Second-Guessing My Plan For The Closet Doorway

I headed to Residence Depot this previous Sunday to get all the pieces I wanted for this challenge — a 2×4 to border out the highest of the doorway, all the trim boards to trim out the doorway like I trim out all of our different doorways and home windows, drywall mud to patch the drywall that may should be added above the highest trim on the door, and many others.

After which I set out yesterday to get the job completed. I minimize the two×4 to create the highest jamb of the doorway, and began attaching it, after which began second-guessing the entire plan.

Proper now, the doorway to the closet is so tall and open. In case you’ve forgotten, right here’s the way it seems to be proper now with the very tough opening…

I had needed the ceiling between the lobby and the closet to be degree and clean with no separation in any respect, however that couldn’t be completed as a result of these 2x4s on the prime can’t be eliminated. They’re undoubtedly bearing a load as a result of there’s a ceiling joist that ends proper on prime of these 2x4s. So these needed to keep, which type of ruined my imaginative and prescient for it.

That turned out to be okay since I ended up colour drenching the closet in blue and painted the ceiling the identical blue as the cupboards. I wouldn’t wish to have to make use of that very same blue on the ceiling all through the entire bed room suite, so these 2x4s created a pure stopping level. So in the long run, I used to be glad they had been there.

However then my plan was to border out this doorway similar to the opposite doorways and home windows in the home, which appear to be this with the massive prime trim and easy 1x4s on the perimeters.

I figured it will be nice as a result of that’s how the opposite two doorways within the bed room lobby will probably be trimmed out as soon as they’re completed. Proper now, the door to the bed room suite seems to be like this, however as soon as the facet items are reinstalled, it can appear to be the remainder of the doorways in the home.

After which, after all, the doorway to the present hallway rest room (which can finally be a storage room for the bed room suite) will probably be trimmed out the identical method. (Excuse the mess. Once I say I didn’t do any work throughout my break, I imply that I didn’t do a single little bit of precise, unpleaseant work, and that features cleansing up all the leftover closet challenge mess. 😀 )

I did a really fast (and never very fairly) mockup of what it will appear to be as soon as the drywall above the doorway is in place if I persist with this plan.

And then you definately’ll have to make use of your creativeness to check it with the identical trim as the opposite doorways, the teal grasscloth on the higher a part of the partitions on both facet, and the creamy white wainscoting on the decrease a part of the partitions on both facet.

I simply can’t assist however assume that it’s going to look busy. And once more, since there received’t be an precise door on the closet/laundry space, I don’t assume it can really look cohesive with the opposite doorways.

So after second-guessing this plan yesterday, I attempted to check one thing else. And what I lastly landed on is that this potential plan. What if, as a substitute of framing out this doorway like the opposite two that truly have doorways, I go away it open like it’s now, and easily use these 2x4s on the prime as a base to connect crown molding on the prime? I’d ensure to line it up precisely in order that the underside of the crown molding hits proper on the backside of these 2x4s that drop down.

That implies that as a substitute of protecting over the uncovered 2×4 framing on the perimeters and prime of the doorway with trim, I’d merely cowl them with drywall, similar to the opposite outdoors corners are lined with drywall.

After which, as soon as I add the wainscoting and grasscloth to the lobby and bed room partitions, that very same therapy would simply wrap round these corners similar to they’ll wrap across the different corners within the lobby and bed room.

To create an endpoint for the grasscloth and wainscoting the place it meets the closet partitions, I may simply add a bit little bit of vertical trim, but it surely wouldn’t be the large trim that I typically use on doorways and home windows.

So that is the route I’m leaning as a result of I actually just like the openness of the closet doorway, and I don’t wish to create extra visible obstacles or any visible muddle on this space. And as a lot as I really like the way in which I trim out doorways and home windows, I do assume it can create some visible muddle if I add it to this doorway.

What do you concentrate on that concept? Are you able to envision it? I do know that implies that I’ll have to really do some drywall work, and I hate doing drywall. However I believe I’ll be happier with the outcome, so I’m keen to do the additional drywall work if it’ll give me a greater completed outcome.