The Day Is Finally Here! (I’m Meeting With The Architect Today About Our Addition)

I used to be starting to assume at the present time would by no means occur. After I met with the contractor that we’re going to make use of for our home addition on the finish of July, he gave me the identify of the architect that they often use for his or her initiatives. The architect contacted me shortly after to arrange a gathering, nevertheless it has been one street block after one other for the final three months.

He contacted me a couple of days earlier than he was supposed to go away for a two-week cruise, however I couldn’t match a gathering into my schedule earlier than he left, so I instructed him to contact me when he acquired again. Effectively, proper after he acquired again, he acquired COVID and quarantined himself for 10 days. Then after that, Matt and I each got here down with colds. Then the architect needed to exit of city (or maybe out of state). Then I used to be down for 10 days with sciatica. 😀

I imply, I’m not one to search for “indicators” or something, however even I used to be starting to surprise if this enterprise relationship wasn’t presupposed to occur. 😀 However I made a decision to simply be affected person, strive to not get anxious about something, and simply let issues occur once they occur. That’s form of been my angle about the entire addition. Whereas I desperately need it carried out NOW, I additionally don’t need to rush into issues, make silly errors, make dangerous choices, and many others. So I’m doing my greatest to stay calm, clear-headed, and peaceable about the entire thing.

However we’re lastly assembly right now, and I couldn’t be extra excited!! I’ve by no means met with an architect earlier than. I’ve by no means had any initiatives that required an architect till now. One venture required a seek the advice of with a structural engineer, however the contractor took care of that. So that is all new to me, and I actually don’t know what to anticipate from this assembly.

I’m ready with all of my drawings and notes, although. Fortunately, I’ve had actually years to dream about and plan this addition, in order that’s given me loads of time to work by way of the entire numerous potentialities, land on the one which feels proper to me, and actually have time to mull it over to ensure I don’t need to make extra modifications. However I’ve been fairly content material with the final format I confirmed y’all, which seems to be like this…

I haven’t needed to vary something concerning the ground plan since then. That association feels excellent to me. And I’m so trying ahead to each side of that addition! I could also be trying ahead to the laundry room only a tiny bit greater than the opposite areas, however not a lot.

In reality, do you bear in mind a couple of weeks in the past after I taped off the size of the music room on the music room ground?

I solely simply took that tape up yesterday. 😀 It had been there for 5 weeks as a result of I cherished taking a look at it and with the ability to see the actual dimensions of the room. However I lastly determined yesterday that it had been there lengthy sufficient.

For a very long time, I stored flip flopping on the concept of a passthrough from the kitchen to the household room. However at this level, I’m fairly decided to have one so long as there’s the opportunity of closing it off after we need it closed.

And I grew to become much more enamored of the concept when somebody despatched me an image (or possibly a hyperlink to an image) of the kitchen within the Mary Tyler Moore present that had a stained glass window that could possibly be opened to open up the kitchen to the lounge…

Or it could possibly be pulled all the way down to separate the kitchen from the lounge.

To be trustworthy, I’ve by no means seen the Mary Tyler Moore Present (I do know, I do know…*collective gasp* 😀 ), so I had by no means seen that till somebody introduced it to my consideration in a touch upon a put up a couple of weeks again. I really like that! And whereas I really like how charming and quirky it’s that it lifts up and lowers, I don’t have the attic house for that. So mine should open like pocket doorways.

And likewise, since doing that ground plan, I’ve determined to do a reasonably main redo on our kitchen, and even develop our kitchen (visually, however with out shifting plumbing and different costly issues like that) by extending cupboards into the breakfast room flanking the pantry doorway.

In fact, I’d really use fairly cupboards, in order that they wouldn’t look precisely like that mock up. So I’m undecided concerning the timeline for these modifications. Clearly, the passthrough should be carried out with the addition because it’ll want fairly a little bit of reinforcement, however I’m undecided if we’ll do the kitchen on the identical time. These are all issues I hope to speak by way of with the architect right now, after which with the contractor later, to get their opinions.

However the thrilling issues is that the ball is lastly getting rolling right now! I’m positive it’ll nonetheless be a really slow-rolling ball for some time, and till the precise work will get began. However I’m simply so comfortable to lastly have some (any) ahead motion on this venture, and to take y’all alongside on the journey.

UPDATE: I simply realized that I can’t go away y’all in suspense with the paint swatch cupboard doorways for an entire weekend, so let me go away you with a fast peek at my progress. There was a really clear crowd favourite, and that was the #3 diagonal sample, however a number of individuals identified that a number of the greens appeared to leap out an excessive amount of. So I did a fast rearranging of about 4 of the greens in order that the order made extra sense. Right here’s a reminder of what the #3 diagonal appeared like, however that is with out the greens rearranged.

So right here’s my progress. The paint swatches are completed on 20-inch doorways on the highest row and the 30-inch doorways on the center row. On the underside row of 40-inch doorways, two of them have one coat of paint and want a second coat, whereas the opposite two doorways haven’t been painted but.

After which I nonetheless have to jot down the colour names underneath every swatch, after which clear coat the entire doorways with a few coats of my favourite Normal Finishes topcoat. Clearly, it hasn’t been an excellent quick venture. There are, in spite of everything, 72 paint colours on these doorways. But it surely hasn’t been too gradual or tedious, both.

I make no guarantees about when it’ll be completed, however I’m going to be working very diligently on this right now and over the weekend, so we’ll see how far I get by the point I’m again right here on Monday morning.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to be taught extra about me right here.