For the final two days, I’ve not been in a position to focus on something aside from the brand new plan for our home. After canceling our addition that we’ve been planning for years now (you’ll be able to learn extra about that right here), and deciding to primarily work inside the footprint of our present residence, including on only one room, my thoughts has been in overdrive. I’ve been at my laptop for hours shifting issues round on the ground plan to provide you with the right association for every thing that we’d like. I’ve been strolling round the home with a tape measure in hand, measuring nearly each wall and opening in the home.
It took me a number of tries, a number of consideration about our particular wants (particularly Matt’s wants), and many shifting issues round and tweaking totally different concepts, however I’ve the ultimate ground plan. Right here it’s.
Essentially the most thrilling half is that the brand new room that we add will likely be a model new kitchen!!! So let me clarify my thought processes for all of those selections, and I’ll get to the rationale why I made a decision to make that new room within the kitchen.
First, let’s begin in the master bedroom. Since we have already got the grasp toilet accomplished, it simply is smart to show the bed room subsequent to it into the master suite. As soon as the remaining partitions left over from the closet, areas are taken down, this room will likely be fairly a bit bigger than the room we’re in now. And we desperately want a bigger bed room, so it will work out completely. It’s positively not as huge because the one we had deliberate for our unique addition, however this one will likely be spacious sufficient to maneuver Matt’s Hoyer carry round with out me continuously working into it, hitting my head on it as I attempt to stroll previous it, or tripping over it, that are all frequent occurrences in our present bed room.
Since there isn’t any room contained in the precise bed room for a closet (a closet in that room would make that room the identical dimension because the bed room we’re in now, and that’s simply not doable for the long-haul), I’m going to be turning the present visitor bed room into a giant walk-in closet/train space/storage space for Matt’s gear. I’ll lastly have the ability to use IKEA Pax wardrobes and have a giant, stunning, organized closet on one facet of that space. And because it’s actually the scale of a bed room (as a result of it’s a bed room) and I don’t have almost that many garments or sneakers, there will likely be loads of room for the important train gear that we need to maintain, in addition to loads of ground area within the center to maintain mats gear (Hoyer carry, bathe wheelchair, and many others.) when he’s not utilizing them. Will probably be the right huge, open area that we’d like for all of these issues. I will likely be closing that room off to the hallway, however I additionally determined to depart the present door in place (it’s a pocket door) and simply drywall over it. That approach, if a future proprietor needs to show this again right into a bed room, will probably be so simple as drywalling over one doorway, and eradicating the drywall from one other doorway, after which, identical to that, it’s a bed room once more. And it’ll have already got a door.
Now let’s discuss in regards to the music room. Each single time I convey up ground plan concepts, most individuals appear to need to put the music room on the chopping block. However I actually can not stress this sufficient. The music room can’t be modified, can not have furnishings added to it, and can’t be utilized in every other approach. Whereas it’s not used as an precise music room (sadly, I simply don’t have time to play the piano proper now), this room is at the moment probably the most used rooms in our home, and it’s a room that we can not reside with out.
To begin with, simply from a visible standpoint, I actually just like the view from the entrance door by the again of the music room. I actually don’t need to put something in there to hinder that view.
However even when I wished to vary that room and do one thing else, like flip it right into a eating room, that will simply be inconceivable. That might make life so troublesome for Matt as a result of that is probably the most excessive visitors room in our home all through the day. With Matt in a wheelchair, I frequently have to consider visitors stream and never placing issues in his approach in order that he can get by the principle areas and to the entire exits in the home. And as you’ll be able to see, with the music room proper in the midst of the home, it will get a lot a lot through-traffic that the present association is probably the most excellent option to make that room look fairly, and completed, and purposeful, whereas additionally protecting it open for Matt to get by simply. I simply couldn’t even think about what hardship I’d create if I attempted to show that room into anything.
That can also be the realm the place I switch Matt to and from his wheelchair utilizing the Hoyer carry. It’s the one room in our home that has sufficient area for me to place his wheelchair simply the appropriate approach, after which pull a Hoyer carry proper as much as it. So if I have been to go and put a eating desk or anything like that, in that room, it might destroy its very helpful performance for us. So whereas the title “music room” is a bit deceiving, this is without doubt one of the most functionally helpful rooms in the home simply as it’s. There’s no approach I’d change something in regards to the music room format.
Now let’s discuss in regards to the enjoyable stuff! My new kitchen! I thought of so many choices for that space together with making the brand new room a eating room, making the brand new room a laundry room, and even making the brand new room a TV room. So why did I resolve to lastly make that space a brand new kitchen? Due to the potential of home windows and pure mild immediately within the kitchen!
One in all my least favourite issues about our home is that the present kitchen is correct within the center, and has no home windows with direct daylight truly within the kitchen. I’ve opened it up in order that it might get daylight from the adjoining rooms, however I’d love a kitchen with a number of home windows and pure mild.
So once I was attempting to show that space right into a laundry room, and including all these fantastic home windows, it dawned on me that that ought to be the kitchen! I may simply think about having a sink with broad home windows over the countertop. That’s the start of a dream kitchen for me! And within the final 24 hours, I’ve checked out so many stunning and inspirational galley kitchens that my thoughts is spinning! I’m so enthusiastic about having a light-filled galley kitchen!
As soon as I noticed that the brand new room was an ideal place for a the brand new room was an ideal place for a brand new kitchen, every thing else form of fell into place. If the brand new room goes to be a kitchen, then the location of the present pantry doesn’t make any sense. Plus, this new kitchen will likely be larger than my present kitchen, which just about eliminates the necessity for a pantry anyway. So if I alter the place of the doorway into that room, that’s the excellent place for a laundry room/utility room!
After which, with the doorway into the present pantry/future laundry room moved, that stable wall can now be the TV wall in what’s now the TV room. I didn’t notice till yesterday, as I used to be strolling round and measuring every thing, that the present sitting room is just about the very same dimension as the realm of the entrance room that we use as the lounge. However what makes the sitting room really feel so small is the association of the furnishings as a result of I’ve to depart that stroll approach by the room open. However with the present doorway to the pantry closed off, and with turning that wall into the TV wall, the rearrangement of the furnishings will make that room really feel a lot larger. Plus, there’ll not be a kitchen peninsula making that room really feel so closed in.
After which that leaves the right room for a eating room. The present kitchen will change into my eating room. It’s the right place for a eating space, proper between the kitchen and the TV room in the lounge. It’s prefer it was meant to be! And I can have a desk and chairs in there with out blocking the visitors sample by the room.
I’ve given this a lot thought, and a lot time, and I’m feeling nearly 100% assured that that is what we’ll find yourself with. In actual fact, I really feel so assured that I’m able to get began instantly! Which brings up the difficulty of timeline.
The primary precedence is to maneuver into the larger bed room. So with that purpose in thoughts, we have to get that bed room prepared. Meaning demolishing the ground and the subfloor, putting in new subfloor and flooring, eradicating the remaining closet partitions, and making a doorway from the brand new bed room into the present visitor bed room. Our present breaker field is correct the place the brand new doorway must go, so that may should be moved additionally.
As soon as that’s finished, I’ll shut up the doorway from the present visitor bed room into the hallway and start turning that into the closet and train space.
After that finish of the home is completed, then we’ll begin on the kitchen addition, in addition to turning the pantry into the laundry room. I’m actually hoping I can reuse most, if not all, of the present cupboards that I constructed for that room.
So I don’t know precisely once we will begin on the brand new kitchen, however that’s the order through which we need to do issues. And Matt has additionally mentioned that he needs to construct my woodworking workshop on the identical time we’re doing the kitchen. So we’ll see how that goes.
I’ve determined that I’m going to let different individuals do the work within the bed room for me, as a result of whereas they’re doing that, I need to end up my studio and studio toilet. And I additionally hoped to do the makeover on the hallway toilet earlier than getting began on the most important stuff. But when I don’t get to the hallway toilet earlier than the bed room, I do at the least need to end up within the studio and the studio toilet earlier than shifting on to one thing else.
That’s the plan! During the last week, I’ve gone from offended, to unhappy, to upset, to intrigued, too excited, to completely giddy. 🤣 It’s been a heckuva week!
Right here’s yet one more comparability. Right here’s what we’ve now…
Right here was the unique addition plan..
And right here’s the brand new, a lot smaller plan…
Observe: Y’all, I’m so sorry for the entire typos, incorrect phrases, plentiful use of random commas, and many others., on this unique submit. I believe I’ve all of it mounted now. I wrote about two sentences on this submit and the keyboard on my laptop computer stopped working. Simply stopped! It’s been giving me hassle for the final couple of months (the W and L keys don’t work, so I’ve to actually copy and paste any time I need to use these letters), however now it has fairly working fully. (I HATE getting new computer systems and having to switch/replace every thing, so I put it off so long as potential.) So I ended up having to write down this submit on my cellphone. And since I didn’t need to kind all of it out on a tiny display, I used voice recognition. Nicely, not solely does voice recognition not perceive my Texas accent at occasions, but it surely additionally loves commas greater than I do! 🤣 Anyway, all that to say that I believe it’s all mounted and readable now. I hope. And I suppose I want to move out this afternoon and get a brand new laptop computer. Ugh.
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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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