Residence Gymnasium Progress (Plus, Lighting, Window Therapy, Door Coloration & Shelving Selections)

I’m making progress on the house health club, though I’m on the level the place progress is shifting alongside fairly slowly as a result of I’m engaged on the trim. I now have all the trim put in, and it’s all wooden crammed and sanded. At present, I hope to begin on caulking all the trim in order that I can begin portray it on Thursday.

I additionally spent a while doing a little wall repairs. In case you’ll keep in mind, I truly tried putting in crown molding on this room alongside the longest wall (i.e., the wall between the house health club and the grasp lavatory), after which determined that I didn’t prefer it. Properly, due to the way in which that crown molding is put in (nailed into the wall and the ceiling, with the completely different instructions of nails creating stress that helps to carry the crown in place), eradicating crown molding inevitably damages drywall. I had already achieved one coat of drywall mud on these areas, however they wanted one other coat, together with some sanding.

As soon as that all the prep work is finished, particularly caulking all the trim, I’ll be capable to get all the trim and wall touchups painted, after which I can truly begin on some ornamental stuff!

Talking of ornamental stuff, and due to all your enter, I’ve determined to construct two shelving models, put them on casters, and have them flank a chest of drawers within the middle of the closet space. I hope to discover a chest of drawers on Fb Market or some place else native, and simply paint it. I’d fairly not must construct one. After which I’ll mount a TV on the wall over the chest of drawers.

I’ve determined that all the things that goes into the room might be black and darkish stained wooden. I just about let my Water Rower decide that call because it’s an exquisite walnut with black accents. So the cabinets have black helps (each vertical and horizontal helps) with stained walnut shade cabinets. If I’ve sufficient walnut veneer left over from the lavatory, I could even use that for the cabinets.

Many months in the past, I had already chosen a black flooring for the room, in order that works into my black + walnut plan very properly. I additionally bought black curtain rods (sure, I might be hanging curtains in right here as a result of y’all know I really like cloth!), and simply final evening, I made a decision to hold the Rustic Walnut Bamboo Shade that I used within the lavatory into this room as properly. That shade is such good high quality, and it’s so just like what I’ve in the remainder of the home, however at a a lot decrease price, so I made a decision to go for it. So as soon as it’s all put collectively, my home windows will go from trying like this…

To trying like this…

I do know that there might be many ranging opinions on that (the black curtain rod, masking up a few of the stripes, and so forth.), however I believe it’ll look very good as soon as it’s all achieved, and it’ll make the room cohesive with splashes of black and walnut all through the room. I believe it is going to additionally take the partitions from being front-and-center and the primary characteristic of the room to performing extra as a backdrop, which I believe Matt will respect. 😀 So the partitions are for me, and all the black and walnut is for him.

However that brings me to the entry of the room. Once we moved this wall again (which made our hallway smaller and squared up the grasp lavatory), that made the doorway into this room fairly lengthy. And it’s additionally darkish. I didn’t even assume so as to add a lightweight right here, however I actually assume it wants one. So I’m conflicted. It looks like an ideal space to place a semi-flush ceiling mild, and that will give me a chance to deliver some black into this space as properly (though, I’ll do this with what I placed on the partitions as properly).

The opposite choices is to place a brilliant skinny “recessed” mild, like I’ve all through the room. However that appears slightly boring to me, and like a wasted alternative, proper? I’m leaning in direction of the semi-flush ceiling mild until somebody has an excellent motive I shouldn’t do this.

After which there’s the door shade, which I do know I introduced up a very long time in the past, however I’m nonetheless conflicted over. The entire doorways within the hallway are a darkish teal. There’s none of that shade on this room, so I don’t wish to deliver that in there. The doorways within the lavatory are white, however I don’t like that for this room.

So since I’m attempting to make use of black accents on this room, what about portray the doorways black? What will we take into consideration this?

I believe that appears good, and provides a contact of sophistication to juxtapose the colourful striped partitions. It’s simply paint, so I supposed I might attempt it and see how I prefer it. And if I don’t, I can at all times transfer on to one thing else. I’m simply not fairly certain what different choices there are.

EDIT: I made a decision so as to add the flooring to the image above to see what all the things would appear like collectively. Right here’s an concept of how this space would look with the black door and the flooring.

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