Chris and I’ve at all times stated that if we do not really feel 100% all-in excited a few venture—each of us—then we in all probability have not discovered the answer but. I believe that is been the story with our major rest room renovation as an entire. We really feel enthusiastic about doing the venture, but it surely’s been YEARS within the design section as a result of it simply hasn’t clicked. We have not solved all of our ache factors, till just lately. I will get to that in only a minute, as a result of WOW, thrilling stuff. However earlier than we do, I wish to preface this by saying, no venture goes to be good. Good is boring. I am not in search of an ideal rest room. (However spoiler, I believe we’re gonna be fairly darn shut.)
Earlier than we begin a venture, we do at all times record out our ache factors, and there is actually no level in renovating until you may tackle these ache factors. Like, why spend the cash to make one thing prettier if it nonetheless capabilities the identical method. Think about if we renovated our rest room and saved the 28″ vanities. Ha! We began working with Jean Stoffer and her team a pair months in the past and all the things began clicking! She helped us tackle some points that we could not fairly work out—and we did not wish to compromise on, and it seems like all the things is transferring now on the lavatory transform.
Listed below are a few of the design parts that may completely rework the first rest room:
- With our present rest room vanities, our backs are towards the window, and it’s simply the worst. We’re backlit all day. In Jean’s design, we’re going to have our vanities going through this massive window. What a distinction that will likely be! It feels apparent now, however we’re so completely happy we acquired right here.
- We actually needed to suit a bathtub and a sit-down vainness. However regardless of how we laid out the design ourselves, we couldn’t appear to suit each. Should you take a look at the drawing, Jean match a bit of sit-down vainness proper within the walkway part that cuts into the water closet. The doorways open on the wall so I haven’t got to scoot out once I wish to open one thing from the drawer. That was so thrilling.
- We determined so as to add pocket doorways to our closets to allow them to remain contained. Normally in a small house, you don’t need plenty of doorways cramping it up—proper now we’ve no doorways on the closets. However it will enable us to individualize the closets for Chris and me. In the event that they’re behind closed doorways, they don’t need to look so symmetrical! Plus we are able to maximize the house inside.
The final block, was the closets themselves are small, particularly for this dimension of home. Now we have toyed with all the things from increasing our home into our yard to realize house and even began eyeing the examine. Each choices had been too excessive. I used to be so grateful that we shared all this in Love Letter (sign up here so you do not miss any!). We acquired a slew of concepts from you all, and plenty of the suggestions talked about extending the floorplan someway. And we could not cease excited about this concept…
Altering the Toilet Footprint
Now, we do not wish to lengthen our home in any respect. BUT I believe we’re gonna lengthen the closets and make our bed room smaller. Which feels loopy but in addition apparent!! It’s the one possibility actually.
Floor Mirror | Chairs (classic – similar) | Polly Ivory/Natural Rug
The draw back of that’s that the bay window won’t be centered within the room any longer. We’re not going to chop into the window, however we’re going to take it 30 inches out from the place it’s now. I believe that it’ll really make our room really feel even cozier. The mirror won’t be on the wall anymore, but it surely might nonetheless be straight throughout from our mattress. We’ll in all probability have to maneuver the chandelier. However there’s nonetheless room on the finish of the mattress for the bench.
Proper now there’s plenty of additional house in our bed room. Some folks discover that luxurious (and I get it), however I would fairly have additional house in our closet than our bedroom. After we instructed Jean we wish to do this for the lavatory design, she stated that it might assist tremendously. So she’s expanded the closets and even expanded room across the vainness!
Simply take a look at this format if we increase into our bed room 30 inches! Superb!
The Plan for the Bathtub
One shocking factor concerning the major rest room design is that we’re planning to put in an undermount tub as an alternative of a freestanding tub. Lots of people proper now are doing a freestanding tub. We’re choosing an undermount tub for a number of causes:
- 1 assume the stonewear we’re going to mount it below will likely be actually beautiful.
- There are options you will get in an undermount tub that aren’t accessible in a clawfoot tub.
- You will get a bigger tub when it is undermounted (and we’re tall so….yeah).
To make it extra of a spa expertise, we’re within the bubble function, however not a jetted tub. And I believe we’re going to do a deck-mounted faucet within the again. I by no means thought in one million years I’d be getting an undermount tub (I imply, the freestanding tub we put into our Idaho Falls house was a dreammmm). I hold questioning, “Are we certain? Are we certain?” However…I’m fairly certain.
The Plan for the Toilet Partitions
One among our targets for this rest room transform is for it to really feel like a spot the place you wish to hang around, which is sort of a humorous factor to say a few rest room. However we instructed Jean that we would like the identical finishes you’d discover wherever else in the home. For the lavatory wall trim, we’re doing recessed panels, which is the inverse of our major bed room proper subsequent to it. There will likely be a number of accent lighting. All the partitions can have trim, however the baseboards will likely be stone so it’s actually practical for a loo. I believe it will likely be so fairly.
Since we’ve a darkish bed room, I actually need the lavatory design to be a light-weight romantic counterpart to our moody bed room. I’m even contemplating a light-weight blush shade for the wall paint! Proper now our partitions are lime inexperienced. I can’t even consider I’ve lived with them this lengthy!! It feels so thrilling to lastly say goodbye to that shade.
Within the bathe, we’re mimicking the wall moldings—in that there’s going to be tile creating insets, and contained in the insets there will likely be a smaller totally different tile. We’re even mimicking it within the bathe to replicate the molding on the surface. It’s gonna be nice.
The Plan for the Bathe
Through the years, we have realized that we don’t like extra glass in a bathe than only a door. In one in all our first rest room remodels we did an all-glass bathe enclosure. It seems to be nice for a bit. However then it’s so onerous to repairs!! So this one, we simply have the door as glass after which there are moldings throughout it. It will have this stunning conventional look.
I’ve at all times executed a mixture of gold and polished nickel for toilet {hardware}, and I don’t see that altering on this major rest room design. However I don’t know which would be the predominant one but!! I’ve at all times leaned on extra polished nickel for a loo—it feels actually traditional, and I simply love that.
The Plan for the Toilet Flooring & Ceiling
Now we have gone forwards and backwards on the ground between wooden floors and tile flooring. The remainder of the primary flooring is all wooden. Once more, excited about the transition going from our bed room to the lavatory, it might be so showstopping to do tile. In order that’s the place we’re at.
We’re additionally eliminating our vaulted ceiling! I don’t assume lots of people would take into consideration doing that. However the ceiling within the rest room vaults in so many alternative instructions!! So we’re simply going to make it a 10-foot ceiling. It should have straight, clear strains. That can enable us so as to add crown molding all through the house and have a cutoff for the trim. Taller isn’t at all times higher. Let’s have a straight ceiling!
The Plan for the Closet Doorways
We determined so as to add pocket doorways to our closets to allow them to remain contained. Normally in a small house, you don’t need plenty of doorways cramping it up—proper now we’ve no doorways on the closets. However it will enable us to individualize the closets for Chris and me. In the event that they’re behind closed doorways, they don’t need to look so symmetrical! Plus we are able to maximize the house inside.
The Timeline for the Main Toilet Renovation
I can see us having all the things ordered this yr, after which the first rest room transform could be the kickoff renovation venture for 2025!! Proper now we’re engaged on making closing choices for finishes and making orders, and on the point of begin in January with demo. Our contractor says if all the things is in place, they’ll get it executed fairly fast!
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