Pondering By The Particulars Of Our Bed room (And Here is Why I Have not Began Putting in The Ground But)
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I do know a few of you’re most likely 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 problem is that I’ve to get all of my plans in place earlier than I can begin on the ground. I’ve been considering via and considering a number of completely different concepts, and relying on which thought I run with, it might 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 perfect 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 attainable.
If I widen the doorway as a lot as attainable, however hold it as a cased opening, I might achieve 5 inches of width for that doorway. Right here’s a take 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 consumer, 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 provides us an thought of what that might appear to be…
In the meanwhile, it is likely to be slightly complicated as a result of the visitor rest room would solely be accessible from the hallway, which suggests going via the brand new French doorways to entry the toilet. However we’ve been dwelling 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 main bedroom?” once I put up a ground plan, I’d be a really rich lady. Or, you recognize, I’d have at the very least $20. 😀
So whereas it will be slightly 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 all the pieces past these new French doorways could be the master bedroom.
Okay, however I’ve already gone over all of that in a earlier put up. That was all only for assessment, and to say that I’ve determined that I positively DO need to go ahead with this plan. I mentioned it with Matt, and he’s totally on board with it and loves the thought, too.
So then that brings me to the following thought I had. Since all the pieces past the French doorways will (finally) be the master bedroom, and the hallway will sort 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. Perhaps I ought to take away the opening altogether and make the partitions and ceiling clean 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 clean. The partitions could be steady, flat, and clean. If I did that, we might achieve TWELVE inches of width into the room. Now THAT’S a big quantity of width for Matt to maneuver via! 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 ft 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 might be finished about it. I don’t suppose it’s, however he appears to suppose it’s. But it surely’s so slim in the entire scope of issues, and it’s already nearly all doorway, so I feel we are able to 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 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 remedy within the bed room, i.e., the wainscoting on the underside and the grasscloth on prime. So if I am going that route, I’m considering that I’ll simply want to hold the wainscoting and grasscloth via to the hallway as nicely, and deal with each areas as one room. It’ll be a uniquely formed room, nevertheless 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 nicely whereas we’ve had it, so it wasn’t a waste of cash or time in any respect), nevertheless it does sort of create an pointless impediment for Matt getting via this space.
Plus, it visually closes within the space. When this space was going to be dwelling gymnasium and visitor bed room, however cupboard was positive. 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 via a special hallway. However now that that is going to be the master bedroom, I feel it must go to make issues simpler for him.
However that brings up one other difficulty. Have you learnt what’s NOT beneath 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 reduce across the cupboard to switch all the pieces. You may see the nook of the cupboard within the photograph under and the way they needed to reduce round it.
In order that’s one more problem that I’ll should cope with, and but another excuse that I haven’t but jumped in with each ft to begin putting in the flooring. These plans take time, and I don’t need to miss any particulars earlier than I get began.
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