Framing

Onto the next step in our fixer upper – framing. Not a ton of framing was needed since my goal was more of taking down walls then putting walls up. Walls we added, we adjusted the size of the powder room. A much needed laundry room in the basement (more on that in a later post), but the biggest part of the framing took place in the Master Suite area. Sadly, I struggled the most with this entire area.

They say you have to give and take when you buy an old house and I had to do that with our bathroom and closet. Our last house had a huge Master Suite. Jason and I felt that there was wasted space but I loved my oversize closet and the idea of going too much smaller wasn’t an option. That was one thing that sold me on building our old house. Moving on since I sold that house rather quickly and it is all memories now. Let’s talk about our fixer upper!

Our contractor recommended that we demo the entire wing, which was a great idea. We couldn’t figure out an exact layout with all the walls up and not seeing the entire space available. Once everything was open, I took out blue painters tape and started to lay tape down. I started with building a hallway which leads into the Master Suite. My Mom gave us the idea of taking 4 feet off our living room for that hallway – Perfect! Then, I moved into the closet and marked off that space – Done. Lets move into the bathroom. We knew the size of the walk-in shower we wanted plus we were trying not to move the toilet since our floors are concrete (that is a huge expense to move). Blue tape down in those areas. We are not putting a bathtub in so all the left over space was for a vanity – Complete. At first, Jason and I wanted separate vanities since I didn’t want his stuff in my area and he didn’t want my stuff in his area but in a marriage you have to learn to share so now we are sharing a good size double sink vanity. Here is what it look like framed.

Onto the laundry room. We had to build our laundry room in our basement for two reasons. First, I wanted a good size room and not a laundry closet. Second, I wanted it to have access from the outside and I did not want it in our mudroom. We have a single car garage located on the lower level side of our house which has an entrance into the basement. This spot seemed like a reasonable choice.

So what’s next now. Boring plumbing and electrical work but now I get to pick out all the fun interior design stuff! Don’t worry, I’ll bring you along with me to all of my shopping.

Love ya, Lisa