We've been working toward making the casita self-contained. The old plan involved building a bedroom/bathroom addition, but that's been scrapped for now. We're too old, feeble, and lazy for a huge project like that, not to mention poor.
In order to be self-contained, we need:
1. Hot water to kitchen sink.
2. A bed
and it would be REALLY nice to have
3. A bathroom sink, and an electrical outlet in the bathroom so we don't have to perform our morning ablutions in the kitchen sink. That just feels wrong somehow. (I actually HAVE a sink, a gorgeous Mexican one, ready to install, but no real room for it in the existing bathroom unless we cede some of our beloved big shower space.) The large basket in the window well contains toothpaste/toiletries etc.
Now instead of an addition, all we need to build is a very small shed outside the bathroom to house the hot water heater. Then run the hot water around the casita to the kitchen. (Currently we take the spaghetti pot TO the hot water heater to fill for dishwashing. Not ideal, but it works. But I do NOT want to run outside to the hot water heater every time I need hot water.)
Once the hot water heater gets moved outside (in photo below, it's behind that screen), we'll stick a full-size bed in that corner. There are these cool hinged wood screens to section off that corner. The bed should JUST fit there, maybe even room to walk heel-toe on the side! Then those stacking baskets (there are 8 of them) will become our clothes storage bins, AKA DRESSER.
THEN, that large armoire thing will become the new entertainment center, but will back up to the baskets. This will allow the TV to swivel for bed-viewing as well. The futon can then be facing the entertainment center, with coffee table between, RV recliner against back wall, and kitchen table butted up to the back of the futon. I don't know what to do with that low chest thing the TV's on now. It only has the 2 narrow drawers, doesn't hold shit for as huge as it is.
The Santa chair is going. Way too big for the available space. Maybe back to Eddie, but Ron wants it for the garage. His Man-Cave. I'm looking hard in the segundas for a rolling office chair for that corner desk, but haven't found one with arms.
Puzzles remaining to be solved include:
1. Bathroom storage. Ron's meds alone fill our fifth wheel's medicine cabinet.
2. My shoes. Oy! It's pared way down from my pre-RV life, but there's still way too many for this space. Probably storage bins out in the garage...
3. Hanging clothes. Absolutely no room for those anywhere. Probably a garment rack out in the garage...
4. My craft storage. Again, will definitely require bins in the garage...
Good thing we bought that garage...
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