Clearing Up The Confusion (A Look At The Floor Plan Changes Through The Years)

I noticed this this previous weekend once I was catching up with a sure running a blog couple that I’ve adopted for years, and tried to get caught up on their present reworking undertaking that’s altering their entire flooring plan. Regardless that I checked out each single image, and I learn each single description, I nonetheless couldn’t make heads or tails of it. And I simply saved pondering, “It might be a lot simpler to grasp if I might simply see a flooring plan.” I suppose they’ve a private coverage that they not share flooring plans of their home, although. I completely get that. Some folks aren’t snug with sharing flooring plans, particularly if they’ve kids within the house.

However I’m not shy about sharing flooring plan. So for these of you who’re nonetheless a bit confused about how we obtained from Level A to our present association, I assumed I’d attempt to clear that up with some precise flooring plans of the completely different adjustments we’ve made by the years.

I’ll begin with the unique flooring plan of this space of the home. Initially, this space appeared like an awesome mess. You’ll be able to see the very giant, rectangular hallway off of the entryway and eating room. (That room was clearly supposed as a eating room by the builder, however it by no means labored as a eating room for us, so it’s our music room.) Simply contained in the cased opening into the hallway, there have been two closets. After which off of that hallway, there have been three bedrooms and one hallway lavatory. The master suite had a small walk-in closet, and the opposite two bedrooms every had a small closet.

The very first replace that I did quickly after we moved into the home was to take away these two closets, widen the cased opening from the music room, and widen the doorway to the toilet.

That’s additionally once I constructed the brand new floor-to-ceiling cupboard the place the bigger coat closet was initially. So after that replace, the hallway appeared like this…

The most important replace got here a number of years later once we determined to show the unique main bedroom right into a grasp lavatory. So as to do this, we wanted to sq. up the room for the grasp lavatory. That required the wall to be moved additional into the hallway, making a a lot smaller hallway. We additionally closed up the unique door from the unique main bedroom into the hallway, after which we added a brand new doorway from the house gymnasium into the grasp lavatory.

That’s additionally once I determined to shut up the doorway from the visitor bed room into that little closet after which open up each closet areas into the house gymnasium. So that is the unique closet that was within the visitor bed room…

And I closed that up in order that it was not accessible from the visitor bed room…

After which I had each closet areas opened up to one another (i.e., I had the dividing wall eliminated between them), after which opened them each as much as the house gymnasium. That’s what gave me this broad, open closet space within the house gymnasium.

However conserving that closet space can also be what created this actually lengthy “hallway” within the house gymnasium.

So within the remaining replace, I had the closet partitions eliminated so as to add extra sq. footage to the bed room, after which I had the doorway to that room, in addition to the encompassing wall, eliminated utterly in order that the bed room and the lobby flowed along with no separation.

And that’s what resulted on this open look. We nonetheless have this little “hallway” separating the bed room from the lobby, however as a result of these unique closets have been eliminated utterly, this “hallway” space isn’t so long as it was when the room was a house gymnasium with the closet space nonetheless there.