I at all times take the final week between Christmas and the New Yr off from the weblog, however this yr, I’ve determined to take these subsequent two weeks off. Issues are simply shifting so slowly on the bed room suite. I had anticipated the contractor’s half to be completed two weeks in the past, and right here we’re two weeks later and barely something has been achieved. And as for the tasks I wished to focus on whereas they’re engaged on the bed room suite, effectively, the climate and my Amazon shipments have been uncooperative.
So reasonably than stress concerning the lack of progress, I’m simply going to take the following two weeks to destress, spend time with Matt, watch just a few tacky Christmas motion pictures, and prepare for the brand new yr. Hopefully by then, I can hit the bottom working on the bed room suite tasks and get these knocked out as rapidly as doable.
This yr has been…totally different. It hasn’t been totally different in a nasty means. It’s been totally different in a great way. Nevertheless it’s positively been totally different.
Identical to I do yearly, I began off 2024 with a Grasp Record of House Objectives. You’ll be able to see my complete 2024 listing right here: 2024 Master List of Home Goals. And the yr began off with me tackling the studio. Right here’s the way it appeared at first of the yr…
And right here’s the way it seems now…
However from there, all of my different plans for the yr sort of went off the rails. I had plans to complete the studio half tub…
And I had plans to do just a few minor tasks within the visitor bed room…
And I had plans to do a makeover within the hallway rest room…
However the primary factor on my 2024 listing was the beginning the addition. And one yr in the past, that is what I envisioned the addition trying like…
However then issues went fully off the rails once we began having some severe issues issues with our house gymnasium ground. I had solely completed the house gymnasium 17 months earlier, and we had been getting a ton of use out of the room. So it was extremely discouraging to seek out that the ground in that room was ruined to the purpose that it was buckling so badly that I’d journey over it.
The thought of getting to exchange flooring (and subfloor) in a room that was pretty not too long ago completed despatched me right into a tailspin. I known as off the addition that we had deliberate for the final eight years, and I went again to the drafting board. In any case, changing the ground and subfloor in a pier and beam home shouldn’t be a small factor. So if we had been going to have to try this anyway, then this was the time to reevaluate our plans and make any wanted modifications.
And that’s what we did. After getting tons of enter from readers on an entire vary of concepts, and after testing about most likely 50 totally different ground plan concepts, we’ve lastly settled on this ground plan for our home…
It was a really lengthy and circuitous path to get to that last ground plan. And ultimately, did we actually accomplish something? I imply, we’re nonetheless going to construct an addition, though the brand new addition isn’t practically as huge as the unique addition, so we’ll get monetary savings.
However I’m really very pleased with this new route. After spending months wrestling with these selections, and getting enter from so many readers, I used to be capable of “see” our house and our ground plan with new eyes, so to talk. I used to be provided concepts that I by no means would have considered in one million years (like turning the studio rest room right into a walk-through pantry for simple entry from the again door into the kitchen). I used to be capable of rethink concepts that I had beforehand written off as a result of I believed they had been virtually not possible (like shifting our kitchen to the breakfast room and pantry space).
And each single day, I get increasingly more enthusiastic about our new bed room suite the place we’re turning the house gymnasium into our bed room,
…and turning the visitor bed room into our walk-in closet and laundry room.
So whereas that ruined house gymnasium ground appeared like a tragic factor for the time being, I believe issues have turned out simply wonderful. I really like this new plan for our home even higher than all of our authentic plans for that vast addition. Generally issues simply have a means of working themselves out.
So subsequent yr seems to be a fairly thrilling yr. My major preliminary focus will likely be our bed room suite — bed room, closet, and hallway. After that, I’ll flip my consideration to our new kitchen, after which as soon as the brand new kitchen is completed, I’ll tear out the previous kitchen and switch it right into a eating room. In order that’s a preview of what I believe 2025 holds. However for now, I’m going to take it simple for just a few days and watch a Christmas film or two. I’ll meet y’all again right here within the New Yr!
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.
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