Bathroom Demolition (Bathroom-To-Storage Room Conversion Is Underway)

I had each intention of engaged on the entrance porch yesterday. I gathered my instruments, headed outdoors, and began engaged on the porch. I totally desiring to get the outdated, rotted fascia boards eliminated, get the brand new fascia boards put in, after which make some headway on the brand new porch skirting. However about half-hour into my work, it began sprinkling.

I’m not a “work within the rain” sort of particular person, so I gathered up my instruments and headed inside. After which I sat at my desk for a couple of minutes and thought, “Properly, what am I gonna work on now?” I had three choices, as I shared yesterday. I might begin clearing out the sunroom and getting it prepared for its low finances makeover into our new (and hopefully non permanent) house health club and sitting room combo. I might begin engaged on the eating room. Or I might begin engaged on the bathroom-to-storage room conversion.

I didn’t really feel mentally ready to sort out the sunroom simply but. That room, which is getting used as a storage room (with zero group to it) felt method too overwhelming to me proper now. I would like extra time to get mentally ready for that room. 😀 So I dominated that out. I haven’t give you a adorning plan for the eating room, so I’m not ready to work on that simply but. So, I headed to the hallway lavatory, hammer and pry bar in hand, and began on the demolition of that room.

I hadn’t deliberate on tackling this venture simply but. I had actually hoped to get some out of doors initiatives completed first earlier than I begin on this venture. But when the climate isn’t going to cooperate, there’s not likely an entire lot I can do about that. It seems like now we have fairly a little bit of rain within the forecast for the foreseeable future. So with all different choices off the desk, it seems just like the bathroom-to-storage room venture is now underway.

We will formally say goodbye to this lavatory. I actually beloved this lavatory. It was solely the second full transform I had ever achieved in my life. It was a real down-to-the-studs transform, and after I reworked this lavatory, I had solely ever achieved one different down-to-the-studs transform earlier than, and that was the kitchen in our home. So I used to be very happy with this lavatory transform after I completed the primary transform over ten years in the past (in 2015).

After which I beloved it much more after I gave it this colourful makeover a number of years later (in 2019).

However as they are saying, all good issues should come to an finish. And yesterday was the official finish of this room as a rest room.

As of yesterday, the room now seems like this…

I assumed it may be at the least somewhat bit emotional to me tearing out this room. I put a number of onerous work into this room, and aside from the plumbing, I did every part else on my own — the drywall, the tiling, the partitions and trim, and every part else.

However on the contrary, I felt no emotion about it aside from pleasure. That is the final space of our main bedroom suite that must be redone. And as soon as that is achieved, we can have an entire bed room suite that works for our particular wants.

I couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about having a correct storage space the place I can retailer Matt’s gear (energy wheelchair, bathe wheelchair, and Hoyer raise) after they’re not in use. For the final 12.5 years, Matt’s Hoyer raise and energy wheelchair have been everlasting fixtures in the primary areas of our home, seen and in the best way, when he’s not utilizing them. And his bathe wheelchair lives within the nook of our bathe. Fortunately, now we have an enormous bathe with loads of room for it, however I’d somewhat it not be a everlasting fixture within the bathe. So as soon as that is achieved, we’ll lastly have a storage room the place all of these issues may be tucked away, out of sight, and out of the primary site visitors areas of our home, when he doesn’t want to make use of them.

I used to be particularly curious to take away the panel that I constructed on the facet of the bath. I constructed this and added it to the facet of our very cheap bathtub over ten years in the past, and I constructed it utilizing MDF. Through the years, I’ve had many individuals warn me that the water would spoil it, and it could be a complete catastrophe over time.

Properly, it’s in good situation. As a result of I sealed it rather well the place the panel met the bath, you may see that no water ever acquired between the bath and the panel. And this was our primary lavatory for years till I completed our massive, accessible lavatory in December of 2022. This was the one lavatory in our home that had a tub and bathe, so it was in common use from 2015 till 2022. And the bath panel held up completely throughout seven years of continuous use.

You need to know the very best factor about this venture? Final night time, after I was completed working for the day, I simply closed the doorways to cover the mess.

I’m going to do my best possible to maintain the entire demolition and development mess contained in the room so that every day, after I’m completed working, I can shut the doorways and maintain our bed room suite wanting good and tidy in order that nobody will ever know what lurks behind these doorways.

When standing within the doorway of the room, the wall to the left might be cupboards from one finish to the opposite. That wall is 93 inches vast, so I believe I’ll divide that into three equal sections. Every part can have drawers on the backside, after which adjustable cabinets on the highest.

After which the wall on the best (the place the bath is true now) will look one thing like this.

It is going to even have one narrower part with drawers on the backside, however then the remainder of the ground house might be left open. That open house might be the place I can place Matt’s two wheelchairs alongside the wall. However then that leaves loads of wall house above them for extra shelf storage.

So when he’s not utilizing his Hoyer raise, I’ll simply put it within the storage room proper within the heart of the room. It’s on wheels (clearly), so it’s very simple to push to at least one facet or the opposite if I ever have to entry the storage cabinets or drawers whereas the Hoyer raise is in there. I believe it’ll work out completely. And because the wall on the best isn’t lengthy sufficient for all three gadgets, and there’s not sufficient depth between the wall on the left and the doorway to suit the Hoyer raise with out it overlaying over a part of the doorway, it’s actually the one possibility I’ve. I can work with that.

Anyway, it’s lastly in progress! If now we have a day of gorgeous climate the place I can get outdoors and work, I would steal time away from this venture to complete up the fascia boards and skirting on the entrance porch. However for the foreseeable future, I’ll be targeted primarily on this storage room till it’s completed. I’m actually excited to lastly have this venture underway!