More Closet Layout Options (Based On Your Input!)

Y’all actually gave me a complete lot to consider yesterday! I’m nonetheless going by feedback and pondering totally different concepts, and I really feel like I’ve been attempting to drink from a hearth hydrant over the past day. 😀 Y’all have so many concepts that it’s onerous for me to maintain up! However I like studying about everybody’s totally different concepts, differing opinions, and problem-solving answer.

Thus far, there are just a few which have stood out to me, so I took a while final evening and this morning to tweak the ground plan to see what I thought of these concepts. First, I headed over to Houzz to take a look at lengthy, skinny closets to make sure that I’d even wish to dwell with a protracted, skinny closet. And I feel I like the thought!

There are such a lot of walk-in closets with this configuration on Houzz and Pinterest, and a few are manner narrower than the 7.5 ft (not 75 ft!! :-D) than I’m permitting for ours. Some closets that I noticed have been solely about 5 ft large, with area for storage solely alongside one wall. Those that had storage on either side have been six ft and wider.

So the scale that I’m attempting to work with appear to be fairly commonplace for lengthy, skinny walk-in closets. I noticed that the again entry of the studio is strictly 7.5 ft large, so I received some tape and measured off 24 inches on both sides to see what that appears like…

That appears like loads of room to me. And by transferring from a wall of PAX wardrobes to a walk-in closet that’s 7.5 ft large, I’ll actually be doubling my space for storing since I might put PAX wardrobes on either side of this walk-in closet.

So now that I’m certain I might dwell with a 7.5-foot-wide walk-in closet, I attempted to include a few of your concepts right into a flooring plan. One of many most important options I heard many times was to maneuver the doorway to the bed room nearer to the middle of the home as a substitute of getting it on the again wall of the home. That made sense to me.

One other frequent suggestion was to maneuver the laundry room to the again wall of the home in order that it might have a window. The one manner I might determine how to do this was to solely bump out the bed room the extra 7.5 ft, whereas leaving the remainder of the addition in its initially deliberate measurement. And that was one other suggestion that a number of of you had.

So after I put these concepts collectively, that is what I got here up with…

That put the storage closet for Matt’s issues on one facet of the hallway resulting in the bed room, with the doorway to the laundry room on the opposite facet of the hallway. With that configuration, I can have a window over the sink within the laundry room, and the again of the addition isn’t an ideal rectangle. However that additionally eliminates a possible coat closet within the household room, so as soon as once more, our visitors are left with no place to hold their coat throughout our one-week-a-year winter. 😀

A really intriguing thought that somebody had was to maintain the addition as-is, and construct the closet to the facet of the home. This concept was actually fascinating to me, so I performed round with it as properly.

Once I did this one, I had already gotten it into my head that I needed a window within the laundry room, however I additionally needed the doorway into the laundry room to be within the new hallway to the bed room. However then I additionally wanted space for storing for Matt’s issues. So I questioned about combining the 2 — the laundry room and the space for storing for Matt’s issues — into one massive room with an entrance from the bed room and from the hallway. My concern with this format is what the roof would appear like. It’s onerous for me to think about, however I the architect might give me some enter. I do love that place of the closet for one most important cause. I might have a window in there, and even two! I like the look of these home windows within the footage of the lengthy, skinny closets up above.

I’m going to maintain on studying feedback, and proceed enjoying round with these concepts y’all have given me. I do know I’ll discover the proper answer. The primary issues I need and want are (1) at the very least 7.5 ft of width for a walk-in closet, and (2) a devoted storage space for Matt’s issues. It’s can’t be a storage closet plus a shoe closet, or a storage closet plus storage for additional bedding. His gear is large and ponderous and a ache to maneuver round, and I don’t wish to have to maneuver it out and in of the closet with a purpose to get to different issues that I’ve saved in there.

I like enjoying round with all of those concepts. And now’s the time to do it, as a result of as soon as it’s submitted to town for approval, I’m locked in!

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