Bedroom Suite Foyer – FINISHED! (Before And After)

Bedroom suite foyer: a concise orientation before we get practical.

Our bedroom suite foyer is finished! I decided to show this area in a separate post from the bedroom because even though this is a relatively small space, this area has undergone probably the most dramatic change of any other area, with the one exception of my studio which started out as a garage. This small area has been through several iterations since we bought our house in 2013, and now, it looks nothing like it did back then.

Here’s a look at the finished foyer. I really love how this area turned out. Since our bedroom suite is off of the music room, I really like having this foyer as a bit of a buffer zone that adds some separation between the music room and our bedroom. You can see a peek of the bedroom from the music room, but you can’t see the whole thing from the doorway. So there’s still a bit of mystery there that draws people in.

And now, this doorway that used to be a cased opening leading to a hallway with three bedrooms and a guest bathroom is now the doorway leading to our master bedroom suite.

To understand just how drastically different this is, we have to travel back to 2013 and remember what this area looked like when we bought our house. On the day we closed on the house, this is what the cased opening between the music room and hallway looked like. It was so narrow and had an accordion separator between the two areas.

Once you stepped just inside that cased opening, there were two very imposing closets on either side — one coat closet on the left and another smaller closet (the original coat closet) that housed the furnace intake duct.

And straight ahead were two bedroom doors.

And then if you stood in front of the bedroom doors and looked back the other way towards what is now the music room, this was the view.

And then to the side of the big coat closet was the door to the third bedroom.

Eary on, I widened the cased opening between the music room and the hallway to make it easier for Matt to maneuver through that opening.

After the first remodel, the hallway remained pretty large. You can see that the wall to the left of the guest bathroom was long enough to put a little console table.

And after removing the large coat closet, I built in these cabinets in the same spot. You can see a sliver of the doorway to the guest bedroom just to the right of the built-in cabinets.

Here’s a look at that cabinet from the other direction.

And then came the second iteration. This came about because we decided to turn that bedroom on the right into a large wheelchair-accessible master bathroom. The original hardwood flooring in the photo below demonstrated just how much that wall was moved forward into the hallway.

So at that time, we went from three bedroom doors off of the hallway to two bedroom doors off of the hallway.

You can see here just how much space we lost in the hallway (which was perfectly fine since it was so large to begin with). After that wall was moved forward, there was no longer enough room for a small console table to the left of the bathroom. But since we had closed up a doorway, there was room for a larger console table against the wall where that bedroom door used to be.

That left us with the doorway to the left of the console table that went to the room that I eventually turned into our home gym, and the doorway to the right of the built-in cabinet that became our guest bedroom (i.e., the bedroom that we slept in for several years).

And then came our whole flooring crisis in the home gym that required us to have the hardwood flooring and subfloor replaced. Since the work was going to be pretty extensive, we decided to turn this whole area into our master bedroom suite. I started by removing the built-in cabinet from the hallway.

And then I decided to completely remove the doorway to what was our home gym, and what would become our new bedroom. But originally, I thought I would keep the doorway to the guest bedroom (which would become my walk-in closet and laundry area).

But then, I decided to open that doorway up, also. At this point, the whole area looked so completely different from how it started out that it looks like a completely different room altogether.

And since this whole area was now going to be our master bedroom suite, I added French doors to the cased opening between the music room and the foyer.

And now, here’s what this area looks like. (Please kindly overlook the fact that I completely forgot to clean the intake vent. 😒)

The guest bathroom will eventually become a much-needed storage room for Matt’s equipment — wheelchair, shower wheelchair, Hoyer lift — as well as the new location for the hot water heater. That’s an upcoming project.

And here’s the view from the other direction — from the bedroom looking back towards the music room.

Here’s the view from a little further back, with me actually standing in the bedroom.

This is the view from my walk-in closet doorway looking straight ahead.

I absolutely love this view. I just love that peek into the bedroom from the music room.

These are the two openings that used to be two doorways into the guest bedroom on the left and the home gym on the right.

I know it was a bit controversial for me to choose not to put a door on the closet, but I love this view way too much to cover it up with a door.

And of course, our chapel picture (from our wedding day) has a prominent place in the new bedroom suite.

So that’s three areas of our master bedroom suite that are finished — my walk-in closet, the master bathroom, and the foyer. I just need to do a few more small-ish projects in the bedroom.

I hung this full-length mirror on the wall to the left just outside of the closet. Since I didn’t have room inside the closet for a full-length mirror, it had to go in the foyer. This has actually been a very convenient location for it. And the bench in the foyer gives me the perfect spot if I need to sit down to put on my shoes. So in a way, this foyer is not only an entrance into our bedroom suite, but it’s also an extension of my walk-in closet.

Seeing that last picture really makes me want to refinish the rest of the floors sooner than later. (All of our floors will be light and bright when all is said and done.) But I’m trying not to get ahead of myself. I need to get the bedroom finished, and immediately after that, I need to get the studio bathroom finished since that will be our new, interim guest bathroom. And then once we have a working guest bathroom, I can come back and turn the original hallway bathroom into that much-needed storage room. So the floors will have to wait a bit longer, but I really do hope to get them all refinished this year.

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Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.

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