The Current State Of Our Master Bedroom Suite

I’m pretty sure the entrance to the bedroom suite looks exactly as it did at the end of last year. I starting installing the new French doors, but I still haven’t finished those. That will be the first thing I do so that I can actually close the doors and keep Cooper and Felicity out of this area of the house as the work begins. Right now, they can both easily push the doors open and get into this area.

To the right is the entrance to the guest bathroom, which will have to stay here for the near future. When all is said and done, the entrance into this bathroom will be moved out of the bedroom suite and this bathroom will be accessible via a hallway on the other side of the bathroom.

To the left, just inside the bedroom suite, is the doorway to what will be the big walk-in closet and laundry room combo. I had the door completely removed, and I had the doorway opened up as high as they could go without having to remove the top plates of the load bearing wall. I have a vision for this, but it’s too hard to explain without illustrations, so y’all will probably just have to wait and see it as it comes to reality.

Because this will be a closet, and I didn’t want to have to adjust the cabinets to make room for a light switch, I had them move the light switch to the outside of the room. Check out this drywall mud situation. 🙁 This is one of the things I’ll have to correct (or completely redo) myself.

And here’s the state in which the contractor left this room. The good news is that the big stuff is done. It has a new vapor barrier, new insulation under the floor, and new subfloor.

I did make a minor change to my original plans. Instead of having the washer and dryer together on one side, I had the hookup for the washer placed in the back right corner…

And the hookup for the dryer placed in the back left corner…

I did this to keep as much room as possible available for the actual closet portion of the room.

But after I made that change, I realized that I also need a water hookup for my dryer because it has a steam function. That’s an addition to the list that I added later, and it actually got done.

Here’s the current view looking back towards the door of the walk-in closet. It’s a mess right now.

And the rest of this really hasn’t changed since I showed you last. Nothing has been done, and nothing has changed in the bedroom portion of the suite. Here’s the entrance into the bedroom where I had them remove the door completely and open up the doorway to the ceiling.

And then I’ll give you a quick look around the room, even though I’m pretty sure you’ve seen all of this already at the end of last year. As I said, I don’t think anything has changed in here over the last three weeks.

I did decide to keep the breaker box in this room. I like that there’s easy and quick access to the breaker box in case of emergency, and that saves me about $3000 that I can use towards other projects. I’m 100% confident that I can disguise or cover the box in a way that it won’t show while still giving me easy access to it.

And finally, the look back towards the entrance to the bedroom suite…