I do know a few of you’re in all probability questioning why I haven’t begin putting in the flooring within the bed room but. I promise that this isn’t a kind of conditions the place I’m simply procrastinating. The difficulty is that I’ve to get all of my plans in place earlier than I can begin on the ground. I’ve been pondering by and considering a number of completely different concepts, and relying on which thought I run with, it may have an effect on the ground set up.
As I shared on Monday, I’ve been considering the thought of eradicating the thought of eradicating the door that results in the bed room and widening that doorway. The door I’m speaking about is the one to the left of the desk and lamp.
Proper now, that’s solely a 32-inch door. That’s not supreme for an individual who makes use of a wheelchair. So I had the thought to take away the door altogether and widen that doorway as a lot as potential.
If I widen the doorway as a lot as potential, however hold it as a cased opening, I might achieve 5 inches of width for that doorway. Right here’s a have a look at that door from the opposite facet so you’ll be able to see how tight the match is. However 5 inches is a fairly substantial achieve. For a wheelchair consumer, each added inch is useful.
So if I take away that door, that implies that I might put French doorways within the present cased opening between the music room and the hallway. In fact, I might use frosted glass for privateness, however this offers us an thought of what that will appear to be…
In the meanwhile, it is perhaps slightly complicated as a result of the visitor rest room would solely be accessible from the hallway, which implies going by the brand new French doorways to entry the lavatory. However we’ve been dwelling with a complicated interim flooring plan for 4 years now, so we’re no strangers to complicated flooring plans. 😀 If I had 1 / 4 for each time somebody over the past 4 years has requested, “Kristi, the place’s your main bedroom?” once I submit a flooring plan, I’d be a really rich girl. Or, , I’d have a minimum of $20. 😀
So whereas it will be slightly complicated for now, as soon as we construct the brand new, smaller addition, that wall with the lavatory door can be closed up, and the lavatory can be accessible from the opposite facet of the lavatory. That implies that all the things past these new French doorways can be the master bedroom.
Okay, however I’ve already gone over all of that in a earlier submit. That was all only for overview, and to say that I’ve determined that I positively DO wish to go ahead with this plan. I mentioned it with Matt, and he’s absolutely on board with it and loves the thought, too.
So then that brings me to the subsequent thought I had. Since all the things past the French doorways will (ultimately) be the master bedroom, and the hallway will type of be slightly anteroom to the bed room, I had the thought that perhaps I shouldn’t simply take away the door and widen the cased opening to the bed room. Possibly I ought to take away the opening altogether and make the partitions and ceiling clean and uninterrupted. In different phrases, there can be nothing left there to point that there was a doorway or cased opening in any respect. The ceiling can be steady, flat, and clean. The partitions can be steady, flat, and clean. If I did that, we’d achieve TWELVE inches of width into the room. Now THAT’S a big quantity of width for Matt to maneuver by! Twelve entire inches!
So you’ll be able to see now how this determination will have an effect on the flooring, and why I haven’t simply jumped proper in with each toes on putting in the ground but. I’ve to get these particulars labored out earlier than I can begin. My contractor is coming over tomorrow to take a look at it and see if that slender wall is load-bearing, and whether it is what might be accomplished about it. I don’t assume it’s, however he appears to assume it’s. But it surely’s so slender in the entire scope of issues, and it’s already nearly all doorway, so I believe we will discover a answer.
That concept does pose a little bit of a problem, although. If there’s not a doorway or cased opening there in any respect, that implies that there’s no definitive finish to the bed room and starting to the hallway. And that implies that there’s no good stopping level for the wall therapy within the bed room, i.e., the wainscoting on the underside and the grasscloth on prime. So if I am going that course, I’m pondering that I’ll simply want to hold the wainscoting and grasscloth by to the hallway as effectively, and deal with each areas as one room. It’ll be a uniquely formed room, but it surely’ll be all one room nonetheless.
I’ve additionally determined that I’m 100% going to take away the cupboard within the hallway. I’ve been considering it for some time, particularly since I finalized my plans for the closet and laundry space. Not solely will I now not want this storage cupboard (which has served us very effectively whereas we’ve had it, so it wasn’t a waste of cash or time in any respect), but it surely does type of create an pointless impediment for Matt getting by this space.
Plus, it visually closes within the space. When this space was going to be dwelling fitness center and visitor bed room, however cupboard was fantastic. Matt’s been working round it for 4 years now, and we at all times appeared ahead to the day that we had a bed room that was accessible by a unique hallway. However now that that is going to be the master bedroom, I believe it must go to make issues simpler for him.
However that brings up one other difficulty. Are you aware what’s NOT underneath that cupboard? The brand new subfloor and flooring that was put in after our hallway flooded and I had the subfloor and flooring changed. They needed to minimize across the cupboard to switch all the things. You’ll be able to see the nook of the cupboard within the picture under and the way they needed to minimize round it.
In order that’s one more problem that I’ll must cope with, and but one more reason that I haven’t but jumped in with each toes to begin putting in the flooring. These plans take time, and I don’t wish to miss any particulars earlier than I get began.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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