My Bedroom Door Decision And Plans (I’m Meeting With A Contractor Today!)

I don’t know why, however I had it in my thoughts that it wanted to be French doorways on the entrance wall of the bed room.

However after all, that results in a complete lot of different points. With these vast doorways (which might be at least 5 toes vast, if not wider), then I’d want a fair wider touchdown. And with a wider touchdown, then I’ve to cope with both working round our fuel meter and sewer line cleanout or having each of these moved.

All of it appeared a bit overwhelming. And costly. However then a couple of of you talked about that I don’t actually need French doorways, particularly as a result of it’s on the entrance of the home. All I would like is a single door. In spite of everything, the one function of the door is to get Matt out rapidly and safely within the occasion of an emergency.

Initially, I didn’t love the concept. That’s in all probability as a result of I had been so set on French doorways that I couldn’t get my thoughts to “see” some other risk. The truth is, after I known as the contractor to arrange right now’s assembly, I used to be nonetheless considering that I’d have him give me a value for French doorways.

One other difficulty I’ve had is that I don’t need a wheelchair ramp within the entrance of our home. I can’t consider a approach to incorporate it in a means that may look good. I’ll completely bend over backwards to make Matt’s life as simple as doable. I’ve jumped via hoops to verify doorways are large enough, there aren’t any raised thresholds that he has to cope with, there aren’t any annoying space rugs in fundamental passthroughs, and on and on. We had an enormous concrete wheelchair ramp added out the again doorways of my studio resulting in the carport. And once we construct our addition, I’ll guarantee that there’s a simple means for him to get from inside the home onto the deck or patio or no matter we’ve again there. I try to make his life simple in each means doable. However a wheelchair ramp within the entrance of our home is a line within the sand for me.

However when my pal was right here final week, and we have been standing in that room and speaking in regards to the prospects, she had a fantastic thought. She stated that her husband makes use of moveable ramps (like light-weight moveable aluminum ramps) for every kind of wants, like getting a four-wheeler into the again of a truck, or transporting heavy tools that must be put onto a trailer. So she urged that because the door will actually solely be utilized by Matt within the case of an emergency, that I ought to simply put steps from the door to the bottom after which stash a rust-proof aluminum ramp on the aspect of the home that may be accessed rapidly and simply in an emergency. I really like that concept!! It may actually simply lean in opposition to the aspect of the home and be hidden by landscaping. It’s the right answer.

So after having a bit over per week to consider the concept of a single door after which speaking with my pal about this concept of steps with an simply accessible moveable ramp, I’ve come round to the concept of getting a single door put in there. I used to be going to attempt to do a mockup of the concept, full with steps, landscaping, and many others., however as a substitute, I made a decision to let ChatGPT do it for me. And whereas it’s not good, it really produced a fairly good image on the very first attempt!

That is the photograph I uploaded to ChatGPT…

And that is what it gave me…

It even saved the fuel meter! 😀 Y’all, I can completely work with that! It’s not precisely proper. I can’t have that vast step up from the touchdown into the doorway, clearly. And I’d like so as to add some top to the crops, particularly that plant within the nook the place the bed room wall meets the a part of the walk-in closet wall that juts out from the entrance of the home. However I can completely work with this! I’m really very enthusiastic about this! And I do suppose that it seems so significantly better from the surface than French doorways would have appeared because it’s the entrance of our home.

UPDATE: I additionally had ChatGPT do a mockup of the inside. That is the photograph I uploaded…

I discovered the onerous means that it’s a must to be very express within the directions that you simply give ChaptGPT. So long as you spell out each element, it does a fairly good job! So that is the immediate I gave it:

Create picture: Maintain the angle and proportions of the view of this room precisely the identical because it seems on this photograph. Maintain the hardwood flooring precisely the identical. Maintain the window on the appropriate the very same, together with the woven window shade and the white trim across the window. Take away the window on the left. Within the place of that window, add an exterior 15-lite door with white trim. Take away the colourful strips from the partitions. On the partitions, add white wainscoting to the underside portion of the partitions from the ground as much as 32″ on the partitions. Above the wainscoting, add darkish teal grasscloth wallpaper the remainder of the best way up the partitions. Across the prime of the partitions, add white crown molding. On both aspect of the door and both aspect of the window, add curtains made out of darkish teal velvet held on gold curtain rods and gold curtain rings.

And that is the picture it rendered…

That’s fairly good! I imply, the curtains are a bit wonky on the door, and there’s no means I’d ever hold curtains round a single door or window on two separate rods. In order that rod above the door can be one steady curtain rod. However apart from that, it did a fairly good job and a minimum of offers us an thought of what it can seem like. It even received the trim proper across the door. 😀 I like it!

UPDATE: Okay, I attempted another time with the outside simply to make a couple of adjustments. That is the immediate I gave ChatGPT as a follow-up to the primary exterior picture it rendered:

Maintain every little thing about this picture precisely the identical with the next exceptions…

1. Make the 2 quick evergreen crops a lot taller — a minimum of six toes tall.
2. Transfer the 2 navy blue container planters with the greenery and colourful flowers again in opposition to the home as a substitute of getting them in direction of the entrance of the concrete porch.
3. Add a small pergola above the door with brackets mounted to the stone on both aspect of the door. Make the pergola the identical width because the concrete porch.

And that is the picture it rendered…

I imply, it’s not fairly what I had in thoughts. These bushes are a bit too good and pointy for my style, and the pergola seems a bit weighty for that door. However general, I like the concept!