I’m so grateful for the entire enter this week on the small print of our bed room. I’m very happy to inform y’all that after studying your entire feedback and pondering by the probabilities introduced, I’ve a really clear plan in place for the hallway and bed room. And after assembly with the contractor yesterday, I do know that my plans are literally doable.
First, I’ll begin with the dangerous in order that we are able to finish on a superb be aware. The dangerous has to do with the hallway flooring. Whereas the contractor was right here yesterday morning, I requested him in regards to the flooring below the hallway cupboard.
He’s the one who took out the ground and subfloor after the toilet and hallway flooded (you can read about that awful situation here) and changed the subfloor for me. I’m the one who put in the brand new hardwood flooring. But when I take away that cupboard (really, not if, however when), the flooring below the cupboard gained’t match the remainder of the hallway as a result of the brand new subfloor and the brand new flooring have been put in across the cupboard, not below the cupboard.
I requested him if he would be capable of take away the reduce items of flooring and feather in new items of flooring, and he laughed a bit of and stated no. I get it. I’ve finished that earlier than, and it’s not straightforward. Making repairs to tongue-and-groove hardwood flooring the place particular previous flooring boards must be eliminated with out destroying those round them after which new ones must be feathered in to mix in with the previous boards, is a process finest left to execs. I’m not saying it’s unimaginable for a DIYer to do it. Once more, I’ve finished it earlier than, however I’ve by no means finished it on such a big space because the one which sits below that hallway cupboard.
He stated, in his opinion, it will be simpler and quicker to only substitute the entire flooring within the hallway. And you understand what? I had already been pondering that, so it was attention-grabbing to listen to him (a professional, though not a hardwood flooring professional) say what I (only a DIYer) had been pondering. Contemplating the period of time it will take me to fastidiously take away these reduce flooring boards with out damaging the remainder and feather within the new boards, I actually do suppose it will be simpler, quicker, and much much less irritating to only substitute all of it. Putting in new flooring is very easy, simple, and much much less irritating than attempting to restore flooring. If we have been speaking a few huge room, that will be a unique story. However it is a fairly small hallway, so I believe that he may be proper. I’ll reassess after I take away the cupboard.
Now on to the great. I’ve determined to open up the doorway into the bed room utterly. It’ll be opened up all the best way to the aspect partitions, and all the best way to the ceiling.
Not solely will there not be a door there, however there might be no cased opening, both. He confirmed that there’s nothing there that’s load-bearing, in order that ought to be considerably simple. The framing for the pocket door makes it a bit of more difficult than if it have been an everyday door, but it surely’ll nonetheless work out simply nice.
I’ve determined that I do need the 2 areas to be visually separated, although. I wasn’t thrilled with the thought of carrying the grasscloth and wainscoting into the hallway. Not solely did that appear like an excessive amount of of a superb factor to me, however it will even be difficult since, for now, I’d need to wallpaper across the toilet doorways, after which later, I’d need to fill within the wallpaper as soon as that doorway is drywalled over. I didn’t love that concept.
So how will I separate the 2 areas? Effectively, somebody commented on yesterday’s put up and left a hyperlink to this DIY archway that these folks added to their previously nondescript hallway.
I don’t need an archway to our bed room as a result of, to me, that appears misplaced in our home. We don’t have some other archways, and we don’t have any plans so as to add some other archways. So one random archway would appear odd to me.
However that did begin the wheels turning, and I discovered some comparable concepts on Pinterest that I believe would complement the trim work that I’ve already finished in our dwelling. So mainly, in that little “hallway” entrance into the bed room, I’ll be doing a little model of the partitions that I did within the water closet space of our toilet…
However on this state of affairs, I’ll be including that therapy to the ceiling as properly. Think about one thing just like this arched doorway from Hambels Get Real, however with out the arch within the ceiling…
That may give the 2 areas a visible separation whereas including about ten inches of width to the doorway of the bed room. It is going to open up the 2 areas to one another, whereas not requiring me to hold the grasscloth and wainscoting into the hallway. And the trim might be cohesive with different areas of the home. I’m so excited to have a plan in place! Now I really feel like I can get began.
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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