Yesterday, I assumed I had a plan. I imply, I nonetheless do have a plan, however I’m nonetheless waffling backwards and forwards over this one element. My contractor is actually headed to my home proper now. He’ll be right here any minute, and I’m nonetheless undecided on this element. Do I simply widen the door to our bed room and depart the cased opening? Or do I remove the doorway altogether and make the present hallway and bed room all one, open, steady space?
In case you’re confused about these particulars, you can refer back to my post yesterday. However when you’re on top of things on the 2 choices, what would you do?
I had deliberate to maneuver full steam forward on eradicating the doorway altogether and making the 2 areas one steady area, however then somebody despatched me this Instagram reel yesterday afternoon, and I couldn’t consider how related this was to what I’m desirous to do in our dwelling.
If that embedded reel isn’t displaying up, you can see it here on Instagram. And when you’re at work and never capable of entry social media, I acquired you. 😀 Right here’s a screenshot from the reel. It’s not nice, nevertheless it’s the perfect one I might seize that exhibits the format. The double doorways divulge heart’s contents to a small hallway/vestibule/anteroom space, and off of which are the bed room to the suitable, the lavatory straight forward, and the bedroom-turned-closet to the left.
I used to be so excited to see that!! It’s one factor to have an concept in your thoughts and be fairly positive it should work out, nevertheless it’s altogether completely different (and affirming) to see a real-life model of your concept and KNOW that it’ll work out nice! In fact, the association of these rooms is slightly completely different from ours. In that instance, all three separate areas — bed room, rest room, and closet — are accessible from that little hallway behind the double doorways.
That may be like us turning our hallway rest room into our grasp rest room. However clearly, that’s not our plan. Our plan is slightly completely different since we’ve already turned one bed room right into a grasp rest room, and that newer, greater rest room is accessible solely from the bed room. After which we’ll finally be closing up the doorway into the hallway rest room.
So whereas the instance within the Instagram reel is similar to what we’re planning, it’s not equivalent. The place they’ve all three doorways accessible from the little anteroom, we’ll simply have two. The very first thing that struck me about that instance was that I actually appreciated the look of all three doorways being precise doorways in that instance (it’s not the doorways however the uniform trim that I like, which might additionally occur with cased openings), however they’ve that steadiness of the three doorways on three separate partitions that basically advantages from the three identically trimmed out doorways.
However seeing that did make me surprise. Does that translate to our state of affairs? Or does it not translate since ours would simply be two doorways off of the anteroom, and the 2 doorways we’d have aren’t balanced from the attitude of the French doorways in any respect. In different phrases, if I depart each doorways trimmed out (i.e., depart the closet with an precise door, however the bed room with a cased opening, and have each trimmed out the identical approach as they’re now), each doorways are over to the left aspect on perpendicular partitions from one another, and nothing is balanced with the French doorways. And the lavatory doorways on the suitable wall will finally be gone, and I’ll simply have a stable wall.
After seeing that reel, I began questioning my plan to remove the bed room doorway altogether and make the 2 areas (the bed room and hallway/anteroom) one steady space. However the extra I considered it, the extra I began to suppose that the explanation I cherished the instance within the reel a lot WITH the trimmed out doorways is due to the steadiness, however we’re not going to have that. So whereas very related, our conditions are literally fairly completely different as nicely. Proper?
I do know some will say I’m overthinking this, however y’all ought to be used to me overthinking issues by now. It’s what I do. 😀 And I would like your opinion. What would you do in our state of affairs? Would you widen the doorway to the bed room as a lot as doable whereas conserving the cased opening, which might add an extra 5 inches to the width of the doorway? Or would you remove the doorway/cased opening altogether and make the hallway/anteroom and the bed room all one steady space with no doorway separation in any respect, which might give us an extra 12 inches of width in that passthrough space? To be clear, both a type of choices works for Matt. Something 36 inches extensive or wider makes issues simpler for him, and including 5 inches would put that doorway width at 37 inches extensive. And simply as I wrote that final query, I see my contractor pulling up in entrance of my home. 😀 (Replace: The doorway isn’t load-bearing, so it may be taken out fairly simply.)
So the choices are (1) widen the doorway 5 inches and maintain the separation with a cased opening, or (2) take away the separation altogether, including 12 inches of width, and make the 2 areas one steady space with no separation.
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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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