’ll need to take a look at for some time and examine again in a number of weeks to see if I’m previous this part and have moved on to truly implementing a plan.
As a result of proper now, all I can do is consider the chances. My mind is not going to cease. I get up within the morning interested by prospects. I take into account all of them day as I’m working. My mother and I talked about them at lunch yesterday. I talked about them with pals final evening. I’m going to mattress at evening interested by them.
I get so enthusiastic about making an attempt out totally different layouts and interested by the totally different ideas that individuals give me. And y’all gave me a complete lot to consider on Monday’s post. And there was one suggestion particularly that caught my consideration, and I haven’t been in a position to get it out of my thoughts. The suggestion was to maneuver the visitor toilet into the pantry space.
I’m certain sooner or later, another person most likely recommended this, and I dismissed it instantly as a result of, once more, that flooring is a concrete slab basis. So doing something in there that requires plumbing shall be price extra, take longer, and be an enormous disruption to our lives. So it’s very attainable that somebody talked about it earlier than, and I wrote it off with none thought. I can’t even clarify why I’ll write off a suggestion time and again, after which it takes that one final time of somebody suggesting it, and I resolve to think about it. Nobody can clarify how my thoughts works, least of all me. 😀
However after I learn this suggestion, I made a decision to strive it out. I wasn’t even certain what issues (if any) that change would resolve, however the concept intrigued me, so I gave it a go. I made a decision instantly that it must be a full toilet. If somebody ever wanted to stick with Matt, I may have a sleeper couch within the TV room, however I might hate for them to have to make use of our toilet. So this visitor toilet would want to have a bathe.
Additionally, it could should be accessible by way of the kitchen as a result of I don’t need so many doorways within the TV room. I would like at the very least one stable, uninterrupted wall. Plus, it’s simply bizarre for visitors to have to make use of a rest room that’s accessible by a door proper there within the space the place persons are gathered. You often need it to be faraway from the primary room a bit bit, at the very least. That’s why they’re often off of a hallway.
So if I did this, it could look one thing like this. Don’t pay an excessive amount of attentino to the association of the particular toilet. I didn’t give that a lot thought but. However the basic placement of the toilet would seem like this.
So my query is that this. How bizarre is it to have a visitor toilet off of the kitchen? I do know I’ve seen it earlier than, however they’re primarily powder loos. And even at that, I don’t understand how frequent that’s. So that you inform me. Is it unusual to have a rest room off of a kitchen?
I’ve simply by no means lived in a house with a rest room off of the kitchen, so I’m undecided how I really feel about that. What I do love about that concept is that it will get the entire “public” areas of the home over on one aspect. It is smart to have the visitor toilet nearer to the TV room, the eating room, and the kitchen. And I additionally love that with the toilet moved, I might have these areas freed as much as organize how I would like them to be organized.
The areas I’m making an attempt to work into this flooring plan are (1) visitor toilet, (2) laundry room, (3) plenty of closet area, (4) a exercise space. And what I like concerning the concept of shifting the visitor toilet out of its present location and shifting it nearer to the opposite “public” areas of the home is that it could principally make all of this space in pink the master bedroom. None of this might be “public” anymore. This whole finish of the home can be master bedroom for me to rearrange in the way in which that most accurately fits us. That would go away the laundry room, plenty of closet area, and a exercise space that I’d want to suit into these areas.
And if it helps, I may even probably take the wall down between the present hallway and hallway toilet to make a extra open space in the master bedroom entrance.
I’m simply brainstorming right here, so I don’t know if that’s attainable. I’d should rise up into the attic and see if that’s a load-bearing wall. I sort of suppose it’s, so I don’t know what must be accomplished as a way to open that up utterly. Nevertheless it certain would make a pleasant exercise space. And it could make sense to have it there as a part of the master bedroom.
However my most important query for as we speak is concerning the placement of the visitor toilet off of the kitchen. Once more, I do know I’ve seen powder baths off of kitchens earlier than. Do you suppose that’s unusual? Have you ever had a home with that association earlier than? Inform me your ideas on that.
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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
