Last week was a bummer. But this week is shaping up to be a lot better with a lot more progress. Already this morning, I’m seeing progress on the walk-in closet and laundry area.
I’m hoping they can finish removing the flooring and subfloor by the end of the day.
Once they get the vapor barrier, insulation, and new subfloor installed, they’ll be building a new wall about here to separate the room into two areas. And then they’ll have to add the electrical outlets and plumbing for the washer and dryer.
I can’t even tell you how excited I am that by the end of this week, I’ll probably have a laundry room. It’ll still need flooring, but that will be up to me to install and finish the flooring. And I’ll be very motivated to get that done just so that I can get my washer and dryer moved in here. Even though it’ll be a while before I can finish out the area (because I want to do the bedroom first), just being able to move the washer and dryer out of the sunroom will feel like a huge improvement.
Another thing that I’ll have them do while they’re here is to center the door into this room so that it’s centered with the window and will be centered with the doorway between the closet and the laundry area.
And I have decided that I’m not going to put a door between the hallway and the walk-in closet, and I am going to take that doorway all the way up to the ceiling to make the two entrances (into the closet and into the bedroom) have a cohesive look.
The challenge is that the entrance into the walk-in closet can’t go all the way up to the ceiling because that wall is load-bearing and it would be way too structurally challenging (and expensive) to remove that top plate. So they’re going to open it up to the top place of the wall and leave that exposed for me to deal with. I already have a plan for how to deal with that little hurdle.
Anyway, one thing that dawned on me this weekend is that I had planned to put hardwood flooring all throughout this whole area, from the new bedroom French doors, all through the closet and laundry area, the hallway, and the bedroom. So basically, all of this area in the orange.
But does that make sense to put hardwood flooring in a laundry area? Most laundry rooms don’t have hardwood flooring. I mean, it’s not completely unheard of, but tile seems to be the go-to flooring for bathrooms and laundry room.
So now I’m thinking that I might need to plan for tile just in the laundry area, which will be separated from the closet by a 15-lite pocket door.
Maybe I’m overthinking it. But maybe not. I really think I should put tile in that area, right? I’ve never had a proper laundry room before, so let me know your experiences. Have you had hardwood flooring in a laundry room before? And if so, was it a problem?
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.