I all the time take the final week between Christmas and the New 12 months off from the weblog, however this 12 months, I’ve determined to take these subsequent two weeks off. Issues are simply shifting so slowly on the bed room suite. I had anticipated the contractor’s half to be completed two weeks in the past, and right here we’re two weeks later and barely something has been achieved. And as for the tasks I needed to focus on whereas they’re engaged on the bed room suite, properly, the climate and my Amazon shipments have been uncooperative.
So moderately than stress concerning the lack of progress, I’m simply going to take the following two weeks to destress, spend time with Matt, watch just a few tacky Christmas motion pictures, and prepare for the brand new 12 months. Hopefully by then, I can hit the bottom operating on the bed room suite tasks and get these knocked out as shortly as doable.
This 12 months has been…completely different. It hasn’t been completely different in a foul manner. It’s been completely different in a great way. But it surely’s positively been completely different.
Identical to I do yearly, I began off 2024 with a Grasp Listing of House Targets. You possibly can see my entire 2024 listing right here: 2024 Master List of Home Goals. And the 12 months began off with me tackling the studio. Right here’s the way it regarded in the beginning of the 12 months…
And right here’s the way it seems to be now…
However from there, all of my different plans for the 12 months sort of went off the rails. I had plans to complete the studio half bathtub…
And I had plans to do just a few minor tasks within the visitor bed room…
And I had plans to do a makeover within the hallway rest room…
However the principle factor on my 2024 listing was the beginning the addition. And one 12 months in the past, that is what I envisioned the addition wanting like…
However then issues went utterly off the rails once we began having some severe issues issues with our dwelling fitness center ground. I had solely completed the house fitness center 17 months earlier, and we had been getting a ton of use out of the room. So it was extremely discouraging to search out that the ground in that room was ruined to the purpose that it was buckling so badly that I’d journey over it.
The thought of getting to switch flooring (and subfloor) in a room that was pretty lately completed despatched me right into a tailspin. I known as off the addition that we had deliberate for the final eight years, and I went again to the drafting board. In spite of everything, changing the ground and subfloor in a pier and beam home will not be a small factor. So if we had been going to have to do this anyway, then this was the time to reevaluate our plans and make any wanted modifications.
And that’s what we did. After getting tons of enter from readers on a complete vary of concepts, and after testing about in all probability 50 completely different ground plan concepts, we’ve lastly settled on this ground plan for our home…
It was a really lengthy and circuitous path to get to that remaining ground plan. And ultimately, did we actually accomplish something? I imply, we’re nonetheless going to construct an addition, though the brand new addition isn’t almost as massive as the unique addition, so we’ll lower your expenses.
However I’m really very pleased with this new route. After spending months wrestling with these selections, and getting enter from so many readers, I used to be capable of “see” our dwelling and our ground plan with new eyes, so to talk. I used to be supplied concepts that I by no means would have considered in one million years (like turning the studio rest room right into a walk-through pantry for straightforward entry from the again door into the kitchen). I used to be capable of rethink concepts that I had beforehand written off as a result of I assumed they had been virtually unattainable (like shifting our kitchen to the breakfast room and pantry space).
And each single day, I get increasingly enthusiastic about our new bed room suite the place we’re turning the house fitness center into our bed room,
…and turning the visitor bed room into our walk-in closet and laundry room.
So whereas that ruined dwelling fitness center ground appeared like a tragic factor in the intervening time, I feel issues have turned out simply superb. I like this new plan for our home even higher than all of our authentic plans for that vast addition. Typically issues simply have a manner of working themselves out.
So subsequent 12 months seems to be to be a reasonably thrilling 12 months. My major preliminary focus can be our bed room suite — bed room, closet, and hallway. After that, I’ll flip my consideration to our new kitchen, after which as soon as the brand new kitchen is completed, I’ll tear out the outdated kitchen and switch it right into a eating room. In order that’s a preview of what I feel 2025 holds. However for now, I’m going to take it simple for just a few days and watch a Christmas film or two. I’ll meet y’all again right here within the New 12 months!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance 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 can learn more about me here.
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