This previous Wednesday as I used to be having lunch with my mother, she talked about that I want extra storage in my home. A number of weeks again, I went to a ladies’s retreat, and my mother stayed with Matt whereas I used to be gone. (In the event you’re new round right here, Matt is my husband who has M.S. and wishes full-time care.) And anytime my mother is left to her personal gadgets in my home, she’s going to scrub, do laundry, put issues away, and so forth. 😀 It’s simply what she does, and I’m all the time grateful for her assist.
However she’s proper. I want extra storage. In fact, I’ve plans for extra storage. I’ve already shared my tentative plan for including extra storage to the breakfast room. Proper now, the partitions on both aspect of the doorway to the pantry appear to be this (and the doorways to the pantry have been eliminated since this image was taken)…
Whereas I like the colour that provides to the room, that’s numerous house devoted to ornamental stuff when it might be a lot extra helpful to me as space for storing because it’s proper there between the kitchen and the pantry. So I’d love so as to add cupboards proper there. In fact, the cupboards would truly match the cupboards within the kitchen, and they’d appear to be an extension of my kitchen cupboards, however right here’s the overall concept.
Even when I simply do decrease cupboards and depart the higher wall house free for art work, it will nonetheless add fairly a little bit of helpful storage to that house.
Proper now, since we don’t have our addition constructed but, I don’t actually produce other areas the place I can add storage. I do have areas the place I can optimize storage, although. I’ve a cupboard within the hallway that’s in determined want of group.
I bought one drawer organized just a few month in the past, however I nonetheless must do the opposite drawer and the higher cupboards. The decrease cupboard is my cat’s litter field, so that may’t be used for storage.
However as my mother and I had been speaking, I spotted that I had been overlooking an amazing alternative for added (closed) storage within the hallway lavatory. If we go means again to when Matt and I purchased this home, the hallway lavatory had this closet within the nook, nevertheless it was hidden when the lavatory door was open. So so as to entry the closet, I needed to come into the lavatory, shut the lavatory door, after which open the closet.
After I transformed the lavatory, I modified the configuration fully. I moved and widened the lavatory door, after which added double doorways that swing out into the hallway in order that this space wouldn’t be coated up by the open door. After which I eliminated the closet fully, added a decrease cupboard on the underside…
After which added open cabinets on the highest…
Right here’s how that appears from the hallway…
I like open cabinets. I feel they’re very fairly, they make the room feel and look larger and extra open, and I like any alternative so as to add fairly, ornamental issues to a room. However more often than not, I don’t suppose that open cabinets are sensible for storage functions.
As quickly as I’m completed with the studio and the studio lavatory, I’ve been planning on making adjustments to this lavatory. I’ve already bought the wallpaper…
I’m fairly enthusiastic about it, so don’t rain on my parade. 😀 I do plan to take away the tile accent across the room and convey the wallpaper right down to the wainscoting, and I feel it’s going to look superb.
I’ve different plans, like new sconces (which I have already got) and a brand new mirror (which I’ve already picked out). However I had been undecided on what to do with the open shelf space. From a purely ornamental standpoint, what I actually wished to do was to take away all the things above the countertop, after which wrap the wallpaper round in that space to steadiness out the colour. After which, as soon as that inset space was wallpapered, I deliberate so as to add one thing like floating cabinets. However that might imply fully redoing the boards on the ceiling (which don’t prolong previous the crown molding) in addition to redoing the crown molding.
However from a purely sensible standpoint, I feel what I must do is prolong the closed storage as much as the ceiling, fully taking out the open cabinets altogether. So for now, that’s my plan. I must suppose by all the little particulars earlier than totally committing to this plan. For instance, what the heck do I do with this little sliver of wall?
Proper now, with the partitions painted a really gentle and impartial shade, that sliver of wall form of disappears. However after I wallpaper the partitions with the darkish floral wallpaper, that silver of wall goes to scream for consideration if I put wallpaper on it. I feel it’ll look foolish, however I don’t know what else to do with it to make it look intentional.
So I’m going to suppose by this plan. I feel I prefer it for probably the most half, and I positively like the thought of getting extra usable closed storage in the home.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify 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.
