As a result of Matt requires a wheelchair to maneuver round our home, my messes throughout an enormous challenge (and y’all know I’m a really messy DIYer!) typically prohibit him from seeing day by day (and even weekly or month-to-month) progress on my huge room remodels. That implies that he’ll solely see them a few times through the challenge, after which he sees the massive reveal on the finish as soon as all the instruments and supplies are put away.
Over the past six months or so, he hadn’t seen any of my progress. He was content material to only let me work with out transferring issues out of the best way in order that he may try the progress. In truth, the final time he checked in on the progress, my closet wasn’t even completed. The final time he noticed the closet, it regarded one thing like this…
I do know it was earlier than the flooring have been refinished, earlier than the cupboards have been painted, and earlier than the wallpaper went up. So between then and the second I moved him into our new bed room final week, he heard all about my initiatives. He would ask how issues are going, and I’d inform him all about placing up the wallpaper within the closet, portray the cupboards, constructing the island. He received to listen to all in regards to the wainscoting within the lobby and bed room and the grasscloth set up. He would see me making my lots of of journeys between the carport and the bed room suite carrying reduce lumber, trim, and plywood. And he would hear me in there working away hour after hour. However that was the one proof of precise progress that he had. He by no means truly noticed any of it himself till the day final week after I loaded him up on his Hoyer raise to maneuver him to our newly completed mattress in our new almost-finished bed room.
So what was his response? He LOVED it! I didn’t get his response on video. I didn’t even give it some thought, to be trustworthy. I used to be simply so anxious to get him in there and present him every little thing. But additionally, even when I had recorded his response, I wouldn’t have shared it on-line. Matt by no means volunteered for this complete running a blog factor. He didn’t volunteer to have footage and movies of him posted on-line for the world to see. This complete running a blog and on-line world is one thing I alone signed up for. I’ve shared the occasional image of Matt (together with his permission) over time, however since he’s by no means proven an curiosity in being an everyday a part of it, I’ve by no means presumed that I can or ought to share his common life with the net world.
However what I can inform you is that displaying our bed room suite to Matt that first day was each bit as thrilling as these reveals you see on TV the place the owners are avoided the challenge till it’s completed, after which they’re introduced in for the massive reveal. He was amazed. Surprised. I don’t know what he was picturing in his thoughts over the past a number of months as I’d describe issues to him, however I do know that the precise bed room suite far exceeded his expectations.
I introduced him by way of the lobby very slowly in order that he may take every little thing in. I confirmed him my closet, and he was very impressed. He liked the lobby. The grasscloth wallpaper and the chapel image have been his favorites.
After which I introduced him into the bed room and turned him slowly in his Hoyer raise in order that he may take all of it in. He simply saved saying, “Wow. WOW!” After I received him located within the mattress, I headed to the kitchen to get him some water, and I may nonetheless hear him within the bed room saying, “WOW!!” I’ve to confess, that made all of it value it.
I believe we’ve been in our new bed room for a couple of week now, and Matt has informed me each single day how a lot he loves the room. His favourite factor is the grasscloth wallpaper, however he has identified a number of different issues (with out me asking) that he actually likes. He truly actually likes the hen wall. I wasn’t so certain he’d like that, however he does, and he supplied that go with with out me fishing for it. Each day since we’ve been in there, he has stated, “I really like this bed room,” and the yesterday, he stated, “That is the nicest bed room I’ve ever seen.”
WORTH. IT. That makes all of my onerous work, all the ups and downs, and each misstep and do-over, completely value it. I may see the progress each single day, and I knew that I used to be loving how every little thing was turning out. However for him to be so complimentary of my work day-after-day for the final week is the icing on the cake.
However that will get us to his one request — a brand new TV. The TV that I had initially moved into the bed room was the identical one which we had in our earlier bed room.
That’s a 55-inch TV, and I assumed (and hoped) that it could work within the new bed room. However this new bed room is sort of a bit greater, and the TV is farther from the mattress. So his one request for the bed room was a brand new 65-inch TV.
Y’all. This factor is MASSIVE, particularly for a bed room. 😀
It’s positively not what I envisioned for our new bed room. 😀 Our bed room sort of seems like a movie show now. However what? If that’s what he needs, then I’m completely satisfied to work with it. He spends a complete lot extra time within the bed room than I do, and I would like him to be completely satisfied and cozy. It can ultimately go on the wall. I needed to order a brand new (a lot stronger and bigger) wall bracket for this beast, and it gained’t be right here till tomorrow. So till then, that is what it seems to be like.
I nonetheless plan to construct a body for it, however clearly, my plans for that body have to alter a bit. It could actually’t be almost as outstanding because the body I had deliberate for the a lot smaller TV. I’m so glad I hadn’t constructed that body but!
Anyway, the truth that that’s the one change he requested is fairly good. I’ll depend it as win that he loves every little thing else in regards to the room. And if I’m being trustworthy, I’ve completely loved this huge TV as nicely. It’s not what I deliberate, and it’s not what I envisioned for that wall, however I can work with it. And extra importantly, it’s value it to make that one change for him to have a bed room that he actually loves.
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish 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.
