Yesterday, I assumed I had a plan. I imply, I nonetheless do have a plan, however I’m nonetheless waffling forwards and backwards over this one element. My contractor is actually headed to my home proper now. He’ll be right here any minute, and I’m nonetheless undecided on this element. Do I simply widen the door to our bed room and depart the cased opening? Or do I get rid of the doorway altogether and make the present hallway and bed room all one, open, steady space?
If you happen to’re confused about these particulars, you possibly can refer again to my submit yesterday. However when you’re in control on the 2 choices, what would you do?
I had deliberate to maneuver full steam forward on eradicating the doorway altogether and making the 2 areas one steady house, however then somebody despatched me this Instagram reel yesterday afternoon, and I couldn’t imagine how related this was to what I’m eager to do in our dwelling.
If that embedded reel isn’t exhibiting up, you possibly can see it right here on Instagram. And when you’re at work and never in a position to entry social media, I obtained you. 😀 Right here’s a screenshot from the reel. It’s not nice, however it’s the perfect one I might seize that exhibits the format. The double doorways divulge heart’s contents to a small hallway/vestibule/anteroom space, and off of which might be the bed room to the fitting, the lavatory straight forward, and the bedroom-turned-closet to the left.
I used to be so excited to see that!! It’s one factor to have an concept in your thoughts and be fairly certain it should work out, however it’s altogether totally different (and affirming) to see a real-life model of your concept and KNOW that it’s going to work out nice! In fact, the association of these rooms is a little bit totally different from ours. In that instance, all three separate areas — bed room, toilet, and closet — are accessible from that little hallway behind the double doorways.
That might be like us turning our hallway toilet into our grasp toilet. However clearly, that’s not our plan. Our plan is a little bit totally different since we’ve already turned one bed room right into a grasp toilet, and that newer, larger toilet is accessible solely from the bed room. After which we’ll ultimately be closing up the doorway into the hallway toilet.
So whereas the instance within the Instagram reel is similar to what we’re planning, it’s not equivalent. The place they’ve all three doorways accessible from the little anteroom, we’ll simply have two. The very first thing that struck me about that instance was that I actually preferred the look of all three doorways being precise doorways in that instance (it’s not the doorways however the uniform trim that I like, which might additionally occur with cased openings), however they’ve that stability of the three doorways on three separate partitions that actually advantages from the three identically trimmed out doorways.
However seeing that did make me marvel. Does that translate to our state of affairs? Or does it not translate since ours would simply be two doorways off of the anteroom, and the 2 doorways we’d have aren’t balanced from the attitude of the French doorways in any respect. In different phrases, if I depart each doorways trimmed out (i.e., depart the closet with an precise door, however the bed room with a cased opening, and have each trimmed out the identical method as they’re now), each doorways are over to the left facet on perpendicular partitions from one another, and nothing is balanced with the French doorways. And the lavatory doorways on the fitting wall will ultimately be gone, and I’ll simply have a stable wall.
After seeing that reel, I began questioning my plan to get rid of the bed room doorway altogether and make the 2 areas (the bed room and hallway/anteroom) one steady space. However the extra I thought of it, the extra I began to suppose that the explanation I beloved the instance within the reel a lot WITH the trimmed out doorways is due to the stability, however we’re not going to have that. So whereas very related, our conditions are literally fairly totally different as effectively. Proper?
I do know some will say I’m overthinking this, however y’all needs to be used to me overthinking issues by now. It’s what I do. 😀 And I need your opinion. What would you do in our state of affairs? Would you widen the doorway to the bed room as a lot as potential whereas preserving the cased opening, which might add a further 5 inches to the width of the doorway? Or would you get rid of the doorway/cased opening altogether and make the hallway/anteroom and the bed room all one steady space with no doorway separation in any respect, which might give us a further 12 inches of width in that passthrough space? To be clear, both a kind of choices works for Matt. Something 36 inches vast or wider makes issues simpler for him, and including 5 inches would put that doorway width at 37 inches vast. And simply as I wrote that final query, I see my contractor pulling up in entrance of my home. 😀 (Replace: The doorway isn’t load-bearing, so it may be taken out fairly simply.)
So the choices are (1) widen the doorway 5 inches and hold the separation with a cased opening, or (2) take away the separation altogether, including 12 inches of width, and make the 2 areas one steady space with no separation.
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