This previous Wednesday as I used to be having lunch with my mother, she talked about that I would like extra storage in my home. A number of weeks again, I went to a girls’s retreat, and my mother stayed with Matt whereas I used to be gone. (Should you’re new round right here, Matt is my husband who has M.S. and wishes full-time care.) And anytime my mother is left to her personal units in my home, she’s going to scrub, do laundry, put issues away, and many others. 😀 It’s simply what she does, and I’m all the time grateful for her assist.
However she’s proper. I would like extra storage. In fact, I’ve plans for extra storage. I’ve already shared my tentative plan for including extra storage to the breakfast room. Proper now, the partitions on both facet of the doorway to the pantry appear like this (and the doorways to the pantry have been eliminated since this image was taken)…
Whereas I like the colour that provides to the room, that’s quite a lot of area devoted to ornamental stuff when it might be a lot extra helpful to me as space for storing because it’s proper there between the kitchen and the pantry. So I’d love so as to add cupboards proper there. In fact, the cupboards would really match the cupboards within the kitchen, and they’d appear like an extension of my kitchen cupboards, however right here’s the overall thought.
Even when I simply do decrease cupboards and depart the higher wall area free for art work, it might nonetheless add fairly a little bit of helpful storage to that area.
Proper now, since we don’t have our addition constructed but, I don’t actually produce other areas the place I can add storage. I do have areas the place I can optimize storage, although. I’ve a cupboard within the hallway that’s in determined want of group.
I bought one drawer organized a couple of month in the past, however I nonetheless must do the opposite drawer and the higher cupboards. The decrease cupboard is my cat’s litter field, so that may’t be used for storage.
However as my mother and I have been speaking, I spotted that I had been overlooking a fantastic alternative for added (closed) storage within the hallway lavatory. If we go manner again to when Matt and I purchased this home, the hallway lavatory had this closet within the nook, but it surely was hidden when the lavatory door was open. So with the intention to entry the closet, I needed to come into the lavatory, shut the lavatory door, after which open the closet.
After I reworked the lavatory, I modified the configuration utterly. I moved and widened the lavatory door, after which added double doorways that swing out into the hallway in order that this space wouldn’t be lined up by the open door. After which I eliminated the closet utterly, added a decrease cupboard on the underside…
After which added open cabinets on the highest…
Right here’s how that appears from the hallway…
I like open cabinets. I feel they’re very fairly, they make the room feel and appear greater and extra open, and I like any alternative so as to add fairly, ornamental issues to a room. However more often than not, I don’t assume that open cabinets are sensible for storage functions.
As quickly as I’m completed with the studio and the studio lavatory, I’ve been planning on making adjustments to this lavatory. I’ve already bought the wallpaper…
I’m fairly enthusiastic about it, so don’t rain on my parade. 😀 I do plan to take away the tile accent across the room and produce the wallpaper all the way down to the wainscoting, and I feel it’s going to look superb.
I’ve different plans, like new sconces (which I have already got) and a brand new mirror (which I’ve already picked out). However I had been undecided on what to do with the open shelf space. From a purely ornamental standpoint, what I actually wished to do was to take away the whole lot above the countertop, after which wrap the wallpaper round in that space to steadiness out the colour. After which, as soon as that inset space was wallpapered, I deliberate so as to add one thing like floating cabinets. However that may imply utterly redoing the boards on the ceiling (which don’t prolong previous the crown molding) in addition to redoing the crown molding.
However from a purely sensible standpoint, I feel what I must do is prolong the closed storage as much as the ceiling, utterly casting off the open cabinets altogether. So for now, that’s my plan. I must assume by the entire little particulars earlier than totally committing to this plan. For instance, what the heck do I do with this little sliver of wall?
Proper now, with the partitions painted a really gentle and impartial coloration, that sliver of wall form of disappears. However after I wallpaper the partitions with the darkish floral wallpaper, that silver of wall goes to scream for consideration if I put wallpaper on it. I feel it’ll look foolish, however I don’t know what else to do with it to make it look intentional.
So I’m going to assume by this plan. I feel I prefer it for essentially the most half, and I undoubtedly like the concept of getting extra usable closed storage in the home.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn 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 possibly can study extra about me right here.
