My mother and I learn the entire feedback on yesterday’s publish in regards to the closet doorway whereas we have been at lunch yesterday and mentioned the entire choices, after which I got here dwelling and did three totally different mockups of the concepts in order that I may truly see what they may seem like.
I used to be a bit shocked at how many individuals recommended placing a transom window above the closet doorway. It was undoubtedly the bulk opinion! A minimum of one particular person (perhaps two) recommended utilizing the nook design that I used on my closet cupboards on the doorway as nicely. A number of folks recommended I put a door on the doorway, however I dominated that out way back.
In case you’ll bear in mind, this room had a pocket door on it earlier than I began remodeling it from a bed room to a closet. Right here’s what this space seemed like after I eliminated the built-in cupboard from the hallway. So this might provide you with an thought of what it will seem like once more if I added the identical door and window trim that I take advantage of all through our home after which add a door again in there.
However the ship has sailed on the pocket door thought. A pocket door would require approach an excessive amount of development, and that’s a load-bearing wall. However once more, that’s okay with me as a result of I made a decision way back that I didn’t need a door on the closet, which is why I had that pocket door eliminated and the doorway reframed.
So again to the transom window thought. My mother and I mentioned it, and whereas we each love transom home windows, there are two points with that concept.
The primary drawback is that I solely have 8-foot ceilings, and transoms work higher with at the very least 9-foot ceilings. There’s no approach I may use my customary trim plus a transom since there’s solely somewhat sliver of wall house left between the highest of my customary trim and the crown molding, as you possibly can see right here on this photograph of the cased opening between our lounge and kitchen that I shared in yesterday’s publish.
However somebody linked an image of a very stunning cased opening with a transom, and it simply occurred to have that very same nook element design that I used on my closet cupboards. So I made a decision to do a duplicate and paste of that complete factor onto my image and see the way it appears to be like. Clearly, this can be a very tough mockup, and this isn’t the form of wainscoting I plan to make use of. But it surely provides us an thought of the general look.
However as my mother and I mentioned this feature of doing any form of transom above the closet door, right here’s what we thought. If I do one thing particular like this above the closet door, it actually turns the closet into the characteristic of the bed room suite and makes the bed room secondary. And in a bed room suite, the bed room ought to be the first focus, not the closet. No matter how a lot I really like my new closet and wish my onerous work to be seen, I nonetheless don’t need it being the characteristic.
So we thought that if I have been to do one thing like that above the closet, then I’d essentially must do the identical type of factor resulting in the bed room. Once more, that is only a fast mockup, however it would possibly look one thing like this…
I truly love that look general, however I really feel like that’s form of going backwards. I began off with two doorways main to 2 bedrooms off of this hallway.
After which the entire thought of eradicating the doorway resulting in the bed room was (1) to make the realm vast open visually, but additionally (2) to widen the opening to the bed room as a lot as attainable to make that passage wider and simpler to maneuver for Matt. In order that total doorway, plus the entire framing round it got here out.
I’ve gotten so used to this wide-open look that the thought of including a characteristic again in that separates the areas an excessive amount of from one another isn’t actually the path I need to go. Plus, including that very same characteristic to the bed room would additionally slim that passage somewhat, which defeats the aim of taking it out within the first place to make it simpler for Matt.
So then we talked about my authentic concept that I shared yesterday of retaining the doorway as excessive as attainable and working the crown molding straight throughout to cover these high 2x4s.
My mother agreed with a number of of you that that will look awkward to don’t have anything below the crown molding. So she recommended that I deliver the doorway opening down just a bit bit, even when solely three or 4 inches (in all probability the thickness of two extra 2x4s), to permit for at the very least somewhat little bit of wall house/grasscloth above the doorway after which wrap the grasscloth and wainscoting round these jambs. That will make the crown molding above the doorway make sense. And I feel that is the profitable thought.
I like that it’s easy. It doesn’t flip the closet into the characteristic of the bed room suite. And it permits me to maintain that steady circulation of the wall remedy from the lobby into the bed room. I feel, on this case, easy is the most suitable choice. And it’s very uncommon that you just’ll hear that coming from me. 😁 I’m typically a “extra is extra” form of particular person, however on this occasion, I do assume I must hold it easy. This easy possibility permits a peek into the closet with my fairly cupboards, wallpaper, mirror, and many others., whereas the uninterrupted grasscloth and wainscoting lead the attention from the lobby into the bed room. So mark the date. That is the one time I’m selecting the straightforward possibility.
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