Yesterday, I shared my new plan for our future new kitchen. It’s a reasonably drastic change of plans, however the extra I give it some thought, the extra excited I get about it. When you missed that, you’ll be able to examine it right here. The brand new plan appears a lot extra manageable than the earlier bigger, grander plan.
However among the finest issues about this new plan is that it means I’ll preserve the studio half lavatory. With the earlier plan, this room had been slated for demolition sooner or later. When that call was made, I closed the door on this room (actually) and by no means appeared again. The door on this room has been closed and the room forgotten for nicely over a yr now. Actually, I simply appeared again on the weblog, and I can’t see the place I’ve posted something in regards to the lavatory after November 2023. That’s pushing two years.
I do know a few of you may be questioning why I’d shut the door and never look again on a half lavatory. In spite of everything, even a half lavatory that isn’t totally embellished and completed may be helpful, proper? Properly, no. This lavatory requires a pump for the bathroom and sink, and that pump stopped working way back. And since this lavatory was on the chopping block, and I had deliberate to show it right into a walk-through pantry from the longer term new kitchen to the again doorways of the studio that result in the carport, I had no intention of spending the cash required to restore or change the pump. So I closed the door to the room and deliberate to by no means return till I used to be able to get began on the brand new kitchen and walk-through pantry.
So yesterday, for the primary time in no less than 18 months, I made a decision to open the door and see precisely how I had left it. It wasn’t fairly as dangerous as I had remembered it, nevertheless it’s not nice, both.
However after some time, I grew bored with the partitions. And once I began engaged on my studio in 2023, I made a decision that the lavatory wanted a makeover as nicely. That’s once I began taking off the wall tile and arising with a brand new plan for the partitions.
And that is so far as I received earlier than I made a decision to go a distinct route with the operate of this room altogether.
However now, the plan is to maintain the operate of the room the identical and end it. And I’ve to say, I’m type of relieved about that. I actually appreciated having a working, usable lavatory on this aspect of the home.
The room is a large number, and it’s been forgotten so lengthy that there are cobwebs in right here. However I don’t assume it will take lengthy in any respect to complete it. The toughest elements — the crown molding, door trim, window trim, wainscoting, and self-importance — are all already in place.
So at this level, I’m taking a look at a really primary makeover, not a transform.
Clearly, the primary order of enterprise must be getting this pump mounted or changed. With out a working pump, this lavatory isn’t purposeful in any respect.
After which I can end up with the partitions and few ornamental touches. I feel will probably be a relative fast mission as quickly as I get a plan in place.
Once I began engaged on the studio, I had a plan to maintain this lavatory actually colourful and enjoyable in step with the colours within the studio. I even designed a wallpaper for the partitions.
However with the brand new plan, I don’t assume I’ll be utilizing this wallpaper anymore. The brand new plan is to make this lavatory the official visitor lavatory. That can enable me to utterly end the bed room suite, together with turning the hallway lavatory right into a much-needed storage room for Matt’s tools. And it’ll enable us to get a brand new sizzling water heater which can go in that storage closet as nicely. The new water heater is the final remaining mounted merchandise within the sunroom that’s stopping us from tearing down the sunroom.
So with this lavatory turning into our official visitor lavatory (and the one visitor lavatory we’ll have for an extended whereas), I don’t really need it to be a loopy, psychedelic, seizure-inducing room. So long as we had that hallway lavatory out there for friends, I used to be just about the one one that ever used this half lavatory. So I may make it as loopy and colourful as I wished to. However now that it’s going to have a bigger “viewers”, I would like it to be a extra usually pleasing room that isn’t lined in loopy shade.
Don’t get me mistaken. There will probably be shade. And, in spite of everything, it’s nonetheless positioned inside my studio, which is a colourful feast for the eyes. Lest you overlook…
So friends must stroll via this to get to the lavatory. However I’m okay with that. This room, greater than some other in our home, is my color-loving character in room kind.
And everybody who has seen my studio in individual has been very complimentary about it. Even when they wouldn’t need it in their very own houses, individuals appear to take pleasure in taking a look at it in our home.
And I’m happy to report that to date, my studio hasn’t induced a seizure in a single single visitor. In order that’s good. I feel individuals can deal with strolling via my studio to get to a rest room.
However I wish to provide you with a calmer and extra usually pleasing plan for the lavatory. I may even carry the inexperienced from the again entry partitions onto the highest parts of the lavatory partitions.
Inexperienced is a usually pleasing shade. It could give me shade, and clearly, it’s a shade I like since I selected it for the partitions of the again entry. I already know that it really works nicely with the studio. And it will be comparatively fast and simple to do some drywall restore, paint the partitions, add some ornamental touches, and be carried out with it.
So proper now, the plan of motion is that this. I’m going to complete up the lobby and bed room. These areas are precedence #1 proper now. (I’m nonetheless engaged on the partitions within the lobby.) As quickly as these two areas are carried out, I’m going to complete this studio half lavatory. When it’s completed, I’m going to return and switch the hallway lavatory right into a storage closet in order that I can get our bed room suite utterly completed with no tasks left undone. After which, as soon as the bed room suite is 100% completed, I’ll begin on my workshop.
It’s a slight change of plan from earlier than, however not too huge. And this fashion, we’ll have a totally completed bed room suite with no awkward “center stage” of getting a visitor lavatory inside our main bedroom suite. I’m very excited in regards to the concept of it being utterly completed with no awkward in between phases, and no tasks left hanging over my head that I’ve to return and handle in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform 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 may be taught extra about me right here.
