Bedroom Suite Foyer – FINISHED! (Before And After)

Right here’s a have a look at the completed lobby. I actually love how this space turned out. Since our bed room suite is off of the music room, I actually like having this lobby as a little bit of a buffer zone that provides some separation between the music room and our bed room. You possibly can see a peek of the bed room from the music room, however you possibly can’t see the entire thing from the doorway. So there’s nonetheless a little bit of thriller there that pulls folks in.

And now, this doorway that was a cased opening resulting in a hallway with three bedrooms and a visitor toilet is now the doorway resulting in our master suite suite.

To grasp simply how drastically completely different that is, we now have to journey again to 2013 and bear in mind what this space appeared like after we purchased our home. On the day we closed on the home, that is what the cased opening between the music room and hallway appeared like. It was so slender and had an accordion separator between the 2 areas.

When you stepped simply inside that cased opening, there have been two very imposing closets on both facet — one coat closet on the left and one other smaller closet (the unique coat closet) that housed the furnace consumption duct.

And straight forward have been two bed room doorways.

After which when you stood in entrance of the bed room doorways and appeared again the opposite means in the direction of what’s now the music room, this was the view.

After which to the facet of the massive coat closet was the door to the third bed room.

Eary on, I widened the cased opening between the music room and the hallway to make it simpler for Matt to maneuver via that opening.

After the primary rework, the hallway remained fairly giant. You possibly can see that the wall to the left of the visitor toilet was lengthy sufficient to place a bit console desk.

And after eradicating the big coat closet, I inbuilt these cupboards in the identical spot. You possibly can see a sliver of the doorway to the visitor bed room simply to the suitable of the built-in cupboards.

Right here’s a have a look at that cupboard from the opposite route.

After which got here the second iteration. This took place as a result of we determined to show that bed room on the suitable into a big wheelchair-accessible grasp toilet. The unique hardwood flooring within the photograph beneath demonstrated simply how a lot that wall was moved ahead into the hallway.

So at the moment, we went from three bed room doorways off of the hallway to 2 bed room doorways off of the hallway.

You possibly can see right here simply how a lot house we misplaced within the hallway (which was completely positive because it was so giant to start with). After that wall was moved ahead, there was not sufficient room for a small console desk to the left of the toilet. However since we had closed up a doorway, there was room for a bigger console desk towards the wall the place that bed room door was.

That left us with the doorway to the left of the console desk that went to the room that I ultimately was our dwelling fitness center, and the doorway to the suitable of the built-in cupboard that grew to become our visitor bed room (i.e., the bed room that we slept in for a number of years).

After which got here our complete flooring disaster within the dwelling fitness center that required us to have the hardwood flooring and subfloor changed. Because the work was going to be fairly intensive, we determined to show this complete space into our master suite suite. I began by eradicating the built-in cupboard from the hallway.

After which I made a decision to utterly take away the doorway to what was our dwelling fitness center, and what would turn out to be our new bed room. However initially, I believed I might maintain the doorway to the visitor bed room (which might turn out to be my walk-in closet and laundry space).

However then, I made a decision to open that doorway up, additionally. At this level, the entire space appeared so utterly completely different from the way it began out that it seems to be like a totally completely different room altogether.

And since this complete space was now going to be our master suite suite, I added French doorways to the cased opening between the music room and the lobby.

And now, right here’s what this space seems to be like. (Please kindly overlook the truth that I utterly forgot to scrub the consumption vent. 😒)

The visitor toilet will ultimately turn out to be a much-needed storage room for Matt’s gear — wheelchair, bathe wheelchair, Hoyer elevate — in addition to the brand new location for the recent water heater. That’s an upcoming venture.

And right here’s the view from the opposite route — from the bed room trying again in the direction of the music room.

Right here’s the view from a bit additional again, with me really standing within the bed room.

That is the view from my walk-in closet doorway trying straight forward.

I completely love this view. I simply love that peek into the bed room from the music room.

These are the 2 openings that was two doorways into the visitor bed room on the left and the house fitness center on the suitable.

I do know it was a bit controversial for me to decide on to not put a door on the closet, however I like this view means an excessive amount of to cowl it up with a door.

And naturally, our chapel image (from our marriage ceremony day) has a distinguished place within the new bed room suite.

In order that’s three areas of our master suite suite which might be completed — my walk-in closet, the grasp toilet, and the lobby. I simply have to do a couple of extra small-ish initiatives within the bed room.

I hung this full-length mirror on the wall to the left simply outdoors of the closet. Since I didn’t have room contained in the closet for a full-length mirror, it needed to go within the lobby. This has really been a really handy location for it. And the bench within the lobby provides me the proper spot if I would like to sit down right down to placed on my footwear. So in a means, this lobby will not be solely an entrance into our bed room suite, but it surely’s additionally an extension of my walk-in closet.

Seeing that final image actually makes me wish to refinish the remainder of the flooring ahead of later. (All of our flooring can be gentle and vibrant when all is claimed and accomplished.) However I’m making an attempt to not get forward of myself. I have to get the bed room completed, and instantly after that, I have to get the studio toilet completed since that can be our new, interim visitor toilet. After which as soon as we now have a working visitor toilet, I can come again and switch the unique hallway toilet into that much-needed storage room. So the flooring should wait a bit longer, however I actually do hope to get all of them refinished this 12 months.