A Change (Or Expansion) Of Plans – We’re Moving Back To The Breakfast Room

Throughout a part of 2019 and 2020, Matt and I moved our mattress into the breakfast room briefly whereas I labored on and completed the visitor bed room. I completed that room in 2020, and we’ve been utilizing that as our bed room ever since.

Yesterday, as I used to be about to start out engaged on the hallway flooring, I bought to serious about how a lot simpler it will be to do the entire flooring on this space of the home — hallway, closet/laundry room (aka, the present visitor bed room), and our new bed room — all of sudden.

I had been planning on putting in the flooring within the hallway and bed room first, which would come with renting the large sander after which staining and sealing these flooring. After which as soon as these had been accomplished, I used to be going to do the entire large tasks within the bed room — wainscoting, wallpaper, trim — after which we may transfer into that room whereas I end up the ornamental components.

As soon as that room was accomplished, then I’d begin on the closet/laundry room. That room can be getting new flooring and subfloor, together with vapor barrier and insulation, so meaning I’d should hire the large sander as soon as once more. That doesn’t look like probably the most environment friendly course of. I do know I’m typically not a “work smarter, not tougher” type of particular person. I have a tendency to love my tasks as difficult and convoluted as potential. 😀 However even to me, this plan was beginning to appear overly difficult.

Plus, it simply appeared prefer it was about to get actually uncomfortable for Matt to be spending most of his days within the midst of fixed development, noise, and dirt. So we talked about it, and determined that we’re going to maneuver our mattress again into the breakfast room once more in order that I can do the entire flooring on this entire space all of sudden. Meaning renting the large sander simply as soon as. Meaning doing a full clear up after sanding simply as soon as. Meaning doing the entire staining and sealing on the identical time. That makes a lot extra sense to me.

And better of all, that implies that I can set up the flooring straight by way of from the music room cased opening (i.e., the soon-to-be new doorway into our bed room suite) during to the far wall of the bed room all at one time, together with the closet and laundry space.

That implies that the flooring from the hallway into the closet/laundry space shall be steady as soon as once more. Once we purchased the home, the entire hardwood flooring was steady all through. However once I needed to redo the hallway flooring after the unlucky flooding incident (you can read about that here), I didn’t need to should feather in boards to make the flooring steady into that room, so I ended up reducing the ground boards within the doorway straight after which including two perpendicular boards as a transition strip.

In the long run, that labored out simply wonderful, particularly since I ended up portray the ground within the visitor bed room. So with the hallway flooring being stained and the bed room flooring being painted, there was no continuity anyway. I can’t discover any footage of the 2 flooring assembly within the hallway after each had been accomplished, however you possibly can think about how this painted flooring met the stained flooring within the doorway with a kind of transition items being painted, and the opposite transition piece being stained. It actually did look good. I used to be happy with it.

However with this room turning into the closet and laundry space, I don’t plan on having a painted flooring anymore. And with this flooring and subfloor being changed, I now have the chance to eliminate these transition items and have one steady flooring once more, similar to it was once we purchased the home. These little particulars excite me. However it will probably solely occur if I do the entire flooring on the identical time.

It simply so occurs that my contractor is accessible subsequent week to start out on this room — eradicating the ground and subfloor, vapor barrier, insulation, new subfloor, and likewise doing the plumbing and electrical for the washer and dryer. He can begin Monday, in order that implies that I’m really going to have a VERY busy subsequent few days. I’ll nonetheless find time for household and leisure tomorrow, however in the present day and this weekend, it’s full steam forward.

I began yesterday by clearing out the breakfast room. That’s the place the flooring for this finish of the home has been saved ever since I purchased it.

So I needed to get these moved to the opposite finish of the home. I nonetheless have about 4 containers left to maneuver. Then I’ve to get the chairs out of there and saved someplace. As soon as the room is cleared out, I can transfer our mattress (and Matt) into the breakfast room.

Then I’ve to filter out the remainder of the bed room. I’ve so as to add short-term storage within the sunroom for my garments and sneakers. I’ve to maneuver out the remainder of the furnishings. After which I have to take out the closets. I would like these taken out in a method that the plywood might be salvaged and reused, so I need to try this myself.

And all of this must be accomplished earlier than Monday. 😀 So in the present day and this weekend shall be busy and nerve-racking, however I believe it’ll be value it in the long term. As soon as the flooring are accomplished, I’m nonetheless going to deal with our bed room first earlier than I flip my focus to the closet/laundry space. However the great point is that by that point, the hookups for the washer and dryer shall be on this room, so I can go forward and not less than get these moved into their new house. That’s fairly thrilling to me! As soon as they’re in there, it’ll give me a greater thought of how the whole lot else will match into the room.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.