Nicely, I’m not fairly able to share extra bed room progress at this level. That can most likely have to attend till Friday. Within the meantime, I took a while earlier than I went to mattress final night time to mess around with our flooring plan and check out 4 completely different concepts for our pantry that got here from reader feedback on earlier posts. I feel all of them would work, however there are professionals and cons for every.
First, let me present you precise photos to remind you of how these areas circulation collectively in actual life. I’ll begin with the music room. Clearly, this isn’t a latest image. As soon as I get the bed room suite to the purpose the place I’m able to load in furnishings and decor, I’ll get the instruments, containers, and paint cans out of the music room and get up to date photos. However for now, this must do.
So within the image above, the cased opening on the far left is now the doorway to our bed room suite. That’s the place I put in the French doorways as our bed room doorways. The doorways within the middle of the photograph result in the sunroom. That’s the room that shall be torn down, and as soon as we construct our addition, the room simply past these doorways would be the household room. After which the cased opening on the appropriate results in the kitchen.
The view from that cased opening between the music room and the kitchen seems like this…
Simply past the peninsula is the eating space. In that photograph above, that space was getting used as a sitting room (lengthy story). However for now, it’s getting used as our momentary bed room whereas I’m engaged on our bed room suite. That 15-lite pocket door to the left of the cabinets results in my studio.
After which if I flip to the appropriate just a bit bit, you possibly can see the cased opening between the kitchen and the entrance front room.
If I stand on the finish of the kitchen peninsula trying in direction of the door to my studio, you possibly can see the pantry there on the left.
So right here’s a greater look from the eating space (I’m standing by the home windows on the entrance of the home) in direction of the pantry, the again wall of the kitchen, after which on the far left of the image, you possibly can see that cased opening between the kitchen and the music room.
Hopefully that helps you get your bearings a bit of higher. So as soon as we construct the addition, then new household room will sit behind the music room and the kitchen and share a wall with the present pantry. So the primary concept, which is clearly the best, is to depart the pantry as is and never hassle with including a doorway between it and the household room. Clearly, I like that concept so much as a result of it matches with my aim of getting the home completed as quickly as attainable and permits me to maintain all of that storage in there. The draw back is that the one method to get to the eating space is thru the kitchen. That won’t truly be a giant deal. It’s not like we reside in a sprawling mansion, so the space from that doorway within the household room to the eating space is admittedly not that far.
The second concept, which was the concept I had in thoughts, was to widen the opening between the eating space and the pantry as a lot as attainable whereas nonetheless permitting sufficient wall house between the eating space and pantry to cover the upright freezer. After which I’d transfer the freezer to the other wall, which might permit room for a gap between the household room and pantry. The upside to that’s that it will be a extra handy route from the household room to the eating space that eliminates site visitors by means of the kitchen. The apparent downsides are (1) I’d lose storage within the pantry, and (2) the site visitors could be by means of the pantry, which could appear awkward. Additionally, any time you add one other doorway, it’s a must to take into consideration site visitors patterns by means of rooms with furnishings. So having a doorway there would restrict furnishings placement choices within the household room.
The third choice is to get rid of that wall altogether and depart the again wall of cupboards from the pantry. The upside to that’s that the eating space would really feel rather more open. The draw back is that there could be no place for my upright freezer, and I don’t know the place else I might put the freezer.
And the ultimate choice could be to shrink the pantry to about 2/3 its present measurement, conserving the two/3 of the pantry on the appropriate facet of its present footprint, add a wall on the left, and making a sort of alcove with a doorway between the 2 areas. I truly actually like this concept. The draw back is shedding cupboard space, however I additionally love that I might put an even bigger window in that little alcove for a greater view to the again yard. I can simply think about it with some stunning curtains, possibly a bit of bookcase underneath the window, a desk lamp for a comfortable glow of sunshine at night time, and many others.
So these are the choices that y’all have given me. I like testing out completely different concepts that readers give me and seeing how they may work for us. Y’all know that my mind will get caught in ruts and I’ve a tough time getting myself out of these ruts. So it’s all the time good to have exterior concepts that assist me assume exterior of the field.
What are your ideas on these concepts? And when you wrote a suggestion in a earlier put up and I missed it right here, let me know and I’ll add one other flooring plan with the brand new concept.
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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can study extra about me right here.
