This has been a really unusual week for me. Nearly every single day, one thing has come up that has thrown me off of my common schedule, which is why I haven’t been sharing any progress on the storage room. There hasn’t been a lot progress on that this week. *Sigh* Hopefully I could make some headway on that this weekend. However in fact, that hasn’t stopped my thoughts from working. Whereas I haven’t gotten a lot precise work accomplished, my thoughts has been in overdrive, planning and dreaming about our new course for the sunroom.
When you missed my put up about that, you may learn it right here. Right here’s the quick model. I’ve realized that my dream of a giant, new addition isn’t going to occur, so we now have to discover a option to make the sunroom work…completely. Right here’s what the ground plan of our home appears like proper now. And simply one other reminder, that room in stable black is the hidden lavatory that sits behind our grasp lavatory. Proper now, that loo is totally inaccessible from wherever inside our home.
When you’ll keep in mind, my authentic plan was so as to add on an entire lot of further sq. footage by transferring the again wall out a number of toes into the again yard and widening the addition the entire accessible width in order that the wall on the left lined up with the left wall of our home. With the brand new plan, there gained’t be any further sq. footage of residing house added to the home. So the brand new problem is to determine learn how to match every little thing we wish and want into the sq. footage accessible, if attainable.
Earlier than I might give you a ground plan, I needed to decide precisely what it’s that we wish and want. Right here’s what I got here up with:
First, I need a household room/TV room. I do know that a number of individuals on a number of previous posts have instructed that we simply use our entrance front room as our foremost household room/TV room. I don’t like that concept in any respect for a number of causes. First, I like having a room the place company can enter that at all times appears good, feels welcoming, and doesn’t have loads of “lived in” mess within the room. Additionally, I don’t like the concept of a foremost household room/TV room being on the entrance of a home. I suppose it’s simply becuase of the home I grew up in, however I like a foremost household room/TV room to be in the back of a home with a view to the again yard. It feels extra non-public to me. So I positively need half of the present sunroom to be a household room/TV room.
Second, I need a room that we will use as a house gymnasium proper now, however that may additionally function a visitor bed room. And I additionally need that room accessible within the occasion that my mother ever wants to come back reside with us. If that have been to ever occur, it wouldn’t be any time quickly. We’re a few years away from that, but when that should occur sooner or later, I don’t need to be scrambling to make an area for her.
And third, the house must have a rest room connected to, or very close to, that bed room. These are actually the one three requirements I need to squeeze into the accessible house.
So final night time, I began wanting on the ground plan, taking measurements of the particular areas, and developing with a preliminary plan. That is what I got here up with…
In the long run, I believe we should add on just a bit little bit of further house to make room for a closet for that bed room, however I believe that may work out higher ultimately as a result of it would make elevating the roof easier if the realm with the lavatory is squared up with the again wall of the sunroom.
You might also discover that I added a gap between the kitchen and the TV room. That’s not a cased opening between the 2 rooms. I don’t need to lose an excessive amount of cupboard space within the kitchen. However I do like the concept of passthrough between the kitchen and the TV room the place I can have decrease cupboards alongside your entire again wall of the kitchen with a passthrough above it and a countertop that’s accessible from the TV room.
I’ve had this concept for a really very long time, and I’ve shared it in previous posts. Right here’s one of the vital current that I shared after I considered rearranging the format of my kitchen. And whereas I not need to transfer my sink to that again wall of the kitchen, I nonetheless like the concept of a passthrough to the TV room on that wall.
And that may go on this wall within the kitchen…
So I’ll be assembly with the contractor subsequent week to get his opinion on this plan and see what his suggestions are. I’d find it irresistible if we will do that challenge in levels. My foremost concern is that I don’t need debt, and that’s the issue I bumped into with the plan to utterly tear down the sunroom and loo and utterly rebuild a a lot bigger addition. Regardless of how I labored the numbers, we have been going to have to enter debt for that plan. I simply merely wasn’t okay with that. We paid off our home a number of years in the past, and I don’t really feel snug in any respect with the concept of one other mortgage.
So I’m hoping there’s a means that we will do that challenge in levels, and whereas I’m not a contractor or a builder, I’m fairly positive step one should be squaring up that loo with the sunroom after which elevating the roof. And this can be a contractor I’ve labored with many occasions on varied tasks on our home, so he is aware of I’m a DIYer, and he is aware of I’ll need to DIY as a lot of this challenge as attainable. So I’ll see what the contractor has to say subsequent week, and I’ll hold y’all up to date!
Right here’s a side-by-side of the “present” and “after” plan for comparability. I believe this plan will work!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework 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’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
