Second-Guessing My Plan For The Closet Doorway

I headed to Dwelling Depot this previous Sunday to get the whole lot I wanted for this venture — a 2×4 to border out the highest of the doorway, the entire trim boards to trim out the doorway like I trim out all of our different doorways and home windows, drywall mud to patch the drywall that might should be added above the highest trim on the door, and so forth.

After which I set out yesterday to get the job finished. I lower the two×4 to create the highest jamb of the doorway, and began attaching it, after which began second-guessing the entire plan.

Proper now, the doorway to the closet is so tall and open. In case you’ve forgotten, right here’s the way it seems to be proper now with the very tough opening…

I had needed the ceiling between the lobby and the closet to be degree and clean with no separation in any respect, however that couldn’t be finished as a result of these 2x4s on the prime can’t be eliminated. They’re undoubtedly bearing a load as a result of there’s a ceiling joist that ends proper on prime of these 2x4s. So these needed to keep, which sort of ruined my imaginative and prescient for it.

That turned out to be okay since I ended up coloration drenching the closet in blue and painted the ceiling the identical blue as the cupboards. I wouldn’t wish to have to make use of that very same blue on the ceiling all through the entire bed room suite, so these 2x4s created a pure stopping level. So in the long run, I used to be glad they have been there.

However then my plan was to border out this doorway similar to the opposite doorways and home windows in the home, which appear to be this with the big prime trim and easy 1x4s on the perimeters.

I figured it will be tremendous as a result of that’s how the opposite two doorways within the bed room lobby will likely be trimmed out as soon as they’re completed. Proper now, the door to the bed room suite seems to be like this, however as soon as the aspect items are reinstalled, it’s going to appear to be the remainder of the doorways in the home.

After which, in fact, the doorway to the present hallway lavatory (which is able to ultimately be a storage room for the bed room suite) will likely be trimmed out the identical approach. (Excuse the mess. Once I say I didn’t do any work throughout my break, I imply that I didn’t do a single little bit of precise, unpleaseant work, and that features cleansing up the entire leftover closet venture mess. 😀 )

I did a really fast (and never very fairly) mockup of what it will appear to be as soon as the drywall above the doorway is in place if I stick to this plan.

And you then’ll have to make use of your creativeness to check it with the identical trim as the opposite doorways, the teal grasscloth on the higher a part of the partitions on both aspect, and the creamy white wainscoting on the decrease a part of the partitions on both aspect.

I simply can’t assist however suppose that it’ll look busy. And once more, since there received’t be an precise door on the closet/laundry space, I don’t suppose it’s going to truly look cohesive with the opposite doorways.

So after second-guessing this plan yesterday, I attempted to check one thing else. And what I lastly landed on is that this potential plan. What if, as an alternative of framing out this doorway like the opposite two that truly have doorways, I depart it open like it’s now, and easily use these 2x4s on the prime as a base to connect crown molding on the prime? I’d ensure to line it up precisely in order that the underside of the crown molding hits proper on the backside of these 2x4s that drop down.

That signifies that as an alternative of protecting over the uncovered 2×4 framing on the perimeters and prime of the doorway with trim, I’d merely cowl them with drywall, similar to the opposite exterior corners are lined with drywall.

After which, as soon as I add the wainscoting and grasscloth to the lobby and bed room partitions, that very same therapy would simply wrap round these corners similar to they’ll wrap across the different corners within the lobby and bed room.

To create an endpoint for the grasscloth and wainscoting the place it meets the closet partitions, I might simply add just a little little bit of vertical trim, however it wouldn’t be the massive trim that I usually use on doorways and home windows.

So that is the path I’m leaning as a result of I actually just like the openness of the closet doorway, and I don’t wish to create extra visible boundaries or any visible muddle on this space. And as a lot as I really like the best way I trim out doorways and home windows, I do suppose it’s going to create some visible muddle if I add it to this doorway.

What do you consider that concept? Are you able to envision it? I do know that signifies that I’ll have to really do some drywall work, and I hate doing drywall. However I feel I’ll be happier with the consequence, so I’m prepared to do the additional drywall work if it’ll give me a greater completed consequence.