Should you’re the kind of one who doesn’t like enjoying round with flooring plans and contemplating all (and I do imply aaaalllllllllll) of the chances, these subsequent few weeks could drive you completely loopy. You might wish to try for some time and test again in a number of weeks to see if I’m previous this section and have moved on to really implementing a plan.
As a result of proper now, all I can do is consider the chances. My mind won’t cease. I get up within the morning excited about prospects. I take into account all of them day as I’m working. My mother and I talked about them at lunch yesterday. I talked about them with pals final evening. I’m going to mattress at evening excited about them.
I get so enthusiastic about making an attempt out completely different layouts and excited about the completely different strategies that folks give me. And y’all gave me an entire lot to consider on Monday’s submit. And there was one suggestion specifically that caught my consideration, and I haven’t been in a position to get it out of my thoughts. The suggestion was to maneuver the visitor lavatory into the pantry space.
I’m certain in some unspecified time in the future, another person in all probability recommended this, and I dismissed it instantly as a result of, once more, that flooring is a concrete slab basis. So doing something in there that requires plumbing will likely be value extra, take longer, and be an enormous disruption to our lives. So it’s very potential that somebody talked about it earlier than, and I wrote it off with none thought. I can’t even clarify why I’ll write off a suggestion time and again, after which it takes that one final time of somebody suggesting it, and I determine to contemplate it. Nobody can clarify how my thoughts works, least of all me. 😀
However once I learn this suggestion, I made a decision to strive it out. I wasn’t even certain what issues (if any) that change would resolve, however the thought intrigued me, so I gave it a go. I made a decision instantly that it must be a full lavatory. If somebody ever wanted to stick with Matt, I might have a sleeper couch within the TV room, however I’d hate for them to have to make use of our lavatory. So this visitor lavatory would wish to have a bathe.
Additionally, it might must be accessible through the kitchen as a result of I don’t need so many doorways within the TV room. I want not less than one stable, uninterrupted wall. Plus, it’s simply bizarre for visitors to have to make use of a toilet that’s accessible by way of a door proper there within the space the place persons are gathered. You often need it to be faraway from the principle room slightly bit, not less than. That’s why they’re often off of a hallway.
So if I did this, it might look one thing like this. Don’t pay an excessive amount of attentino to the association of the particular lavatory. I didn’t give that a lot thought but. However the normal placement of the toilet would appear like this.
So my query is that this. How bizarre is it to have a visitor lavatory off of the kitchen? I do know I’ve seen it earlier than, however they’re primarily powder loos. And even at that, I don’t understand how frequent that’s. So that you inform me. Is it unusual to have a toilet off of a kitchen?
I’ve simply by no means lived in a house with a toilet off of the kitchen, so I’m undecided how I really feel about that. What I do love about that concept is that it will get the entire “public” areas of the home over on one aspect. It is sensible to have the visitor lavatory nearer to the TV room, the eating room, and the kitchen. And I additionally love that with the toilet moved, I’d have these areas freed as much as organize how I want them to be organized.
The areas I’m making an attempt to work into this flooring plan are (1) visitor lavatory, (2) laundry room, (3) plenty of closet area, (4) a exercise space. And what I really like in regards to the thought of shifting the visitor lavatory out of its present location and shifting it nearer to the opposite “public” areas of the home is that it might principally make all of this space in pink the main bedroom. None of this may be “public” anymore. This whole finish of the home can be master bedroom for me to rearrange in the way in which that most closely fits us. That would go away the laundry room, plenty of closet area, and a exercise space that I’d want to suit into these areas.
And if it helps, I might even presumably take the wall down between the present hallway and hallway lavatory to make a extra open space in the main bedroom entrance.
I’m simply brainstorming right here, so I don’t know if that’s potential. I’d must stand up into the attic and see if that’s a load-bearing wall. I sort of suppose it’s, so I don’t know what must be achieved with a view to open that up utterly. But it surely certain would make a pleasant exercise space. And it might make sense to have it there as a part of the main bedroom.
However my essential query for at the moment is in regards to the placement of the visitor lavatory off of the kitchen. Once more, I do know I’ve seen powder baths off of kitchens earlier than. Do you suppose that’s unusual? Have you ever had a home with that association earlier than? Inform me your ideas on that.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify 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.
