I do know a few of you might be 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 type 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 considering by way of and considering a number of totally different concepts, and relying on which concept I run with, it might have an effect on the ground set up.
As I shared on Monday, I’ve been considering the concept of eradicating the concept 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 very best for an individual who makes use of a wheelchair. So I had the concept to take away the door altogether and widen that doorway as a lot as attainable.
If I widen the doorway as a lot as attainable, however maintain 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 aspect so you possibly can see how tight the match is. However 5 inches is a fairly substantial achieve. For a wheelchair person, each added inch is useful.
So if I take away that door, that signifies that I might put French doorways within the present cased opening between the music room and the hallway. After all, I might use frosted glass for privateness, however this offers us an concept of what that may seem like…
In the meanwhile, it is perhaps somewhat complicated as a result of the visitor toilet would solely be accessible from the hallway, which suggests going by way of the brand new French doorways to entry the toilet. However we’ve been residing with a complicated interim ground plan for 4 years now, so we’re no strangers to complicated ground plans. 😀 If I had 1 / 4 for each time somebody over the past 4 years has requested, “Kristi, the place’s your master suite?” after I publish a ground plan, I’d be a really rich lady. Or, , I’d have at the very least $20. 😀
So whereas it could be somewhat complicated for now, as soon as we construct the brand new, smaller addition, that wall with the toilet door could be closed up, and the toilet could be accessible from the opposite aspect of the toilet. That signifies that every little thing past these new French doorways could be the main bedroom.
Okay, however I’ve already gone over all of that in a earlier publish. That was all only for evaluation, and to say that I’ve determined that I undoubtedly DO wish to go ahead with this plan. I mentioned it with Matt, and he’s totally on board with it and loves the concept, too.
So then that brings me to the following concept I had. Since every little thing past the French doorways will (ultimately) be the main bedroom, and the hallway will type of be somewhat 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. Perhaps I ought to take away the opening altogether and make the partitions and ceiling easy and uninterrupted. In different phrases, there could be nothing left there to point that there was a doorway or cased opening in any respect. The ceiling could be steady, flat, and easy. The partitions could be steady, flat, and easy. If I did that, we’d achieve TWELVE inches of width into the room. Now THAT’S a major quantity of width for Matt to maneuver by way of! Twelve entire inches!
So you possibly can see now how this choice 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 have a look at it and see if that slim wall is load-bearing, and whether it is what will be carried out about it. I don’t suppose it’s, however he appears to suppose it’s. Nevertheless it’s so slim in the entire scope of issues, and it’s already nearly all doorway, so I believe we are able to discover a resolution.
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 signifies that there’s no definitive finish to the bed room and starting to the hallway. And that signifies 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 considering that I’ll simply want to hold the wainscoting and grasscloth by way of to the hallway as effectively, and deal with each areas as one room. It’ll be a uniquely formed room, however it’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), however it does type of create an pointless impediment for Matt getting by way of this space.
Plus, it visually closes within the space. When this space was going to be dwelling health club and visitor bed room, however cupboard was advantageous. Matt’s been working round it for 4 years now, and we at all times regarded ahead to the day that we had a bed room that was accessible by way of a special hallway. However now that that is going to be the main 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 lower across the cupboard to interchange every little thing. You’ll be able to see the nook of the cupboard within the photograph under and the way they needed to lower round it.
In order that’s yet 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 start out 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 transform and adorn 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.
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