A Visitor Toilet Off Of The Kitchen? (Is That Unusual?)

For those who’re the kind of one who doesn’t like enjoying round with flooring plans and contemplating all (and I do imply aaaalllllllllll) of the probabilities, these subsequent few weeks could drive you completely loopy. Chances are you’ll need to take a look at for some time and verify again in a couple of weeks to see if I’m previous this section and have moved on to truly implementing a plan.

As a result of proper now, all I can do is consider the probabilities. My mind is not going to cease. I get up within the morning excited about prospects. I take into account all of them day as I’m working. My mother and I talked about them at lunch yesterday. I talked about them with pals final night time. I am going to mattress at night time excited about them.

I get so enthusiastic about attempting out completely different layouts, and excited about the completely different strategies that individuals give me. And y’all gave me an entire lot to consider on Monday’s post. And there was one suggestion specifically that caught my consideration, and I haven’t been capable of get it out of my thoughts. The suggestion was to maneuver the visitor rest room into the pantry space.

I’m positive sooner or later, another person in all probability prompt this, and I dismissed it instantly as a result of, once more, that flooring is a concrete slab basis. So doing something in there that requires plumbing can be value extra, take longer, and be a giant disruption to our lives. So it’s very doable that somebody talked about it earlier than, and I wrote it off with none thought. I can’t even clarify why I’ll write off a suggestion time and again, after which it takes that one final time of somebody suggesting it, and I determine to think about it. Nobody can clarify how my thoughts works, least of all me. 😀

However once I learn this suggestion, I made a decision to attempt it out. I wasn’t even positive what issues (if any) that change would remedy, however the thought intrigued me, so I gave it a go. I made a decision instantly that it must be a full rest room. If somebody ever wanted to stick with Matt, I might have a sleeper couch within the TV room, however I’d hate for them to have to make use of our rest room. So this visitor rest room would want to have a bathe.

Additionally, it will have to be accessible through the kitchen as a result of I don’t need so many doorways within the TV room. I want no less than one stable, uninterrupted wall. Plus, it’s simply bizarre for company to have to make use of a rest room that’s accessible by a door proper there within the space the place individuals are gathered. You often need it to be faraway from the principle room a little bit bit, no less than. That’s why they’re often off of a hallway.

So my query is that this. How bizarre is it to have a visitor rest room off of the kitchen? I do know I’ve seen it earlier than, however they’re primarily powder bogs. And even at that, I don’t understand how frequent that’s. So that you inform me. Is it unusual to have a rest room off of a kitchen?

I’ve simply by no means lived in a house with a rest room off of the kitchen, so I’m unsure how I really feel about that. What I do love about that concept is that it will get the entire “public” areas of the home over on one aspect. It is sensible to have the visitor rest room nearer to the TV room, the eating room, and the kitchen. And I additionally love that with the toilet moved, I’d have these areas freed as much as prepare how I want them to be organized.

The areas I’m attempting to work into this flooring plan are (1) visitor rest room, (2) laundry room, (3) a lot of closet house, (4) a exercise space. And what I like in regards to the thought of shifting the visitor rest room out of its present location and shifting it nearer to the opposite “public” areas of the home is that it will mainly make all of this space in pink the main bedroom. None of this is able to be “public” anymore. This complete finish of the home could be main bedroom for me to rearrange in the way in which that most accurately fits us. That would depart the laundry room, a lot of closet house, and a exercise space that I’d want to suit into these areas.

And if it helps, I might even presumably take the wall down between the present hallway and hallway rest room to make a extra open space in the main bedroom entrance.

I’m simply brainstorming right here, so I don’t know if that’s doable. I’d should rise up into the attic and see if that’s a load-bearing wall. I form of suppose it’s, so I don’t know what must be finished to be able to open that up utterly. However it positive would make a pleasant exercise space. And it will make sense to have it there as a part of the main bedroom.

However my principal query for right this moment is in regards to the placement of the visitor rest room off of the kitchen. Once more, I do know I’ve seen powder baths off of kitchens earlier than. Do you suppose that’s unusual? Have you ever had a home with that association earlier than? Inform me your ideas on that.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance 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.