Yesterday, I shared my new plan for our future new kitchen. It’s a fairly drastic change of plans, however the extra I give it some thought, the extra excited I get about it. Should you missed that, you may examine it right here. The brand new plan appears a lot extra manageable than the earlier bigger, grander plan.
However among the best issues about this new plan is that it means I’ll preserve the studio half toilet. With the earlier plan, this room had been slated for demolition sooner or later. When that call was made, I closed the door on this room (actually) and by no means appeared again. The door on this room has been closed and the room forgotten for effectively over a yr now. In truth, I simply appeared again on the weblog, and I can’t see the place I’ve posted something in regards to the toilet after November 2023. That’s pushing two years.
I do know a few of you may be questioning why I’d shut the door and never look again on a half toilet. In spite of everything, even a half toilet that isn’t absolutely embellished and completed could be helpful, proper? Effectively, no. This toilet requires a pump for the bathroom and sink, and that pump stopped working way back. And since this toilet was on the chopping block, and I had deliberate to show it right into a walk-through pantry from the long run new kitchen to the again doorways of the studio that result in the carport, I had no intention of spending the cash required to restore or change the pump. So I closed the door to the room and deliberate to by no means return till I used to be able to get began on the brand new kitchen and walk-through pantry.
So yesterday, for the primary time in at the very least 18 months, I made a decision to open the door and see precisely how I had left it. It wasn’t fairly as unhealthy as I had remembered it, however it’s not nice, both.
However after some time, I grew bored with the partitions. And once I began engaged on my studio in 2023, I made a decision that the toilet wanted a makeover as effectively. That’s once I began taking off the wall tile and arising with a brand new plan for the partitions.
And that is so far as I received earlier than I made a decision to go a distinct route with the operate of this room altogether.
However now, the plan is to maintain the operate of the room the identical and end it. And I’ve to say, I’m form of relieved about that. I actually appreciated having a working, usable toilet on this aspect of the home.
The room is a multitude, and it’s been forgotten so lengthy that there are cobwebs in right here. However I don’t suppose it might take lengthy in any respect to complete it. The toughest components — the crown molding, door trim, window trim, wainscoting, and self-importance — are all already in place.
So at this level, I’m taking a look at a really primary makeover, not a transform.
Clearly, the primary order of enterprise needs to be getting this pump mounted or changed. With out a working pump, this toilet isn’t purposeful in any respect.
After which I can end up with the partitions and few ornamental touches. I believe it will likely be a relative fast undertaking as quickly as I get a plan in place.
After I began engaged on the studio, I had a plan to maintain this toilet actually colourful and enjoyable in step with the colours within the studio. I even designed a wallpaper for the partitions.
However with the brand new plan, I don’t suppose I’ll be utilizing this wallpaper anymore. The brand new plan is to make this toilet the official visitor toilet. That can enable me to utterly end the bed room suite, together with turning the hallway toilet right into a much-needed storage room for Matt’s tools. And it’ll enable us to get a brand new scorching water heater which can go in that storage closet as effectively. The recent water heater is the final remaining mounted merchandise within the sunroom that’s stopping us from tearing down the sunroom.
So with this toilet turning into our official visitor toilet (and the one visitor toilet we’ll have for an extended whereas), I don’t actually need it to be a loopy, psychedelic, seizure-inducing room. So long as we had that hallway toilet accessible for visitors, I used to be just about the one one that ever used this half toilet. So I may make it as loopy and colourful as I wished to. However now that it’s going to have a bigger “viewers”, I need it to be a extra typically pleasing room that isn’t coated in loopy coloration.
Don’t get me improper. There might be coloration. And, in any case, it’s nonetheless positioned inside my studio, which is a colourful feast for the eyes. Lest you overlook…
So visitors should stroll by means of this to get to the toilet. However I’m okay with that. This room, greater than another in our home, is my color-loving persona in room kind.
And everybody who has seen my studio in individual has been very complimentary about it. Even when they wouldn’t need it in their very own properties, folks appear to get pleasure from taking a look at it in our home.
And I’m happy to report that up to now, my studio hasn’t induced a seizure in a single single visitor. In order that’s good. I believe folks can deal with strolling by means of my studio to get to a rest room.
However I wish to provide you with a calmer and extra typically pleasing plan for the toilet. I may even carry the inexperienced from the again entry partitions onto the highest parts of the toilet partitions.
Inexperienced is a typically pleasing coloration. It could give me coloration, and clearly, it’s a coloration I like since I selected it for the partitions of the again entry. I already know that it really works effectively with the studio. And it might be comparatively fast and straightforward to do some drywall restore, paint the partitions, add some ornamental touches, and be executed with it.
So proper now, the plan of motion is that this. I’m going to complete up the lobby and bed room. These areas are precedence #1 proper now. (I’m nonetheless engaged on the partitions within the lobby.) As quickly as these two areas are executed, I’m going to complete this studio half toilet. When it’s completed, I’m going to return and switch the hallway toilet right into a storage closet in order that I can get our bed room suite utterly completed with no initiatives left undone. After which, as soon as the bed room suite is 100% completed, I’ll begin on my workshop.
It’s a slight change of plan from earlier than, however not too huge. And this manner, we’ll have a very completed bed room suite with no awkward “center stage” of getting a visitor toilet inside our master suite suite. I’m very excited in regards to the concept of it being utterly completed with no awkward in between phases, and no initiatives left hanging over my head that I’ve to return and tackle in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
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 may be taught extra about me right here.
