Winter has formally hit central Texas, so my work on the workshop has come to a grinding halt over the previous couple of days. I’m bummed about it as a result of I used to be actually on a roll with these initiatives, and I used to be feeling extremely motivated to proceed. However my motivation couldn’t push me to work outdoors within the 30-degree temps, particularly when it’s windy. I attempted, and I simply couldn’t do it. But it surely’s imagined to heat up beginning tomorrow, so I hope to get again outdoors and get a number of extra initiatives finished on the workshop earlier than I formally flip my consideration to our main bedroom suite.
However talking of our bed room suite, I wished to completely doc what it seems to be like proper now, in the beginning of 2025, earlier than I begin any work on it. So I believed I’d share this documentation with you in order that we are able to all see the official 2025 start line on this undertaking.
I’m fairly certain the doorway to the bed room suite seems to be precisely because it did on the finish of final yr. I beginning putting in the brand new French doorways in December, however I nonetheless haven’t completed these. That can be the very first thing I achieve this that I can truly shut the doorways and preserve Cooper and Felicity out of this space of the home because the work begins. Proper now, they will each simply push the doorways open and get into this space.
To the fitting is the doorway to the visitor toilet, which should keep right here for the close to future. When all is claimed and finished, the doorway into this toilet can be moved out of the bed room suite and this toilet can be accessible by way of a hallway on the opposite aspect of the toilet.
To the left, simply contained in the bed room suite, is the doorway to what would be the massive walk-in closet and laundry room combo. I had the door fully eliminated, and I had the doorway centered on the wall of that room and opened up as excessive because it might go with out having to take away the highest plates of the load bearing wall. I’ve a imaginative and prescient for this, but it surely’s too arduous to elucidate with out illustrations, so y’all will in all probability simply have to attend and see it because it involves actuality.
As a result of that room can be a closet, and I didn’t wish to have to regulate the cupboards to make room for a lightweight swap, I had them transfer the sunshine swap to the skin of the room. Try this drywall mud scenario. 🙁 This is among the issues I’ll must right (or fully redo) myself. (When you missed yesterday’s put up about my contractor saga, you’ll be able to see it right here: The Contractor Saga – The Rest of The Story)
I completely hate doing something associated to drywall, and through the years, I figured I’ve finished my share and I’ve paid my dues. So today, I rent out something having to do with putting in or mudding drywall. So it’s fairly ironic that this is among the messes that I’ve to wash up or fully redo. 😀
And right here’s the state by which the contractor left this room. The excellent news is that the massive stuff truly did get finished. The room has a brand new vapor barrier beneath the ground, new insulation beneath the ground, and a brand new subfloor.
I did make a minor change to my unique plans. As a substitute of getting the washer and dryer collectively on the fitting aspect, I had the hookup for the washer positioned within the again proper nook…
And the hookup for the dryer positioned within the again left nook…
I did this to maintain as a lot room as potential out there for the precise closet portion of the room. The washer and dryer can be going through one another, and the doorways to each will open in the direction of the wall. At first, I used to be involved that there could be an excessive amount of area between them and it might be fairly a trek to get the garments from the washer to the dryer. However as soon as I marked out the size on the wall, I noticed that they’d truly be shut sufficient to one another with solely the width of the window plus a number of inches separating the 2. You’ll be able to see my marks on the wall displaying the place the entrance of every one will land on the wall.
However after I made that change, I noticed that I additionally want a water hookup for my dryer as a result of it has a steam operate. The dryer got here with a diversion hookup that’s imagined to divert water from the washer hookup. However that diverter solely works when the 2 home equipment are side-by-side. With the 2 home equipment in fully separate corners, that meant that I wanted a very separate hookup for the dryer. That’s an addition to the listing that I added later, and it truly acquired finished!
There are two issues for the dryer that didn’t get finished, although. First, I’ll want to put in the outlet for the dryer. Fortunately, the wiring is already there, so I simply want to connect an outlet. And second, the vent for the dryer nonetheless must be put in. I’ve been watching movies on YouTube displaying the way to set up dryer vents, and it seems to be fairly simple and simple, so I’m constructive I can do this alone.
Right here’s the present view trying again in the direction of the door of the walk-in closet. It’s a multitude proper now.
And the remainder of this actually hasn’t modified since I confirmed you final. Nothing has been finished, and nothing has modified within the bed room portion of the suite. Right here’s the doorway into the bed room the place I had them take away the door fully and open up the doorway to the ceiling.
After which I’ll provide you with a fast look across the room, although I’m fairly certain you’ve seen all of this already on the finish of final yr. As I stated, I don’t suppose something has modified in right here during the last three weeks.
I did determine to maintain the breaker field on this room. I don’t love the concept of getting the breaker field in our bed room, however I do like that this provides me fast and easy accessibility to the breaker field in case of emergency. And I additionally like that maintaining it right here saves me about $3000 that I can use in the direction of different initiatives. I’m 100% assured that I can disguise or cowl the field in a manner that it received’t present whereas nonetheless giving me easy accessibility to it. However I’ll undoubtedly be transferring the attic entry out of this room and into the hallway. (By the way in which, a few of you had the concept of calling that space the “vestibule” now, and I actually like that concept. That sounds higher than “hallway”.)
And at last, right here’s the look again in the direction of the doorway to the bed room suite (i.e., the vestibule 😀 )…
So the primary order of enterprise in right here can be to wash up all of the mess that was left behind not solely by the contractor, but additionally by my initiatives since I used this room to make the shutters for the workshop. Second order of enterprise can be to complete the French doorways in order that they may truly shut and keep closed to maintain our animals out of this portion of the home whereas the work begins. After which after that, I can get began putting in the flooring.
It’s going to be an enormous undertaking, and I wished to remember to have all of those photos documented in order that in a number of months, when it’s all completed, we are able to look again at the place it began in the beginning of 2025.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish 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.
