The Sunroom Will Have To Stay (For Now)

For those who’ve been round for some time, you recognize that this room was once the place our “laundry room” was.

However I now have a stupendous new laundry space inside my massive walk-in closet, so I now not must enter the unhappy, miserable sunroom to do laundry. (I have to get new pictures now that I put curtains on the window.)

I can’t even specific to you ways a lot I’ve liked this new association. For those who’ve been contemplating a washer and dryer inside a big walk-in closet, all I can say is DO IT, particularly if you happen to’re an empty nester and don’t have to fret about children or different relations needing to make use of the laundry space. I’ve liked the comfort of getting the washer and dryer contained in the walk-in closet a lot that I can say it could be the most effective choice I’ve made to this point in our home. If not THE greatest, it’s positively within the prime 5.

Anyway, the very last thing “everlasting” merchandise that is still in our sunroom that forestalls it from being torn down is the new water heater over within the left nook within the photograph beneath.

The recent water heater will quickly be moved into what’s now the hallway rest room, which can be changed into a storage room inside our master suite suite. As soon as that’s gone, the remaining is simply junk that I have to undergo and provides away or promote and my instruments and DIY provides that can be moved into my workshop as quickly as I get that organized.

However this morning, as I used to be sitting at my desk in my studio, dreaming about our completed bed room and the way that may liberate our breakfast room for use as a breakfast room or sitting room once more, and getting enthusiastic about our home being put again so as once we lastly have a correct bed room, there was one obvious downside. We nonetheless don’t have a correct place for our exercise gear. We went from having a devoted residence fitness center…

…to having most of these objects saved in a nook of the sunroom. I did make room for Matt’s Theracycle in my studio as a result of he can’t go with out it. He makes use of it virtually each single day, so not having that out there to him just isn’t even an possibility. I additionally put my small treadmill within the studio, however I haven’t used it repeatedly as a result of although the room may be very massive, my work tables take up an enormous quantity of that ground house, and all the pieces feels cramped. As I’ve been engaged on the draperies for the bed room, I’ve needed to stand on the treadmill to achieve a portion of the work desk. It’s in the way in which, and I really need it out of my studio. I additionally tried bringing my rebounder into the studio so I may use it, but it surely’s manner too massive, and I’m out of ground house for it. So it’s now leaned up in opposition to my desk.

You’ll be able to see the place that is going, proper? I want these items out of my studio in order that I can truly use my studio to work on tasks and have full unfettered entry to my work tables. And this morning, it dawned on me that the large sunroom, as soon as it’s all cleared out, is definitely an important house for a brief residence fitness center.

I each detest the concept of spending time in that room, and on the similar time, I’m enthusiastic about the opportunity of having a devoted house once more for all of our train gear. However I can’t make myself really feel enthusiastic about truly spending time in that room so long as it appears to be like prefer it does now.

So I’ve determined that the close to future aim is now not to get the room to the purpose the place we will tear it down. As an alternative, the close to future aim is to get the room to the purpose the place I can arrange our train gear flip it into an area that I’ll truly really feel motivated to spend an hour or so in there every single day truly placing it to make use of.

Clearly, I don’t need to put a lot cash into this. I imply, I don’t need to put ANY cash into it, if I’m being sincere. But when it appears to be like like this as soon as it’s cleared out, I’ll really feel no motivation in any respect to enter this room. That is the image I took of the empty room once we moved in 12 yr in the past. I don’t have any footage of the empty room since then as a result of it’s by no means been empty since then. So you may add 12 years of damage and tear to this as properly.

So I want to determine absolutely the most cost-effective technique to make the room look considerably presentable. At least, I’m pondering a coat of white paint on all the pieces will go a great distance. I additionally need to pull up the entire carpet. I believe there is likely to be concrete beneath it, and I’d a lot reasonably take a look at concrete than previous inexperienced carpet. After which possibly I can discover some very low cost curtains or sheers or one thing to cowl the home windows as a result of it will get very vivid (and very popular in the summertime) when the daylight pours by means of that entire wall of home windows.

This received’t be a enjoyable venture as a result of there received’t be an enormous payoff on the finish with a stupendous or spectacular earlier than and after. It’ll be strictly utilitarian, and most of all, will probably be a brief repair to an instantaneous downside till we will get to our long-term plans. However I believe that is the most suitable choice for now.

It’s a bit disappointing. I can’t even inform you how usually I daydream about tearing this room down so I don’t have to have a look at it anymore. However typically we have now to work inside our limitations on funds, house, and time. That is a kind of occasions for us, so for now, the room has to remain. I’ll strive my hardest to profit from it.