Within the current weeks after I’ve talked about my plans for the sunroom, I’ve had a few individuals remark about the potential for opening up the unique “grasp rest room” (a time period I exploit very loosely to explain this tiny rest room) to the sunroom to make it usable once more, and to offer us a 3rd rest room, and a second full rest room.
Initially, I dismissed the concept. In my thoughts, that loo doesn’t exist. A minimum of, I faux prefer it doesn’t exist. And similar to the sunroom, I’ve regarded ahead to the day that it may be torn down. Opening it up, fixing it up, and making it usable seems like an enormous step backwards. However within the final couple of weeks, and as I’ve felt my dream of a brand new addition on our home slip additional and additional away, I’ve actually began to significantly think about the concept.
So let me again up a bit and clarify so to get your bearings. Right here’s the ground plan of our home because it at the moment stands. The lavatory I’m speaking about is the little room that’s all black to the left of the sunroom and behind our present grasp rest room.
In case you’ll bear in mind, the room that’s at the moment our grasp rest room was the unique master suite after we purchased the home, and it had this little rest room off of it.
Fairly early on, we had the window that you simply see within the picture above to the left of the lavatory changed with a door. The closed door that you simply see on the wall to the correct of the lavatory was the unique walk-in closet in that bed room, but it surely was a fairly small closet.
Once we determined to show this room into our huge accessible rest room, the wall that enclosed that closet was torn out to make the room bigger. After which the doorway that went from the bed room into the hallway, which you’ll see on the far proper of the image under, was closed up. And a brand new doorway (which can’t be seen within the picture under as a result of I’m standing in it to take the picture under) was created in order that this room could possibly be accessed from the opposite bed room, which is now our master suite.
So when the brand new grasp rest room transform received underway, this was the way it began shaping up. A brand new wall was constructed to part off the bathe and the water closet behind that new wall and to create a spot for the bath. However this picture was taken earlier than the cement board went up within the bathe, and for those who look carefully, you may nonetheless see the unique (closed) door to that authentic tiny grasp rest room.
Right here’s that very same view within the new, completed grasp rest room. However behind that wall within the bathe nonetheless sits the unique tiny grasp rest room. It’s now utterly inaccessible. It may’t be accessed from anyplace inside the home, and there’s no approach to entry it from exterior until I need to crawl via the one window that continues to be in that room.
Earlier than it was closed up, the entire plumbing was capped off as a result of I didn’t need any probability of a plumbing leak that I couldn’t get to. And there’s no electrical energy going to that room, both. It’s actually only a unusual little appendage on the again of our home that I neglect is even there, and that I had deliberate to tear down together with the sunroom.
Aside from the vainness, which I eliminated, every thing else nonetheless appears like this — the bathroom, the bathtub, and even the bathe curtain are all nonetheless there.
However, as just a few of my very observant readers and commenters have identified, that loo shares this wall with the sunroom.
For the reason that sunroom is mainly one huge (and virtually utterly stuffed) storage room proper now, I had to return to the unique picture that I took of the sunroom proper after we purchased the home to indicate you the shared wall from contained in the sunroom. Nevertheless it’s this wall proven in orange.
That signifies that I might put a doorway on that wall, open up the 2 rooms to one another, and we might have one other rest room. It’s tiny, however it could be a full visitor rest room with a bathtub/bathe, rest room, and vainness.
I initially wrote off this concept utterly, however now I’m significantly contemplating it. The one downside is that the lavatory is a pier and beam basis, which signifies that it’s degree with the remainder of the home. The sunroom is on floor degree. That signifies that I must add two steps from the sunroom to the lavatory to make that loo accessible. That feels unusual to me, however truthfully, I’ve seen stranger issues carried out to outdated properties. And generally with outdated properties, we now have to work with what we now have.
Once I get to the sunroom challenge, I’ll be eradicating the entire paneling from the partitions. I feel as soon as that’s carried out, and as soon as I can see what’s inside and behind these partitions, I’ll have the ability to decide on whether or not or not I need to proceed with this selection. However for now, I’m significantly contemplating it. I undoubtedly like the concept of getting a second full rest room in the home, even when it’s a tiny one.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform 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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