Smallest Space Lived in Happily

[JaneV2.0]

Vicarious manageable new home thrills going on here...

[jp1]

So happy this all worked out! Had my fingers crossed.

[Teacher Terry]

So today was demolition day and it looks so much better with the top kitchen cabinets gone. Much more open and spacious. I don’t need them because of the bottom cabinets, cabinets in the island and the big built in hutch in the dining room. The cabinets left some big holes for my son to patch but he did a great job. When they pulled up the carpet in the bedrooms they found a big gap by the threshold that needs to be filled in. Always unexpected stuff to deal with. I am the errand girl to get everything they need at Home Depot.

[iris lilies]

So today was demolition day and it looks so much better with the top kitchen cabinets gone. Much more open and spacious. I don’t need them because of the bottom cabinets, cabinets in the island and the big built in hutch in the dining room. The cabinets left some big holes for my son to patch but he did a great job. When they pulled up the carpet in the bedrooms they found a big gap by the threshold that needs to be filled in. Always unexpected stuff to deal with. I am the errand girl to get everything they need at Home Depot.

I really like the idea of no top cabinets. I agree it would look much more open and spacious.

[Teacher Terry]

IL, the difference is amazing because at 955 sq ft it’s small.

[iris lilies]

IL, the difference is amazing because at 955 sq ft it’s small.

this will cause me to look at keeping cabinets off one wall in Hermann. We have a U-shaped kitchen with three walls of cabinets, but we do not need upper cabinets on the shortest wall I do believe.

To have no upper cabinets at all is a clean and contemporary look that I’m not sure is a good look for either one of my vintage properties, but certainly, not cramming a bunch of upper cabinets into small spaces will help.

I’m now rethinking a bathroom vanity in one of our Hermann tiny bathrooms. I think I can get by with no cabinet sink. I think a pedestal sink will be fine because one of the bathrooms has a bathroom closet, tho small.A pedestal sink makes it seem less crowded.

[Teacher Terry]

I meant to say 855 sq ft. The guest bathroom in our house is small and a pedestal sink worked perfectly.

[Teacher Terry]

Attachment 3740Attachment 3740So this is how it looks. The cabinets totally obstructed the view into the dining room. I lived in a condo that was 1100 sq ft with a decent size kitchen. It had 3 walls of top cabinets and we took off the ones facing the dining room and that made a huge difference.

[razz]

Ummm, may I suggest that you do a sketch.
In my small 6' square ensuite bathroom, opposite to the doorway wall, I have a pedestal sink with a large sink that I love. I have a medicine cabinet over it. To the right of the doorway wall is the wall with window and towel bar below, to the left is the wall with toilet with extra towels over it and the shower is in the far corner. There is only enough space for a 24" vanity to hold my curling iron, facecloths, extra soap, cleaning items, etc. I figured the 24" vanity would not be much storage and shrink the size of the sink so I bought a little trolley cart that fits under the pedestal sink.

The larger main bathroom has greater storage but now I rarely go into it. Point being, is the little bathroom going to be used much for general living or occasionally and where will most of the storage be accessible to all? Before I got the cart, I was going in and out all the time and it was aggravating and often occupied when I needed something.

[iris lilies]

Ummm, may I suggest that you do a sketch.
In my small 6' square ensuite bathroom, opposite to the doorway wall, I have a pedestal sink with a large sink that I love. I have a medicine cabinet over it. To the right of the doorway wall is the wall with window and towel bar below, to the left is the wall with toilet with extra towels over it and the shower is in the far corner. There is only enough space for a 24" vanity to hold my curling iron, facecloths, extra soap, cleaning items, etc. I figured the 24" vanity would not be much storage and shrink the size of the sink so I bought a little trolley cart that fits under the pedestal sink.

The larger main bathroom has greater storage but now I rarely go into it. Point being, is the little bathroom going to be used much for general living or occasionally and where will most of the storage be accessible to all? Before I got the cart, I was going in and out all the time and it was aggravating and often occupied when I needed something.

This little bathroom will be the most heavily used one of the 3.DH will likely be using it the most. I guess I will let him decide about this (tho I hate that! Haha.) We will have traditional medicine cabinet over the sink plus a 3 shelf cabinet over the toilet, I think. That is if we can fit one towel rack in there some where. I think a towel hook can be put on the back of the door.

The closet I mentioned is outside of the bathroom. That is not the most convenient place, to be sure! So I will keep your words in mind.

This gives me an opportunity to show off something DH built in our tiny downstairs bathroom. It is an unexpectedly large builtin cabinet under the stairs, finished with 140 year old shutters:

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