Master Bed/Closet Configuration & Size?
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Comments (1)Can you post some pictures? Is your space owned or rented? There are so many ideas for maximizing space in a closet. Check out some of the inspiration pictures at Containerstore.com. They are expensive, but once you have an idea of how you would like to configure your closet, some of the solutions can be found at less expensive stores. ETA: I added some inspiration pictures to your closet thread....See MoreMaster Closet/Bath Configuration
Comments (8)Master toilet is still further from the master bed than the powder room toilet. In the master bath, there is wasted space where the toilet and linen closet is. Pocket door into a master bath is never a good idea as they are not as good with sound reduction than a regular door. If the master closet is narrower than 7', it's too narrow for hanging on two sides. You need 2' for hanging room and 3' minimum for walking space for a total of 7'. The powder room is more like would be expected in a 100 year old house where the only place to put a powder room on the main floor is under a staircase. This is very narrow and how does one maneuver in the powder room opening and closing the bathroom door? Nowadays most powder rooms are at least 5' square. Additionally you go to look down the hall to your end of the hall and what do you see? A door to the powder room bathroom! The front foyer is larger than your living room space! Why? It's basically wasted space. Note that your dining room shows 8 seats at the table, but your living room can only fit 6 people tightly. Personally I like a staircase that at some point going up has windows either on a landing or as you walk up the stairs. We as humans are conditioned to walk towards light and it's so true. Your kitchen is a thoroughfare through to the laundry and the mudroom/garage. Not good. You never want your working kitchen zone to be a pathway to other parts of the house. It should be "self contained" even if open. Also layout could be better. When we cook, we normally take food from the fridge/pantry, bring it to the sink to wash and then prep between sink and cooktop. When finished prepping we bring it to the cooktop. Look at all the steps needed to bring food from your sink to your cooktop. Also if you have kids you want to teach to cook, you might want to consider creating a better work zone which would include a prep sink on the island and the fridge on the wall closer to the dining room. (Think how often you sit down to dinner and then realize you need something from the fridge. With it being so far from the dining room, it means someone will be running through the work zone, maybe while you're getting hot food out of the oven, to grab something from the fridge.) If you do that, then your sink where you have it could be for clean up and as a secondary prep sink for those helping you in the kitchen. Laundry is far from where the majority of laundry is generated which is the bedrooms but this is a personal decision and I understand that if farming, one also doesn't want the dirty clothing coming through the house. Again though, you don't want to be walking through your kitchen carrying baskets of laundry. If I remember correctly, laundry is now in a better place in terms of being on an outside wall and having more usable space for doing what needs to be done. (Or was that someone else's house?) What will be in the rear entry? You show a garage bay between the house and the garage. I'm assuming you won't be trying to park a car there? Why the double doors into the rear entry?...See Moremaster bedroom, master closet, master bath, 1/2 bath and laundry
Comments (9)Do you have another bathtub in the house...for bathing kids? Unless you or your spouse enjoy baths...maybe eliminate the tub in the MBA? I am glad I have a linen closet in my MBA. I agree with eliminating the reach-in closets and adding windows. Also think about how you dress; a walk-in closet can hold all the things people used to store in dressers. (You really don't *need* a window in a closet, although Mark gave it one.) I agree with him about losing the (dated) double doors -- and creating an entry, rather than plopping right into the living room. If you'll eat at the kitchen island a lot, consider seating that's not all-in-a-row. It makes conversation difficult....See MoreMaster bath and master closet conundrum
Comments (1)In order to get any advice you are going to have to provide a diagram of the bedroom, closet and bathroom including dimensions because it is not possible to figure out anything from your pictures. Depending on the size of your bedroom you can frame a large closet along a wall in the bedroom. I grew up in an older home with typical small closets and my parents had large closets installed in front of the original small closets because the rooms were large enough so that taking away some "depth" was feasible. Depending on the size of your current closet you could use space efficiently and a portion of the closet used as an office. Depends on your need as I have a very large space for my "office" and had custom installation but what I use as an "office" is very small because all I need is a small desk area; a place for an all-in-one printer/copier and a VERY small file because I only keep hard copies of stuff which requires hard copies like official stuff which requires originals like birth, death and marriage certificates; passports; car registration; mortgage; estate stuff and those can fit into a small portable file - everything else is either scanned or is on the web anyway like bank statements....See Morevp98aa
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