For the final two days, I’ve not been in a position to focus on something aside from the brand new plan for our home. After canceling our addition that we’ve been planning for years now (you may learn extra about that right here), and deciding to primarily work throughout the footprint of our present house, including on only one room, my thoughts has been in overdrive. I’ve been at my pc for hours transferring issues round on the ground plan to provide you with the proper association for the whole lot that we’d like. I’ve been strolling round the home with a tape measure in hand, measuring nearly each wall and opening in the home.
It took me a number of tries, a lot of consideration about our particular wants (particularly Matt’s wants), and many transferring issues round and tweaking completely different concepts, however I’ve the ultimate flooring plan. Right here it’s.
Essentially the most thrilling half is that the brand new room that we add might be a model new kitchen!!! So let me clarify my thought processes for all of those selections, and I’ll get to the explanation why I made a decision to make that new room within the kitchen.
First, let’s begin in the master bedroom. Since we have already got the grasp rest room accomplished, it simply is sensible to show the bed room subsequent to it into the main bedroom. As soon as the remaining partitions left over from the closet, areas are taken down, this room might be fairly a bit bigger than the room we’re in now. And we desperately want a bigger bed room, so it will work out completely. It’s undoubtedly not as massive because the one we had deliberate for our unique addition, however this one might be spacious sufficient to maneuver Matt’s Hoyer elevate round with out me continually working into it, hitting my head on it as I attempt to stroll previous it, or tripping over it, that are all frequent occurrences in our present bed room.
Since there isn’t any room contained in the precise bed room for a closet (a closet in that room would make that room the identical measurement because the bed room we’re in now, and that’s simply not doable for the long-haul), I’m going to be turning the present visitor bed room into a giant walk-in closet/train space/storage space for Matt’s gear. I’ll lastly be capable of use IKEA Pax wardrobes and have a giant, lovely, organized closet on one facet of that space. And because it’s actually the scale of a bed room (as a result of it’s a bed room) and I don’t have almost that many garments or sneakers, there might be loads of room for the important train gear that we wish to maintain, in addition to loads of flooring area within the center to maintain mats gear (Hoyer elevate, bathe wheelchair, and many others.) when he’s not utilizing them. Will probably be the proper massive, open area that we’d like for all of these issues. I might be closing that room off to the hallway, however I additionally determined to depart the present door in place (it’s a pocket door) and simply drywall over it. That manner, if a future proprietor needs to show this again right into a bed room, will probably be so simple as drywalling over one doorway, and eradicating the drywall from one other doorway, after which, similar to that, it’s a bed room once more. And it’ll have already got a door.
Now let’s discuss concerning the music room. Each single time I convey up flooring plan concepts, most individuals appear to wish to put the music room on the chopping block. However I actually can’t stress this sufficient. The music room can’t be modified, can’t have furnishings added to it, and can’t be utilized in every other manner. Whereas it’s not used as an precise music room (sadly, I simply don’t have time to play the piano proper now), this room is at the moment one of the used rooms in our home, and it’s a room that we can’t stay with out.
To start with, simply from a visible standpoint, I actually just like the view from the entrance door by means of the again of the music room. I actually don’t wish to put something in there to hinder that view.
However even when I needed to alter that room and do one thing else, like flip it right into a eating room, that might simply be inconceivable. That might make life so tough for Matt as a result of that is probably the most excessive site visitors room in our home all through the day. With Matt in a wheelchair, I regularly have to consider site visitors movement and never placing issues in his manner in order that he can get by means of the primary areas and to all the exits in the home. And as you may see, with the music room proper in the course of the home, it will get a lot a lot through-traffic that the present association is probably the most excellent strategy to make that room look fairly, and completed, and purposeful, whereas additionally preserving it open for Matt to get by means of simply. I simply couldn’t even think about what hardship I’d create if I attempted to show that room into the rest.
That can also be the realm the place I switch Matt to and from his wheelchair utilizing the Hoyer elevate. It’s the one room in our home that has sufficient area for me to place his wheelchair simply the correct manner, after which pull a Hoyer elevate proper as much as it. So if I have been to go and put a eating desk or the rest like that, in that room, it will destroy its very helpful performance for us. So whereas the title “music room” is a bit deceiving, this is likely one of the most functionally helpful rooms in the home simply as it’s. There’s no manner I’d change something concerning the music room structure.
Now let’s discuss concerning the enjoyable stuff! My new kitchen! I thought-about so many choices for that space together with making the brand new room a eating room, making the brand new room a laundry room, and even making the brand new room a TV room. So why did I resolve to lastly make that space a brand new kitchen? Due to the potential of home windows and pure mild immediately within the kitchen!
One among my least favourite issues about our home is that the present kitchen is true within the center, and has no home windows with direct daylight really within the kitchen. I’ve opened it up in order that it might get daylight from the adjoining rooms, however I’d love a kitchen with a lot of home windows and pure mild.
So after I was making an attempt to show that space right into a laundry room, and including all these fantastic home windows, it dawned on me that that ought to be the kitchen! I may simply think about having a sink with vast home windows over the countertop. That’s the start of a dream kitchen for me! And within the final 24 hours, I’ve checked out so many lovely and inspirational galley kitchens that my thoughts is spinning! I’m so enthusiastic about having a light-filled galley kitchen!
As soon as I noticed that the brand new room was an ideal place for a the brand new room was an ideal place for a brand new kitchen, the whole lot else form of fell into place. If the brand new room goes to be a kitchen, then the position of the present pantry doesn’t make any sense. Plus, this new kitchen might be larger than my present kitchen, which just about eliminates the necessity for a pantry anyway. So if I modify the place of the doorway into that room, that’s the excellent place for a laundry room/utility room!
After which, with the doorway into the present pantry/future laundry room moved, that strong wall can now be the TV wall in what’s now the TV room. I didn’t understand till yesterday, as I used to be strolling round and measuring the whole lot, that the present sitting room is just about the very same measurement as the realm of the entrance room that we use as the lounge. However what makes the sitting room really feel so small is the association of the furnishings as a result of I’ve to depart that stroll manner by means of the room open. However with the present doorway to the pantry closed off, and with turning that wall into the TV wall, the rearrangement of the furnishings will make that room really feel a lot larger. Plus, there’ll not be a kitchen peninsula making that room really feel so closed in.
After which that leaves the proper room for a eating room. The present kitchen will turn out to be my eating room. It’s the proper place for a eating space, proper between the kitchen and the TV room in the lounge. It’s prefer it was meant to be! And I can have a desk and chairs in there with out blocking the site visitors sample by means of the room.
I’ve given this a lot thought, and a lot time, and I’m feeling nearly 100% assured that that is what we’ll find yourself with. In actual fact, I really feel so assured that I’m able to get began instantly! Which brings up the difficulty of timeline.
The primary precedence is to maneuver into the larger bed room. So with that objective in thoughts, we have to get that bed room prepared. Meaning demolishing the ground and the subfloor, putting in new subfloor and flooring, eradicating the remaining closet partitions, and making a doorway from the brand new bed room into the present visitor bed room. Our present breaker field is true the place the brand new doorway must go, so that may must be moved additionally.
As soon as that’s performed, I’ll shut up the doorway from the present visitor bed room into the hallway and start turning that into the closet and train space.
After that finish of the home is completed, then we are going to begin on the kitchen addition, in addition to turning the pantry into the laundry room. I’m actually hoping I will reuse most, if not all, of the present cupboards that I constructed for that room.
So I don’t know precisely once we will begin on the brand new kitchen, however that’s the order by which we wish to do issues. And Matt has additionally stated that he needs to construct my woodworking workshop on the similar time we’re doing the kitchen. So we’ll see how that goes.
I’ve determined that I’m going to let different individuals do the work within the bed room for me, as a result of whereas they’re doing that, I wish to end up my studio and studio rest room. And I additionally hoped to do the makeover on the hallway rest room earlier than getting began on the main stuff. But when I don’t get to the hallway rest room earlier than the bed room, I do not less than wish to end up within the studio and the studio rest room earlier than transferring on to one thing else.
That’s the plan! During the last week, I’ve gone from indignant, to unhappy, to disenchanted, to intrigued, too excited, to completely giddy. 🤣 It’s been a heckuva week!
Right here’s yet another comparability. Right here’s what we now have now…
Right here was the unique addition plan..
And right here’s the brand new, a lot smaller plan…
Observe: Y’all, I’m so sorry for all the typos, improper phrases, plentiful use of random commas, and many others., on this unique submit. I believe I’ve all of it fastened now. I wrote about two sentences on this submit and the keyboard on my laptop computer stopped working. Simply stopped! It’s been giving me hassle for the final couple of months (the W and L keys don’t work, so I’ve to actually copy and paste any time I wish to use these letters), however now it has fairly working fully. (I HATE getting new computer systems and having to switch/replace the whole lot, so I put it off so long as potential.) So I ended up having to write down this submit on my cellphone. And since I didn’t wish to kind all of it out on a tiny display screen, I used voice recognition. Nicely, not solely does voice recognition not perceive my Texas accent at occasions, nevertheless it additionally loves commas greater than I do! 🤣 Anyway, all that to say that I believe it’s all fastened and readable now. I hope. And I suppose I would like to move out this afternoon and get a brand new laptop computer. Ugh.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
