One Change Leads To Another (And Gets Pretty Overwhelming)

Now that my walk-in closet venture is winding down, I’ve been waiting for my upcoming bed room tasks. In the event you’ve been round for some time, you already know that the room that used to function our residence health club is now going to be our bed room.

That room used to appear to be this…

And due to a complete collection of occasions that I received’t recap intimately, we determined that as a substitute of constructing an addition onto the again of the home that features a massive, new bed room for us, we’d flip this room into our new bed room as a substitute. So now, after having all new subfloor and flooring put in, it seems to be like this…

This plan works out for us as a result of this room can be related to the large accessible rest room that I completed a few years in the past. That rest room is correct via this door on this room (once more, this image is from when this room was previously our residence health club)…

And that rest room seems to be like this, with the door proven within the image under being that very same pocket door between the 2 rooms…

So this room is completely located to be our new bed room, however making this alteration, from including on a brand new bed room to the again of that rest room to altering the house health club into our new bed room, comes with its personal set of challenges. First, this room is the place the breaker field is positioned. So earlier than I can transfer ahead with our plans for the partitions in right here (grasscloth wallpaper on high, wainscoting on the underside), this breaker field will should be moved up about eight inches.

That downside appears small compared to the principle concern with this bed room, which is that there isn’t any exterior door on this room. With a brand new construct bed room added to the again of the home, we’d have merely added French doorways to the again yard. However with this room being on the entrance of the home, issues get a bit of extra difficult.

Actually, I’ve put it out of my thoughts, considering that within the occasion of an emergency, and if I wanted to get Matt out of the home shortly, I might merely take him out the again door of the toilet. That exit is barely about 12 ft away from the bed room, and it’s a straight shot from the bed room to the again yard. I made certain that the door between the bed room and loo, and the door main outdoors, have been lined up with one another (due to my obsessive want for symmetry).

So once more, I had utterly put it out of my thoughts. The plan was in place. I’ve nearly all the things I want (and the entire plans in place) to start out on this bed room and get it carried out as shortly as I can whereas doing all of the work myself.

However final night time, I began serious about it once more. My plan for this bed room is to have grasscloth wallpaper on the highest a part of the partitions. I’ve actually bought each final bolt of that grasscloth wallpaper accessible within the U.S. No different bolts of that wallpaper exist. And the bolts I’ve can be precisely sufficient to do the higher partitions within the bed room and bed room suite lobby. If I mess any of these up, or reduce them mistaken, I’m up a creek. There’s no fall again.

And that additionally signifies that if I wallpaper round this window proper now, after which resolve at a later date to swap out this window for French doorways (which I might wish to do after we do ultimately construct that addition on again that may now embrace a visitor bed room, visitor rest room, and household room), if any of that wallpaper will get tousled round this window throughout that swap, I’m up a creek once more. There can be no technique to buy extra to switch any that will get broken.

So I’ve sort of backed myself right into a nook with this. That factor that I attempted to place out of my thoughts for now in order that I might simply transfer on and get this bed room completed as quickly as doable is now within the forefront of my thoughts once more. I simply can’t assist however surprise if my forging forward with this room in its present state goes to trigger some vital issues sooner or later. And whereas I’d usually let Future Kristi fear about these issues, I do know that I really want to suppose this one via proper now. I’ve needed a room with darkish teal grasscloth wallpaper for therefore lengthy, and I’ll lastly have it. And as soon as it’s up, I need it up for good. Whereas I’m usually okay with redoing tasks, this isn’t one I wish to be redoing in a few years. I spent approach an excessive amount of cash on this wallpaper to even take into consideration probably redoing it in a few years if one thing goes mistaken.

So now, I’m considering that that is the time that the window must be swapped out for French doorways. Proper now, earlier than I begin on the partitions.

However including French doorways proper right here received’t resolve the entire issues. That can simply result in different points. The skin of our home has been tragically uncared for for a few years now. After we obtained our new home windows put in, I by no means did safe the shutters to the brand new home windows. So we at the moment have two shutters which have been blown down in heavy storms. And naturally, I nonetheless haven’t carried out any landscaping within the entrance. So please forgive the unkempt look of the entrance of our home for now. I’ve been questioning what I’ll work on after the bed room is completed, and maybe that can be time to renew these out of doors tasks and get these tasks completed.

Anyway, that is what the entrance window of our bed room seems to be like from the surface. It’s the room that’s all the way in which on the left entrance nook of the home. The walk-in closet is the room that juts out beside the entrance porch/entrance door, which additionally has a shutter down proper now.

And instantly, you may see a significant downside. If I am going forward and swap out the window with French doorways, we’ll want a porch or some kind of touchdown space outdoors of the doorways. Understand that the entire level of getting doorways is for me to simply get Matt out in case of emergency, which implies I’ll must convey him out in both a wheelchair or Hoyer carry. So merely having steps outdoors of the door received’t actually be sensible, though, I can assure you I’d make it work in an emergency. It could be a bumpy trip for him, however I’d for certain get him out.

Anyway, that fuel line, which is model new and was put in by town, is correct in the way in which. I don’t know if they’d even transfer that, or in the event that they’d cost me for it. I don’t know the way that works.

After which there’s the problem of placing a entrance porch right here. Does it want a roof just like the entrance porch? Do the 2 must match? Or would it not look okay simply to have the porch with no matching roof overhead?

Right here’s a view of the 2 areas collectively. Once more, please forgive the unkempt look proper now. I actually do must put aside a while to get this put again, however I’ve been a bit busy currently. 🙂

So I simply don’t know. I do know that this isn’t one thing I can depart for Future Kristi to cope with. I must determine it out proper now and make a plan to deal with this. Nevertheless it’s a type of “one factor results in one other” forms of points, and it stresses me out. Actually, I simply wish to adorn a bed room and get us moved in. However I’m considering it’s not going to be fairly that simple or easy.

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