Now that my walk-in closet undertaking is winding down, I’ve been looking forward to my upcoming bed room initiatives. Should you’ve been round for some time, you realize that the room that used to function our residence fitness center is now going to be our bed room.
That room used to appear like this…
And due to an entire sequence of occasions that I gained’t recap intimately, we determined that as a substitute of constructing an addition onto the again of the home that features a huge, new bed room for us, we’d flip this room into our new bed room as a substitute. So now, after having all new subfloor and flooring put in, it appears to be like like this…
This plan works out for us as a result of this room can be related to the massive accessible toilet that I completed a few years in the past. That loo is true by way of this door on this room (once more, this image is from when this room was previously our residence fitness center)…
And that rest room appears to be like like this, with the door proven within the image beneath being that very same pocket door between the 2 rooms…
So this room is completely located to be our new bed room, however making this modification, from including on a brand new bed room to the again of that rest room to altering the house fitness center into our new bed room, comes with its personal set of challenges. First, this room is the place the breaker field is positioned. So earlier than I can transfer ahead with our plans for the partitions in right here (grasscloth wallpaper on prime, wainscoting on the underside), this breaker field will must be moved up about eight inches.
That drawback appears small compared to the primary difficulty with this bed room, which is that there isn’t any exterior door on this room. With a brand new construct bed room added to the again of the home, we might have merely added French doorways to the again yard. However with this room being on the entrance of the home, issues get just a little extra difficult.
Actually, I’ve put it out of my thoughts, pondering that within the occasion of an emergency, and if I wanted to get Matt out of the home rapidly, I might merely take him out the again door of the lavatory. That exit is simply about 12 toes away from the bed room, and it’s a straight shot from the bed room to the again yard. I made certain that the door between the bed room and toilet, and the door main exterior, have been lined up with one another (due to my obsessive want for symmetry).
So once more, I had fully put it out of my thoughts. The plan was in place. I’ve virtually the whole lot I would like (and the entire plans in place) to begin on this bed room and get it executed as rapidly as I can whereas doing all of the work myself.
However final evening, I began fascinated about it once more. My plan for this bed room is to have grasscloth wallpaper on the highest a part of the partitions. I’ve actually bought each final bolt of that grasscloth wallpaper obtainable within the U.S. No different bolts of that wallpaper exist. And the bolts I’ve will probably be precisely sufficient to do the higher partitions within the bed room and bed room suite lobby. If I mess any of these up, or reduce them flawed, I’m up a creek. There’s no fall again.
And that additionally implies that if I wallpaper round this window proper now, after which determine at a later date to swap out this window for French doorways (which I might need to do after we do finally construct that addition on again that can now embrace a visitor bed room, visitor toilet, and household room), if any of that wallpaper will get tousled round this window throughout that swap, I’m up a creek once more. There will probably be no technique to buy extra to switch any that will get broken.
So I’ve sort of backed myself right into a nook with this. That factor that I attempted to place out of my thoughts for now in order that I might simply transfer on and get this bed room completed as quickly as attainable is now within the forefront of my thoughts once more. I simply can’t assist however marvel if my forging forward with this room in its present state goes to trigger some vital issues sooner or later. And whereas I’d typically let Future Kristi fear about these issues, I do know that I really want to assume this one by way of proper now. I’ve wished a room with darkish teal grasscloth wallpaper for therefore lengthy, and I’ll lastly have it. And as soon as it’s up, I would like it up for good. Whereas I’m typically okay with redoing initiatives, this isn’t one I need to be redoing in a few years. I spent approach an excessive amount of cash on this wallpaper to even take into consideration probably redoing it in a few years if one thing goes flawed.
So now, I’m pondering that that is the time that the window must be swapped out for French doorways. Proper now, earlier than I begin on the partitions.
However including French doorways proper right here gained’t remedy the entire issues. That may simply result in different points. The surface of our home has been tragically uncared for for a few years now. Once we acquired our new home windows put in, I by no means did safe the shutters to the brand new home windows. So we at present have two shutters which were blown down in heavy storms. And naturally, I nonetheless haven’t executed any landscaping within the entrance. So please forgive the unkempt look of the entrance of our home for now. I’ve been questioning what I’ll work on after the bed room is completed, and maybe that will probably be a great time to renew these out of doors initiatives and get these initiatives completed.
Anyway, that is what the entrance window of our bed room appears to be like like from the skin. It’s the room that’s all the way in which on the left entrance nook of the home. The walk-in closet is the room that juts out beside the entrance porch/entrance door, which additionally has a shutter down proper now.
And instantly, you’ll be able to see a serious drawback. If I’m going forward and swap out the window with French doorways, we’ll want a porch or some type of touchdown space exterior of the doorways. Understand that the entire level of getting doorways is for me to simply get Matt out in case of emergency, which suggests I’ll must carry him out in both a wheelchair or Hoyer carry. So merely having steps exterior of the door gained’t actually be sensible, though, I can assure you I’d make it work in an emergency. It could be a bumpy experience for him, however I’d for certain get him out.
Anyway, that fuel line, which is model new and was put in by the town, is true in the way in which. I do not know if they’d even transfer that, or in the event that they’d cost me for it. I don’t understand how that works.
After which there’s the difficulty of placing a entrance porch right here. Does it want a roof just like the entrance porch? Do the 2 must match? Or wouldn’t it look okay simply to have the porch with no matching roof overhead?
Right here’s a view of the 2 areas collectively. Once more, please forgive the unkempt look proper now. I actually do must put aside a while to get this put again, however I’ve been a bit busy currently. 🙂
So I simply don’t know. I do know that this isn’t one thing I can depart for Future Kristi to take care of. I must determine it out proper now and make a plan to deal with this. But it surely’s a type of “one factor results in one other” varieties of points, and it stresses me out. Actually, I simply need to beautify a bed room and get us moved in. However I’m pondering it’s not going to be fairly that straightforward or easy.
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