Bedroom Suite Foyer — FINISHED! (Before And After)
UPDATE 1/23/26 – Well, y’all, I’m sick. I really hope this doesn’t derail my goal of having our bedroom suite finished by the end of this month! I’ll be back soon, and we’ll see if I can still get this thing finished by the end of next week.
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.
So that’s it for the bedroom suite foyer. I’m so glad to have this project checked off of my list! I still can’t get over the huge transformation this area has undergone since we bought the house.
If you’re totally confused about the construction, the walls that were removed, walls added, rooms enlarged, etc., hopefully this before and after floor plan of this area will help you get your bearings. The left is what the floor plan of this area looked like when we bought the house, and the right is what it looks like now.
And here’s another look at the original hallway from the music room…
And the hallway after the wall was moved and one doorway was closed up to square up that room so that we could turn it into our master bathroom.
And here it is now…
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it turned out SO SO SO GOOD!! Congratulations Kristi!
So beautiful. Its such a transformation that I have forgotten where the master bath area is. Is it off the bedroom?
Yes. The bedroom that used to be accessible via the door on the right side of that back wall of the hallway is now the master bathroom. We closed up the doorway to the hallway and added a doorway from the bedroom.
It’s beautiful. ❤️ The light floors are gorgeous also. A lot of work, to be sure, but worth it.
You have done an incredible job over the years!
Everything looks so beautiful. It’s a Master suite that is so perfect and so deserving. I love everything about it…and you have made it so convenient for you and Matt. You both deserved a beautiful area…away from the rest of the house with the convenience of the laundry right there, and a fantastic closet area, and wide halls with great access to your bedroom and phenomenal bathroom. This area is set up as nice as any could be. Congratulations! I know you are enjoying living in that space.
Absolutely gorgeous! Bright and cheery, it breathes so well, it really came a long way! Also, I wanted to say how much I love the wooden turned legs on the bed instead of the gold ones. Abolutely the right call, it’s perfect now!
You are an AMAZING woman!!! I love how this transformation has concluded, for now. Talk about a lot of bang for your buck, you have done it with this transformation. Great Job! What a peaceful and beautiful place to call your Master Suite, it is simply gorgeous.
Cheers to you, Matt and the Fur Babies!
Stunning! So very beautiful! Great job! Amazed at your ability to envision an area into something new.
So exciting to be able to check one more area off the list! It’s beautiful. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I’ve kinda been here since the condo (around 2019 but I watched all the archived episodes then) but had forgotten those first pictures of the hallway in the “new” house. What a metamorphosis.
Perfection! Congratulations on an awesome accomplishment!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Oh, Kristi! This is so beautiful it is making me cry tears of joy for you! I have been with you since before you moved and remember all these transformations, but seeing this final iteration – what an incredible transformation! So much hard work you have put in, and you certainly deserve all the kudos. Great job!
Fantastic transformation! Great job moving through all of these transistions to make the space truly perfect for you and Matt, plus reflect your truly unique style!
This has been such a huge project. It has been so much fun watching it all come together beautifully. Can’t wait to see the bedroom finished also.
Amazing!
Everything is beautifully finished. I love that we can appreciate differences in decorating, but all appreciate the beauty of all you’ve done. I follow you because you keep on going and doing and making the home yours. Your thought process is wonderful, and you are not afraid to accept good enough is not always enough. I know a lot of people probably don’t appreciate my style, which is a bit more chaotic and a bit more, how do I put this, rustic, second-hand, it doesn’t bother me a bit, because I love my home and it makes me feel good about who I am and what I do. I feel you may feel the same, but I love that my home is open to my children, grand and great grandchildren and friends to have something to eat, stay a while and get to know each other better, and that is the most important thing to me.
Every view is gorgeous!
It looks great. Can’t wait for the bedroom reveal. I have a favor to ask. I have a hard time following what was changed (the structural changes) when you do before and afters -even when you explain it. Maybe it’s just me but including drawings of the floor plan changes, if you can, would be helpful and make sense to me to understand the flow of the living space.
You are totally gifted! Everything is beautiful!
NOW I understand how the foyer is an extension of your closet, the pics helped a lot for me to understand 🙂 Well done and really beautiful 🙂 🙂
You marry form & function (pretty & practical) better than anyone! Everything as you need, like, prefer to meet Matt & your needs and beautiful. WELL DONE! Thank you for sharing.
I can see exactly why Matt could only say, “WOW” when you brought him in for the first time!
I LOVE IT. Absolutely gorgeous! Well Done!
SPECTACULAR, BEAUTIFUL, STUNNING! Every inch is perfect. My favorite part is all your molding, French doors. That’s not to say everything else isn’t perfectly put together. Your amazing God given talents makes me gasp everytime. You have made a wonderful, Gorgeous place of serenity for you and Matt. You definitely are a Proverb 31 women.
It’s soooo beautiful!!!! I love that it is very colorful AND still relaxing and inviting. I love it so much. Enjoy!
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
WOW!!!! Your vision, skills and creativity is absolutely amazing.
It is such a beautiful entry to your master suite. Again, WOW!!!!!
Your home is so beautifully decorated and homey with gorgeous colors!
You are so creative, and able to bring your visions to life and have a real talent! It makes my heart and soul happy to see!
Thank you for sharing! 😍
I would love to know where you purchase your assesories? I can’t seem to find colorful pictures, lamps, benches or furniture in my area…..
Kristy, The transformation is beautiful, inspiring and showcases your many talents. Reading your blog is a highlight in my life!
**I kept thinking back to the space above your headboard and wondered if you had considered a gold toned or brass wall sculpture of branches?
There’s some that are slightly arched and have birds or butterflies among the leaves. Adds the shine you like and continues the nature and bird theme.
I imagine they would be look beautiful against the dark teal grass cloth.
Rest up and get well soon – praying for a speedy bounce-back!
I hope you are feeling better, however I hope you and Matt snuggle up in your warm bed and watch your new tv. Also keep your babies in the house.
You have done an incredible job! Your work is so, so good.
Absolutely amazing! I’m so impressed as well as envious.
Really beautiful! As always, I admire your tenacity. I don’t have the energy to make something over more than once.