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Bedroom design help

2 years ago

We are renovating a room in our home we just purchased to make it a bedroom as the sellers did not include a closet when they remodeled. The dilemma is what to do on the wall where the closet will go. The contractor gave us a plan that has two side by side closets with bypass doors since the wall is 12+ feet wide. I said that will look funny with so many doors on that wall. My idea is to do one normal sized closet and to add some sort of shelving for the remainder of the wall. The room will be an extra bedroom that we will actually use as an office, so having a space that could house a TV and/or office equipment would be useful. The home is mid-century modern with a lean to modern in other design elements. I’ve included a couple of floorplan photos as well as a picture of how the previous owners had it.

Ideas please!

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Patricia Colwell Consulting

2 years ago

Do you actually need a closet at all ? Guests need very little closet space , you could do a whole wall of closets and use some for a closet type office that could be closed and locked whan you have guests since you will need some kind of bed maybe even a custom murphy bed with closet on both sides and the deck under the window . I do not like my office in a guest room so I never choose that . I love the way the space was used by the previous owners actually .Why not just do the closet desk etc on the wall where they had the TV I amnot sure what would be any better

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stephblaydes
Original Author
2 years ago
Thanks for the input. This room is a second extra guest room as there is a whole seperate guest suite in addition to this room. For resale purposes, we need the room to be considered a ”bedroom” so we have to add a closet. Otherwise, it is a rather expensive home was listed as 2 bed/2.5 bath as is and we are making it 3 bed/3 bath. We may have a murphy bed (on the wall that is out of view) but it will be used by us primarily as a home office that will need full size desk, etc.
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Hi- If you are going to keep that bed, you need taller bedside tables. Their tops need to come to the top of the mattress. You also need lamps that are more substantial, yours are too thin and spindly. Unless your bed is unusually tall, the combined height of your bedside table plus the height of the lamp plus shade should be 58-64 inches. What color is your headboard? You need to replace your curtains, they are awkwardly short. The curtains should reach to the floor. Yes, we know the architect put a heating vent there. The curtains still need to go to the floor anyway. You can tie them back if you want when the heater is on. I would not paint the wall green. Just find prints you like, and some attractive pillow shams, maybe some patterned curtains or curtain trim, those can work in the colors you want to introduce to the room.
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kandrewspa
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I think a 6-8' closet is big enough and if you have a need for shelves, definitely finish off the wall with shelves.
elisejames
2 years ago
Unless you are selling it right away (which I think you are not since you just purchased it), skip the closet and add a shelf rack or something similar for your guests. Then make the room as you want it for living in now. The cost to frame out a closet when you are someday looking to sell will be very small. At that time, you can also stage the room to play it up as a bedroom if so desired.
elisejames
2 years ago
An additional option - many Murphy bed configuration include closets. If that will qualify it as a bedroom and you are thinking of a Murphy bed anyway, do that.
Kelley Dockrey
2 years ago
Check the code for your state. A bedroom in California does not require a closet. It requires appropriate egress / ingress (WINDOW OR DOOR) to outside. Space for an armoire will suffice for closet space.
Jennifer Hogan
2 years ago
Before making the change I would examine the appraisal form that you got when you purchased your home. Appraisal starts with square footage, gross livable space. If you look at the form it also looks for number of rooms then bedrooms / bathrooms. 2 homes that have the same square footage, same number of rooms and same number of bathrooms, the adjustment for the third bedroom can be pretty small. If your home was evaluated against other 2 BR homes simply call the appraiser and ask him for his opinion. Most of them are human and likely to be open to a discussion.

When adding a 3rd bedroom to a home it really does add value, but the bulk of the value is because the addition increased square footage.

Marketing of a 3 bedroom home is easier, but you can usually list a 2 bedroom + office as a 3 BR and note the difference in the body of the listing.

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