My Preliminary Plan For The Sunroom Remodel

When you missed my publish about that, you can read it here. Right here’s the brief model. I’ve realized that my dream of a giant, new addition isn’t going to occur, so now we have to discover a option to make the sunroom work…completely. Right here’s what the ground plan of our home appears like proper now. And simply one other reminder, that room in strong black is the hidden rest room that sits behind our grasp rest room. Proper now, that rest room is totally inaccessible from wherever inside our home.

When you’ll keep in mind, my authentic plan was so as to add on an entire lot of extra sq. footage by shifting the again wall out a number of toes into the again yard and widening the addition the entire accessible width in order that the wall on the left lined up with the left wall of our home. With the brand new plan, there received’t be any extra sq. footage of residing house added to the home. So the brand new problem is to determine learn how to match all the pieces we wish and want into the sq. footage accessible, if attainable.

Earlier than I may provide you with a flooring plan, I needed to decide precisely what it’s that we wish and want. Right here’s what I got here up with:

Second, I need a room that we are able to use as a house gymnasium proper now, however that may additionally function a visitor bed room. And I additionally need that room accessible within the occasion that my mother ever wants to come back reside with us. If that had been to ever occur, it wouldn’t be any time quickly. We’re a few years away from that, but when that should occur sooner or later, I don’t need to be scrambling to make an area for her.

And third, the house must have a rest room connected to, or very close to, that bed room. These are actually the one three requirements I need to squeeze into the accessible house.

So final evening, I began wanting on the flooring plan, taking measurements of the particular areas, and developing with a preliminary plan. That is what I got here up with…

In the long run, I believe we should add on just a bit little bit of extra house to make room for a closet for that bed room, however I believe that may work out higher in the long run as a result of it can make elevating the roof less complicated if the realm with the toilet is squared up with the again wall of the sunroom.

You might also discover that I added a gap between the kitchen and the TV room. That’s not a cased opening between the 2 rooms. I don’t need to lose an excessive amount of cupboard space within the kitchen. However I do like the thought of passthrough between the kitchen and the TV room the place I can have decrease cupboards alongside all the again wall of the kitchen with a passthrough above it and a countertop that’s accessible from the TV room.

I’ve had this concept for a really very long time, and I’ve shared it in previous posts. Right here’s one of the latest that I shared after I thought of rearranging the structure of my kitchen. And whereas I not need to transfer my sink to that again wall of the kitchen, I nonetheless like the thought of a passthrough to the TV room on that wall.

And that will go on this wall within the kitchen…

So I’ll be assembly with the contractor subsequent week to get his opinion on this plan and see what his suggestions are. I’d adore it if we are able to do that venture in levels. My most important situation is that I don’t need debt, and that’s the issue I bumped into with the plan to utterly tear down the sunroom and toilet and utterly rebuild a a lot bigger addition. Regardless of how I labored the numbers, we had been going to have to enter debt for that plan. I simply merely wasn’t okay with that. We paid off our home a number of years in the past, and I don’t really feel comfy in any respect with the thought of one other mortgage.

So I’m hoping there’s a method that we are able to do that venture in levels, and whereas I’m not a contractor or a builder, I’m fairly positive step one should be squaring up that rest room with the sunroom after which elevating the roof. And this can be a contractor I’ve labored with many occasions on varied tasks on our home, so he is aware of I’m a DIYer, and he is aware of I’ll need to DIY as a lot of this venture as attainable. So I’ll see what the contractor has to say subsequent week, and I’ll hold y’all up to date!

Right here’s a side-by-side of the “present” and “after” plan for comparability. I believe this plan will work!