Walk-In Closet & Laundry Room: The Work Has Begun! (Plus, Should I Put Tile In The Laundry Area?)

Final week was a bummer. However this week is shaping as much as be lots higher with much more progress. Already this morning, I’m seeing progress on the walk-in closet and laundry space.

I’m hoping they will end eradicating the flooring and subfloor by the top of the day.

As soon as they get the vapor barrier, insulation, and new subfloor put in, they’ll be constructing a brand new wall about right here to separate the room into two areas. After which they’ll have so as to add {the electrical} retailers and plumbing for the washer and dryer.

I can’t even inform you how excited I’m that by the top of this week, I’ll most likely have a laundry room. It’ll nonetheless want flooring, however that will likely be as much as me to put in and end the flooring. And I’ll be very motivated to get that achieved simply in order that I can get my washer and dryer moved in right here. Regardless that it’ll be some time earlier than I can end out the world (as a result of I need to do the bed room first), simply with the ability to transfer the washer and dryer out of the sunroom will really feel like an enormous enchancment.

One other factor that I’ll have them do whereas they’re right here is to heart the door into this room in order that it’s centered with the window and will likely be centered with the doorway between the closet and the laundry space.

And I’ve determined that I’m not going to place a door between the hallway and the walk-in closet, and I’m going to take that doorway all the best way as much as the ceiling to make the 2 entrances (into the closet and into the bed room) have a cohesive look.

The problem is that the doorway into the walk-in closet can’t go all the best way as much as the ceiling as a result of that wall is load-bearing and it will be method too structurally difficult (and costly) to take away that prime plate. So that they’re going to open it as much as the highest place of the wall and go away that uncovered for me to cope with. I have already got a plan for methods to cope with that little hurdle.

Anyway, one factor that dawned on me this weekend is that I had deliberate to place hardwood flooring all all through this entire space, from the brand new bed room French doorways, all by way of the closet and laundry space, the hallway, and the bed room. So principally, all of this space within the orange.

However does that make sense to place hardwood flooring in a laundry space? Most laundry rooms don’t have hardwood flooring. I imply, it’s not utterly remarkable, however tile appears to be the go-to flooring for loos and laundry room.

So now I’m considering that I’d must plan for tile simply within the laundry space, which will likely be separated from the closet by a 15-lite pocket door.

Perhaps I’m overthinking it. However possibly not. I actually assume I ought to put tile in that space, proper? I’ve by no means had a correct laundry room earlier than, so let me know your experiences. Have you ever had hardwood flooring in a laundry room earlier than? And if that’s the case, was it an issue?

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