I’m actually down to 1 undertaking that must be completed for the closet earlier than it’s carried out — ending the doorway. It has been a really lengthy street to get right here, and I’m on the finish of the street. One undertaking left.
I headed to Dwelling Depot this previous Sunday to get every part I wanted for this undertaking — a 2×4 to border out the highest of the doorway, the entire trim boards to trim out the doorway like I trim out all of our different doorways and home windows, drywall mud to patch the drywall that might should be added above the highest trim on the door, and many others.
After which I set out yesterday to get the job carried out. I reduce the two×4 to create the highest jamb of the doorway, and began attaching it, after which began second-guessing the entire plan.
Proper now, the doorway to the closet is so tall and open. In the event you’ve forgotten, right here’s the way it seems proper now with the very tough opening…
I had needed the ceiling between the lobby and the closet to be degree and easy with no separation in any respect, however that couldn’t be carried out as a result of these 2x4s on the high can’t be eliminated. They’re undoubtedly bearing a load as a result of there’s a ceiling joist that ends proper on high of these 2x4s. So these needed to keep, which type of ruined my imaginative and prescient for it.
That turned out to be okay since I ended up shade drenching the closet in blue and painted the ceiling the identical blue as the cupboards. I wouldn’t need to have to make use of that very same blue on the ceiling all through the entire bed room suite, so these 2x4s created a pure stopping level. So in the long run, I used to be glad they have been there.
However then my plan was to border out this doorway identical to the opposite doorways and home windows in the home, which appear to be this with the massive high trim and easy 1x4s on the edges.
I figured it will be superb as a result of that’s how the opposite two doorways within the bed room lobby shall be trimmed out as soon as they’re completed. Proper now, the door to the bed room suite seems like this, however as soon as the facet items are reinstalled, it can appear to be the remainder of the doorways in the home.
After which, after all, the doorway to the present hallway toilet (which is able to ultimately be a storage room for the bed room suite) shall be trimmed out the identical method. (Excuse the mess. After I say I didn’t do any work throughout my break, I imply that I didn’t do a single little bit of precise, unpleaseant work, and that features cleansing up the entire leftover closet undertaking mess. 😀 )
So including that very same trim to the doorway to the closet/laundry space appeared like an acceptable determination. However I simply couldn’t convey myself to do it, no less than not but. I needed to assume this by a bit extra earlier than I decide to that plan. Once more, I’ve gotten so used to seeing this doorway so huge open and tall, and the thought of including drywall to the highest to convey the doorway down low sufficient to border out that method simply doesn’t really feel proper to me. Not solely am I not thrilled with the thought of bringing that high half down decrease, however then this would be the solely one of many three doorways within the bed room suite lobby that doesn’t have a door on it. I don’t really feel like that lends to a cohesive look.
I did a really fast (and never very fairly) mockup of what it will appear to be as soon as the drywall above the doorway is in place if I keep on with this plan.
And then you definately’ll have to make use of your creativeness to check it with the identical trim as the opposite doorways, the teal grasscloth on the higher a part of the partitions on both facet, and the creamy white wainscoting on the decrease a part of the partitions on both facet.
I simply can’t assist however assume that it’ll look busy. And once more, since there gained’t be an precise door on the closet/laundry space, I don’t assume it can truly look cohesive with the opposite doorways.
So after second-guessing this plan yesterday, I attempted to check one thing else. And what I lastly landed on is that this potential plan. What if, as an alternative of framing out this doorway like the opposite two that truly have doorways, I depart it open like it’s now, and easily use these 2x4s on the high as a base to connect crown molding on the high? I might ensure that to line it up precisely in order that the underside of the crown molding hits proper on the backside of these 2x4s that drop down.
That signifies that as an alternative of protecting over the uncovered 2×4 framing on the edges and high of the doorway with trim, I might merely cowl them with drywall, identical to the opposite exterior corners are coated with drywall.
After which, as soon as I add the wainscoting and grasscloth to the lobby and bed room partitions, that very same therapy would simply wrap round these corners identical to they’ll wrap across the different corners within the lobby and bed room.
To create an endpoint for the grasscloth and wainscoting the place it meets the closet partitions, I might simply add just a little little bit of vertical trim, but it surely wouldn’t be the large trim that I typically use on doorways and home windows.
So that is the route I’m leaning as a result of I actually just like the openness of the closet doorway, and I don’t need to create extra visible obstacles or any visible muddle on this space. And as a lot as I like the way in which I trim out doorways and home windows, I do assume it can create some visible muddle if I add it to this doorway.
What do you concentrate on that concept? Are you able to envision it? I do know that signifies that I’ll have to really do some drywall work, and I hate doing drywall. However I feel I’ll be happier with the outcome, so I’m keen to do the additional drywall work if it’ll give me a greater completed outcome.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify 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 study extra about me right here.
