Thinking Through Storage Room Details

I’m nonetheless working away on the concrete fake “stones” for my entrance porch skirting, and it’s wanting like I gained’t meet my purpose to have my out of doors initiatives completed up by my birthday this weekend. I’m somewhat disillusioned, however I’m working as quick as I can, and I’m not going to depart initiatives unfinished simply due to an arbitrary deadline that I positioned on myself. So I will likely be ending up the entrance porch (ending the concrete fake stone skirting and portray the wooden porch), putting in the brand new entrance porch lights, and portray the world across the new bed room door. Then I’ll get all of these areas, in addition to the world across the aspect studio door, cleaned up, and I’ll be carried out with the out of doors initiatives for now. I hope to return to them within the fall.

After I attain that stopping level exterior, I’ll lastly be engaged on the storage room in our bed room suite. For those who’re new right here, the room I’m speaking about is a hallway rest room that was our essential visitor rest room, however has since been subsumed by our main bedroom suite. And because it’s somewhat odd to have a visitor rest room within a main bedroom suite, and I actually need extra storage for Matt’s tools, I’ll be turning that visitor rest room right into a storage room.

For now, that loo is hidden behind closed doorways within the lobby of our bed room suite.

I’m so glad that it may be hidden away as a result of that loo/future storage room, which used to appear to be this…

…at the moment seems like this…

I began on it, after which determined that I simply wasn’t ready to leap into one other main inside undertaking proper on the heels of ending my bedroom-to-walk-in closet conversion and our bed room rework. So I closed the doorways, walked away briefly, and turned my focus to some out-of-the-norm exterior initiatives for now. However as quickly as I wrap up these previous couple of out of doors initiatives, I’ll be beginning again on this storage closet undertaking. I’m feeling ready and equipped for an additional inside rework undertaking now.

However earlier than I get there, I must make some selections. I’ve already labored by the essential format of the room. When standing within the doorway, I would like cupboards on the proper wall to be organized like this (which you’ve already seen in a earlier put up). The massive, clean space will likely be the place I retailer Matt’s energy wheelchair and bathe wheelchair once they’re not in use…

After which the wall on the left will likely be organized to look one thing like this…

I’ve been attempting to suppose by precisely how I need to construct these cupboards. Since that is only a storage room, and I’ll actually be the one one that ever accesses this storage room, it actually comes all the way down to what I would like and the way a lot effort I need to put into this room. I’ve two choices for the cupboards.

First, I can go all out and construct precise cupboards like I did in my closet.

For those who adopted alongside throughout that undertaking, you realize that every part in my closet is a separate cupboard, and each has its personal sides, again, backside, and prime. Then I lined up the person cupboards towards the wall, screwed them collectively and anchored them to the wall, after which added the entire trim. That’s the extra concerned means of constructing a closet, however to me, it leads to a extra customized look.

However a a lot simpler and quicker approach to create plenty of usable storage could be to make use of wall brackets (like these from Home Depot) and put cabinets immediately on the wall.

If I’m going that route, I’d nonetheless must construct or purchase the drawer sections, however then above these drawer sections, I might have steady cabinets spanning your complete size of the wall.

I actually haven’t been in a position to determine which route I need to go. What I do know for positive is that I need to use this wallpaper within the room…

And I would like the cupboards and/or cabinets (and doubtless the ceiling) to be painted both pink or orange. I haven’t even checked out paint colours but, however I simply grabbed these two colours immediately from the wallpaper.

I do know I’m in my pink period proper now 😀 , so pink looks as if the plain selection. However don’t neglect that this storage room is in our bed room suite, and our bed room is the one pink-free room in the home. That room has plenty of orange in it.

Anyway, as I’ve been working these previous couple of days, these are the ideas and plans which were swirling round in my thoughts. As you’ll be able to see, I’m nonetheless figuring out the main points. If I’m going with the total cupboard choice, the paint colour will play a way more outstanding function within the room, and the wallpaper will likely be an accent. If I’m going with the open cabinets on brackets, the paint colour will likely be much less outstanding, and the wallpaper will present way more. Plus, there are these different issues that I listed above with every choice.

I’m nonetheless considering by it, and I nonetheless have some time earlier than I must make my ultimate determination. Even once I’m completed with the out of doors initiatives, I nonetheless want to complete up on the demolition of the room earlier than I may even begin constructing. I’ve a while, however I’d wish to have a stable plan in place inside the subsequent couple of weeks.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish 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.