I’ve virtually all the things settled and determined for my plan for our bed room, and now it’s only a matter of implementing the plan. However I do have one roadblock, and I’ve given a lot thought to developing with an answer, however to this point, I can’t consider one.
The issue is that the breaker field for our home is positioned on a wall within the room that may now be our bed room. (That’s a giant mirror leaning in opposition to the wall subsequent to it.)
When this room was our dwelling gymnasium, the breaker field was contained in the closet space, and I hid it behind a giant mirror on the suitable facet of the closet to the suitable of the TV and the “sweat the loopy out” signal.
I used to be okay with that answer because it was a house gymnasium. However now that that is going to be our bed room, and the partitions that created that closet space are gone, I hate the thought of holding the breaker field proper there.
I plan on turning that nook right into a studying nook with a snug chair, flooring gentle, ottoman, and so on. The breaker field is excessive sufficient that it received’t intervene with the wainscoting that I plan to put in on the decrease portion of the partitions. And I may at all times put a very tall, broad mirror leaning in opposition to that portion of the wall. So within the worst case state of affairs, if there’s simply no approach to transfer it, I’m positive I can work round it and make it work. However I’d relatively not.
Shifting a breaker field for an entire home isn’t low cost, and I’m sure that the additional away I transfer it from the present place, the costlier it’ll be. I can’t even think about transferring all of these wires from one facet of the home to the opposite. I feel it could be higher (and cheaper) to maintain it on this facet of the home, if potential. However once more, I simply can’t discover a place for it.
The room that makes essentially the most sense to me to place a breaker field is within the present visitor bed room, which would be the closet/laundry space. However there are some issues with that plan. First, it’s in opposition to code (at the least in Waco) to place a breaker field in a closet. I don’t know if this may technically rely as a closet because it’s actually a bed room that shall be used as a closet and laundry room. However even when we will get away with that technicality, I don’t see any area for it.
Proper now, the breaker field is positioned simply on the opposite facet of the wall the place the pink mark is…
In an ideal world, I’d like to put it inside an higher cupboard above the dryer.
However that received’t work as a result of that places it additional away from the remainder of the rooms in the home, and though it’s not an extended distance away from its present place, it’s nonetheless far sufficient away that many of the wires can be too quick to succeed in. And as soon as once more, that makes the entire course of far more costly. But in addition, code requires {that a} breaker field have three toes of area on both facet in order that it may be simply accessed. If I put it inside that cupboard, it wouldn’t have three toes of area on the suitable facet of the cupboard and breaker field.
It might be simpler to place it on this part of the closet.
This place would transfer it nearer to the opposite rooms, so no wires can be too quick to succeed in. However once more, it doesn’t have the required three toes of area on both facet. It might be simply accessible, although. It might simply be hidden by hanging garments, which may be simply eliminated.
The one different possibility I’ve been capable of give you is to place it within the hallway. However once more, the place? It might be good if it may go proper behind the chapel image…
However that’s a pocket door that results in the bed room, and one draw back of getting pocket doorways is that it limits what may be on/within the partitions. The pocket into which that door opens ends across the center of that chapel image, in order that leaves no room for a breaker field.
I’m really considering eradicating this cupboard from the hallway, and that might unencumber the wall area, however as soon as once more, there’s a pocket door on what would be the closet and laundry room. The pocket into which that door opens takes as much as a lot area to suit the breaker field there.
So I actually don’t know the place it may go. I’ve been kicking round an concept in my head which will appear a bit loopy, however Matt appears on board with it. My one answer that I’ve considered is to take away the door to the bed room altogether. When all the things is alleged and executed on this home, all the things past the cased opening that separates the music room from the hallway will technically be master bedroom.
So as an alternative of the teal door on the bed room, I may take away that door altogether and add French doorways to this opening, turning this into the precise doorway into the master bedroom. I type of love that concept whatever the breaker field. It might permit me to widen the doorway into the bed room by a number of inches. However the added bonus is that I may put the breaker field behind the chapel image.
I’m very severely considering that concept. The extra I give it some thought, the extra I prefer it. The factor is that I must make a ultimate choice earlier than I set up the flooring as a result of widening the doorway into the bed room will have an effect on the flooring. I don’t need to get the flooring put in, after which want I had widened the doorway later.
I feel it could be good to take away the bed room door, widen the doorway, and take away the cupboard within the hallway to open up the area and make it simpler for Matt to get via this space. French doorways between the music room and this space would supply all of the privateness we have to the master bedroom.
If I weren’t utilizing wallpaper within the bed room, this wouldn’t be a giant deal. But when I’m going to maneuver the breaker field, I really need that to be executed earlier than I put up grasscloth wallpaper within the bed room. I simply can’t discover a good answer. I’m leaning in direction of the thought of eradicating the bed room door and including French doorways, however I need to make certain I’ve thought via all the things rather well earlier than I bounce in with each toes.
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