Revisiting The Studio Half Bathroom (The Current State Of Things And A New Vision)

Yesterday, I shared my new plan for our future new kitchen. It’s a reasonably drastic change of plans, however the extra I give it some thought, the extra excited I get about it. In case you missed that, you can read about it here. The brand new plan appears a lot extra manageable than the earlier bigger, grander plan.

However among the best issues about this new plan is that it means I’ll maintain the studio half lavatory. With the earlier plan, this room had been slated for demolition sooner or later. When that call was made, I closed the door on this room (actually) and by no means seemed again. The door on this room has been closed and the room forgotten for nicely over a yr now. In truth, I simply seemed again on the weblog, and I can’t see the place I’ve posted something concerning the lavatory after November 2023. That’s pushing two years.

I do know a few of you could be questioning why I’d shut the door and never look again on a half lavatory. In any case, even a half lavatory that isn’t totally adorned and completed will be helpful, proper? Nicely, no. This lavatory requires a pump for the bathroom and sink, and that pump stopped working way back. And since this lavatory was on the chopping block, and I had deliberate to show it right into a walk-through pantry from the long run new kitchen to the again doorways of the studio that result in the carport, I had no intention of spending the cash required to restore or exchange the pump. So I closed the door to the room and deliberate to by no means return till I used to be able to get began on the brand new kitchen and walk-through pantry.

So yesterday, for the primary time in a minimum of 18 months, I made a decision to open the door and see precisely how I had left it. It wasn’t fairly as dangerous as I had remembered it, but it surely’s not nice, both.

However after some time, I grew bored with the partitions. And after I began engaged on my studio in 2023, I made a decision that the lavatory wanted a makeover as nicely. That’s after I began taking off the wall tile and developing with a brand new plan for the partitions.

And that is so far as I obtained earlier than I made a decision to go a distinct path with the perform of this room altogether.

However now, the plan is to maintain the perform of the room the identical and end it. And I’ve to say, I’m form of relieved about that. I actually appreciated having a working, usable lavatory on this facet of the home.

The room is a large number, and it’s been forgotten so lengthy that there are cobwebs in right here. However I don’t suppose it will take lengthy in any respect to complete it. The toughest components — the crown molding, door trim, window trim, wainscoting, and vainness — are all already in place.

So at this level, I’m a really fundamental makeover, not a transform.

Clearly, the primary order of enterprise must be getting this pump mounted or changed. And not using a working pump, this lavatory isn’t practical in any respect.

After which I can end up with the partitions and few ornamental touches. I believe it will likely be a relative fast challenge as quickly as I get a plan in place.

Once I began engaged on the studio, I had a plan to maintain this lavatory actually colourful and enjoyable consistent with the colours within the studio. I even designed a wallpaper for the partitions.

However with the brand new plan, I don’t suppose I’ll be utilizing this wallpaper anymore. The brand new plan is to make this lavatory the official visitor lavatory. That can enable me to utterly end the bed room suite, together with turning the hallway lavatory right into a much-needed storage room for Matt’s tools. And it’ll enable us to get a brand new scorching water heater which is able to go in that storage closet as nicely. The recent water heater is the final remaining mounted merchandise within the sunroom that’s stopping us from tearing down the sunroom.

So with this lavatory turning into our official visitor lavatory (and the one visitor lavatory we’ll have for an extended whereas), I don’t really need it to be a loopy, psychedelic, seizure-inducing room. So long as we had that hallway lavatory out there for company, I used to be just about the one one that ever used this half lavatory. So I may make it as loopy and colourful as I needed to. However now that it’ll have a bigger “viewers”, I need it to be a extra typically pleasing room that isn’t coated in loopy shade.

Don’t get me unsuitable. There shall be shade. And, in spite of everything, it’s nonetheless situated inside my studio, which is a colourful feast for the eyes. Lest you overlook…

So company should stroll by means of this to get to the lavatory. However I’m okay with that. This room, greater than every other in our home, is my color-loving persona in room kind.

And everybody who has seen my studio in particular person has been very complimentary about it. Even when they wouldn’t need it in their very own houses, folks appear to get pleasure from it in our home.

And I’m happy to report that up to now, my studio hasn’t induced a seizure in a single single visitor. In order that’s good. I believe folks can deal with strolling by means of my studio to get to a toilet.

However I want to give you a calmer and extra typically pleasing plan for the lavatory. I may even carry the inexperienced from the again entry partitions onto the highest parts of the lavatory partitions.

Inexperienced is a typically pleasing shade. It might give me shade, and clearly, it’s a shade I like since I selected it for the partitions of the again entry. I already know that it really works nicely with the studio. And it will be comparatively fast and simple to do some drywall restore, paint the partitions, add some ornamental touches, and be accomplished with it.

So proper now, the plan of motion is that this. I’m going to complete up the lobby and bed room. These areas are precedence #1 proper now. (I’m nonetheless engaged on the partitions within the lobby.) As quickly as these two areas are accomplished, I’m going to complete this studio half lavatory. When it’s completed, I’m going to return and switch the hallway lavatory right into a storage closet in order that I can get our bed room suite utterly completed with no tasks left undone. After which, as soon as the bed room suite is 100% completed, I’ll begin on my workshop.

It’s a slight change of plan from earlier than, however not too large. And this manner, we’ll have a very completed bed room suite with no awkward “center stage” of getting a visitor lavatory inside our master suite suite. I’m very excited concerning the concept of it being utterly completed with no awkward in between phases, and no tasks left hanging over my head that I’ve to return and handle sooner or later sooner or later.

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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