One Step Closer To Tearing This Room Down

In the event you’ve been round some time, that the sunroom hooked up to the again of our home is on the chopping block. I’ve wished to tear this room down for thus lengthy, however there have at all times been obstacles in the way in which.

Earlier homeowners added this room onto the home, and there’s actually no salvaging it. First, it’s constructed at floor stage the place the remainder of the home has a pier and beam basis that sits above the bottom. That signifies that there’s a step down into this room, and with a wheelchair person in the home, that’s not sensible. Additionally, the roof is sloped and the again wall is slightly below seven toes excessive, which isn’t what I would like in any room of our residence.

However the worst factor is that this space evidently was a concrete patio. So the ground on this room consists of sheets of heavy plastic positioned over that concrete, then a layer of particle board, after which two layers of business carpet. Throughout heavy rains (which we’ve been having a whole lot of these days), water is available in underneath the again sliding glass door and soaks the particle board and carport by the door.

So clearly, the room simply must be torn down, and we have to begin over from scratch with constructing a room on this space. Whereas I don’t know when that addition shall be constructed, I did together with tearing this room down on my Grasp Checklist of Residence Targets for this 12 months (which you’ll be able to see right here).

The obstacles which have stood in the way in which of us tearing the room down are (1) this room housed our washer and dryer, (2) this room additionally homes our sizzling water heater, and (3) this room serves as my storage space for all of my instruments, paint, and different DIY provides that I exploit on our home. And over the past a number of months, it has additionally housed all of my garments, additional bedding, the gadgets that got here out of our residence gymnasium, and so on.

However yesterday, I spotted that a type of obstacles — one of many greatest obstacles — has now been eliminated. The washer and dryer that used to sit down proper right here on this terrible room…

…now have an attractive, new, customized residence within the walk-in closet…

All of my instruments, paints, and so on., nonetheless occupy the opposite half of the room, and whereas it seems to be like a whole mess, I do have issues grouped in bins and containers by class…

However all of that stuff has a model new residence awaiting it simply as quickly as I can get in there and construct some storage and group for all the pieces..

The laundry room facet of the room seems to be a lot worse now than it did at first of the 12 months, however that’s as a result of it’s at present housing all of my garments, additional bedding, and so on., that needed to be faraway from the visitor bed room and hallway closet (and I spent days getting caught up on laundry and didn’t hold a whole lot of my garments, in order that they’re simply draped over issues proper now 😀 I’ve been a bit busy, so that is simply actual life, of us)…

However I’m so near with the ability to get all of that stuff out of there and into my new closet…

All the pieces that got here out of the visitor bed room and hallway is now piled into this room, however I don’t assume I’m conserving any of it. So I simply must get it listed on Market or give it away to get it out of right here, and I can discover one other place for any of the stuff I wish to preserve.

So now, the principle impediment is the new water heater, which sits within the nook of that room the place the washer and dryer was. You possibly can see it hidden behind that fake tree within the image above.

So I’ve been enthusiastic about the place to place the new water heater. I had been planning on getting a tankless sizzling water heater and having it put in someplace on the outside of the home. However a few days in the past, it dawned on me that I’ve a greater place for it — the hallway rest room!

That room will ultimately be a storage room that is part of the master suite suite, and we’ll have a brand new visitor rest room as a part of the addition. So this room, which can proceed to sit down behind closed doorways when it turns into a storage room, is definitely the right place for a tankless sizzling water heater.

It can take some work, however because it’s a toilet, there’s clearly already water coming into the room. So whereas this transition interval could also be very awkward, I believe my plan is to take away the cupboard and cabinets on the proper facet of the room, in addition to the tub (which hasn’t been used one single time since our rest room was completed), and have the tankless sizzling water heater, entry to the crawl area beneath our home, and entry to the attic all put into this room.

The transition interval gained’t be fairly. And it will likely be awkward. Very awkward. However I believe in the long term, having all three of these issues inside this room shall be very handy, and I like that they are going to all be hidden behind closed doorways. Plus, I gained’t have to chop an entry to the crawl area into the hallway flooring. And I can do away with this attic entry that’s at present within the room that can quickly be our new bed room. (That is an older image taken earlier than the flooring was put in, however you possibly can see the attic entry on the ceiling.)

I believe this plan will work out splendidly in the long run. I’m not excited in regards to the interim, and having a visitor rest room that’s half torn up. However it can simply mix in with the awkwardness of getting a visitor rest room positioned inside our main bedroom suite in the interim. 😀 Typically the center half — the journey from Level A to Level B — is the awkward half. However that’s simply part of DIYing and renovating a house that we typically must take care of. We’ll name it an journey and take care of the awkwardness for now.

However the principle factor is that, if I can get my workshop arrange (which I’ll in all probability work on after I end the bed room suite) after which get the new water heater moved, I’ll haven’t any extra obstacles to ripping down that terrible sunroom!!!!! And that alone shall be price just a little little bit of awkwardness within the interim.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish 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.