Bathroom Demolition (Bathroom-To-Storage Room Conversion Is Underway)

I had each intention of engaged on the entrance porch yesterday. I gathered my instruments, headed outdoors, and began engaged on the porch. I absolutely aspiring to get the outdated, rotted fascia boards eliminated, get the brand new fascia boards put in, after which make some headway on the brand new porch skirting. However about half-hour into my work, it began sprinkling.

I’m not a “work within the rain” type of individual, so I gathered up my instruments and headed inside. After which I sat at my desk for a couple of minutes and thought, “Nicely, what am I gonna work on now?” I had three choices, as I shared yesterday. I might begin clearing out the sunroom and getting it prepared for its low price range makeover into our new (and hopefully momentary) dwelling health club and sitting room combo. I might begin engaged on the eating room. Or I might begin engaged on the bathroom-to-storage room conversion.

I didn’t really feel mentally ready to deal with the sunroom simply but. That room, which is getting used as a storage room (with zero group to it) felt means too overwhelming to me proper now. I would like extra time to get mentally ready for that room. 😀 So I dominated that out. I haven’t give you a adorning plan for the eating room, so I’m not ready to work on that simply but. So, I headed to the hallway lavatory, hammer and pry bar in hand, and began on the demolition of that room.

I hadn’t deliberate on tackling this challenge simply but. I had actually hoped to get some out of doors initiatives completed first earlier than I begin on this challenge. But when the climate isn’t going to cooperate, there’s probably not an entire lot I can do about that. It seems to be like we now have fairly a little bit of rain within the forecast for the foreseeable future. So with all different choices off the desk, it seems to be just like the bathroom-to-storage room challenge is now underway.

We will formally say goodbye to this lavatory. I actually beloved this lavatory. It was solely the second full transform I had ever completed in my life. It was a real down-to-the-studs transform, and once I reworked this lavatory, I had solely ever completed one different down-to-the-studs transform earlier than, and that was the kitchen in our home. So I used to be very pleased with this lavatory transform once I completed the principle transform over ten years in the past (in 2015).

After which I beloved it much more once I gave it this colourful makeover a number of years later (in 2019).

However as they are saying, all good issues should come to an finish. And yesterday was the official finish of this room as a toilet.

As of yesterday, the room now seems to be like this…

I believed it may be not less than a bit bit emotional to me tearing out this room. I put a variety of exhausting work into this room, and aside from the plumbing, I did every little thing else on my own — the drywall, the tiling, the partitions and trim, and every little thing else.

However on the contrary, I felt no emotion about it aside from pleasure. That is the final space of our main bedroom suite that must be redone. And as soon as that is completed, we could have an entire bed room suite that works for our particular wants.

I couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about having a correct storage space the place I can retailer Matt’s tools (energy wheelchair, bathe wheelchair, and Hoyer raise) once they’re not in use. For the final 12.5 years, Matt’s Hoyer raise and energy wheelchair have been everlasting fixtures in the principle areas of our home, seen and in the way in which, when he’s not utilizing them. And his bathe wheelchair lives within the nook of our bathe. Fortunately, we now have an enormous bathe with loads of room for it, however I’d moderately it not be a everlasting fixture within the bathe. So as soon as that is completed, we’ll lastly have a storage room the place all of these issues may be tucked away, out of sight, and out of the principle site visitors areas of our home, when he doesn’t want to make use of them.

I used to be particularly curious to take away the panel that I constructed on the facet of the bath. I constructed this and added it to the facet of our very cheap bathtub over ten years in the past, and I constructed it utilizing MDF. Through the years, I’ve had many individuals warn me that the water would destroy it, and it will be a complete catastrophe over time.

Nicely, it’s in good situation. As a result of I sealed it very well the place the panel met the bath, you’ll be able to see that no water ever obtained between the bath and the panel. And this was our most important lavatory for years till I completed our massive, accessible lavatory in December of 2022. This was the one lavatory in our home that had a bath and bathe, so it was in common use from 2015 till 2022. And the bath panel held up completely throughout seven years of continuous use.

You need to know the perfect factor about this challenge? Final evening, once I was completed working for the day, I simply closed the doorways to cover the mess.

I’m going to do my absolute best to maintain all the demolition and building mess contained in the room so that every day, once I’m completed working, I can shut the doorways and preserve our bed room suite wanting good and tidy in order that nobody will ever know what lurks behind these doorways.

When standing within the doorway of the room, the wall to the left shall be cupboards from one finish to the opposite. That wall is 93 inches extensive, so I feel I’ll divide that into three equal sections. Every part could have drawers on the backside, after which adjustable cabinets on the highest.

After which the wall on the fitting (the place the bath is correct now) will look one thing like this.

It can even have one narrower part with drawers on the backside, however then the remainder of the ground house shall be left open. That open house shall be the place I can place Matt’s two wheelchairs alongside the wall. However then that leaves loads of wall house above them for extra shelf storage.

So when he’s not utilizing his Hoyer raise, I’ll simply put it within the storage room proper within the middle of the room. It’s on wheels (clearly), so it’s very straightforward to push to 1 facet or the opposite if I ever must entry the storage cabinets or drawers whereas the Hoyer raise is in there. I feel it’ll work out completely. And for the reason that wall on the fitting isn’t lengthy sufficient for all three objects, and there’s not sufficient depth between the wall on the left and the doorway to suit the Hoyer raise with out it protecting over a part of the doorway, it’s actually the one possibility I’ve. I can work with that.

Anyway, it’s lastly in progress! If we now have a day of gorgeous climate the place I can get outdoors and work, I’d steal time away from this challenge to complete up the fascia boards and skirting on the entrance porch. However for the foreseeable future, I’ll be targeted primarily on this storage room till it’s completed. I’m actually excited to lastly have this challenge underway!