Winter has formally hit central Texas, so my work on the workshop has come to a grinding halt over the previous few days. I’m bummed about it as a result of I used to be actually on a roll with these initiatives, and I used to be feeling extremely motivated to proceed. However my motivation couldn’t push me to work outdoors within the 30-degree temps, particularly when it’s windy. I attempted, and I simply couldn’t do it. Nevertheless it’s purported to heat up beginning tomorrow, so I hope to get again outdoors and get a couple of extra initiatives finished on the workshop earlier than I formally flip my consideration to our master suite suite.
However talking of our bed room suite, I wished to totally doc what it appears to be like like proper now, originally of 2025, earlier than I begin any work on it. So I assumed I’d share this documentation with you in order that we will all see the official 2025 place to begin on this venture.
I’m fairly positive the doorway to the bed room suite appears to be like precisely because it did on the finish of final yr. I beginning putting in the brand new French doorways in December, however I nonetheless haven’t completed these. That will likely be the very first thing I accomplish that that I can truly shut the doorways and hold Cooper and Felicity out of this space of the home because the work begins. Proper now, they’ll each simply push the doorways open and get into this space.
To the appropriate is the doorway to the visitor toilet, which should keep right here for the close to future. When all is claimed and finished, the doorway into this toilet will likely be moved out of the bed room suite and this toilet will likely be accessible through a hallway on the opposite aspect of the lavatory.
To the left, simply contained in the bed room suite, is the doorway to what would be the massive walk-in closet and laundry room combo. I had the door utterly eliminated, and I had the doorway centered on the wall of that room and opened up as excessive because it may go with out having to take away the highest plates of the load bearing wall. I’ve a imaginative and prescient for this, however it’s too arduous to clarify with out illustrations, so y’all will in all probability simply have to attend and see it because it involves actuality.
As a result of that room will likely be a closet, and I didn’t wish to have to regulate the cupboards to make room for a light-weight swap, I had them transfer the sunshine swap to the surface of the room. Try this drywall mud scenario. 🙁 This is among the issues I’ll need to appropriate (or utterly redo) myself. (In case you missed yesterday’s put up about my contractor saga, you’ll be able to see it right here: The Contractor Saga – The Rest of The Story)
I completely hate doing something associated to drywall, and through the years, I figured I’ve finished my share and I’ve paid my dues. So as of late, I rent out something having to do with putting in or mudding drywall. So it’s fairly ironic that this is among the messes that I’ve to scrub up or utterly redo. 😀
And right here’s the state wherein the contractor left this room. The excellent news is that the massive stuff truly did get finished. The room has a brand new vapor barrier underneath the ground, new insulation underneath the ground, and a brand new subfloor.
I did make a minor change to my unique plans. As a substitute of getting the washer and dryer collectively on the appropriate aspect, I had the hookup for the washer positioned within the again proper nook…
And the hookup for the dryer positioned within the again left nook…
I did this to maintain as a lot room as potential obtainable for the precise closet portion of the room. The washer and dryer will likely be going through one another, and the doorways to each will open in direction of the wall. At first, I used to be involved that there can be an excessive amount of house between them and it might be fairly a trek to get the garments from the washer to the dryer. However as soon as I marked out the size on the wall, I spotted that they’d truly be shut sufficient to one another with solely the width of the window plus a couple of inches separating the 2. You possibly can see my marks on the wall displaying the place the entrance of every one will land on the wall.
However after I made that change, I spotted that I additionally want a water hookup for my dryer as a result of it has a steam perform. The dryer got here with a diversion hookup that’s purported to divert water from the washer hookup. However that diverter solely works when the 2 home equipment are side-by-side. With the 2 home equipment in utterly separate corners, that meant that I wanted a totally separate hookup for the dryer. That’s an addition to the listing that I added later, and it truly bought finished!
There are two issues for the dryer that didn’t get finished, although. First, I’ll want to put in the outlet for the dryer. Fortunately, the wiring is already there, so I simply want to connect an outlet. And second, the vent for the dryer nonetheless must be put in. I’ve been watching movies on YouTube displaying methods to set up dryer vents, and it appears to be like fairly straightforward and simple, so I’m constructive I can try this alone.
Right here’s the present view wanting again in direction of the door of the walk-in closet. It’s a large number proper now.
And the remainder of this actually hasn’t modified since I confirmed you final. Nothing has been finished, and nothing has modified within the bed room portion of the suite. Right here’s the doorway into the bed room the place I had them take away the door utterly and open up the doorway to the ceiling.
After which I’ll provide you with a fast look across the room, though I’m fairly positive you’ve seen all of this already on the finish of final yr. As I mentioned, I don’t suppose something has modified in right here during the last three weeks.
I did resolve to maintain the breaker field on this room. I don’t love the concept of getting the breaker field in our bed room, however I do like that this offers me fast and quick access to the breaker field in case of emergency. And I additionally like that protecting it right here saves me about $3000 that I can use in direction of different initiatives. I’m 100% assured that I can disguise or cowl the field in a manner that it received’t present whereas nonetheless giving me quick access to it. However I’ll positively be transferring the attic entry out of this room and into the hallway. (By the best way, a few of you had the concept of calling that space the “vestibule” now, and I actually like that concept. That sounds higher than “hallway”.)
And at last, right here’s the look again in direction of the doorway to the bed room suite (i.e., the vestibule 😀 )…
So the primary order of enterprise in right here will likely be to scrub up all of the mess that was left behind not solely by the contractor, but additionally by my initiatives since I used this room to make the shutters for the workshop. Second order of enterprise will likely be to complete the French doorways in order that they are going to truly shut and keep closed to maintain our animals out of this portion of the home whereas the work begins. After which after that, I can get began putting in the flooring.
It’s going to be an enormous venture, and I wished to you should definitely have all of those photos documented in order that in a couple of months, when it’s all completed, we will look again at the place it began originally of 2025.
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.
Trending Merchandise
