Y’all have my head completely spinning along with your feedback on yesterday’s put up. However it’s not the dangerous sort of overwhelming head spinning that makes me need to bury my head within the sand. It’s the great sort of thrilling head spinning that makes me need to spend hours and hours at my laptop attempting out each risk y’all instructed. ? So I needed to go over among the recurring themes in your recommendations and feedback.
First, let me say that I used to be completely and fully shocked on the response to my desirous to eradicate an enormous walk-in closet in the main bedroom. I used to be positive I’d get nothing however pushback on that concept, and I used to be blown away that the response was fairly the other. Whereas there have been a number of individuals who stated they might by no means, ever do away with their large walk-in closets, the overwhelming majority of individuals stated they might (or do, or plan to) stay completely comfortably with a wall stuffed with IKEA Pax wardrobes, or an ordinary non-walk-in, large, reach-in closet with good group.
So after studying your whole feedback and considering how I need our bed room to look and performance, I’ve determined to do a whole wall of Pax wardrobes on the shared wall with the grasp rest room.
The slender part is 40 inches large, and the world on the opposite facet of the lavatory door is 140 inches large. That’s 15 ft of floor-to-ceiling closet space for storing. For comparability (as a result of a lot of you referenced it), John & Sherry’s Pax wardrobe wall is just below 9 ft large. So with my newfound love of IKEA cupboards, I’m so unbelievably enthusiastic about this concept. I’ll get a ton of storage with out having to sacrifice a lot sq. footage of house required by a big walk-in closet. And as I stated yesterday, I completely love a complete wall of built-in cupboards. I believe it’ll look superb, and it’ll operate very nicely.
About that laundry room…
A lot of you shared the identical thought concerning the laundry room placement — that I ought to transfer it in order that it’s proper in opposition to the again wall of the hallway rest room. First, let me present you ways I had it organized, after which clarify why. That is the position that I had proposed. (Ignore the eating desk within the nook. I’m simply speaking concerning the laundry room for now)…
Since so a lot of you instructed it, I did contemplate putting the laundry room in opposition to the again wall of the hallway rest room. I performed round with that concept for fairly a very long time, however I simply couldn’t make it work. The explanation I’ve an issue with it’s as a result of then I’m simply left with a doorway straight from the household room into the main bedroom. That appears unusual to me. Very unusual. No less than with the laundry room the place I positioned it, it creates a hallway that results in the main bedroom, which provides a sense of separation between the 2 areas. With out that hallway, it’s only a door on a wall main from the household room to the main bedroom.
Does that not really feel unusual to anybody else? To me it’s as unusual as having a visitor rest room straight off of a household room. These issues are typically tucked away and accessible through a hallway. It’s not likely normal (no less than to my information) to search out these “personal” rooms positioned excellent off of a household room and solely separated by a wall with a doorway. It appears bizarre to me.
So I’m not likely on board with transferring the laundry room in order that it’s proper up in opposition to the again wall of the hallway rest room until I can discover one other strategy to create a little bit of a separation between the household room and the main bedroom.
I did come throughout this image the place they created a little bit hallway really feel simply utilizing built-in bookcases and cupboards. I like how this seems…
However I do want some form of separation, whether or not it’s a hallway created by a laundry room (or perhaps a laundry closet), or a “hallway” sort of really feel created by built-ins like within the photograph above. I simply merely can not have a main bedroom proper off of a household room solely separated by a wall with a door in it.
So until I can provide you with one other strategy to create that separation, I nonetheless actually like the thought of placing the laundry room the place I had it, and creating that little nook behind it. BUT…I do agree with most of you that the nook received’t be sufficiently big for a eating desk. That nook can be higher fitted to one thing like a studying space. I envision some cozy chairs surrounded by bookcases full of books. Or I might even envision a sport desk in that space. The chances are countless. However no matter I exploit it for, it might look intentional, and never like an afterthought. I imply, that’s an excellent quantity of house for use for one thing superb! (By no means thoughts that bizarre window placement. I dragged it over there by the door after which forgot about it.)
With that space dominated out for a eating desk, I don’t see that there’s every other house for a eating desk in that room. If I create a passthrough from the kitchen to the household room like I had deliberate (which I nonetheless need to do), and put the eating desk simply on the opposite facet of that passthrough, then it begins encroaching on the house obtainable for the household room.
So what am I contemplating for the eating room? I can’t even consider I’m about to say this. However…the lounge.
Yep, we’ve come full circle. I’m solely simply contemplating it proper now. Nothing is ready in stone, and I’ll discuss to the architect to see if he has any higher concepts.
However a number of of you instructed it, and clearly, having been down that highway and failed miserably previously, my knee jerk response was, “Oh my gosh, NO! Not once more!” However the extra I thought of it, the extra it made full sense.
The world obtainable for a desk and chairs measures 12’10” x 10’5″, which is loads of room for a round-to-oval expandable desk. And if I would like extra room for a much bigger crowd, I might flip the desk and increase it into the “entryway” house. And it’s completely located proper by the kitchen. It’s additionally in an space that doesn’t create any issues for Matt getting by way of the home. I imply, it actually is ideal.
However I’ve tried this earlier than, proper? And I failed miserably, proper? So why would it not be completely different this time?
I gave this a lot thought yesterday, and it dawned on me that the explanation it didn’t work final time had nothing to do with the operate of the room. My failure wasn’t as a result of I used to be attempting to show it right into a eating room. The eating room facet of the plan wasn’t the issue in any respect.
The issue was that that was after I was attempting to brighten my house round a inexperienced and gold kitchen.
Actually NOTHING I did again then labored. What number of completely different iterations did that room undergo as a front room that didn’t work out? Many! It wasn’t simply the eating room concept that failed. It was a number of front room concepts that failed as nicely.
I couldn’t even get any of my front room concepts to work till I modified the kitchen cupboards to teal, discovered my shade palette (which took numerous trial and error), and located the fitting rug (and the fitting rug dimension) to encourage me. That’s when all of the items began falling collectively to create the present front room that feels so “me“.
However now I do know myself significantly better. I do know what colours I like, and what colours I don’t like. So turning this very “me” front room into a really “me” eating room at this level can be a breeze. I wouldn’t change something concerning the hearth, the curtains, the rug, or something on the entryway wall. It will simply be a matter of swapping out the chairs, couch, and occasional desk for a pleasant eating desk and chairs. And voila! I’d have a eating room. It’s undoubtedly the room that makes probably the most sense as a eating room.
I’m nonetheless simply considering, and clearly, this may’t occur till we even have a totally completed, totally furnished, and fully useable and comfy household room. Till then, I’m nonetheless simply dreaming and planning and contemplating and considering.
ETA: I needed to handle another recurring suggestion, and that was to show the music room into the eating room.
I can perceive how that may make sense, and it’s apparent from the unique ground plan that the builder meant this to be the eating room. However for us, this isn’t a risk.
The music room is probably the most excessive visitors room in your complete home. It’s the primary thoroughfare to get from the bed room facet of the home to every other space of the home. We go by way of this room numerous instances each single day.
To interrupt that movement of visitors with a giant eating desk and many eating chairs would simply be terrible. I’d personally hate it and discover it to be an enormous annoyance, however Matt (in his wheelchair) would discover it nearly not possible to get by way of that maze. Simply think about him attempting to wheel himself from the bed room, into this room with a giant desk and chairs within the center, across the desk, and into the kitchen. That will virtually be merciless.
In order that’s simply not even an concept I’d contemplate. If you’re attempting to take an previous home and redesign it for somebody who’s in a wheelchair, issues could be difficult, however I at all times have to bear in mind how he’ll get from one room to a different. And I by no means need to create boundaries for him.
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