My mother and I learn all the feedback on yesterday’s put up in regards to the closet doorway whereas we had been at lunch yesterday and mentioned all the choices, after which I got here house and did three totally different mockups of the concepts in order that I might truly see what they could seem like.
I used to be a bit stunned at how many individuals instructed placing a transom window above the closet doorway. It was positively the bulk opinion! A minimum of one individual (possibly two) instructed utilizing the nook design that I used on my closet cupboards on the doorway as properly. A couple of individuals instructed I put a door on the doorway, however I dominated that out way back.
When you’ll keep in mind, this room had a pocket door on it earlier than I began remodeling it from a bed room to a closet. Right here’s what this space regarded like after I eliminated the built-in cupboard from the hallway. So this may offer you an thought of what it could seem like once more if I added the identical door and window trim that I take advantage of all through our home after which add a door again in there.
However the ship has sailed on the pocket door thought. A pocket door would require approach an excessive amount of development, and that’s a load-bearing wall. However once more, that’s okay with me as a result of I made a decision way back that I didn’t desire a door on the closet, which is why I had that pocket door eliminated and the doorway reframed.
So again to the transom window thought. My mother and I mentioned it, and whereas we each love transom home windows, there are two points with that concept.
The primary drawback is that I solely have 8-foot ceilings, and transoms work higher with not less than 9-foot ceilings. There’s no approach I might use my customary trim plus a transom since there’s solely a little bit sliver of wall house left between the highest of my customary trim and the crown molding, as you’ll be able to see right here on this photograph of the cased opening between our lounge and kitchen that I shared in yesterday’s put up.
However somebody linked an image of a very stunning cased opening with a transom, and it simply occurred to have that very same nook element design that I used on my closet cupboards. So I made a decision to do a duplicate and paste of that entire factor onto my image and see the way it appears. Clearly, it is a very tough mockup, and this isn’t the type of wainscoting I plan to make use of. However it offers us an thought of the general look.
However as my mother and I mentioned this feature of doing any type of transom above the closet door, right here’s what we thought. If I do one thing particular like this above the closet door, it actually turns the closet into the characteristic of the bed room suite and makes the bed room secondary. And in a bed room suite, the bed room must be the first focus, not the closet. No matter how a lot I like my new closet and wish my onerous work to be seen, I nonetheless don’t need it being the characteristic.
So we thought that if I had been to do one thing like that above the closet, then I might essentially should do the identical kind of factor resulting in the bed room. Once more, that is only a fast mockup, nevertheless it would possibly look one thing like this…
I truly love that look total, however I really feel like that’s type of going backwards. I began off with two doorways main to 2 bedrooms off of this hallway.
After which the entire thought of eradicating the doorway resulting in the bed room was (1) to make the realm extensive open visually, but additionally (2) to widen the opening to the bed room as a lot as doable to make that passage wider and simpler to maneuver for Matt. In order that whole doorway, plus all the framing round it got here out.
I’ve gotten so used to this wide-open look that the concept of including a characteristic again in that separates the areas an excessive amount of from one another isn’t actually the course I wish to go. Plus, including that very same characteristic to the bed room would additionally slender that passage a little bit, which defeats the aim of taking it out within the first place to make it simpler for Matt.
So then we talked about my authentic concept that I shared yesterday of retaining the doorway as excessive as doable and operating the crown molding straight throughout to cover these prime 2x4s.
My mother agreed with a number of of you that that may look awkward to don’t have anything underneath the crown molding. So she instructed that I carry the doorway opening down just a bit bit, even when solely three or 4 inches (most likely the thickness of two extra 2x4s), to permit for not less than a little bit little bit of wall house/grasscloth above the doorway after which wrap the grasscloth and wainscoting round these jambs. That might make the crown molding above the doorway make sense. And I believe that is the profitable thought.
I like that it’s easy. It doesn’t flip the closet into the characteristic of the bed room suite. And it permits me to maintain that steady movement of the wall therapy from the lobby into the bed room. I believe, on this case, easy is the best choice. And it’s very uncommon that you just’ll hear that coming from me. 😁 I’m typically a “extra is extra” type of individual, however on this occasion, I do suppose I must hold it easy. This straightforward possibility permits a peek into the closet with my fairly cupboards, wallpaper, mirror, and so on., whereas the uninterrupted grasscloth and wainscoting lead the attention from the lobby into the bed room. So mark the date. That is the one time I’m selecting the straightforward possibility.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform 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 can learn more about me here.
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