Yesterday, I believed I had a plan. I imply, I nonetheless do have a plan, however I’m nonetheless waffling backwards and forwards over this one element. My contractor is actually headed to my home proper now. He’ll be right here any minute, and I’m nonetheless undecided on this element. Do I simply widen the door to our bed room and depart the cased opening? Or do I remove the doorway altogether and make the present hallway and bed room all one, open, steady space?
When you’re confused about these particulars, you can refer back to my post yesterday. However in the event you’re up to the mark on the 2 choices, what would you do?
I had deliberate to maneuver full steam forward on eradicating the doorway altogether and making the 2 areas one steady area, however then somebody despatched me this Instagram reel yesterday afternoon, and I couldn’t imagine how comparable this was to what I’m desirous to do in our residence.
If that embedded reel isn’t exhibiting up, you can see it here on Instagram. And in the event you’re at work and never capable of entry social media, I obtained you. 😀 Right here’s a screenshot from the reel. It’s not nice, nevertheless it’s the perfect one I might seize that exhibits the format. The double doorways speak in confidence to a small hallway/vestibule/anteroom space, and off of which are the bed room to the best, the toilet straight forward, and the bedroom-turned-closet to the left.
I used to be so excited to see that!! It’s one factor to have an concept in your thoughts and be fairly certain it would work out, nevertheless it’s altogether completely different (and affirming) to see an actual life model of your concept and KNOW that it’s going to work out nice! After all, the association of these rooms is slightly completely different from ours. In that instance, all three separate areas — bed room, lavatory, and closet — are accessible from that little hallway behind the double doorways.
That might be like us turning our hallway lavatory into our grasp lavatory. However clearly, that’s not our plan. Our plan is slightly completely different since we’ve already turned one bed room right into a grasp lavatory, and that newer, larger lavatory is accessible from the bed room. After which we’ll ultimately be closing up the doorway into the hallway lavatory.
So whereas that instance is similar to what we’re planning, it’s not an identical. The place they’ve all three doorways accessible from the little anteroom, we’ll simply have two. The very first thing that struck me about that instance was that I actually preferred the look of all three doorways being precise doorways in that instance (it’s not the doorways however the uniform trim that I like, which might additionally occur with cased openings), however they’ve that steadiness of the three doorways on three separate partitions that actually advantages from the three identically trimmed out doorways.
However seeing that did make me surprise. Does that translate to ours state of affairs? Or does it not translate since ours would simply be two doorways off of the anteroom, and the 2 aren’t balanced from the attitude of the French doorways in any respect. In different phrases, if I depart each doorways trimmed out (the closet with an precise door, however the bed room with a cased opening, and each trimmed out the identical method), each doorways are over to the left facet on perpendicular partitions from one another, and nothing is balanced with the French doorways. And the toilet doorways on the best wall will ultimately be gone, and I’ll simply have a strong wall.
After seeing that reel, I began questioning my plan to remove the bed room doorway altogether and make the 2 areas (the bed room and hallway/anteroom) one steady space. However the extra I thought of it, the extra I began to suppose that the explanation I liked the instance within the reel a lot WITH the trimmed out doorways is due to the steadiness, however we’re not going to have that. So whereas very comparable, our conditions are literally fairly completely different as nicely. Proper?
I do know some will say I’m overthinking this, however y’all needs to be used to me overthinking issues by now. It’s what I do. 😀 And I need your opinion. What would you do in our state of affairs? Would you widen the doorway to the bed room and hold the cased opening, which might add an extra 5 inches to the width of the doorway? Or would you remove the doorway/cased opening altogether and make the hallway/anteroom and the bed room all one steady space with no doorway separation, which might give us an extra 12 inches of width in that passthrough space? And simply as I wrote that final query, I see my contractor pulling up in entrance of my home. 😀
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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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