I just gained 91 ft of shelving and only lost 1 foot of my bedroom!
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Comments (37)The vestibule seemed to be jumping off the screen so I had to draw it. I'm glad it worked out. When I look at a design I automatically reach for a pen and tracing paper. People make fun of the fact that I always have a half dozen different colored felt tipped pens in my pocket and don't know how they got there. My former boss would hold his hand out palm up and I would put a pen in it. I recently left my pocket scale at a client's home and have been so miserable I ordered a half dozen of them. Sometimes it helps to draw the plan by hand with furniture, people, feature highlights and circulation arrows. Plan weaknesses will quickly become evident and solutions will sometimes seem to jump out at you when you are free of hard straight lines, dimensions and the burden of keeping what has already been drawn. It also helps to turn the sheet around and imagine walking through spaces from another direction. It doesn't have to be pretty; it's only for you. Few of these sketches are kept more than an hour and often I don't look at them when drawing the final on the computer; it's just an exercise. IMO unless you're using up a lot of tracing paper you're limited to reorganizing other people's ideas and those ideas can easily get out of proportion and not fit together as well as they originally did....See MoreKids bath: Window or Extra foot in bedroom?
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Comments (23)I would do two bedrooms right now and a modest bathroom and leave the rest open as a loft space/kid's play space. You can always add walls later if needed, especially if your DH does this for a living. The thing is that life rarely ever goes according to plan. We had one son with the intent to have a second child when the first was 2-3 which didn't go according to plan. When he was 4.5, we had TWIN girls (surprise!) so stopping at two was never an option. Now, we have four! Plan your house as reasonably as possible but leave enough leeway so that if things don't happen in the order you think they are going to happen, you still have options :)...See More
cupofkindnessgw
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoloonlakelaborcamp
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoMy bedroom area was 13 X 20, now it is 13 X 19. I will never miss it.
We thought of closet organizers, but came up with a better idea reusing our 4' wide rolling chrome racks as closet organizers in front of the back shelves. The racks are just over 6' high, and with the removal of some middle shelves and the insertion of a chrome garment bar on the top, I will have 4' wide mobile clothes racks with shelves on the bottom for shoes / shallow totes. My version will have an extra rack above each bottom shelf. (Picture is from Williams Sonoma site -they sell for $199.00. All I have to do is add a 15.00 garment bar to mine -- saving lots of cash) Click on image for the full view.
They will pull out of the closet area from the 5' wide sections of double doors. This will make for easy access to the back shelves whenever I need to get to them. I should also have enough room on the sides of the closet for some narrow shelves too.
What is on the other side of the wall? It is the stairway going upstairs. On the underside of it is the kitchen pantry. (Originally the only closet in the lake home!)
loonlakelaborcamp
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
On my 13' wall, I will have two sets of 5' wide double bi-fold doors. Even when they are open, the 4' wide rolling racks will easily roll out. I will never have to go "in" the closet to access clothes. They will all be reachable from the room thru the doors. The racks are just over 74" tall, the doors are 80" tall. (My ceilings are 9' tall.)I have access to perfect storage bins and boxes. With the 48" depth of closet, I should have no trouble with even a little overhang. The clothes on the racks are at most 30" in depth. (The racks are 18", but the clothes hang out further when on their hangers.
There will be two sets of the doors shown below. They are the blue Vs in the diagram. The shelves in the back are 12" deep. To access anything on the back shelves, you will roll out a rack. To access the skinny side shelves, you can roll a rack to the side and reach in.
talley_sue_nyc
8 years ago
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