What’s the smallest width a wall can be for a closet?
R M
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Realistically what's the smallest sink I can put in a 12' cabinet
Comments (8)Boy, I can relate :-) I had such a tough time finding a small sink and a small faucet for my bar! The sink here is too big for you, but I'll describe my situation and hopefully it will shed some light for you. Here's mine: Just to give you an idea, I have full overlay (custom) doors/drawers. The sides of each cabinet box is 3/4" thick. My boxes are 17 1/2". That's the exterior width. Inside, the width is 16 (17 1/2 minus the two sides of 3/4 each). I have a 12" sink (12" inner dimension, 14" outer dimension). The width of the bar area is 52". So your 12" cabinet would only actually have 10 1/2 inches to fit the sink into. And depending on how deep your cabinets are, you'll have to figure out if there's room for the faucet. Remember you have to take off the 3/4" in the front and back, too. There's a 2" filler on the left before the cabinet starts. You can see it's a bit of a squeeze to fit the faucet in. It starts just where the inside of the cabinet starts. I've undermounted the sink, but it has a 1" edge all the way around and can be dropped in. I ended up with a Belle Foret BFC5KITORB copper sink and Belle Foret Faucet BFN26001ORB . I got them both at Amazon. That was the smallest sink they had in copper. I did find one that is smaller (10" OD, 8" ID) at Copper Sinks Direct Hopefully someone else will chime in if I'm explaining this wrong. I don't know if other cabinets have the same 3/4" thickness as mine. You'd have to check the cabinets you're getting. HTH! Good luck!...See MoreThere's no Closet Forum, so....Can We talk Walk In Closets?
Comments (21)Lots of really good light is necessary. Trying to differentiate between the navy blue pants and the black pants and then trying to find socks that match is hard without good lighting. I'm always having to bring my stuff out of the closet into the bedroom where the light is better to figure it out. I have a mix of hangers - padded ones for blouses, clipped ones for skirts, my Dh likes wooden ones for suit jackets and I like really strong ones for my jeans - and those are really hard to find these days. Costco often sells nice packages of hangers. Think about what you are storing other than clothes - shoes, purses (I have a deeper shelf at the top for purses so as to keep those pesky straps under control and they are in cubbies that hold about 4 purses each), accessories such as scarves, belts....See MoreBest Layout for smallest useable kitchen? Part 2
Comments (101)Sorry, it’s been a long day. A lot of people here today, the designer and a team from the contractor and my head is spinning. As it turns out, you were all right. The designer arrived with 10ft of floor space instead of 7ft, needed by the staircase, which I was pretty frustrated about. Rebunky, I forgot to ask about the fire code but there’s no concern there, because the stairway and entry will be completely walled off from the garage. I don’t want an open stairway in the garage to the apartment. The garage will have an opener with a remote, so there should be no problem walking into the garage to access their storage. At this point, Sena, I’m feeling a little lack of trust in the figures and I’m going to have to have him confirm every measurement I’m using. I haven’t sat down to think about the layout again today. We had a lot to go over today and that was just one of many. As soon as I can, I’ll look it over again and see what I am willing to do to accommodate that. I am not going to go for part of the stairway on a second wall. I’d still like to see if I could keep the stairway in the middle and out of the bedroom and living room. Which would probably mean starting the stairway back on the North wall all the way in the corner, but I need a 5ft landing on the garage level, then 10ft of stairway and a landing at the top. So if I add 4ft so a total of 33ft in length, maybe that would get the stairway in the middle? That’s it for me tonight. Thanks for checking in with me....See MoreWalk- through closet width.
Comments (19)Virgil Carter Fine Art -- having to use a common hallway to access my closet and bath defeats the purpose of an ensuite for us. We'd like to keep it a private access. damiarain -- The "L Shape" Stairs are not on the plan. By breaking the stairs and turning them into the hall, we can extend the bedroom wall deeper into the house, creating a wider room. But by doing so, we'd have to push in the "Dressing Room" wall (hence my narrow dressing walkway dilemma) as to allow more space for the common hallways, as the "L Shape" stairs would eat into the existing wall. The one-wall-closet solution seems to make sense, but 12' doesn't seem enough for my husband and I. As for the exterior door in the bedroom, the Juliette balcony door will likely become two smaller french doors - less opening space. swrite -- Happy to hear others appreciating the Walk Through closet. And you're definitely right, having some room to back up and even get dressed in properly is important. gthigpen -- Eureka! That is actually a great idea. That would allow us to bring that common hallway wall in even just 6"; which would give our room a 9" increase. And with narrow homes like this, every inch counts! brizcs -- thanks so much for those detailed suggestions....See Morekats737
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