I’m so grateful for all the enter this week on the main points of our bed room. I’m more than happy to inform y’all that after studying all your 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 an excellent observe. The dangerous has to do with the hallway flooring. Whereas the contractor was right here yesterday morning, I requested him concerning the ground beneath the hallway cupboard.
He’s the one who took out the ground and subfloor after the toilet and hallway flooded (you may examine that terrible scenario right 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 beneath the cupboard received’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 beneath the cupboard.
I requested him if he would be capable of take away the minimize items of flooring and feather in new items of flooring, and he laughed a little bit and mentioned no. I get it. I’ve performed that earlier than, and it’s not simple. Making repairs to tongue-and-groove hardwood flooring the place particular outdated flooring boards have to be eliminated with out destroying those round them after which new ones have to be feathered in to mix in with the outdated boards, is a job greatest left to execs. I’m not saying it’s not possible for a DIYer to do it. Once more, I’ve performed it earlier than, however I’ve by no means performed it on such a big space because the one which sits beneath that hallway cupboard.
He mentioned, in his opinion, it might be simpler and quicker to only change all the flooring within the hallway. And you understand what? I had already been pondering that, so it was fascinating 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 might take me to fastidiously take away these minimize ground boards with out damaging the remaining and feather within the new boards, I actually do assume it might be simpler, quicker, and much much less irritating to only change all of it. Putting in new flooring is very easy, easy, and much much less irritating than making an attempt to restore flooring. If we have been speaking a few huge room, that might be a distinct story. However this can be a fairly small hallway, so I feel that he is likely to be proper. I’ll reassess after I take away the cupboard.
Now on to the nice. I’ve determined to open up the doorway into the bed room utterly. It’ll be opened up all the best way to the facet partitions, and all the best way to the ceiling.
Not solely will there not be a door there, however there can be no cased opening, both. He confirmed that there’s nothing there that’s load-bearing, in order that needs to be considerably easy. The framing for the pocket door makes it a little bit more difficult than if it have been an everyday door, but it surely’ll nonetheless work out simply superb.
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 an excellent factor to me, however it might even be difficult since, for now, I’d must wallpaper across the toilet doorways, after which later, I’d must 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? Properly, somebody commented on yesterday’s publish and left a hyperlink to this DIY archway that these individuals 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 every other archways, and we don’t have any plans so as to add every 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 feel would complement the trim work that I’ve already performed in our house. So principally, 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 scenario, I’ll be including that therapy to the ceiling as effectively. Think about one thing just like this arched doorway from Hambels Get Actual, however with out the arch within the ceiling…
That can give the 2 areas a visible separation whereas including about ten inches of width to the doorway of the bed room. It’s 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 can 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 may study extra about me right here.
