One Step Closer To Tearing This Room Down

In case you’ve been round some time, you understand that the sunroom connected to the again of our home is on the chopping block. I’ve wished to tear this room down for therefore lengthy, however there have at all times been obstacles in the best way.

Simply that will help you get your bearings, this massive room 31’5″ x 12’10” room behind the hallway rest room, music room, and kitchen is the room I’m speaking about…

Earlier house owners added this room onto the home, and there’s actually no salvaging it. First, it’s constructed at floor stage the place the remainder of the home has a pier and beam basis that sits above the bottom. That implies that there’s a step down into this room, and with a wheelchair person in the home, that’s not sensible. Additionally, the roof is sloped and the again wall is slightly below seven toes excessive, which isn’t what I need in any room of our house.

However the worst factor is that this space evidently was a concrete patio. So the ground on this room consists of sheets of heavy plastic positioned over that concrete, then a layer of particle board, after which two layers of business carpet. Throughout heavy rains (which we’ve been having numerous recently), water is available in underneath the again sliding glass door and soaks the particle board and carport by the door.

So clearly, the room simply must be torn down, and we have to begin over from scratch with constructing a room on this space. Whereas I don’t know when that addition shall be constructed, I did together with tearing this room down on my Grasp Record of House Targets for this yr (which you can see here).

The obstacles which have stood in the best way of us tearing the room down are (1) this room housed our washer and dryer, (2) this room additionally homes our scorching water heater, and (3) this room serves as my storage space for all of my instruments, paint, and different DIY provides that I exploit on our home. And over the past a number of months, it has additionally housed all of my garments, further bedding, the gadgets that got here out of our house health club, and so on.

However yesterday, I noticed that a type of obstacles — one of many largest obstacles — has now been eliminated. The washer and dryer that used to sit down proper right here on this terrible room…

…now have a phenomenal, new, customized house within the walk-in closet…

All of my instruments, paints, and so on., nonetheless occupy the opposite half of the room, and whereas it seems to be like an entire mess, I do have issues grouped in packing containers and containers by class…

However all of that stuff has a model new house awaiting it simply as quickly as I can get in there and construct some storage and group for every little thing..

The laundry room facet of the room seems to be a lot worse now than it did in the beginning of the yr, however that’s as a result of it’s at the moment housing all of my garments, further bedding, and so on., that needed to be faraway from the visitor bed room and hallway closet (and I spent days getting caught up on laundry and didn’t cling numerous my garments, in order that they’re simply draped over issues proper now 😀 I’ve been a bit busy, so that is simply actual life, of us)…

However I’m so near having the ability to get all of that stuff out of there and into my new closet…

All the things that got here out of the visitor bed room and hallway is now piled into this room, however I don’t suppose I’m maintaining any of it. So I simply must get it listed on Market or give it away to get it out of right here, and I can discover one other place for any of the stuff I wish to preserve.

So now, the primary impediment is the new water heater, which sits within the nook of that room the place the washer and dryer was. You’ll be able to see it hidden behind that fake tree within the image above.

So I’ve been eager about the place to place the new water heater. I had been planning on getting a tankless scorching water heater and having it put in someplace on the outside of the home. However a few days in the past, it dawned on me that I’ve a greater place for it — the hallway rest room!

That room will finally be a storage room that is part of the main bedroom suite, and we’ll have a brand new visitor rest room as a part of the addition. So this room, which is able to proceed to sit down behind closed doorways when it turns into a storage room, is definitely the proper place for a tankless scorching water heater.

It can take some work, however because it’s a rest room, there’s clearly already water coming into the room. So whereas this transition interval could also be very awkward, I believe my plan is to take away the cupboard and cabinets on the suitable facet of the room, in addition to the bath (which hasn’t been used one single time since our rest room was completed), and have the tankless scorching water heater, entry to the crawl area beneath our home, and entry to the attic all put into this room.

The transition interval received’t be fairly. And it will likely be awkward. Very awkward. However I believe in the long term, having all three of these issues inside this room shall be very handy, and I like that they may all be hidden behind closed doorways. Plus, I received’t have to chop an entry to the crawl area into the hallway ground. And I can eliminate this attic entry that’s at the moment within the room that can quickly be our new bed room. (That is an older image taken earlier than the flooring was put in, however you may see the attic entry on the ceiling.)

I believe this plan will work out splendidly ultimately. I’m not excited in regards to the interim, and having a visitor rest room that’s half torn up. However it would simply mix in with the awkwardness of getting a visitor rest room positioned inside our main bedroom suite in the meanwhile. 😀 Generally the center half — the journey from Level A to Level B — is the awkward half. However that’s simply part of DIYing and renovating a house that we typically should cope with. We’ll name it an journey and cope with the awkwardness for now.

However the primary factor is that, if I can get my workshop arrange (which I’ll in all probability work on after I end the bed room suite) after which get the new water heater moved, I’ll don’t have any extra obstacles to tearing down that terrible sunroom!!!!! And that alone shall be price somewhat little bit of awkwardness within the interim.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify 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.