For the final two days, I’ve not been in a position to focus on something apart from the brand new plan for our home. After canceling our addition that we’ve been planning for years now (you may learn extra about that right here), and deciding to primarily work throughout the footprint of our present residence, including on only one room, my thoughts has been in overdrive. I’ve been at my pc for hours shifting issues round on the ground plan to give you the proper association for every part 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 completely different concepts, however I’ve the ultimate ground plan. Right here it’s.
Probably 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 choices, and I’ll get to the explanation why I made a decision to make that new room within the kitchen.
First, let’s begin in the main bedroom. Since we have already got the grasp rest room 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 extra room in our bed room, so it will work out completely. It’s positively not as large because the one we had deliberate for our unique addition, however this one will likely be spacious sufficient to maneuver Matt’s Hoyer raise round with out me always 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. I’ll lastly be capable of use IKEA Pax wardrobes and have a giant, lovely, organized closet! And because it’s actually the dimensions of 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 tools that we need to maintain, in addition to loads of ground area within the center to maintain mats tools (Hoyer raise, bathe, wheelchair, and many others.) when he’s not utilizing them. It will likely be the proper large, 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 go away the present door in place (it’s a pocket door) and simply drywall over it. That approach, if a future proprietor desires to show this again right into a bed room, it is going to be so simple as drywalling over one doorway, and eradicating the drywall from one other doorway, after which the room will have already got a door.
Now let’s discuss in regards to the music room. Each single time I deliver up ground, plan concepts, most individuals appear to wanna 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 presently one of the vital used rooms in our home, and it’s a room that I can not dwell 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 to you. first, 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 to you.
However even when I needed to vary that room and do one thing else, like a eating room, that might simply be inconceivable. That might make life so tough 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 circulation and never placing issues in his approach in order that he can get by the principle areas and to all the exits in the home. And as you may see, with the music room proper in the course of the home, it will get a lot a lot through-traffic that the present association is probably the most good option to make that room look fairly, and completed, whereas additionally retaining 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 be the world the place I switch Matt to and from his wheelchair utilizing the Hoyer raise. It’s the one space in our home that has sufficient room for me to place his wheelchair after which pulled a Hoyer raise 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 will destroy its very helpful performance for us. So all of the identify “music room” is a bit deceiving, this is likely 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! It’s so many 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 determine to lastly make that space a brand new kitchen? Due to the potential of home windows and pure gentle instantly within the kitchen!
Certainly one of my least favourite issues about our home is that the 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 could actually get daylight from the adjoining rooms, however I’d love a kitchen with a number of home windows and pure gentle.
So after 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 must be the kitchen! I may simply think about having a sink with large home windows over the countertop. That’s the start of a dream kitchen for me!
As soon as I noticed that, every part else sort of fell into place. If the brand new room goes to be a kitchen, and 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 good place for a laundry room/utility room!
after which, with the doorway into the present Pantry/future laundry room moved, that strong wall can now be the TV wall in what’s now the TV room. I didn’t understand till yesterday, as I used to be strolling round, measuring every part, that the present sitting room is just about the very same dimension as the world 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, finish of 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 proper room for a eating room. The present kitchen will turn into my eating room. It’s the proper 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 us a lot thought, and a lot time, and I’m feeling virtually 100% assured that that is what’s going to find yourself with. In truth, I really feel so assured that I’m able to get began instantly! Which brings up the problem of timeline.
The primary precedence is to maneuver into the larger bed room. So with that aim in thoughts, we have to get that bed room prepared. Which means 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 have to be moved additionally.
As soon as that’s accomplished, 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 and 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 after we will begin on the brand new kitchen, however that’s the order wherein we need to do issues. And Matt has additionally mentioned that he desires 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 folks 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 rest room. And I additionally hoped to do the makeover on the hallway rest room earlier than getting began on the foremost stuff. But when I don’t get to the hallway rest room earlier than the bed room, I do a minimum of need to end up within the studio within the studio rest room earlier than shifting onto one thing else.
That’s the plan! During the last week, I’ve gone from indignant, to unhappy, to dissatisfied, to intrigued, too excited, to utterly giddy. 🤣 It’s been a heckuva week!
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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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