As I discussed yesterday, I’m virtually completed with our bed room. As quickly as I get these previous couple of initiatives achieved, that can imply that almost all of our bed room suite will probably be completed — the lobby, my walk-in closet and laundry space, the bed room, and our toilet. However that leaves another space that must be completed earlier than our entire bed room suite is definitely completed. I’ll nonetheless want to complete the storage room.
The world marked “storage room” on the ground plan above is the hallway toilet. Ever since we moved into this home, this room has been our visitor toilet. However now that it’s positioned inside our bed room suite, it is a very unusual place to have a visitor toilet. So the plan is to show this room right into a much-needed storage room. For almost all of our time right here, this room appeared like this…
After which I had plans for a small makeover on this room. We had the remnant of quartz that was leftover from our grasp toilet minimize and put in in right here. After which I used to be going so as to add wallpaper and make a brand new bathe curtain. I by no means received to these final two initiatives (and I’m grateful for that now) earlier than we determined to show this entire space of our home right into a master suite suite. So for the final year-and-a-half or so, this toilet has been on this in-between state. It has the brand new quartz countertop on the sink space, nevertheless it nonetheless has the wooden countertop (not seen on this picture) on the cupboard reverse the sink. I by no means put the bathe curtain again up, so there’s solely a bathe curtain liner. And I poached the resin artwork to make use of in my studio some time again. So whereas it’s not horrible, it hasn’t appeared completed in fairly a while now.
However once more, I’m glad that I didn’t waste my time ending up that room (and particularly putting in wallpaper) as a result of now the plan is to show this room right into a storage room. It would in all probability the the least thrilling venture I do that 12 months (with the attainable exception of turning our ugly sunroom into a house health club), however it is a venture that I’m very enthusiastic about. I actually daydream about this storage closet.
Matt (my husband who has M.S.) has three items of apparatus that we use for his numerous wants — an influence wheelchair, a bathe wheelchair, and a Hoyer elevate. The complete time we’ve been in our home, we’ve by no means had a spot to retailer any of his gear when it’s not in use. The Hoyer elevate is fairly huge, and when it’s not in use, it feels in the way in which. The bathe wheelchair stays within the bathe, which feels intrusive when he’s not truly utilizing it. And when he’s not utilizing his wheelchair, it simply stays within the music room.
So the concept of getting an precise room to retailer these items of apparatus when he’s not utilizing them is extremely thrilling to me. I’ve dreamed of this for a very long time, and now it feels very shut and inside attain. So whereas I’m ending up the bed room, and passing by the hallway toilet a number of instances a day, I’ve been imagining, dreaming, and planning simply how this storage room would look and performance.
It’s not a giant room, however I believe it will likely be loads huge for the whole lot I need in there. Along with storing his gear, I need a variety of cabinets and basic storage. Plus, our new sizzling water heater will go in there. I believe I’ve selected an electrical tankless sizzling water heater, so it is going to go on the wall to unlock ground house.
However the different day, I had a thought. This room already has plumbing because it’s a toilet. So why not add a utility sink to the room as effectively? I believe it might actually be helpful to have a utility sink, and this looks as if the right place to place one. I think about one thing like this stainless-steel sink. This one is 20″ deep and 36″ large.
I’m imagining that the room will probably be organized one thing like this…
As soon as the whole lot is out of the room, I’ll be capable of get a greater thought of simply how a lot house Matt’s gear will take up, after which I can plan round these. However even within the gear storage space, there will probably be loads of room above his gear for cabinets. The underside line is that I need to maximize this space for as a lot storage as attainable. Proper now, I retailer numerous issues within the sunroom that may’t keep there, so I have to assume via how I’ll use this a lot smaller house to retailer these objects — objects just like the vacuum, ground mop, carpet cleaner, and so forth. I have to account for all of these objects and guarantee that I’ve devoted storage for these.
Anyway, I nonetheless want to complete the bed room, after which I want to complete the studio toilet earlier than I may even take into consideration beginning on this storage room. However I’m so enthusiastic about this room, so I need to have a strong plan in place lengthy earlier than I’m prepared to start out on it.
I don’t know but if I’m going to attempt to make it look fairly or if I’ll simply make it strictly utilitarian. If I make it fairly, that will be only for me since I’m the one one who will see it. It’s not like friends will probably be going into that storage room (until I present it to them). However I like for issues to look fairly, even when it’s only for me. But it surely’s the utilitarian use of the house that I’m essentially the most enthusiastic about.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance 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’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
