Pondering By way of The Particulars Of Our Bed room (And Here is Why I Have not Began Putting in The Flooring But)

I do know a few of you’re in all probability questioning why I haven’t begin putting in the flooring within the bed room but. I promise that this isn’t a kind of conditions the place I’m simply procrastinating. The difficulty is that I’ve to get all of my plans in place earlier than I can begin on the ground. I’ve been considering via and considering a number of totally different concepts, and relying on which concept I run with, it might have an effect on the ground set up.

If I widen the doorway as a lot as doable, however hold it as a cased opening, I’d achieve 5 inches of width for that doorway. Right here’s a have a look at that door from the opposite aspect so you may see how tight the match is. However 5 inches is a fairly substantial achieve. For a wheelchair consumer, each added inch is helpful.

So if I take away that door, that signifies that I’d put French doorways within the present cased opening between the music room and the hallway. In fact, I’d use frosted glass for privateness, however this offers us an concept of what that may appear like…

In the intervening time, it is likely to be somewhat complicated as a result of the visitor lavatory would solely be accessible from the hallway, which suggests going via the brand new French doorways to entry the toilet. However we’ve been dwelling with a complicated interim flooring plan for 4 years now, so we’re no strangers to complicated flooring plans. 😀 If I had 1 / 4 for each time somebody during the last 4 years has requested, “Kristi, the place’s your main bedroom?” after I submit a flooring plan, I’d be a really rich lady. Or, , I’d have at the very least $20. 😀

So whereas it could be somewhat complicated for now, as soon as we construct the brand new, smaller addition, that wall with the toilet door can be closed up, and the toilet can be accessible from the opposite aspect of the toilet. That signifies that every part past these new French doorways can be the main bedroom.

Okay, however I’ve already gone over all of that in a earlier submit. That was all only for evaluate, and to say that I’ve determined that I positively DO wish to go ahead with this plan. I mentioned it with Matt, and he’s absolutely on board with it and loves the thought, too.

So then that brings me to the subsequent concept I had. Since every part past the French doorways will (finally) be the main bedroom, and the hallway will type of be somewhat anteroom to the bed room, I had the thought that possibly I shouldn’t simply take away the door and widen the cased opening to the bed room. Possibly I ought to take away the opening altogether and make the partitions and ceiling clean and uninterrupted. In different phrases, there can be nothing left there to point that there was a doorway or cased opening in any respect. The ceiling can be steady, flat, and clean. The partitions can be steady, flat, and clean. If I did that, we’d achieve TWELVE inches of width into the room. Now THAT’S a big quantity of width for Matt to maneuver via! Twelve entire inches!

So you may see now how this determination will have an effect on the flooring, and why I haven’t simply jumped proper in with each toes on putting in the ground but. I’ve to get these particulars labored out earlier than I can begin. My contractor is coming over tomorrow to take a look at it and see if that slender wall is load-bearing, and whether it is what could be carried out about it. I don’t assume it’s, however he appears to assume it’s. However it’s so slender in the entire scope of issues, and it’s already nearly all doorway, so I believe we will discover a resolution.

That concept does pose a little bit of a problem, although. If there’s not a doorway or cased opening there in any respect, that signifies that there’s no definitive finish to the bed room and starting to the hallway. And that signifies that there’s no good stopping level for the wall remedy within the bed room, i.e., the wainscoting on the underside and the grasscloth on high. So if I’m going that course, I’m considering that I’ll simply want to hold the wainscoting and grasscloth via to the hallway as effectively, and deal with each areas as one room. It’ll be a uniquely formed room, but it surely’ll be all one room nonetheless.

I’ve additionally determined that I’m 100% going to take away the cupboard within the hallway. I’ve been considering it for some time, particularly since I finalized my plans for the closet and laundry space. Not solely will I now not want this storage cupboard (which has served us very effectively whereas we’ve had it, so it wasn’t a waste of cash or time in any respect), but it surely does type of create an pointless impediment for Matt getting via this space.

Plus, it visually closes within the space. When this space was going to be house gymnasium and visitor bed room, however cupboard was effective. Matt’s been working round it for 4 years now, and we all the time seemed ahead to the day that we had a bed room that was accessible via a distinct hallway. However now that that is going to be the main bedroom, I believe it must go to make issues simpler for him.

However that brings up one other subject. Have you learnt what’s NOT below that cupboard? The brand new subfloor and flooring that was put in after our hallway flooded and I had the subfloor and flooring changed. They needed to lower across the cupboard to switch every part. You may see the nook of the cupboard within the picture beneath and the way they needed to lower round it.

In order that’s one more problem that I’ll should take care of, and but another excuse that I haven’t but jumped in with each toes to start out putting in the flooring. These plans take time, and I don’t wish to miss any particulars earlier than I get began.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform 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.