Within the latest weeks after I’ve talked about my plans for the sunroom, I’ve had a few folks remark about the opportunity of opening up the unique “grasp lavatory” (a time period I exploit very loosely to explain this tiny lavatory) to the sunroom to make it usable once more, and to offer us a 3rd lavatory, and a second full lavatory.
Initially, I dismissed the concept. In my thoughts, that rest room doesn’t exist. At the very least, I faux prefer it doesn’t exist. And similar to the sunroom, I’ve seemed ahead to the day that it may be torn down. Opening it up, fixing it up, and making it usable looks like an enormous step backwards. However within the final couple of weeks, and as I’ve felt my dream of a brand new addition on our home slip additional and additional away, I’ve actually began to noticeably contemplate the concept.
So let me again up a bit and clarify so to get your bearings. Right here’s the ground plan of our home because it presently stands. The toilet I’m speaking about is the little room that’s all black to the left of the sunroom and behind our present grasp lavatory.
When you’ll keep in mind, the room that’s presently our grasp lavatory was once the unique main bedroom after we purchased the home, and it had this little lavatory off of it.
Fairly early on, we had the window that you just see within the picture above to the left of the lavatory changed with a door. The closed door that you just see on the wall to the fitting of the lavatory was the unique walk-in closet in that bed room, nevertheless it was a fairly small closet.
Once we determined to show this room into our large accessible lavatory, the wall that enclosed that closet was torn out to make the room bigger. After which the doorway that went from the bed room into the hallway, which you’ll be able to see on the far proper of the image under, was closed up. And a brand new doorway (which can’t be seen within the picture under as a result of I’m standing in it to take the picture under) was created in order that this room might be accessed from the opposite bed room, which is now our main bedroom.
So when the brand new grasp lavatory rework obtained underway, this was the way it began shaping up. A brand new wall was constructed to part off the bathe and the water closet behind that new wall and to create a spot for the bath. However this picture was taken earlier than the cement board went up within the bathe, and for those who look carefully, you’ll be able to nonetheless see the unique (closed) door to that authentic tiny grasp lavatory.
Right here’s that very same view within the new, completed grasp lavatory. However behind that wall within the bathe nonetheless sits the unique tiny grasp lavatory. It’s now fully inaccessible. It could possibly’t be accessed from anyplace inside the home, and there’s no technique to entry it from exterior until I need to crawl by the one window that is still in that room.
Earlier than it was closed up, the entire plumbing was capped off as a result of I didn’t need any likelihood of a plumbing leak that I couldn’t get to. And there’s no electrical energy going to that room, both. It’s actually only a unusual little appendage on the again of our home that I overlook is even there, and that I had deliberate to tear down together with the sunroom.
Apart from the vainness, which I eliminated, all the pieces else nonetheless seems to be like this — the bathroom, the bathtub, and even the bathe curtain are all nonetheless there.
However, as a couple of of my very observant readers and commenters have identified, that rest room shares this wall with the sunroom.
Because the sunroom is principally one large (and nearly fully stuffed) storage room proper now, I had to return to the unique picture that I took of the sunroom proper after we purchased the home to indicate you the shared wall from contained in the sunroom. However it’s this wall proven in orange.
That implies that I may put a doorway on that wall, open up the 2 rooms to one another, and we may have one other lavatory. It’s tiny, however it might be a full visitor lavatory with a bath/bathe, bathroom, and vainness.
I initially wrote off this concept fully, however now I’m severely contemplating it. The one disadvantage is that the lavatory is a pier and beam basis, which implies that it’s stage with the remainder of the home. The sunroom is on floor stage. That implies that I must add two steps from the sunroom to the lavatory to make that rest room accessible. That feels unusual to me, however truthfully, I’ve seen stranger issues achieved to outdated houses. And generally with outdated houses, we have now to work with what we have now.
After I get to the sunroom mission, I’ll be eradicating the entire paneling from the partitions. I feel as soon as that’s achieved, and as soon as I can see what’s inside and behind these partitions, I’ll have the ability to decide on whether or not or not I need to proceed with this selection. However for now, I’m severely contemplating it. I undoubtedly like the concept of getting a second full lavatory in the home, even when it’s a tiny one.
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