Sarah’s House – Master Renovation Before

After ten long years, I finally started the renovation of our home. I know how it lives and I know it’s shortcomings in terms of layout and flow. What evolves as you spend hours staring at the walls is how to design, improve and correct those flaws. Years ago, I formed a plan to remodel this house in phases and those phases and priorities changed as our lifestyles and worklife changed. In 2022, I decided that the renovation of the master suite to create a place of respite for ourselves, in a busy and stressful life, would move in to the Phase I position.

The general scope of work and my goal for this project included:

  1. Use existing footprint of playroom and current master bedroom and bath and convert to a more spacious master suite with walk-in closet. We wanted to create a more open layout and larger spaces without building an addition
  2. Define laundry space in hall
  3. Add natural light with more windows

This is what was,

Playroom Bookcase
Textured walls
Playroom Window
Messy but FUN
Tiny Master Bedroom
Equally tiny closet

The bathroom was so small and uninspiring, I couldn’t ever bring myself to even take a before image.

I did enlist the help of a designer, Addie Welch, who could put my ideas and concept into CAD and do some spatial planning on paper. Here’s my final concept on paper –

So this is our starting point. What would come would be a long process with supply chain related delays and busy subcontractors but pretty great in the end.

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