I’m so grateful for all the enter this week on the main points of our bed room. I’m more than happy to inform y’all that after studying your whole feedback and considering by means of the chances offered, I’ve a really clear plan in place for the hallway and bed room. And after assembly with the contractor yesterday, I do know that my plans are literally doable.
First, I’ll begin with the unhealthy in order that we will finish on a very good observe. The unhealthy has to do with the hallway flooring. Whereas the contractor was right here yesterday morning, I requested him concerning the flooring below the hallway cupboard.
He’s the one who took out the ground and subfloor after the toilet and hallway flooded (you can read about that awful situation here) and changed the subfloor for me. I’m the one who put in the brand new hardwood flooring. But when I take away that cupboard (really, not if, however when), the flooring below the cupboard received’t match the remainder of the hallway as a result of the brand new subfloor and the brand new flooring have been put in across the cupboard, not below the cupboard.
I requested him if he would be capable of take away the reduce items of flooring and feather in new items of flooring, and he laughed a bit of and mentioned no. I get it. I’ve finished that earlier than, and it’s not simple. Making repairs to tongue-and-groove hardwood flooring the place particular previous flooring boards should be eliminated with out destroying those round them after which new ones should be feathered in to mix in with the previous boards, is a job greatest left to execs. I’m not saying it’s inconceivable for a DIYer to do it. Once more, I’ve finished it earlier than, however I’ve by no means finished it on such a big space because the one which sits below that hallway cupboard.
He mentioned, in his opinion, it could be simpler and quicker to simply substitute all the flooring within the hallway. And you already know what? I had already been considering that, so it was fascinating to listen to him (a professional, though not a hardwood flooring professional) say what I (only a DIYer) had been considering. Contemplating the period of time it could take me to rigorously take away these reduce flooring boards with out damaging the remaining and feather within the new boards, I actually do assume it could be simpler, quicker, and much much less irritating to simply substitute all of it. Putting in new flooring is really easy, easy, and much much less irritating than attempting to restore flooring. If we have been speaking a few huge room, that might be a distinct story. However this can be a fairly small hallway, so I feel that he could be proper. I’ll reassess after I take away the cupboard.
Now on to the nice. I’ve determined to open up the doorway into the bed room fully. It’ll be opened up all the best way to the aspect partitions, and all the best way to the ceiling.
Not solely will there not be a door there, however there can be no cased opening, both. He confirmed that there’s nothing there that’s load-bearing, in order that must be considerably easy. The framing for the pocket door makes it a bit of more difficult than if it have been an everyday door, but it surely’ll nonetheless work out simply tremendous.
I’ve determined that I do need the 2 areas to be visually separated, although. I wasn’t thrilled with the concept of carrying the grasscloth and wainscoting into the hallway. Not solely did that appear like an excessive amount of of a very good factor to me, however it could even be difficult since, for now, I’d must wallpaper across the rest room doorways, after which later, I’d must fill within the wallpaper as soon as that doorway is drywalled over. I didn’t love that concept.
So how will I separate the 2 areas? Properly, somebody commented on yesterday’s publish and left a hyperlink to this DIY archway that these folks added to their previously nondescript hallway.
I don’t need an archway to our bed room as a result of, to me, that appears misplaced in our home. We don’t have every other archways, and we don’t have any plans so as to add every other archways. So one random archway would appear odd to me.
However that did begin the wheels turning, and I discovered some related concepts on Pinterest that I feel would complement the trim work that I’ve already finished in our house. So mainly, in that little “hallway” entrance into the bed room, I’ll be doing a little model of the partitions that I did within the water closet space of our rest room…
However on this scenario, I’ll be including that remedy to the ceiling as properly. Think about one thing just like this arched doorway from Hambels Get Real, however with out the arch within the ceiling…
That may give the 2 areas a visible separation whereas including about ten inches of width to the doorway of the bed room. It can open up the 2 areas to one another, whereas not requiring me to hold the grasscloth and wainscoting into the hallway. And the trim can be cohesive with different areas of the home. I’m so excited to have a plan in place! Now I really feel like I can get began.
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.
