Dunford | Powell: Bedroom Addition

When we moved into this home I was 7 months pregnant. We knew the primary bedroom was a sad box of a space that we would eventually want to remodel, but with a kiddo on the way we imagined it would be a few years out. A very short fast forward to a few months later and many sleepless nights crammed in there with a newborn, we reconsidered that plan. We not-so-lovingly began to refer to our bedroom as the torture chamber, prompting us to tackle the remodel within a year of his birth. Like crazy people. Or perhaps just wildly sleep deprived people in need of a more restful bedroom, but either way I'm so glad we fast tracked the project.

A few fun facts about the addition:

There was a pretty large rock taking up the area where the addition was planned to go, so this needed to be excavated before we could pour the foundation. Little did we know, this rock evidently went to the core of the earth and was about double in size. This caused the excavation crew to abandon it in the front corner of our yard as it was too large to haul away. With no landscaping around it, the rock looked ridiculously giant, but we decided to work with it (not that we had many options) and this huge rock ended up being a really cool feature that we worked into our landscaping later that summer.

Rather than tying into the roofline from our existing home, we decided to cut out a doorway from the exterior brick wall of the bedroom which created an external hallway and a fun little garden space between the existing home and the new addition. This is now our view from the tub.

We had a tub in the bedroom of our former home and knew we wanted that to be a feature in our bedroom addition. We initially landed on a white soaking tub but it just didn't feel right once the floor was poured, so we opted for a Native Stone concrete tub. It feels like it was molded from the ground up and looks much more natural in the space.

The walls are a marbled Tadelakt plaster treatment done by a local Salt Lake City company, The Art of Deception. I'm really glad we went darker in there, it feels really inviting and a much more dramatic transition as you enter from the white hallway where our old bedroom used to be.

People always pause when they find out this very exposed space in our front yard is our bedroom, with a tub. However, we strategically landscaped, built a privacy fence and installed black out shades that retract into the ceiling which all help it feel quite private. We are also located at the top of a hill with no neighbors facing our home, so we got really lucky in that our view is straight into a gorgeous evergreen tree on our neighbors side yard that stands about 30 ft tall.

The concrete floors are heated, which is pretty dreamy in the winter. Especially straight out of the tub, and even better when the snow is falling outside.