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You really gave me a lot to think about yesterday! I’m still going through the comments and thinking different thoughts and I feel like I’ve been trying to drink from a fire hydrant for the last day. 😀 You all have so many ideas it’s hard for me to keep up! But I love reading about everyone’s different ideas, different opinions and solutions to the problem.
So far, there are a few that stand out to me, so I took some time last night and this morning to tweak the floor plan to see what I thought of these ideas. First, I went to Houze to look at tall, skinny closets to make sure I wanted to live with a tall, skinny closet as well. And I love the idea!
There are tons of walk-in closets with this configuration on Houzz and Pinterest, and some are narrower than 7.5 feet (not 75 feet!! :-D) than I allowed for ours. Some closets I’ve seen are only five feet wide, with room for storage along only one wall. The storehouses on both sides are six feet and wide.
And it looks like 7 feet wide to me, with 2 feet on each side for the cabinets and 36 inches of space between them.
So the dimensions I’m trying to work with seem pretty standard for tall, skinny walk-in closets. I realized that the back of the studio was exactly 7.5 feet wide, so I got some tape and measured 24 inches on each side to see what it would look like…
That seems like a lot of space to me. And by going from a wall of PAX wardrobes to a 7.5 foot wide walk-in closet, I literally double my storage space because I can put PAX wardrobes on both sides of this walk-in closet.
So now that I’m sure I can live with a 7.5-foot-wide walk-in closet, I tried to incorporate some of your ideas into a floor plan. One of the main suggestions I heard over and over again was to move the entrance to the bedroom to the center of the house instead of the back wall. That made sense to me.
Another simple suggestion is to move the laundry room to the back wall of the house so it has a window. The only way I could figure out how to do it was to make the bedroom an extra 7.5 feet, leaving the rest of the addition at its original plan size. And this is another suggestion for many of you.
So when I put those thoughts together, I came up with this…
It placed Matt’s storage room on one side of the hallway leading to the bedroom, and the entrance to the laundry room on the other side of the hallway. With that configuration, I can put the window over the sink in the laundry room and plus the back isn’t a perfect rectangle. But it also eliminates a potential coat closet in the family room, so once again, our guests are left without a place to hang their coat for one week a year in the winter.
One of the most interesting ideas anyone has had is to keep the addition and build a room next to the house. The idea really appealed to me, so I played along with it.
When I did this, I already had it in my head that I wanted a window in the laundry room, but I wanted the entrance to the laundry room to be in the new hallway to the bedroom. But then I also need storage space for the matte stuff. So I wondered about combining the two – the laundry room and the storage space for Matt’s things – into one large room with an entrance from the bedroom and from the hallway. My concern with this layout is how the ceiling will look. It’s hard for me to guess, but I’m an architect who can give me some input. I love that location of the room for one main reason. I might have a window in there, or even two! I love the look of those windows in the tall, skinny closets pictures above.
I will continue to read the comments and play with these ideas you have given me. I know I will find the right solution. The main things I want and need are (1) a walk-in closet at least 7.5 feet wide and (2) a separate storage area for matted items. It cannot be a storage closet and a shoe closet or a storage closet plus storage for extra bedding. His equipment was big and bulky and a pain to move around, and I didn’t have to move it in and out of the room to get to the other things I stored in there.
I love playing with all these ideas. And now is the time to do it, because once it’s submitted to the city for approval, I’m locked in!
Addicted 2 Decorating shares my DIY and decorating journey as I renovate and decorate the 1948 Fixer Upper that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has MS and is unable to do physical activity, so I do most of the housework myself. You can learn more about me here.
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