Second-Guessing My Plan For The Closet Doorway

I headed to Dwelling Depot this previous Sunday to get all the things I wanted for this mission — 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 will must be added above the highest trim on the door, and many others.

After which I set out yesterday to get the job executed. I lower 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. Should you’ve forgotten, right here’s the way it appears proper now with the very tough opening…

I had needed the ceiling between the lobby and the closet to be stage and clean with no separation in any respect, however that couldn’t be executed as a result of these 2x4s on the prime can’t be eliminated. They’re positively bearing a load as a result of there’s a ceiling joist that ends proper on prime of these 2x4s. So these needed to keep, which sort 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 had 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 like this with the big prime trim and easy 1x4s on the edges.

I figured it could be superb as a result of that’s how the opposite two doorways within the bed room lobby will likely be trimmed out as soon as they’re completed. Proper now, the door to the bed room suite appears like this, however as soon as the facet items are reinstalled, it’ll appear like the remainder of the doorways in the home.

After which, in fact, the doorway to the present hallway rest room (which can ultimately be a storage room for the bed room suite) will likely be trimmed out the identical manner. (Excuse the mess. Once 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 mission mess. 😀 )

I did a really fast (and never very fairly) mockup of what it could appear like as soon as the drywall above the doorway is in place if I persist with this plan.

And you then’ll have to make use of your creativeness to examine 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 received’t be an precise door on the closet/laundry space, I don’t assume it’ll truly look cohesive with the opposite doorways.

So after second-guessing this plan yesterday, I attempted to examine one thing else. And what I lastly landed on is that this potential plan. What if, as a substitute of framing out this doorway like the opposite two that really have doorways, I depart it open like it’s now, and easily use these 2x4s on the prime as a base to connect crown molding on the prime? 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 implies that as a substitute of protecting over the uncovered 2×4 framing on the edges and prime of the doorway with trim, I might merely cowl them with drywall, identical to the opposite outdoors corners are lined with drywall.

After which, as soon as I add the wainscoting and grasscloth to the lobby and bed room partitions, that very same remedy 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 may simply add a bit little bit of vertical trim, but it surely wouldn’t be the large trim that I usually 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 boundaries 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’ll create some visible muddle if I add it to this doorway.

What do you consider that concept? Are you able to envision it? I do know that implies that I’ll have to really do some drywall work, and I hate doing drywall. However I believe I’ll be happier with the outcome, so I’m prepared to do the additional drywall work if it’ll give me a greater completed outcome.