Bed room Suite Lobby – FINISHED! (Earlier than And After)

Right here’s a take a look at the completed lobby. I actually love how this space turned out. Since our bed room suite is off of the music room, I actually like having this lobby as a little bit of a buffer zone that provides some separation between the music room and our bed room. You’ll be able to see a peek of the bed room from the music room, however you may’t see the entire thing from the doorway. So there’s nonetheless a little bit of thriller there that attracts folks in.

And now, this doorway that was a cased opening resulting in a hallway with three bedrooms and a visitor rest room is now the doorway resulting in our master suite suite.

To know simply how drastically totally different that is, we’ve to journey again to 2013 and bear in mind what this space appeared like once we purchased our home. On the day we closed on the home, that is what the cased opening between the music room and hallway appeared like. It was so slender and had an accordion separator between the 2 areas.

When you stepped simply inside that cased opening, there have been two very imposing closets on both aspect — one coat closet on the left and one other smaller closet (the unique coat closet) that housed the furnace consumption duct.

And straight forward have been two bed room doorways.

After which if you happen to stood in entrance of the bed room doorways and appeared again the opposite manner in the direction of what’s now the music room, this was the view.

After which to the aspect of the massive coat closet was the door to the third bed room.

Eary on, I widened the cased opening between the music room and the hallway to make it simpler for Matt to maneuver by means of that opening.

After the primary transform, the hallway remained fairly massive. You’ll be able to see that the wall to the left of the visitor rest room was lengthy sufficient to place a bit of console desk.

And after eradicating the big coat closet, I inbuilt these cupboards in the identical spot. You’ll be able to see a sliver of the doorway to the visitor bed room simply to the proper of the built-in cupboards.

Right here’s a take a look at that cupboard from the opposite path.

After which got here the second iteration. This took place as a result of we determined to show that bed room on the proper into a big wheelchair-accessible grasp rest room. The unique hardwood flooring within the picture under demonstrated simply how a lot that wall was moved ahead into the hallway.

So at the moment, we went from three bed room doorways off of the hallway to 2 bed room doorways off of the hallway.

You’ll be able to see right here simply how a lot house we misplaced within the hallway (which was completely superb because it was so massive to start with). After that wall was moved ahead, there was not sufficient room for a small console desk to the left of the toilet. However since we had closed up a doorway, there was room for a bigger console desk towards the wall the place that bed room door was.

That left us with the doorway to the left of the console desk that went to the room that I finally become our residence gymnasium, and the doorway to the proper of the built-in cupboard that grew to become our visitor bed room (i.e., the bed room that we slept in for a number of years).

After which got here our entire flooring disaster within the residence gymnasium that required us to have the hardwood flooring and subfloor changed. For the reason that work was going to be fairly in depth, we determined to show this entire space into our master suite suite. I began by eradicating the built-in cupboard from the hallway.

After which I made a decision to fully take away the doorway to what was our residence gymnasium, and what would turn into our new bed room. However initially, I believed I’d preserve the doorway to the visitor bed room (which might turn into my walk-in closet and laundry space).

However then, I made a decision to open that doorway up, additionally. At this level, the entire space appeared so fully totally different from the way it began out that it appears like a very totally different room altogether.

And since this entire space was now going to be our master suite suite, I added French doorways to the cased opening between the music room and the lobby.

And now, right here’s what this space appears like. (Please kindly overlook the truth that I fully forgot to scrub the consumption vent. 😒)

The visitor rest room will finally turn into a much-needed storage room for Matt’s gear — wheelchair, bathe wheelchair, Hoyer elevate — in addition to the brand new location for the recent water heater. That’s an upcoming challenge.

And right here’s the view from the opposite path — from the bed room wanting again in the direction of the music room.

Right here’s the view from a bit of additional again, with me really standing within the bed room.

That is the view from my walk-in closet doorway wanting straight forward.

I completely love this view. I simply love that peek into the bed room from the music room.

These are the 2 openings that was two doorways into the visitor bed room on the left and the house gymnasium on the proper.

I do know it was a bit controversial for me to decide on to not put a door on the closet, however I like this view manner an excessive amount of to cowl it up with a door.

And naturally, our chapel image (from our marriage ceremony day) has a distinguished place within the new bed room suite.

In order that’s three areas of our master suite suite which might be completed — my walk-in closet, the grasp rest room, and the lobby. I simply must do just a few extra small-ish tasks within the bed room.

I hung this full-length mirror on the wall to the left simply outdoors of the closet. Since I didn’t have room contained in the closet for a full-length mirror, it needed to go within the lobby. This has really been a really handy location for it. And the bench within the lobby offers me the right spot if I would like to sit down right down to placed on my footwear. So in a manner, this lobby shouldn’t be solely an entrance into our bed room suite, but it surely’s additionally an extension of my walk-in closet.

Seeing that final image actually makes me wish to refinish the remainder of the flooring prior to later. (All of our flooring will probably be mild and vibrant when all is claimed and performed.) However I’m attempting to not get forward of myself. I must get the bed room completed, and instantly after that, I must get the studio rest room completed since that will probably be our new, interim visitor rest room. After which as soon as we’ve a working visitor rest room, I can come again and switch the unique hallway rest room into that much-needed storage room. So the flooring should wait a bit longer, however I actually do hope to get all of them refinished this yr.