To Closet or Not to Closet
I love polling the forum because I love the law of averages. Thanks for bearing with me – all comments are welcome. I have this second bedroom in my unit of a two-story two-family. There was a 6 ft closet in it, which has been demolished to expand the space in the kitchen. The room…
I love polling the forum because I love the law of averages. Thanks for bearing with me – all comments are welcome.
I have this second bedroom in my unit of a two-story two-family. There was a 6 ft closet in it, which has been demolished to expand the space in the kitchen. The room will ultimately be a rectangle of 9′ 3″ x 11′ 11″. There is a window dead-center in the short wall across for the door, and another window on the long wall, almost abutting the short wall that the door is in.
The question is, should a closet be built to the side of the dead center window, as shown in the picture.
My gut feeling is that this reduces the flexibility of the furniture layout and creates an unsightly bulge in place of a symmetrical section of wall on either side of the dead-center window. The intended use of the room is as a guest bedroom. I’m more inclined to use an armoire for storage and maintain the wall symmetry and the ability to rearrange furniture meet changing needs. This could one day be a child’s room. Obviously a closet could always be built in the future, and there;s some debate about what to do in the immediate term.
Also, there are about 15 linear feet of closets throughout the apartment, and we are two people (both women, but shoe collections are moderate.)
Thoughts?
I’d put the bed where you’re proposing the closet go. I’d put hooks and shelves up in the narrow space if more storage is needed.
Indeed, it is too shallow for a proper closet. That where the old closet was, and it was demolished to push the kitchen wall back.
Why not add a closet between the door and window? Or is that space to shallow for hanging clothes?
You might consider doing a large Ikea cabinet. Because you don’t have to drywall a framed wall, they take up less space. They are more movable than a framed closet, and more affordable than an antique armoire (not sure what new ones go for these days). I tend away from Ikea cabinets because of the off-gassing, but in this case it might be a good plan for you.
An armoire sounds like it meets your needs better, and you should probably go with that–especially since it’s a guest room and you don’t seem to know what you’ll do with it in the future.
That said, closets aren’t a very big deal to add in or demolish, unless you do something really fancy. I mean, it’s drywall and maybe a light.
Your graphic doesn’t come through on my computer, but based on your description of the room size and window/door locations I’d be disinclinedto add a closet. I agree that an armoire would be better.