Should you’ve been round some time, you already know that the sunroom connected to the again of our home is on the chopping block. I’ve needed to tear this room down for therefore lengthy, however there have at all times been obstacles in the best way.
Simply that will help you get your bearings, this massive room 31’5″ x 12’10” room behind the hallway rest room, music room, and kitchen is the room I’m speaking about…
Earlier house owners added this room onto the home, and there’s actually no salvaging it. First, it’s constructed at floor degree the place the remainder of the home has a pier and beam basis that sits above the bottom. That signifies that there’s a step down into this room, and with a wheelchair consumer in the home, that’s not sensible. Additionally, the roof is sloped and the again wall is slightly below seven ft excessive, which isn’t what I would like in any room of our dwelling.
However the worst factor is that this space evidently was once a concrete patio. So the ground on this room consists of sheets of heavy plastic positioned over that concrete, then a layer of particle board, after which two layers of business carpet. Throughout heavy rains (which we’ve been having quite a lot of recently), water is available in below the again sliding glass door and soaks the particle board and carport by the door.
So clearly, the room simply must be torn down, and we have to begin over from scratch with constructing a room on this space. Whereas I don’t know when that addition shall be constructed, I did together with tearing this room down on my Grasp Record of House Targets for this yr (which you can see here).
The obstacles which have stood in the best way of us tearing the room down are (1) this room housed our washer and dryer, (2) this room additionally homes our scorching water heater, and (3) this room serves as my storage space for all of my instruments, paint, and different DIY provides that I exploit on our home. And over the past a number of months, it has additionally housed all of my garments, further bedding, the objects that got here out of our dwelling fitness center, and so on.
However yesterday, I noticed that a type of obstacles — one of many greatest obstacles — has now been eliminated. The washer and dryer that used to take a seat proper right here on this terrible room…
…now have a wonderful, new, customized dwelling within the walk-in closet…
All of my instruments, paints, and so on., nonetheless occupy the opposite half of the room, and whereas it appears to be like like an entire mess, I do have issues grouped in packing containers and containers by class…
However all of that stuff has a model new dwelling awaiting it simply as quickly as I can get in there and construct some storage and group for all the things..
The laundry room facet of the room appears to be like a lot worse now than it did in the beginning of the yr, however that’s as a result of it’s at the moment housing all of my garments, further bedding, and so on., that needed to be faraway from the visitor bed room and hallway closet (and I spent days getting caught up on laundry and didn’t grasp quite a lot of my garments, so that they’re simply draped over issues proper now 😀 I’ve been a bit busy, so that is simply actual life, of us)…
However I’m so near with the ability to get all of that stuff out of there and into my new closet…
The whole lot that got here out of the visitor bed room and hallway is now piled into this room, however I don’t assume I’m conserving any of it. So I simply must get it listed on Market or give it away to get it out of right here, and I can discover one other place for any of the stuff I wish to preserve.
So now, the primary impediment is the recent water heater, which sits within the nook of that room the place the washer and dryer was once. You possibly can see it hidden behind that fake tree within the image above.
So I’ve been fascinated by the place to place the recent water heater. I had been planning on getting a tankless scorching water heater and having it put in someplace on the outside of the home. However a few days in the past, it dawned on me that I’ve a greater place for it — the hallway rest room!
That room will finally be a storage room that is part of the main bedroom suite, and we’ll have a brand new visitor rest room as a part of the addition. So this room, which can proceed to take a seat behind closed doorways when it turns into a storage room, is definitely the proper place for a tankless scorching water heater.
It’ll take some work, however because it’s a toilet, there’s clearly already water coming into the room. So whereas this transition interval could also be very awkward, I believe my plan is to take away the cupboard and cabinets on the precise facet of the room, in addition to the tub (which hasn’t been used one single time since our rest room was completed), and have the tankless scorching water heater, entry to the crawl house beneath our home, and entry to the attic all put into this room.
The transition interval gained’t be fairly. And it is going to be awkward. Very awkward. However I believe in the long term, having all three of these issues inside this room shall be very handy, and I like that they’ll all be hidden behind closed doorways. Plus, I gained’t have to chop an entry to the crawl house into the hallway flooring. And I can do away with this attic entry that’s at the moment within the room that may quickly be our new bed room. (That is an older image taken earlier than the flooring was put in, however you possibly can see the attic entry on the ceiling.)
I believe this plan will work out splendidly ultimately. I’m not excited concerning the interim, and having a visitor rest room that’s half torn up. However it’ll simply mix in with the awkwardness of getting a visitor rest room positioned inside our main bedroom suite in the interim. 😀 Generally the center half — the journey from Level A to Level B — is the awkward half. However that’s simply part of DIYing and renovating a house that we typically must cope with. We’ll name it an journey and cope with the awkwardness for now.
However the primary factor is that, if I can get my workshop arrange (which I’ll in all probability work on after I end the bed room suite) after which get the recent water heater moved, I’ll haven’t any extra obstacles to tearing down that terrible sunroom!!!!! And that alone shall be value a bit of little bit of awkwardness within the interim.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn 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.
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