Update On Our Addition (And Second-Guessing The Master Bedroom Closet Situation)

I do know I haven’t actually talked about something about our addition just lately, and that’s as a result of nothing has actually occurred. Our architect had a reasonably main surgical procedure, so finalizing our plans has been delayed. However I stated from the start that I wasn’t going to get labored up about time strains, wired when issues don’t occur like I would like them to occur. This addition will occur when it occurs, and I’m simply going to chill out and benefit from the journey. My purpose is to do that complete factor as stress-free as attainable.

And the delay could also be an excellent factor as a result of I hold second-guessing selections. Total, I’m very happy with the concepts that I handed off to the architect. I believe the final plan I confirmed y’all (and the one I gave to him) is that this one…

Should you’re new round right here and haven’t heard something about our addition that we’re planning, the addition consists of the master suite, laundry room, storage closet, and household room.

However during the last couple of weeks, I’ve been considering fairly a bit about the master suite closets. What I had been planning (and what’s proven within the ground plan above) is an entire wall of IKEA Pax wardrobes on the wall shared between the master suite and toilet. I don’t dislike the concept, and I do know I might make it lovely. After which subsequent to that wall of wardrobes is a storage closet particularly for Matt’s bathe wheelchair, Hoyer elevate, and wheelchair when these issues aren’t in use. It appeared like an ideal plan.

However these final couple of weeks, as my frustration has grown and grown with the closet scenario within the visitor bed room that we’re at the moment utilizing as our predominant bed room, I can’t assist however surprise if I ought to plan on an precise walk-in closet as a substitute of a wall of Pax wardrobes, regardless of how assured I’m that I might make them lovely.

Final evening, I appeared up the usual dimensions for a walk-in closet, and it seems like 100 sq. toes is about common. I don’t want a type of present closets with all the flamboyant stuff. I simply want to have the ability to retailer garments, footwear, and so on. in an environment friendly and simply accessible method. The issue is discovering a spot to place a 100-square-foot walk-in closet. That’s not a straightforward factor to do when the ground plan appears fairly set in stone.

However then I noticed that nothing is about in stone! That is an addition that hasn’t been constructed but. I’m so used to having to work inside an current footprint to make issues work for us, however there isn’t any current footprint for this addition. At this level, I might change it up utterly if I needed to.

I don’t suppose it’s obligatory to vary issues up utterly, however I did have this concept of bumping the complete addition out about one other 75 toes so not solely create room for a walk-in closet (or two) in our bed room, but in addition making a separate storage space accessible from the household room.

That is solely my preliminary thought, and I’m very open to ideas. But when we bump the entire thing out 7.5 toes, I had this concept of doing our bed room closets like this…

So it might create a bit mini hallway between the bed room and the lavatory, and closets can be accessible on either side of that little hallway. That would depart me not less than one lengthy wall within the bed room the place I might adorn and add extra storage like a reasonably dresser.

Nonetheless, it might additionally add extra space to the household room, which I don’t love. I believe a room can get so huge that it doesn’t really feel cozy and welcoming. Including that area would make the household room bigger than my studio, which is at the moment the biggest room in our house at 20′ x 19’5′. However I believe I might discover a strategy to make the most of that area in order that the room feels deliberate as a substitute of simply cavernous.

I’m going to consider this extra. That might give us two separate closets for our bed room, however that concept is rising on me. (One might be my shoe closet! :-D) I simply wish to get this proper. As soon as the inspiration is completed, there’s no turning again. So if I’m going to make huge adjustments, it’s now or by no means. I simply don’t know if the change will probably be definitely worth the value, as a result of the extra price gained’t be insignificant.

What do you suppose? Keep on with a wall of IKEA Pax wardrobes? I might have 15.3 toes of wardrobe storage on that wall. Or bump out the again of the addition so as to add room for 2 bigger bed room closets, plus a storage closet within the household room space?

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.