Bed room Suite Lobby – FINISHED! (Earlier than And After)

Right here’s a take a look at the completed lobby. I actually love how this space turned out. Since our bed room suite is off of the music room, I actually like having this lobby as a little bit of a buffer zone that provides some separation between the music room and our bed room. You possibly can see a peek of the bed room from the music room, however you possibly can’t see the entire thing from the doorway. So there’s nonetheless a little bit of thriller there that attracts individuals in.

And now, this doorway that was a cased opening resulting in a hallway with three bedrooms and a visitor lavatory is now the doorway resulting in our master suite suite.

To know simply how drastically completely different that is, we’ve to journey again to 2013 and keep in mind what this space seemed like once we purchased our home. On the day we closed on the home, that is what the cased opening between the music room and hallway seemed like. It was so slim and had an accordion separator between the 2 areas.

When you stepped simply inside that cased opening, there have been two very imposing closets on both aspect — one coat closet on the left and one other smaller closet (the unique coat closet) that housed the furnace consumption duct.

And straight forward had been two bed room doorways.

After which for those who stood in entrance of the bed room doorways and seemed again the opposite approach in the direction of what’s now the music room, this was the view.

After which to the aspect of the large coat closet was the door to the third bed room.

Eary on, I widened the cased opening between the music room and the hallway to make it simpler for Matt to maneuver by means of that opening.

After the primary rework, the hallway remained fairly giant. You possibly can see that the wall to the left of the visitor lavatory was lengthy sufficient to place a little bit console desk.

And after eradicating the big coat closet, I in-built these cupboards in the identical spot. You possibly can see a sliver of the doorway to the visitor bed room simply to the appropriate of the built-in cupboards.

Right here’s a take a look at that cupboard from the opposite route.

After which got here the second iteration. This happened as a result of we determined to show that bed room on the appropriate into a big wheelchair-accessible grasp lavatory. The unique hardwood flooring within the photograph beneath demonstrated simply how a lot that wall was moved ahead into the hallway.

So at the moment, we went from three bed room doorways off of the hallway to 2 bed room doorways off of the hallway.

You possibly can see right here simply how a lot area we misplaced within the hallway (which was completely high quality because it was so giant to start with). After that wall was moved ahead, there was not sufficient room for a small console desk to the left of the toilet. However since we had closed up a doorway, there was room for a bigger console desk in opposition to the wall the place that bed room door was.

That left us with the doorway to the left of the console desk that went to the room that I ultimately changed into our dwelling gymnasium, and the doorway to the appropriate of the built-in cupboard that turned our visitor bed room (i.e., the bed room that we slept in for a number of years).

After which got here our entire flooring disaster within the dwelling gymnasium that required us to have the hardwood flooring and subfloor changed. Because the work was going to be fairly intensive, we determined to show this entire space into our master suite suite. I began by eradicating the built-in cupboard from the hallway.

After which I made a decision to utterly take away the doorway to what was our dwelling gymnasium, and what would change into our new bed room. However initially, I believed I’d maintain the doorway to the visitor bed room (which might change into my walk-in closet and laundry space).

However then, I made a decision to open that doorway up, additionally. At this level, the entire space seemed so utterly completely different from the way it began out that it seems like a very completely different room altogether.

And since this entire space was now going to be our master suite suite, I added French doorways to the cased opening between the music room and the lobby.

And now, right here’s what this space seems like. (Please kindly overlook the truth that I utterly forgot to scrub the consumption vent. 😒)

The visitor lavatory will finally change into a much-needed storage room for Matt’s gear — wheelchair, bathe wheelchair, Hoyer carry — in addition to the brand new location for the recent water heater. That’s an upcoming venture.

And right here’s the view from the opposite route — from the bed room wanting again in the direction of the music room.

Right here’s the view from a little bit additional again, with me truly standing within the bed room.

That is the view from my walk-in closet doorway wanting straight forward.

I completely love this view. I simply love that peek into the bed room from the music room.

These are the 2 openings that was two doorways into the visitor bed room on the left and the house gymnasium on the appropriate.

I do know it was a bit controversial for me to decide on to not put a door on the closet, however I really like this view approach an excessive amount of to cowl it up with a door.

And naturally, our chapel image (from our wedding ceremony day) has a outstanding place within the new bed room suite.

In order that’s three areas of our master suite suite which might be completed — my walk-in closet, the grasp lavatory, and the lobby. I simply must do just a few extra small-ish initiatives within the bed room.

I hung this full-length mirror on the wall to the left simply exterior of the closet. Since I didn’t have room contained in the closet for a full-length mirror, it needed to go within the lobby. This has truly been a really handy location for it. And the bench within the lobby provides me the proper spot if I would like to sit down right down to placed on my sneakers. So in a approach, this lobby shouldn’t be solely an entrance into our bed room suite, but it surely’s additionally an extension of my walk-in closet.

Seeing that final image actually makes me wish to refinish the remainder of the flooring earlier than later. (All of our flooring might be mild and vibrant when all is claimed and accomplished.) However I’m making an attempt to not get forward of myself. I must get the bed room completed, and instantly after that, I must get the studio lavatory completed since that might be our new, interim visitor lavatory. After which as soon as we’ve a working visitor lavatory, I can come again and switch the unique hallway lavatory into that much-needed storage room. So the flooring should wait a bit longer, however I actually do hope to get all of them refinished this yr.