My mother and I learn the entire feedback on yesterday’s put up concerning the closet doorway whereas we have been at lunch yesterday and mentioned the entire choices, after which I got here residence and did three totally different mockups of the concepts in order that I might truly see what they may appear like.
I used to be a bit stunned at how many individuals recommended placing a transom window above the closet doorway. It was positively the bulk opinion! At the least one particular person (possibly two) recommended utilizing the nook design that I used on my closet cupboards on the doorway as properly. Just a few folks recommended I put a door on the doorway, however I dominated that out way back.
In case you’ll keep in mind, this room had a pocket door on it earlier than I began remodeling it from a bed room to a closet. Right here’s what this space regarded like after I eliminated the built-in cupboard from the hallway. So this is able to offer you an concept of what it could appear like once more if I added the identical door and window trim that I take advantage of all through our home after which add a door again in there.
However the ship has sailed on the pocket door concept. A pocket door would require approach an excessive amount of building, and that’s a load-bearing wall. However once more, that’s okay with me as a result of I made a decision way back that I didn’t desire a door on the closet, which is why I had that pocket door eliminated and the doorway reframed.
So again to the transom window concept. My mother and I mentioned it, and whereas we each love transom home windows, there are two points with that concept.
The primary drawback is that I solely have 8-foot ceilings, and transoms work higher with a minimum of 9-foot ceilings. There’s no approach I might use my customary trim plus a transom since there’s solely a little bit sliver of wall area left between the highest of my customary trim and the crown molding, as you possibly can see right here on this picture of the cased opening between our front room and kitchen that I shared in yesterday’s put up.
However somebody linked an image of a extremely lovely cased opening with a transom, and it simply occurred to have that very same nook element design that I used on my closet cupboards. So I made a decision to do a duplicate and paste of that complete factor onto my image and see the way it appears to be like. Clearly, this can be a very tough mockup, and this isn’t the form of wainscoting I plan to make use of. But it surely provides us an concept of the general look.
However as my mother and I mentioned this selection of doing any form of transom above the closet door, right here’s what we thought. If I do one thing particular like this above the closet door, it actually turns the closet into the function of the bed room suite and makes the bed room secondary. And in a bed room suite, the bed room must be the first focus, not the closet. No matter how a lot I like my new closet and wish my arduous work to be seen, I nonetheless don’t need it being the function.
So we thought that if I have been to do one thing like that above the closet, then I might essentially should do the identical form of factor resulting in the bed room. Once more, that is only a fast mockup, however it would possibly look one thing like this…
I truly love that look general, however I really feel like that’s form of going backwards. I began off with two doorways main to 2 bedrooms off of this hallway.
After which the entire concept of eradicating the doorway resulting in the bed room was (1) to make the realm broad open visually, but additionally (2) to widen the opening to the bed room as a lot as attainable to make that passage wider and simpler to maneuver for Matt. In order that total doorway, plus the entire framing round it got here out.
I’ve gotten so used to this wide-open look that the concept of including a function again in that separates the areas an excessive amount of from one another isn’t actually the course I wish to go. Plus, including that very same function to the bed room would additionally slim that passage a little bit, which defeats the aim of taking it out within the first place to make it simpler for Matt.
So then we talked about my unique concept that I shared yesterday of preserving the doorway as excessive as attainable and operating the crown molding straight throughout to cover these prime 2x4s.
My mother agreed with a number of of you that that may look awkward to don’t have anything underneath the crown molding. So she recommended that I deliver the doorway opening down just a bit bit, even when solely three or 4 inches (most likely the thickness of two extra 2x4s), to permit for a minimum of a little bit little bit of wall area/grasscloth above the doorway after which wrap the grasscloth and wainscoting round these jambs. That may make the crown molding above the doorway make sense. And I believe that is the successful concept.
I like that it’s easy. It doesn’t flip the closet into the function of the bed room suite. And it permits me to maintain that steady circulate of the wall therapy from the lobby into the bed room. I believe, on this case, easy is the most suitable choice. And it’s very uncommon that you just’ll hear that coming from me. 😁 I’m typically a “extra is extra” form of particular person, however on this occasion, I do assume I have to hold it easy. This easy possibility permits a peek into the closet with my fairly cupboards, wallpaper, mirror, and so on., whereas the uninterrupted grasscloth and wainscoting lead the attention from the lobby into the bed room. So mark the date. That is the one time I’m selecting the straightforward possibility.
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