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Y’all in point of fact gave me a complete lot to take into consideration the previous day! I’m nonetheless going thru feedback and thinking about other concepts, and I think like I’ve been looking to drink from a hearth hydrant during the last day. 😀 Y’all have such a lot of concepts that it’s arduous for me to maintain! However I like studying about everybody’s other concepts, differing critiques, and problem-solving answer.

To this point, there are a couple of that experience stood out to me, so I took a while remaining evening and this morning to tweak the ground plan to peer what I thought of those concepts. First, I headed over to Houzz to have a look at lengthy, thin closets to make certain that I’d even need to reside with a protracted, thin closet. And I feel I like the speculation!

There are such a large amount of walk-in closets with this configuration on Houzz and Pinterest, and a few are approach narrower than the 7.5 toes (now not 75 toes!! :-D) than I’m taking into account ours. Some closets that I noticed have been most effective about 5 toes broad, with house for garage most effective alongside one wall. Those that had garage on each side have been six toes and wider.

So the scale that I’m looking to paintings with appear to be beautiful same old for lengthy, thin walk-in closets. I noticed that the again access of the studio is strictly 7.5 toes broad, so I were given some tape and measured off 24 inches on each and every aspect to peer what that seems like…

That seems like quite a lot of room to me. And through shifting from a wall of PAX wardrobes to a walk-in closet that’s 7.5 toes broad, I’ll actually be doubling my space for storing since I may just put PAX wardrobes on each side of this walk-in closet.

So now that I’m positive I may just reside with a 7.5-foot-wide walk-in closet, I attempted to include a few of your concepts right into a flooring plan. Some of the primary tips I heard over and over used to be to transport the doorway to the bed room nearer to the middle of the home as a substitute of getting it at the again wall of the home. That made sense to me.

Some other not unusual advice used to be to transport the laundry room to the again wall of the home in order that it might have a window. The one approach I may just determine how to try this used to be to simply bump out the bed room the extra 7.5 toes, whilst leaving the remainder of the addition in its initially deliberate dimension. And that used to be some other advice that a number of of you had.

So after I put the ones concepts in combination, that is what I got here up with…

That put the garage closet for Matt’s issues on one aspect of the hallway resulting in the bed room, with the doorway to the laundry room at the different aspect of the hallway. With that configuration, I will have a window over the sink within the laundry room, and the again of the addition isn’t a great rectangle. However that still removes a possible coat closet within the circle of relatives room, so as soon as once more, our visitors are left and not using a position to hold their coat all over our one-week-a-year iciness. 😀

An excessively intriguing concept that any person had used to be to stay the addition as-is, and construct the closet to the aspect of the home. This concept used to be in point of fact interesting to me, so I performed round with it as smartly.

After I did this one, I had already gotten it into my head that I sought after a window within the laundry room, however I additionally sought after the doorway into the laundry room to be within the new hallway to the bed room. However then I additionally wanted space for storing for Matt’s issues. So I puzzled about combining the 2 — the laundry room and the space for storing for Matt’s issues — into one massive room with an front from the bed room and from the hallway. My worry with this format is what the roof would seem like. It’s arduous for me to believe, however I the architect may just give me some enter. I do love that place of the closet for one primary explanation why. I may have a window in there, and even two! I like the glance of the ones home windows within the footage of the lengthy, thin closets up above.

I’m going to stay on studying feedback, and proceed taking part in round with those concepts y’all have given me. I do know I’ll in finding the very best answer. The primary issues I would like and want are (1) a minimum of 7.5 toes of width for a walk-in closet, and (2) a devoted garage space for Matt’s issues. It’s can’t be a garage closet plus a shoe closet, or a garage closet plus garage for additonal bedding. His apparatus is large and ponderous and a ache to transport round, and I don’t need to have to transport it out and in of the closet as a way 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 the town for approval, I’m locked in!

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I proportion my DIY and adorning adventure as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is not able to do bodily paintings, so I do the vast majority of the paintings at the area alone. You’ll be told extra about me right here.