I can't tell without a drawing of your rooms. I'll tell what we did: the closet was next to the hallway, so we made an opening to the hall, and created a hall closet. Funny that after these years I can't recall exactly....

They deal with it as your contractor suggested, you either want the depth, or you don't. Don't buy a piece to "fill" it . Just build it in.

If that is carpet I see on that floor? I'd be a lot more obsessed about getting rid of that.................

We removed the door casing and made ours open shelving. The slide out shelves are a good option. How much is one closet worth. YOu could split it in two open it from the other side with a divider down the middle I suppose. I bought cubes for storage of things one doesn't want on display, the cubes are easily grabbed when something is needed.

I’d agree with the contractor. Don’t worry, the space your family is worried about won’t be wasted, as long as it’s usable. Usable spaces tend to fill in pretty quickly with things we didn’t even know we needed there. Who knows, maybe installing a hook or two for bathrobes will do it.

It depends.

If keeping depth, then pullout shelves

or deeper shelving with matching decorative baskets. 2 baskets in front if eachother. baskets in front for easily accesible ysed often items, items behing for back up or rarely used stuff.

or

make closet less deep.

Here's some more ideas.

if no door then

Trim around to look more finushed & have deep shelving

less deep shelving

No slide-outs in that location, when open they can interfere with the door opening. This could be an issue with children in the house. As others have suggested, open a door into the hall for a hall closet, perhaps keeping a shallow storage shelf there.

Thank you for all the great suggestions and comments! Sorry I could not get my drawing to post, but JAN MOYER -- that isn't carpet, it's Marmoleum that has been there for 25+ years. This is a complete re-do, with new vanity, flooring, shower replacing tub, etc. I posted more details about the entire bathroom in another query, just asked about the closet here. Trying to figure out what is the difference between posting to Houzz vs. garden web? Unfortunately the extra space would not be accessible through hallway, it could be done from the bedroom, but that wall space has a dresser in front of it, so not ideal. But worth some thought. I may just go with the suggestion to have open shelving, keep it deep, and use the deep space for rarely used items.

Just to be specific: the opening of drywall that created an entirely new closet wasn't parallel [behind the other closet] but perpendicular to it....make drawings and think about them as empty boxes that can be moved around...

I wish I could do that, too, everdebz! But the opening would have to be on the bedroom wall, as you enter bedroom, or behind the other closet (where I have a dresser) not a useful place for another closet.

MY GAWD!!!!! If the depth of the closet were now 18 inches, or 24..........? There'd be no issue, right? It's simple studs and drywall to create a shallower "closet", and pretty basic finish carpentry for a very nice built in look.It's behind an entry door. Keep it simple. I'm sure the entry bath door is open 99% of the time.

PS....... Don't make separate threads, for every issue in a bath.

Beanish do you have pictures of what you ended up doing with your deep
Closet?