Bedroom Suite Foyer – FINISHED! (Before 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’ll be able to’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 once 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 grasp simply how drastically totally different that is, we’ve got to journey again to 2013 and keep in mind what this space appeared like after 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 facet — one coat closet on the left and one other smaller closet (the unique coat closet) that housed the furnace consumption duct.

And straight forward had been two bed room doorways.

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

After which to the facet 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 way of that opening.

After the primary rework, the hallway remained fairly giant. You’ll be able to see that the wall to the left of the visitor rest room was lengthy sufficient to place a little bit 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 appropriate of the built-in cupboards.

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

After which got here the second iteration. This took place as a result of we determined to show that bed room on the appropriate 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 positive because it was so giant 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 in opposition to the wall the place that bed room door was once.

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 appropriate 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 complete 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 complete space into our master suite suite. I began by eradicating the built-in cupboard from the hallway.

After which I made a decision to utterly take away the doorway to what was our residence gymnasium, and what would turn out to be our new bed room. However initially, I believed I might maintain the doorway to the visitor bed room (which might turn out to be 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 utterly totally different from the way it began out that it seems like a very totally different room altogether.

And since this complete 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 seems like. (Please kindly overlook the truth that I utterly forgot to scrub the consumption vent. 😒)

The visitor rest room will ultimately turn out to be a much-needed storage room for Matt’s gear — wheelchair, bathe wheelchair, Hoyer raise — 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 course — from the bed room wanting again in direction of the music room.

Right here’s the view from a little bit additional again, with me truly 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 once two doorways into the visitor bed room on the left and the house gymnasium on the appropriate.

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 approach an excessive amount of to cowl it up with a door.

And naturally, our chapel image (from our wedding 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 have to do just a few extra small-ish initiatives 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 truly been a really handy location for it. And the bench within the lobby provides me the proper spot if I want to take a seat all the way down to placed on my footwear. So in a approach, this lobby will not be solely an entrance into our bed room suite, nevertheless it’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 gentle and vivid when all is claimed and finished.) However I’m making an attempt to not get forward of myself. I have to get the bed room completed, and instantly after that, I have to get the studio rest room completed since that will probably be our new, interim visitor rest room. After which as soon as we’ve got 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 12 months.