Alright, y’all. You’ve already been warned that should you don’t like enjoying round with ground plans and contemplating all fo the chances, you would possibly need to simply take a break from the weblog and test again in every week or so. By then, I’ll in all probability have the entire choices labored out, my studio completed, and be transferring on to tasks for our new bed room. Additionally, my workshop construct is scheduled for subsequent Wednesday and Thursday. Woohoo!
However for now, I nonetheless have issues to debate about our ground plan and the chances. This previous weekend, I sat down with Matt and simply laid all of it out on the desk for him. I wished him to know the entire prospects and the choices that wanted to be made, and provides him a chance to ask any and all questions. I wished to see if he had any opinions in any respect in regards to the route of our home, how every space may and could be used, and see if he noticed any accessibility points with any potential plans or prospects.
At first, it didn’t seem to be he had any sturdy opinions. However after speaking for a bit, he truly did begin to specific some sturdy opinions about a few issues. I used to be shocked! The 2 issues he expressed sturdy opinions about had been (1) the way to use the visitor bed room as soon as we’re moved out of it and into our new bed room, and (2) the place to place our new exercise space.
So far as the brand new exercise space, Matt needs to construct a small room behind our toilet. And relating to the visitor bed room, he actually likes the thought of it being a combo laundry room and closet. So right here’s what we’re …
The room behind the lavatory wouldn’t should be large. It simply must accommodate just a few items of train tools, however I’d additionally prefer it to be crammed with home windows like slightly sunroom. I really like this concept as a result of it might take away the outside door from our toilet. I used to be prepared to reside with that exterior door within the toilet if I needed to, nevertheless it does really feel type of awkward to have an exterior door within the toilet. But when we add on slightly sunroom/exercise room, that room will clearly have the outside door, and the door within the toilet will probably be a pocket door that matches the pocket door into the bed room, which was the plan all alongside.
After which, so far as the laundry room and closet, he needs all of it saved as one massive room. I mentioned the opportunity of constructing a wall and separating it right into a closet space on the entrance of the home, accessible from the bed room, and turning the again half of the room right into a laundry room, accessible from the hallway. He didn’t like that in any respect. He needs all of it one massive room, which is ok with me. Since he has a powerful opinion about it, and I may have been pleased with it both approach, we’ll preserve it one massive room.
What he didn’t have a powerful opinion (or any enter) about is the hallway toilet. So I’m nonetheless considering what to do about that. However as you may see on the ground plan above, I’m severely contemplating eradicating that rest room, and increasing the studio toilet in order that it’s a visitor toilet that takes up among the present pantry space. That would go away me with a a lot bigger visitor toilet, and a a lot smaller (however nonetheless an excellent measurement) pantry.
I don’t know that that may be the precise association of that rest room, however it might be a full toilet to incorporate a bathe and/or a bath. That approach, my studio may simply be used as a visitor bed room if and when wanted, and our visitor(s) may have a non-public full toilet.
And that would go away the present hallway toilet free for us to make use of as storage. That will be very useful as a result of the one factor I’m nonetheless lacking is storage for Matt’s bathe wheelchair, Hoyer raise, and so on. That small toilet space could be excellent for that. And if we try this, it might additionally flip that complete aspect of the home previous the cased opening within the music room right into a main bedroom. I really like that concept.
So the plans are coming alongside. I used to be so glad to have Matt’s enter. No less than two choices had been made a lot simpler for me understanding that he truly did have a powerful opinion about them. Getting these opinions out of him wasn’t straightforward, and it took fairly a little bit of coaxing, however as soon as he made his choices, he was very set on them. I’m very pleased with these choices, and if I can simply get the lavatory state of affairs settled in my thoughts, we’ll have an entire and finalized plan.
UDPATE: Only a phrase about turning our hallway toilet right into a laundry room…
I did think about this feature, however there are a number of causes I made a decision to not go this route. When it comes proper all the way down to it, I don’t see any profit in any respect (neither for me, nor for a future proprietor) in that possibility.
First, I really like the thought of my laundry room being in a giant, spacious room, moderately than tucked away in a tiny room. Second, I don’t love seeing Matt’s tools sitting round when it’s not in use. If given an possibility, I’d moderately not have it in my fairly closet space or my fairly laundry room. And since there’s a small room out there the place it might be saved when not in use, it simply is smart to me.
So it’s undoubtedly helpful for me to place the laundry room within the bed room, and switch the hallway toilet right into a storage space. So is there any profit to a future proprietor for me to show the hallway toilet right into a laundry room? Probably not.
If I flip the hallway toilet right into a laundry room, and the bed room into an enormous closet/storage space, after which a future proprietor needs to show that closet/storage space again right into a visitor bed room, that leaves a visitor bed room with no conveniently accessible toilet. So their solely possibility could be to show that laundry room again right into a visitor toilet. After which they’ll need to discover a new place for a laundry room.
So the state of affairs for a future proprietor is identical no matter what I do now. If I put the laundry the place I would like it (within the massive room) and switch the small toilet right into a storage room, after which a future proprietor needs to show that room again right into a visitor bed room, they’ve to show the storage room again into a toilet and discover a place for a laundry room. If I flip the lavatory right into a laundry room and the bed room right into a closet/storage space, and a future proprietor needs that room to be a visitor bed room, they’ve to show the laundry room again right into a visitor bed room and discover a place for a laundry room. They’re in the identical state of affairs both approach I’m going. No matter what I do now, if they need that giant room to be a bed room, they’ll be turning the small room again into a toilet, and having to discover a new place for a laundry room. So I’d moderately make the choice that I favor for my very own profit whereas this home is ours. And my alternative could be the large laundry room/closet combo, and tucking Matt’s tools away into it’s personal small storage space.
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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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