This week, I’m centered on getting my studio completed. I made progress over the weekend, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not completed. I didn’t anticipate it to be. I haven’t even began on reupholstering the desk chair, and I nonetheless have a ton of organizing and cleansing to do. So I gained’t be running a blog about my studio this week, however simply know that I’m exhausting at work behind the scenes making an attempt to get it completed. And I’ll let y’all know as quickly as I’ve something fascinating (or completed) to share.
Within the meantime, I received a touch upon a submit final week that I haven’t been capable of get out of my thoughts. The remark was about my plan to show our present (visitor) bed room right into a closet/exercise space combo. The commenter mentioned,
“Might I make a suggestion? Earlier than you completely, 100% decide to the concept of utilizing half of what is going to develop into your bed room closet as a exercise area, think about different attainable exercise area options. Your exercise area wants to have the ability to be individually ventilated–for causes of accrued humidity and Matt’s consolation whereas understanding, and in addition as a result of over time your garments are simply going to soak up and retain that boys’ highschool health club locker room odor! Every part will start to scent like low-cost gin and soiled sweat socks, and it shortly turns into everlasting. I urge you to rethink this concept in the event you don’t need all the things you personal to scent like the within of a teenage boy’s health club shoe. There’s received to be one other area you may both convert or add onto cheaply with out going into debt for a exercise space.”
After all, she wasn’t the primary particular person to counsel that. A number of folks urged me to not mix a closet and exercise space for that exact same motive, however I simply couldn’t discover anyplace else to place a exercise space. So I form of deserted the concept, and simply resolved myself to the truth that I’d must have a closet/health club combo.
However the thought of getting that total room devoted to closet and cupboard space certain did enchantment to me. I might envision a fantastic closet/dressing room kind of factor, with IKEA Pax wardrobes not solely lining one wall, however lining each partitions. After which I might have extra storage within the center. One thing like this, not in type (I’m utilizing IKEA Pax), however in the way in which it’s organized with storage on each facet partitions and in addition in the midst of the room…
Picture by American Custom Builders, Inc. – Browse closet concepts
However we’ve got to have a house health club or exercise space of some kind. That’s not even a negotiable merchandise for us. Matt wants to make use of his Theracycle day by day if attainable, and whereas I don’t want any train gear, it certain is good to have. I’ve extra incentive to work out if I’ve a number of totally different choices. So I need to maintain onto it if I can.
So as soon as once more, I regarded over our flooring plan to see if I might give you an answer. There are two choices that I can see.
Possibility 1:
The primary choice is to mix the closet and laundry room into one room. I do know, I do know! I can already hear a few of you screaming at me. “Kristi, I steered that!!” 😀 I hear you. I do know so lots of you steered that, and I didn’t love the concept on the time, however I’m coming round to it.
To start with, it could make issues a lot simpler. That room has a pier and beam basis, so getting the plumbing over to that room for the washer, dryer, and sizzling water heater, could be fast and straightforward. Turning the pantry into the laundry room could be a lot tougher and way more costly as a result of it has a slab basis.
One other factor within the “professional” column for this concept is that it could possibly be performed before later. I imply, as quickly as our new bed room is completed and we’re moved into there, and as quickly as I begin turning the visitor bed room right into a closet, I might additionally get my washer, dryer, and sizzling water heater moved into that room. No extra ready to have a laundry room.
With this plan, that frees up the pantry to be our exercise space. The disadvantage is that the room is just 7′ x 12′. That’s not a variety of room, and there’s no technique to broaden it. That dimension is ready in stone. Nevertheless it’s sufficient room for my new smaller treadmill, Matt’s Theracycle, my rebounder, our set of freeweights, and a few kettlebells. One other con is that will probably be proper there by the kitchen. That appears awkward.
Possibility 2:
The second choice I got here up with was to construct a totally separate little constructing in our again yard. It could possibly be near the bed room finish of the home, proper round right here someplace…
I went to the web site of the corporate that’s constructing my workshop simply to see what I might give you. If we preserve it beneath 200 sq. ft, I don’t want a allow from town. So I got here up with this cute little dormer shed that’s 12′ x 16′ that might price about $9500.
That’s 192 sq. ft, so we might construct that with out town being concerned within the course of. And it’s cute! We definitely have loads of room for it on our one-acre lot. The draw back is that Matt must go outdoors to entry it. That’s advantageous most days right here in central Texas, however I do surprise about wet days or actually chilly days.
So these are my ideas to this point. As I work on the studio this week, I’m going to proceed pondering these concepts. I actually do like the concept of my closet not having to share an area with exercise gear and sweaty folks. I do know that’s not excellent. I might need to dwell with it for not less than a short while, however now that I’ve thought of different choices, I’m feeling extra satisfied that I’d like to seek out one other dwelling for our train gear.
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 possibly can study extra about me right here.
