Chris and I’ve at all times mentioned that if we do not really feel 100% all-in excited a couple of challenge—each of us—then we most likely have not discovered the answer but. I believe that is been the story with our major rest room as a complete. We really feel enthusiastic about doing the challenge, but it surely’s been YEARS within the design part as a result of it simply hasn’t clicked. We’ve not solved all of our ache factors, till lately. I will get to that in only a minute, as a result of WOW, thrilling stuff. However earlier than we do, I need to preface this by saying, no challenge goes to be excellent. Excellent is boring. I am not on the lookout for an ideal rest room. (However spoiler, I believe we’re gonna be fairly darn shut.)
Earlier than we begin a challenge, we do at all times record out our ache factors, and there is actually no level in renovating until you possibly can handle these ache factors. Like, why spend the cash to make one thing prettier if it nonetheless features the identical approach. Think about if we renovated our rest room and stored the 28″ vanities. Ha! We began working with Jean Stoffer and her workforce a pair months in the past and every thing began clicking! She helped us handle some points that we could not fairly work out—and we did not need to compromise on, and it looks like every thing is transferring now.
Listed below are a few of the design components that may completely remodel 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 dealing with this massive window. What a distinction that can be! It feels apparent now, however we’re so completely happy we received right here.
- We actually wished to suit a bath and a sit-down self-importance. However irrespective of how we laid out the design ourselves, we couldn’t appear to suit each. For those who take a look at the drawing, Jean match a little bit sit-down self-importance 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 after I need 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 a variety of doorways cramping it up—proper now now we have 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 must look so symmetrical! Plus we will maximize the house inside.
The final block, was the closets themselves are small, particularly for this measurement of home. We have now toyed with every thing from increasing our home into our yard to realize house and even began eyeing the research. Each choices have been too excessive. I used to be so grateful that we shared all this in Love Letter (enroll right here so you do not miss any!). We received a slew of concepts from you all, and a variety of the suggestions talked about extending the floorplan one way or the other. And we could not cease occupied with this concept…
Altering the Lavatory Footprint
Now, we do not need to prolong our home in any respect. BUT I believe we’re gonna prolong the closets and make our bed room smaller. Which feels loopy but additionally apparent!! It’s the one choice actually.
Ground Mirror | Chairs (classic – comparable) | Polly Ivory/Pure 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 most likely have to maneuver the chandelier. However there’s nonetheless room on the finish of the mattress for the bench.
Proper now there’s a variety of additional house in our bed room. Some individuals discover that luxurious (and I get it), however I might relatively have additional house in our closet than our bed room. Once we instructed Jean we wish to do this for the toilet design, she mentioned that it could assist tremendously. So she’s expanded the closets and even expanded room across the self-importance!
Simply take a look at this structure if we increase into our bed room 30 inches! Superb!
The Plan for the Bathtub
One stunning factor concerning the rest room transform 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 can 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 home was a dreammmm). I preserve questioning, “Are we positive? Are we positive?” However…I’m fairly positive.
The Plan for the Lavatory Partitions
Certainly one of our objectives for this rest room is for it to really feel like a spot the place you need to hang around, which is form of a humorous factor to say a couple of rest room. However we instructed Jean that we wish the identical finishes you’d discover anyplace else in the home. For the toilet wall trim, we’re doing recessed panels, which is the inverse of our major bed room proper subsequent to it. There can be plenty of accent lighting. All the partitions can have trim, however the baseboards can be stone so it’s actually useful for a loo. I believe it is going to be so fairly.
Since now we have a darkish bed room, I actually need the toilet to be a lightweight romantic counterpart to our moody bed room. I’m even contemplating a lightweight blush coloration 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 coloration.
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 can be a smaller completely different tile. We’re even mimicking it within the bathe to replicate the molding on the skin. It’s gonna be nice.
The Plan for the Bathe
Through the years, we have discovered that we don’t like extra glass in a bathe than only a door. In certainly one of our first rest room remodels we did an all-glass bathe enclosure. It appears to be like nice for a bit. However then it’s so laborious to repairs!! So this one, we simply have the door as glass after which there are moldings throughout it. It’s going to have this lovely conventional look.
I’ve at all times completed a mixture of gold and polished nickel for lavatory {hardware}, and I don’t see that altering for this rest room. 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 Lavatory Ground & Ceiling
We have now gone forwards and backwards on the ground between wood flooring and tile flooring. The remainder of the primary ground is all wooden. Once more, occupied with the transition going from our bed room to the toilet, it could 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 various instructions!! So we’re simply going to make it a 10-foot ceiling. It is going to 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 a variety of doorways cramping it up—proper now now we have 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 must look so symmetrical! Plus we will maximize the house inside.
The Timeline for the Major Lavatory Renovation
I can see us having every thing ordered this 12 months, after which the first rest room redesign could be the kickoff renovation challenge for 2025!! Proper now we’re engaged on making ultimate choices for finishes and making orders, and on the brink of begin in January with demo. Our contractor says if every thing is in place, they’ll get it completed fairly fast!
Listed below are some posts on our present and up to date major rest room renovations:
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