The work on our new bed room will likely be completed right now, after which it’ll be as much as me to complete it. I began out feeling like us transferring our bed room into this room was an enormous compromise, like I used to be having to accept a subpar scenario. However I can genuinely say that as of right now, I’m so extremely enthusiastic about this room being our bed room. Now that the closet partitions have come down, and the room has a flooring once more (or a subfloor, to be correct), this room feels HUGE in comparison with the room we’ve been in for the final 4 years. So let me present you the progress.
Right here’s what the entry into the room regarded like earlier than, with the lengthy wall to the left blocking a lot of the view of the room from the door.
I ought to have taken this from the very same angle, however you possibly can inform from the stripes that the wall is now about half the unique size. Should you find the darkest pink stripe in the midst of the wall within the picture above, you possibly can see beneath that that stripe is the place the wall ends now.
UPDATE: Right here’s an image from the identical angle.
Right here’s a side-by-side comparability as a way to see the distinction.
And searching the opposite route in the direction of the door to the room, right here’s what it regarded like earlier than with the closet space nonetheless intact.
And right here’s what it appears to be like like now. For now, we’ve got to maintain the attic entrance on this room. As soon as I start work on the opposite room, I’ll transfer it into there and shut this one up. I don’t need the attic entrance in our bed room. Additionally the 2 lights in that former closet space are being eliminated, and the holes will likely be patched.
And right here’s one other view of the closet space earlier than…
And right here it’s now. Eradicating these partitions added just below 40 sq. toes of house to the primary space of the bed room. Which may not sound like a lot, however whenever you’re making an attempt to maneuver a 6’2′ 215-pound man round in a wheelchair or Hoyer carry, that additional house makes an enormous distinction!
After all, the distinction will likely be extra obvious when that space isn’t separated by such a stark distinction in shade. With it painted black, that visible separation doesn’t fairly give the complete impression of being a part of the primary space of the room.
The room actually feels bigger than I had anticipated. Clearly, I knew it will really feel greater as soon as the closet partitions had been down. I simply didn’t anticipate it to make that huge of a distinction.
However now, it seems like an applicable dimension for a main bedroom. Don’t get me flawed. I’d have liked to have it even greater. However I’m very happy, and even extremely excited, about this bed room now. I can’t wait to get in right here and begin engaged on it!
I do plan to have the breaker field moved. As of now, my plan is to only have it flipped round in order that as an alternative of going through the bed room, it should face the room behind it (i.e., our present bed room).
I want to offer that a bit of extra thought, although. Really, I have to solidify my plan for that room, after which determine how the breaker field can work into the plan. Till I’ve a particular plan, the breaker field has to remain proper the place it’s, and I’ll should work round it. That’s advantageous, although. I’m nonetheless a few weeks away from even being prepared to start out on this room. I’m nonetheless working away in my studio! And I received’t let myself begin engaged on this room till the studio is completed. That provides me motivation to maintain centered!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can study extra about me right here.
