The Day Is Lastly Right here! (I am Assembly With The Architect Immediately About Our Addition)

I used to be starting to suppose this present day would by no means occur. After I met with the contractor that we’re going to make use of for our home addition on the finish of July, he gave me the identify of the architect that they normally use for his or her initiatives. The architect contacted me shortly after to arrange a gathering, nevertheless it has been one street block after one other for the final three months.

He contacted me a couple of days earlier than he was supposed to depart for a two-week cruise, however I couldn’t match a gathering into my schedule earlier than he left, so I instructed him to contact me when he received again. Effectively, proper after he received again, he received COVID and quarantined himself for 10 days. Then after that, Matt and I each got here down with colds. Then the architect needed to exit of city (or maybe out of state). Then I used to be down for 10 days with sciatica. 😀

I imply, I’m not one to search for “indicators” or something, however even I used to be starting to marvel if this enterprise relationship wasn’t purported to occur. 😀 However I made a decision to simply be affected person, strive to not get anxious about something, and simply let issues occur after they occur. That’s form of been my angle about the entire addition. Whereas I desperately need it accomplished NOW, I additionally don’t need to rush into issues, make silly errors, make unhealthy selections, and many others. So I’m doing my greatest to stay calm, clear-headed, and peaceable about the entire thing.

However we’re lastly assembly at this time, and I couldn’t be extra excited!! I’ve by no means met with an architect earlier than. I’ve by no means had any initiatives that required an architect till now. One venture required a seek the advice of with a structural engineer, however the contractor took care of that. So that is all new to me, and I actually don’t know what to anticipate from this assembly.

I haven’t needed to vary something concerning the flooring plan since then. That association feels good to me. And I’m so wanting ahead to each side of that addition! I could also be wanting ahead to the laundry room only a tiny bit greater than the opposite areas, however not a lot.

Actually, do you bear in mind a couple of weeks in the past after I taped off the size of the music room on the music room flooring?

I solely simply took that tape up yesterday. 😀 It had been there for 5 weeks as a result of I beloved it and having the ability to see the true dimensions of the room. However I lastly determined yesterday that it had been there lengthy sufficient.

For a very long time, I saved flip flopping on the thought of a passthrough from the kitchen to the household room. However at this level, I’m fairly decided to have one so long as there’s the potential for closing it off once we need it closed.

And I grew to become much more enamored of the thought when somebody despatched me an image (or possibly a hyperlink to an image) of the kitchen within the Mary Tyler Moore present that had a stained glass window that could possibly be opened to open up the kitchen to the lounge…

Or it could possibly be pulled right down to separate the kitchen from the lounge.

To be trustworthy, I’ve by no means seen the Mary Tyler Moore Present (I do know, I do know…*collective gasp* 😀 ), so I had by no means seen that till somebody introduced it to my consideration in a touch upon a submit a couple of weeks again. I really like that! And whereas I really like how charming and quirky it’s that it lifts up and lowers, I don’t have the attic area for that. So mine must open like pocket doorways.

And likewise, since doing that flooring plan, I’ve determined to do a fairly main redo on our kitchen, and even increase our kitchen (visually, however with out transferring plumbing and different costly issues like that) by extending cupboards into the breakfast room flanking the pantry doorway.

After all, I’d truly use fairly cupboards, so that they wouldn’t look precisely like that mock up. So I’m unsure concerning the timeline for these adjustments. Clearly, the passthrough must be accomplished with the addition because it’ll want fairly a little bit of reinforcement, however I’m unsure if we’ll do the kitchen on the identical time. These are all issues I hope to speak by with the architect at this time, after which with the contractor later, to get their opinions.

However the thrilling issues is that the ball is lastly getting rolling at this time! I’m certain it’ll nonetheless be a really slow-rolling ball for some time, and till the precise work will get began. However I’m simply so completely satisfied to lastly have some (any) ahead motion on this venture, and to take y’all alongside on the journey.

UPDATE: I simply realized that I can’t depart y’all in suspense with the paint swatch cupboard doorways for a complete weekend, so let me depart you with a fast peek at my progress. There was a really clear crowd favourite, and that was the #3 diagonal sample, however a number of folks identified that among the greens appeared to leap out an excessive amount of. So I did a fast rearranging of about 4 of the greens in order that the order made extra sense. Right here’s a reminder of what the #3 diagonal seemed like, however that is with out the greens rearranged.

So right here’s my progress. The paint swatches are completed on 20-inch doorways on the highest row and the 30-inch doorways on the center row. On the underside row of 40-inch doorways, two of them have one coat of paint and want a second coat, whereas the opposite two doorways haven’t been painted but.

After which I nonetheless have to put in writing the colour names beneath every swatch, after which clear coat the entire doorways with a few coats of my favourite Basic Finishes topcoat. Clearly, it hasn’t been a brilliant quick venture. There are, in any case, 72 paint colours on these doorways. Nevertheless it hasn’t been too gradual or tedious, both.

I make no guarantees about when it’ll be completed, however I’m going to be working very diligently on this at this time and over the weekend, so we’ll see how far I get by the point I’m again right here on Monday morning.

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.