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 fairly 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, stressed 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 loosen up and benefit from the journey. My aim is to do that complete factor as stress-free as doable.
And the delay could also be a very good factor as a result of I maintain second-guessing choices. General, 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…
For those who’re new round right here and haven’t heard something about our addition that we’re planning, the addition contains the main bedroom, laundry room, storage closet, and household room.
However over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been considering fairly a bit about the main bedroom 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 main bedroom 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 carry, 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 state of affairs within the visitor bed room that we’re presently utilizing as our predominant 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, regardless of how assured I’m that I might make them lovely.
Final night time, I regarded up the usual dimensions for a walk-in closet, and it seems to be like 100 sq. ft 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, sneakers, 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 present footprint to make issues work for us, however there is no such thing as a present footprint for this addition. At this level, I might change it up utterly if I wished to.
I don’t assume it’s vital to vary issues up utterly, however I did have this concept of bumping all the 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 concept, and I’m very open to options. 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 a bit mini hallway between the bed room and the lavatory, and closets could be accessible on each side of that little hallway. That would depart me not less than one lengthy wall within the bed room the place I might enhance and add extra storage like a fairly dresser.
Nevertheless, it could additionally add extra space to the household room, which I don’t love. I believe a room can get so massive that it doesn’t really feel cozy and welcoming. Including that house would make the household room bigger than my studio, which is presently the most important room in our residence at 20′ x 19’5′. However I believe I might discover a approach to make the most of that house in order that the room feels deliberate as a substitute of simply cavernous.
I’m going to consider this extra. That may give us two separate closets for our bed room, however that concept is rising on me. (One may very well be my shoe closet! :-D) I simply wish to get this proper. As soon as the muse is completed, there’s no turning again. So if I’m going to make massive modifications, it’s now or by no means. I simply don’t know if the change might be definitely worth the value, as a result of the extra value gained’t be insignificant.
What do you assume? 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 rework and enhance 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.
