More Closet Layout Options (Based On Your Input!)

Y’all actually gave me a complete lot to consider yesterday! I’m nonetheless going by means of feedback and pondering completely different concepts, and I really feel like I’ve been making an attempt 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 really like studying about everybody’s completely different concepts, differing opinions, and problem-solving resolution.

To date, 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 considered these concepts. First, I headed over to Houzz to take a look at lengthy, skinny closets to make certain that I’d even need to stay with a protracted, skinny closet. And I feel I really like the concept!

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

So the size that I’m making an attempt to work with appear to be fairly normal for lengthy, skinny walk-in closets. I spotted that the again entry of the studio is precisely 7.5 toes extensive, so I bought some tape and measured off 24 inches on either side to see what that looks like…

That looks like loads of room to me. And by shifting from a wall of PAX wardrobes to a walk-in closet that’s 7.5 toes extensive, I’ll actually be doubling my space for storing since I may put PAX wardrobes on either side of this walk-in closet.

So now that I’m certain I may stay 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 important strategies I heard many times was to maneuver the doorway to the bed room nearer to the middle of the home as an alternative of getting it on the again wall of the home. That made sense to me.

One other widespread suggestion was to maneuver the laundry room to the again wall of the home in order that it may have a window. The one approach I may work out how to do this was to solely bump out the bed room the extra 7.5 toes, whereas leaving the remainder of the addition in its initially deliberate dimension. 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 aspect of the hallway resulting in the bed room, with the doorway to the laundry room on the opposite aspect 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 company 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 aspect of the home. This concept was actually fascinating to me, so I performed round with it as effectively.

Once I did this one, I had already gotten it into my head that I wished a window within the laundry room, however I additionally wished 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 puzzled 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 seem like. It’s onerous for me to think about, however I the architect may give me some enter. I do love that place of the closet for one important cause. I may have a window in there, and even two! I really 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 taking part in round with these concepts y’all have given me. I do know I’ll discover the proper resolution. The primary issues I need and want are (1) no less than 7.5 toes 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 further bedding. His tools is massive and hulking and a ache to maneuver round, and I don’t need to have to maneuver it out and in of the closet in an effort to get to different issues that I’ve saved in there.

I really like taking part in 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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