Y’all actually gave me an entire lot to consider yesterday! I’m nonetheless going by means of feedback and pondering totally different concepts, and I really feel like I’ve been making an attempt to drink from a hearth hydrant during the last 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.
To this point, there are a number of 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 wish to reside with a protracted, skinny closet. And I believe I like the concept!
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 toes (not 75 toes!! :-D) than I’m permitting for ours. Some closets that I noticed had been solely about 5 toes vast, with house for storage solely alongside one wall. Those that had storage on each side had been six toes and wider.
And this one appears to be like extra like 7 toes vast to me, with 2 toes for cupboards on both sides, and 36 inches of house between them.
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 strictly 7.5 toes vast, so I obtained some tape and measured off 24 inches on both sides 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 vast, I’ll actually be doubling my cupboard space since I might put PAX wardrobes on each side of this walk-in closet.
So now that I’m certain I might reside with a 7.5-foot-wide walk-in closet, I attempted to include a few of your concepts right into a ground plan. One of many essential solutions I heard time and again 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 toes, 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 once 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 company are left with out a place to hold their coat throughout our one-week-a-year winter. ?
A really intriguing concept 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 nicely.
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 cupboard space for Matt’s issues. So I questioned about combining the 2 — the laundry room and the cupboard space 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 to be. 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 essential purpose. 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 taking part in round with these concepts y’all have given me. I do know I’ll discover the right answer. The principle issues I need and want are (1) not 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 gear is massive and hulking 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 taking part in round with all of those concepts. And now could be 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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