Throughout a part of 2019 and 2020, Matt and I moved our mattress into the breakfast room quickly whereas I labored on and completed the visitor bed room. I completed that room in 2020, and we’ve been utilizing that as our bed room ever since.
Yesterday, as I used to be about to begin engaged on the hallway flooring, I acquired to interested by how a lot simpler it could be to do all the flooring on this space of the home — hallway, closet/laundry room (aka, the present visitor bed room), and our new bed room — .
I had been planning on putting in the flooring within the hallway and bed room first, which would come with renting the massive sander after which staining and sealing these flooring. After which as soon as these had been executed, I used to be going to do all the large tasks within the bed room — wainscoting, wallpaper, trim — after which we may transfer into that room whereas I end up the ornamental elements.
As soon as that room was executed, then I’d begin on the closet/laundry room. That room can be getting new flooring and subfloor, together with vapor barrier and insulation, so meaning I’d must lease the massive sander as soon as once more. That doesn’t seem to be essentially the most environment friendly course of. I do know I’m typically not a “work smarter, not more durable” form of individual. I have a tendency to love my tasks as difficult and convoluted as attainable. 😀 However even to me, this plan was beginning to appear overly difficult.
Plus, it simply appeared prefer it was about to get actually uncomfortable for Matt to be spending most of his days within the midst of fixed development, noise, and mud. So we talked about it, and determined that we’re going to maneuver our mattress again into the breakfast room once more in order that I can do all the flooring on this complete space . Meaning renting the massive sander simply as soon as. Meaning doing a full clear up after sanding simply as soon as. Meaning doing all the staining and sealing on the identical time. That makes a lot extra sense to me.
And better of all, that implies that I can set up the flooring straight by way of from the music room cased opening (i.e., the soon-to-be new doorway into our bed room suite) all through to the far wall of the bed room all at one time, together with the closet and laundry space.
That implies that the flooring from the hallway into the closet/laundry space might be steady as soon as once more. After we purchased the home, all the hardwood flooring was steady all through. However after I needed to redo the hallway flooring after the unlucky flooding incident (you may examine that right here), I didn’t need to must feather in boards to make the flooring steady into that room, so I ended up chopping the ground boards within the doorway straight after which including two perpendicular boards as a transition strip.
In the long run, that labored out simply fantastic, particularly since I ended up portray the ground within the visitor bed room. So with the hallway ground being stained and the bed room ground being painted, there was no continuity anyway. I can’t discover any photos of the 2 flooring assembly within the hallway after each had been executed, however you may think about how this painted ground met the stained ground within the doorway with a type of transition items being painted, and the opposite transition piece being stained. It actually did look good. I used to be happy with it.
However with this room turning into the closet and laundry space, I don’t plan on having a painted ground anymore. And with this ground and subfloor being changed, I now have the chance to put off these transition items and have one steady ground once more, similar to it was once we purchased the home. These little particulars excite me. However it may solely occur if I do all the flooring on the identical time.
It simply so occurs that my contractor is on the market subsequent week to begin on this room — eradicating the ground and subfloor, vapor barrier, insulation, new subfloor, and likewise doing the plumbing and electrical for the washer and dryer. He can begin Monday, in order that implies that I’m really going to have a VERY busy subsequent few days. I’ll nonetheless find time for household and rest tomorrow, however at present and this weekend, it’s full steam forward.
I began yesterday by clearing out the breakfast room. That’s the place the flooring for this finish of the home has been saved ever since I purchased it.
So I needed to get these moved to the opposite finish of the home. I nonetheless have about 4 bins left to maneuver. Then I’ve to get the chairs out of there and saved someplace. As soon as the room is cleared out, I can transfer our mattress (and Matt) into the breakfast room.
Then I’ve to filter the remainder of the bed room. I’ve so as to add non permanent storage within the sunroom for my garments and footwear. I’ve to maneuver out the remainder of the furnishings. After which I have to take out the closets. I need these taken out in a method that the plywood might be salvaged and reused, so I need to do this myself.
And all of this must be executed earlier than Monday. 😀 So at present and this weekend might be busy and aggravating, however I feel it’ll be value it in the long term. As soon as the flooring are executed, I’m nonetheless going to concentrate on our bed room first earlier than I flip my focus to the closet/laundry space. However the great point is that by that point, the hookups for the washer and dryer might be on this room, so I can go forward and a minimum of get these moved into their new residence. That’s fairly thrilling to me! As soon as they’re in there, it’ll give me a greater thought of how every part else will match into the room.
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 possibly can study extra about me right here.
