Replace On Our Addition (And Second-Guessing The Grasp Bed room Closet Scenario)

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 mentioned from the start that I wasn’t going to get labored up about time strains, wired when issues don’t occur like I need them to occur. This addition will occur when it occurs, and I’m simply going to chill out and benefit from the journey. My objective is to do that complete factor as stress-free as doable.

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

However over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been pondering fairly a bit about the master suite closets. What I had been planning (and what’s proven within the ground plan above) is a complete 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 raise, 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 present utilizing as our most important bed room, I can’t assist however marvel if I ought to plan on an precise walk-in closet as a substitute of a wall of Pax wardrobes, irrespective of how assured I’m that I might make them lovely.

Final evening, I seemed up the usual dimensions for a walk-in closet, and it appears to be like like 100 sq. ft is about common. I don’t want a kind of present closets with all the flowery stuff. I simply want to have the ability to retailer garments, footwear, and so on. in an environment friendly and simply accessible means. 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 spotted that nothing is ready in stone! That is an addition that hasn’t been constructed but. I’m so used to having to work inside an present footprint to make issues work for us, however there isn’t any present footprint for this addition. At this level, I might change it up utterly if I needed to.

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

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

So it could create just a little mini hallway between the bed room and the toilet, and closets could be accessible on each side of that little hallway. That would go away me at the very least one lengthy wall within the bed room the place I might adorn and add further storage like a reasonably dresser.

Nonetheless, it could additionally add more room to the household room, which I don’t love. I believe a room can get so large that it doesn’t really feel cozy and welcoming. Including that area would make the household room bigger than my studio, which is at present the most important room in our dwelling at 20′ x 19’5′. However I believe I might discover a method 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 will 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 need to get this proper. As soon as the muse is completed, there’s no turning again. So if I’m going to make large modifications, it’s now or by no means. I simply don’t know if the change shall be definitely worth the worth, as a result of the extra value gained’t be insignificant.

What do you suppose? Keep on with a wall of IKEA Pax wardrobes? I’d have 15.3 ft 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 transform 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.