Hey guys! I was looking through some pictures to find a few I need for a little subfloor patching instructional and found this before picture of my hallway. It has changed SO much I had to share.
Hallway behind the kitchen leading to the master bedroom and location of bedroom door.
BEFORE
NOW
The plank wall and barn door are significant changes but the biggest change comes from stealing hallway space and building a big ole’ pantry!
I plan to put some built-ins along the wall that will end where the wall bumps out and angles. It will make the hall feels smaller but it’s SOOO wide that hopefully it will still feel spacious AND provide us with tons of storage.
But that is the long term picture and is pretty far down the list of things to do to make this house functional, livable and pretty darn good lookin’!
A little higher on the list is putting an actual door in the master bedroom doorway! But even that is not too high on my list and won’t happen for months.
I DID patch the flooring there because I didn’t want us stubbing our toes every day. Which is why I was searching for pictures — so tune in next time for some details on patching the subfloor after you relocate a floor vent. 😀
Val says
Nice to hear from you! I missed your blog 🙂
Jane says
If you don’t actually need the storage those built ins would provide, you could just plank that pantry bump out. It would make it a feature instead of making you feel like you need to disguise it. Plus repeating elements is good design. As an added bonus, you wouldn’t have to do a finishing mud job on the drywall. A spacious hallway is nice, but then again so is a good built in.
Do your friends badger you to do projects for them? I get a fair amount of that. I am not nearly as skilled as you but I am rather adept. My requests are increasing but I have small children still and I have no shortage of my own projects. If I take on other people’s projects, my own don’t get done. I enjoy doing the stuff but I only have so much time. Plus, I have a hard time charging prices that actually make it worth taking time away from my family or my projects. People that don’t know how things are built have no idea the time that goes into it. I’m not a professional, I’m self taught. I think other women like us probably have the same conflict and I was wondering what you do.