I do know a few of you’re most likely 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 problem is that I’ve to get all of my plans in place earlier than I can begin on the ground. I’ve been pondering by and considering a number of completely different concepts, and relying on which concept I run with, it might have an effect on the ground set up.
As I shared on Monday, I’ve been considering the concept of eradicating the concept of eradicating the door that results in the bed room and widening that doorway. The door I’m speaking about is the one to the left of the desk and lamp.
Proper now, that’s solely a 32-inch door. That’s not ideally suited for an individual who makes use of a wheelchair. So I had the concept to take away the door altogether and widen that doorway as a lot as doable.
If I widen the doorway as a lot as doable, however maintain 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 reasonably substantial achieve. For a wheelchair person, each added inch is useful.
So if I take away that door, that implies that I’d put French doorways within the present cased opening between the music room and the hallway. After all, I’d use frosted glass for privateness, however this offers us an concept of what that might appear to be…
In the meanwhile, it is perhaps a bit of complicated as a result of the visitor rest room would solely be accessible from the hallway, which suggests going by the brand new French doorways to entry the lavatory. 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 over the past 4 years has requested, “Kristi, the place’s your main bedroom?” once I put up a flooring plan, I’d be a really rich girl. Or, you realize, I’d have no less than $20. 😀
So whereas it could be a bit of complicated for now, as soon as we construct the brand new, smaller addition, that wall with the lavatory door can be closed up, and the lavatory can be accessible from the opposite aspect of the lavatory. That implies that every thing past these new French doorways can be the main bedroom.
Okay, however I’ve already gone over all of that in a earlier put up. That was all only for assessment, and to say that I’ve determined that I undoubtedly DO wish to go ahead with this plan. I mentioned it with Matt, and he’s totally on board with it and loves the concept, too.
So then that brings me to the following concept I had. Since every thing past the French doorways will (finally) be the main bedroom, and the hallway will type of be a bit of 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. Perhaps I ought to take away the opening altogether and make the partitions and ceiling easy 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 easy. The partitions can be steady, flat, and easy. If I did that, we might achieve TWELVE inches of width into the room. Now THAT’S a major quantity of width for Matt to maneuver by! Twelve entire inches!
So you may see now how this resolution will have an effect on the flooring, and why I haven’t simply jumped proper in with each ft 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 have a look at it and see if that slender wall is load-bearing, and whether it is what will be executed about it. I don’t suppose it’s, however he appears to suppose it’s. However it’s so slender in the entire scope of issues, and it’s already nearly all doorway, so I feel we are able to discover a answer.
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 implies that there’s no definitive finish to the bed room and starting to the hallway. And that implies that there’s no good stopping level for the wall therapy within the bed room, i.e., the wainscoting on the underside and the grasscloth on high. So if I am going that route, I’m pondering that I’ll simply want to hold the wainscoting and grasscloth by to the hallway as nicely, 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 nicely 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 by 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 appeared ahead to the day that we had a bed room that was accessible by a unique hallway. However now that that is going to be the main bedroom, I feel it must go to make issues simpler for him.
However that brings up one other problem. Are you aware what’s NOT underneath 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 minimize across the cupboard to switch every thing. You may see the nook of the cupboard within the picture under and the way they needed to minimize round it.
In order that’s one more problem that I’ll should cope with, and but another excuse that I haven’t but jumped in with each ft 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 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 may study extra about me right here.
