Here is a walk through of the progress on the guest bedroom and loft:
Trey, the guy that did our drywall, suggested the loft idea and I LOVE the loft! It opens up a lot of room since the guest bedroom isn’t very big. Stefan hooked up the room for me and put the bed in the loft and even put down some temporary carpet (we are doing hardwood in the entire upstairs, but that’s a couple of months off). The loft is also equipped with dual fans and lights. We are eventually going to build a cool ladder (perhaps with any left over mahogany) for the loft/guest bedroom. The house is coming along!
Stefan and I went to the Home Depot in Mayaguez and picked some paint for the interior of our house.
We went with a vintage-y, brightish green for the kitchen, a light blue for the guest bedroom and hallway, a very light green (it looks white at 1st glance) for the great room, a coffee brown for the master bedroom and a much lighter brown for the master bathroom.
Tray has been hauling ass taping, mudding and edging the greenboard. It is really starting to look like a house. He will be done with the guest bedroom today. That means it is ready for primer and a somewhat permanent bedroom where we won’t have to move all or our stuff around every other day. Stoked
There are two things that made redesigning the Master Bedroom and guest bath possible.
1. Our house is all wood framed upstairs
2. The only weight bearing walls are the two off the great room and the outside of the house.
With that in mind, look at the first before picture before we re framed the wet room, removed the closet, enclosed the little porch, and built the walk-in closet.
I didn’t really notice this until afterwards, but look how long and skinny the bathroom was. We would have been squeezing in any kind of “over sized tub” into the corner and it would have looked ghetto. We also wouldn’t have had room for a his and hers sinks and I don’t ‘think’ we would have had enough closet space for summer and I.
Now, we have a walk-in closet that we will have to do some cedar built-ins because of the high humidity down here. We opened up two windows to the bedroom that were blocked by the old wall. If we left the wall up, we would have lost all of our cross breezes entering the front of the house (where the trade winds blow from) and getting sucked out the back windows. We also wouldn’t have had the bad ass set-up we have now. It might be hard to see this in the below pictures (maybe a video will make it easier to picture…or a visit!) but the way the room is set up now, when we sit in the jacuzzi now we will be able to see out the windows with the crossbreeze and still have the rest of the vaulted ceilings and master bedroom making you feel like you are in a giant room (as opposed to boxed in like the old set-up).
The water closet will have a door (our old plan was to leave it all open), the toilet and a two headed shower that will take up the entire back end of the room. It will be 5ft wide by 4.5 ft long. Frame it in a little and big clear glass doors with the river rock floor and travertine walls…it is going to be an insane bathroom!
We are looking into what type of granite we can get down here (and how much) so we can do a teak or mahagony finish on the front of the jacuzzi and top it/back splash it with granite. Hardwood floors throughout the entire house (to make it feel more open/big) with no interuption right to the woodwork at the bottom of the jacuzzi. Very exciting stuff…i’ll stop yapping. Check out the other pictures.
