Yikes!

Last Saturday Steve & I were doing our usual weekend inspection and realized that the wall separating the master BR and master BA/closet was about six inches farther into the room than we'd assumed from the plans. Instead of dropping straight down from the beam, it was creating some very funky chi around the doorway and crowding the bed. Six inches doesn't seem like a lot until you feel it.

With the plumbing roughed in, we also realized for the first time how ugly it would be to see the toilet (or worse yet, the toilet user) through the bathroom doorway. Y'know, you look at your drawings a million times but some things only hit you in 3-D.

The fortuitous part of the story is that Sunday night, Maya, Mini & I were coming home from Times Square on the subway and ran into our upstairs neighbors Tai & Cass -- the architect duo from 11C! I hijacked Cass for the entire ride and she basically came up with the fix right then & there: reverse the sink & toilet placement and make it fit by stealing a few inches from the closet for a small toilet alcove. Brilliant! Tai was very helpful too. Nothing like 18 years of living in and thinking about the same floorplan.

You can see that the risers leave plenty of space for the new configuration, so we bit the bullet and put in the big first big change order. See second photo below for new wall framing and third photo of the ceiling that shows where the first wall was framed, then torn out. The pink color is plaster sealant. See very first blog post for comparison pic of the riser wall intact.

Ah, feels right now.