Yesterday, I bought the entire trim and wainscoting painted within the bed room lobby, and with every new step accomplished, I get an increasing number of enthusiastic about how that is going to look when it’s all completed. There’s nothing like getting a contemporary coat of paint on trim and partitions in an space that has appeared fairly messy and busy for thus lengthy.
I nonetheless didn’t have time to get the higher partitions painted, and I additionally discovered that I didn’t have any ceiling paint readily available. I didn’t wish to take trip to make a visit to Residence Depot for ceiling paint, so I simply targeted on ending up the trim and wainscoting.
What’s attention-grabbing is that in particular person, the trim and waincoting look so good and completed. However as I used to be enhancing these photos, some areas of the wainscoting seem like they’ll want one other coat of paint. *Sigh* Oh properly. Not less than the exhausting half is completed with the trim and wainscoting. Getting yet another coat of paint on these areas that present up within the photos wont’ be an enormous deal in any respect.
These huge areas inside the image body molding undoubtedly look just a little streaky within the pictures. It’s so attention-grabbing how photos present issues that don’t present up when it in particular person. So these inside areas will definitely want one other coat of paint. However no less than you possibly can see the colour now, and you may simply think about the way it will look with the teal grasscloth on the highest elements of the partitions.
I nonetheless want to color the toilet (storage room) doorways. You’ll be able to see that I bought the mud cleaned off of two/3 of the doorways after which bought sidetracked. 🤣 That’s the story of my life.
I simply love how this doorway into the closet appears. I can simply think about the way it will look as soon as the grasscloth is up. I believe it is going to be stunning.
I took a couple of wide-angle pictures of the lobby in order that you could possibly get a greater view of the entire space. Remember that the wide-angle setting makes the realm look quite a bit larger than it really is.
However thus far, I’m very enthusiastic about all of my choices — the wainscoting, the ground coloration, the walk-in closet doorway.
I’m nonetheless undecided on the sunshine for the lobby. In previous weeks, I had toyed with the thought of eradicating the ceiling gentle altogether and simply utilizing wall sconces, however I don’t suppose these would offer sufficient gentle. Then I thought of eradicating the ceiling gentle and simply changing it with the identical flush-mount gentle that I’ve all through the closet and within the bed room. However I’m undecided if I like that concept, both. I imply, that is the lobby to our bed room suite. That is the grand entrance, and I now suppose that it wants a stupendous ceiling gentle. However with 8-foot ceilings, that’s at all times a problem. I’m going to go searching and see what I can discover, although. I do know for certain that I received’t be reusing the sunshine that’s there. I like that ceiling gentle, however I’m prepared for a change.
It’s type of loopy to look again at how this small space of the home has modified and developed over time. In case you’ve forgotten, that is what this hallway space appeared like once we purchased the home…
Within the photograph above, I used to be standing within the doorway between the hallway and what’s now the music room trying straight forward, and there have been three bedrooms off of this hallway. In that photograph, the doorway on the left went to a visitor bed room that ultimately turned our residence health club and can now be our bed room. The doorway on the precise went to the unique main bedroom that ultimately turned our huge accessible toilet. And the doorway to the third bed room, which is now my walk-in closet and laundry room combo, is simply out of sight on the far left.
Once I began on this space the primary time, no partitions had been moved, and all three bedrooms stayed intact. I did widen the doorways to the toilet on the wall on the precise and added doorways that opened like French doorways. After which I added a built-in cupboard the place there had been a closet. The door to the visitor bed room (now the walk-in closet and laundry room) nonetheless remained obscured beside the built-in cupboard. However this was a fairly large hallway in its unique footprint.
After which once we turned the unique main bedroom into our new toilet, that’s once we moved the wall in in direction of the hallway and closed up that doorway to the hallway to sq. up that room in order that it may grow to be the toilet. That left us with two bed room doorways off of the hallway — the visitor bed room on the left (nonetheless obscured by that cupboard) and the doorway to the room that turned the house health club on the precise.
And now the entire space is sort of unrecognizable from what it was initially. The entire doorway and the partitions surrounding it had been faraway from the room that was the house health club, and that shall be our bed room. The hallway closet was eliminated in order that the opposite doorway was not obscured, and that doorway was widened given extra top, and that bed room turned the walk-in closet and laundry space.
This can be a small space, however it’s seen an entire lot of adjustments over time. It has come a really great distance from the way it began.
Anyway, these are some fairly important adjustments for such a small space. And I couldn’t be happier with the entire design and plan for this entire space. It is probably not what we initially supposed for these areas of the home, however I believe issues labored out even higher than what we had deliberate.
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