My Bedroom Door Decision And Plans (I’m Meeting With A Contractor Today!)

I don’t know why, however I had it in my thoughts that it wanted to be French doorways on the entrance wall of the bed room.

However in fact, that results in an entire lot of different points. With these large doorways (which might be at least 5 toes large, if not wider), then I’d want an excellent wider touchdown. And with a wider touchdown, then I’ve to cope with both working round our gasoline meter and sewer line cleanout or having each of these moved.

All of it appeared a bit overwhelming. And costly. However then just a few of you talked about that I don’t actually need French doorways, particularly as a result of it’s on the entrance of the home. All I want is a single door. In any case, the one goal of the door is to get Matt out shortly and safely within the occasion of an emergency.

Initially, I didn’t love the concept. That’s most likely as a result of I had been so set on French doorways that I couldn’t get my thoughts to “see” some other risk. In truth, after I known as the contractor to arrange in the present day’s assembly, I used to be nonetheless considering that I’d have him give me a value for French doorways.

One other problem I’ve had is that I don’t want a wheelchair ramp within the entrance of our home. I can’t consider a strategy to incorporate it in a approach that can look good. I’ll completely bend over backwards to make Matt’s life as simple as potential. I’ve jumped by hoops to verify doorways are large enough, there aren’t any raised thresholds that he has to cope with, there aren’t any annoying space rugs in major passthroughs, and on and on. We had an enormous concrete wheelchair ramp added out the again doorways of my studio resulting in the carport. And after we construct our addition, I’ll ensure that there’s a straightforward approach for him to get from inside the home onto the deck or patio or no matter we now have again there. I try to make his life simple in each approach potential. However a wheelchair ramp within the entrance of our home is a line within the sand for me.

However when my buddy was right here final week, and we have been standing in that room and speaking concerning the potentialities, she had an amazing thought. She stated that her husband makes use of transportable ramps (like light-weight transportable aluminum ramps) for all types of wants, like getting a four-wheeler into the again of a truck, or transporting heavy tools that must be put onto a trailer. So she recommended that for the reason that door will actually solely be utilized by Matt within the case of an emergency, that I ought to simply put steps from the door to the bottom after which stash a rust-proof aluminum ramp on the facet of the home that may be accessed shortly and simply in an emergency. I like that concept!! It might actually simply lean towards the facet of the home and be hidden by landscaping. It’s the proper resolution.

So after having a little bit over every week to consider the concept of a single door after which speaking with my buddy about this concept of steps with an simply accessible transportable ramp, I’ve come round to the concept of getting a single door put in there. I used to be going to attempt to do a mockup of the concept, full with steps, landscaping, and many others., however as an alternative, I made a decision to let ChatGPT do it for me. And whereas it’s not excellent, it truly produced a fairly good image on the very first attempt!

That is the photograph I uploaded to ChatGPT…

And that is what it gave me…

It even saved the gasoline meter! 😀 Y’all, I can completely work with that! It’s not precisely proper. I can’t have that massive step up from the touchdown into the doorway, clearly. And I’d like so as to add some peak to the crops, particularly that plant within the nook the place the bed room wall meets the a part of the walk-in closet wall that juts out from the entrance of the home. However I can completely work with this! I’m truly very enthusiastic about this! And I do suppose that it seems so a lot better from the surface than French doorways would have seemed because it’s the entrance of our home.

UPDATE: I additionally had ChatGPT do a mockup of the inside. That is the photograph I uploaded…

I discovered the exhausting approach that it’s a must to be very express within the directions that you just give ChaptGPT. So long as you spell out each element, it does a fairly good job! So that is the immediate I gave it:

Create picture: Hold the angle and proportions of the view of this room precisely the identical because it seems on this photograph. Hold the hardwood flooring precisely the identical. Hold the window on the suitable the very same, together with the woven window shade and the white trim across the window. Take away the window on the left. Within the place of that window, add an exterior 15-lite door with white trim. Take away the colourful strips from the partitions. On the partitions, add white wainscoting to the underside portion of the partitions from the ground as much as 32″ on the partitions. Above the wainscoting, add darkish teal grasscloth wallpaper the remainder of the best way up the partitions. Across the prime of the partitions, add white crown molding. On both facet of the door and both facet of the window, add curtains made out of darkish teal velvet held on gold curtain rods and gold curtain rings.

And that is the picture it rendered…

That’s fairly good! I imply, the curtains are a little bit wonky on the door, and there’s no approach I’d ever grasp curtains round a single door or window on two separate rods. In order that rod above the door can be one steady curtain rod. However aside from that, it did a fairly good job and at the very least offers us an thought of what it’s going to appear like. It even bought the trim proper across the door. 😀 I adore it!

UPDATE: Okay, I attempted another time with the outside simply to make just a few adjustments. That is the immediate I gave ChatGPT as a follow-up to the primary exterior picture it rendered:

Hold every little thing about this picture precisely the identical with the next exceptions…

1. Make the 2 quick evergreen crops a lot taller — at the very least six toes tall.
2. Transfer the 2 navy blue container planters with the greenery and colourful flowers again towards the home as an alternative of getting them in the direction of the entrance of the concrete porch.
3. Add a small pergola above the door with brackets mounted to the stone on both facet of the door. Make the pergola the identical width because the concrete porch.

And that is the picture it rendered…

I imply, it’s not fairly what I had in thoughts. These bushes are a little bit too excellent and pointy for my style, and the pergola seems a bit weighty for that door. However total, I like the concept!