Alright, y’all. You’ve already been warned that if you happen to don’t like enjoying round with flooring plans and contemplating all fo the probabilities, you may need to simply take a break from the weblog and examine again in per week or so. By then, I’ll in all probability have all the selections labored out, my studio completed, and be shifting on to initiatives for our new bed room. Additionally, my workshop construct is scheduled for subsequent Wednesday and Thursday. Woohoo!
However for now, I nonetheless have issues to debate about our flooring plan and the probabilities. This previous weekend, I sat down with Matt and simply laid all of it out on the desk for him. I wished him to grasp all the potentialities and the choices that wanted to be made, and provides him a chance to ask any and all questions. I wished to see if he had any opinions in any respect concerning the path of our home, how every space might and can be used, and see if he noticed any accessibility points with any potential plans or potentialities.
At first, it didn’t appear to be he had any sturdy opinions. However after speaking for a bit, he really did begin to categorical some sturdy opinions about a few issues. I used to be shocked! The 2 issues he expressed sturdy opinions about had been (1) how you can use the visitor bed room as soon as we’re moved out of it and into our new bed room, and (2) the place to place our new exercise space.
So far as the brand new exercise space, Matt desires to construct a small room behind our lavatory. And concerning the visitor bed room, he actually likes the thought of it being a combo laundry room and closet. So right here’s what we’re taking a look at…
The room behind the lavatory wouldn’t must be large. It simply must accommodate just a few items of train gear, however I’d additionally prefer it to be crammed with home windows like a bit of sunroom. I like this concept as a result of it will take away the outside door from our lavatory. I used to be keen to stay with that exterior door within the lavatory if I needed to, but it surely does really feel form of awkward to have an exterior door within the lavatory. But when we add on a bit of sunroom/exercise room, that room will clearly have the outside door, and the door within the lavatory might be a pocket door that matches the pocket door into the bed room, which was the plan all alongside.
After which, so far as the laundry room and closet, he desires all of it stored as one large room. I mentioned the potential of constructing a wall and separating it right into a closet space on the entrance of the home, accessible from the bed room, and turning the again half of the room right into a laundry room, accessible from the hallway. He didn’t like that in any respect. He desires all of it one large room, which is okay with me. Since he has a robust opinion about it, and I might have been proud of it both manner, we’ll hold it one large room.
What he didn’t have a robust opinion (or any enter) about is the hallway lavatory. So I’m nonetheless considering what to do about that. However as you may see on the ground plan above, I’m severely contemplating eradicating that loo, and increasing the studio lavatory in order that it’s a visitor lavatory that takes up a few of the present pantry space. That would depart me with a a lot bigger visitor lavatory, and a a lot smaller (however nonetheless an excellent measurement) pantry.
I don’t know that that may be the precise association of that loo, however it will be a full lavatory to incorporate a bathe and/or a tub. That manner, my studio might simply be used as a visitor bed room if and when wanted, and our visitor(s) might have a personal full lavatory.
And that would depart the present hallway lavatory free for us to make use of as storage. That may be very useful as a result of the one factor I’m nonetheless lacking is storage for Matt’s bathe wheelchair, Hoyer carry, and so forth. That small lavatory space can be good for that. And if we do this, it will additionally flip that total aspect of the home previous the cased opening within the music room right into a main bedroom. I like that concept.
So the plans are coming alongside. I used to be so glad to have Matt’s enter. At the least two selections had been made a lot simpler for me realizing that he really did have a robust opinion about them. Getting these opinions out of him wasn’t simple, and it took fairly a little bit of coaxing, however as soon as he made his selections, he was very set on them. I’m very proud of these selections, and if I can simply get the lavatory state of affairs settled in my thoughts, we’ll have an entire and finalized plan.
UDPATE: Only a phrase about turning our hallway lavatory right into a laundry room…
I did contemplate this selection, however there are a number of causes I made a decision to not go this path. When it comes proper right down to it, I don’t see any profit in any respect (neither for me, nor for a future proprietor) in that possibility.
First, I like the thought of my laundry room being in an enormous, spacious room, quite than tucked away in a tiny room. Second, I don’t love seeing Matt’s gear sitting round when it’s not in use. If given an possibility, I’d quite not have it in my fairly closet space or my fairly laundry room. And since there’s a small room accessible the place it might be saved when not in use, it simply is smart to me.
So it’s undoubtedly helpful for me to place the laundry room within the bed room, and switch the hallway lavatory right into a storage space. So is there any profit to a future proprietor for me to show the hallway lavatory right into a laundry room? Probably not.
If I flip the hallway lavatory right into a laundry room, and the bed room into an enormous closet/storage space, after which a future proprietor desires to show that closet/storage space again right into a visitor bed room, that leaves a visitor bed room with no conveniently accessible lavatory. So their solely possibility can be to show that laundry room again right into a visitor lavatory. After which they’ll need to discover a new place for a laundry room.
So the state of affairs for a future proprietor is similar no matter what I do now. If I put the laundry the place I need it (within the large room) and switch the small lavatory right into a storage room, after which a future proprietor desires to show that room again right into a visitor bed room, they’ve to show the storage room again into a toilet and discover a place for a laundry room. If I flip the lavatory right into a laundry room and the bed room right into a closet/storage space, and a future proprietor desires that room to be a visitor bed room, they’ve to show the laundry room again right into a visitor bed room and discover a place for a laundry room. They’re in the identical state of affairs both manner I’m going. No matter what I do now, if they need that giant room to be a bed room, they’ll be turning the small room again into a toilet, and having to discover a new place for a laundry room. So I’d quite make the choice that I desire for my very own profit whereas this home is ours. And my selection can be the massive laundry room/closet combo, and tucking Matt’s gear away into it’s personal small storage space.
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