I’ve virtually all the pieces settled and determined for my plan for our bed room, and now it’s only a matter of implementing the plan. However I do have one roadblock, and I’ve given a lot thought to arising with an answer, however up to now, I can’t consider one.
The issue is that the breaker field for our home is positioned on a wall within the room that may now be our bed room. (That’s a giant mirror leaning towards the wall subsequent to it.)
When this room was our house fitness center, the breaker field was contained in the closet space, and I hid it behind a giant mirror on the proper aspect of the closet to the proper of the TV and the “sweat the loopy out” signal.
I used to be okay with that answer because it was a house fitness center. However now that that is going to be our bed room, and the partitions that created that closet space are gone, I hate the thought of conserving the breaker field proper there.
I plan on turning that nook right into a studying nook with a snug chair, flooring mild, ottoman, and many others. The breaker field is excessive sufficient that it gained’t intrude with the wainscoting that I plan to put in on the decrease portion of the partitions. And I may all the time put a very tall, large mirror leaning towards that portion of the wall. So within the worst case situation, if there’s simply no method to transfer it, I’m positive I can work round it and make it work. However I’d quite not.
Transferring a breaker field for a complete home isn’t low cost, and I’m sure that the additional away I transfer it from the present place, the costlier it’ll be. I can’t even think about transferring all of these wires from one aspect of the home to the opposite. I believe it could be higher (and cheaper) to maintain it on this aspect of the home, if doable. However once more, I simply can’t discover a place for it.
The room that makes essentially the most sense to me to place a breaker field is within the present visitor bed room, which would be the closet/laundry space. However there are some issues with that plan. First, it’s towards code (no less than in Waco) to place a breaker field in a closet. I don’t know if this could technically depend as a closet because it’s actually a bed room that shall be used as a closet and laundry room. However even when we are able to get away with that technicality, I don’t see any area for it.
Proper now, the breaker field is positioned simply on the opposite aspect of the wall the place the pink mark is…
In an ideal world, I’d like to put it inside an higher cupboard above the dryer.
However that gained’t work as a result of that places it additional away from the remainder of the rooms in the home, and though it’s not an extended distance away from its present place, it’s nonetheless far sufficient away that a lot of the wires could be too quick to achieve. And as soon as once more, that makes the entire course of rather more costly. But additionally, code requires {that a} breaker field have three ft of area on both aspect in order that it may be simply accessed. If I put it inside that cupboard, it wouldn’t have three ft of area on the proper aspect of the cupboard and breaker field.
It might be simpler to place it on this part of the closet.
This place would transfer it nearer to the opposite rooms, so no wires could be too quick to achieve. However once more, it doesn’t have the required three ft of area on both aspect. It might be simply accessible, although. It might simply be hidden by hanging garments, which might be simply eliminated.
The one different choice I’ve been in a position to provide you with is to place it within the hallway. However once more, the place? It might be excellent if it may go proper behind the chapel image…
However that’s a pocket door that results in the bed room, and one draw back of getting pocket doorways is that it limits what might be on/within the partitions. The pocket into which that door opens ends across the center of that chapel image, in order that leaves no room for a breaker field.
I’m really considering eradicating this cupboard from the hallway, and that might liberate the wall area, however as soon as once more, there’s a pocket door on what would be the closet and laundry room. The pocket into which that door opens takes as much as a lot area to suit the breaker field there.
So I truthfully don’t know the place it may go. I’ve been kicking round an thought in my head that will appear a bit loopy, however Matt appears on board with it. My one answer that I’ve considered is to take away the door to the bed room altogether. When all the pieces is claimed and accomplished on this home, all the pieces past the cased opening that separates the music room from the hallway will technically be master bedroom.
So as an alternative of the teal door on the bed room, I may take away that door altogether and add French doorways to this opening, turning this into the precise doorway into the main bedroom. I sort of love that concept whatever the breaker field. It might enable me to widen the doorway into the bed room by a couple of inches. However the added bonus is that I may put the breaker field behind the chapel image.
I’m very severely considering that concept. The extra I give it some thought, the extra I prefer it. The factor is that I have to make a ultimate resolution earlier than I set up the flooring as a result of widening the doorway into the bed room will have an effect on the flooring. I don’t wish to get the flooring put in, after which want I had widened the doorway later.
I believe it could be good to take away the bed room door, widen the doorway, and take away the cupboard within the hallway to open up the area and make it simpler for Matt to get by way of this space. French doorways between the music room and this space would offer all of the privateness we have to the main bedroom.
If I weren’t utilizing wallpaper within the bed room, this wouldn’t be a giant deal. But when I’m going to maneuver the breaker field, I really need that to be accomplished earlier than I put up grasscloth wallpaper within the bed room. I simply can’t discover a good answer. I’m leaning in direction of the thought of eradicating the bed room door and including French doorways, however I wish to be certain I’ve thought by way of all the pieces very well earlier than I leap in with each ft.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework 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.
