I think that would depend on what you need to store there. I have not much in my closet. I hang things on one rod probably 5 ft long. I have a few sweaters that could take up a single cubby. And if I didn’t have a dresser I could use a narrow/tall set of shelves to accommodate folded clothes. Two people like me would probably fit fine. Two people that have a lot of clothes will likely have problems. It’s so individual.

well...It depends on how much stuff you have. It would work for my family as we are not clothing horses, and we store winter and rain stuff and coats and shoes in a mud room. I LOVE drawers and would do a huge bank of them on each side with hanging above. Hall down middle

hooks on back wall. but I don't have any long hanging things so you would have to configure your space carefully to your needs.

Here is a picture of a sparsely filled cheapy kind of closet system just to give you some idea of size...it is 66 inches wide, 63 inches tall and 24 inches deep...that would give you a 44 inch isle down the middle.

22 inches wide each...

with a pocket door to save on room...

It's all relative. How big is your closet now? We have a 3'x7' "walk-in" closet (which is to say, the door is on the short end so if you want anything deeper in, you must walk in...) and we've lived with that for 15 years. I'd love more closet space, but it worked fine. (We do also have a dresser.) We are expanding it to 4'x7' in a remodel and the added foot of space is a game changer. We're using the Elfa closet system, which we already have in our kids' closet so are familiar with. They make depths of 12", 16", and 20". The 16" rods and shelves work well for our space since they leave a 32" aisle to actually walk in. You could line your space with something similar and have quite a bit of storage, but whether it's enough depends on what you have. Is the space below the vanity a shower? If it is and that's really not enough space, you could do a shower/tub combo and take the space from the tub to make the closer larger.

If you put a door into the walk in closet on the short side you will create more closet hanging space since corners mean nothing in a walk in closet with the door on the long side.

Reach in closets in small spaces offer you more clothes storage. Is it possible to do two reach in closets instead or closet furniture? Make it look like furniture rather than closed in and inaccessible. It will also give your master more floor space. I see two doors into the master suite. One by the pantry and another to the right. Can you eliminate the door by the pantry creating another closet? That one can be furniture style and the other can be a walk in.

How high are the ceilings? Pull-down closet rods allow you to use all of the wall space. Use a pocket door so you do not lose any wall space. If you are not sure you can clearly design your own, take the plans to a closet store and tell them what you need. The closet design and install will cost, but it’s probably cheaper than building a bigger room.

N Johnson is right. If you could plan higher ceilings, enough to add a pull down rod for off season or lesser used clothing, that will give you a ton more space. Its too narrow to have hanging on both sides but you could have 12” shelving opposite the hanging side. Sweaters, pants, shoes and off season clothes could have a home there too. Id go with the pocket door also and if you could change the door position to take advantage of the longer walls, thats what I would do. I have to tell you tho, without proper planning, that space will be tight.

It wouldn't be enough for me and my husband, but it depends entirely on how much stuff you have. If it were all hanging space I think you would be OK, but once you put in a drawer section on each side you're taking up a lot of space. In our last house we had a small walk-in and then two reach-in closets on either side of a window that created an area for a window seat which was attractive and functional. You might get some good ideas if you show us the floor plan for the whole bedroom. Are you doing an addition or repurposing existing space?

That is a tiny closet for 2 people AND no dressers. We had 7x10 in our last house - we had it built by a closet company so we maximized space, and we used every inch PLUS a dresser. Our new house has a huge closet, but we're just not as packed in. I am in no way a clothes horse. My husband probably has more clothes than I do given the amount of nice work clothes and workout clothes he has.

Since none of us know you - maybe you only wear one outfit and have 5 copies of it so your space needs are different? Best thing for you to do is go measure your clothes and figure out if you have space.

I feel like there are better options that would give you more closet space - his/hers reach-ins, moving doorways, getting rid of the tub...but hard to tell with the clip provided.

Thank you for all the fantastic feedback! These are great ideas. To answer a few of your questions. Our closet right now is a very tiny reach in closet, maybe 5x3? We also have a double dresser, and overall it's not enough space for us. The ceiling height per the plans can either 8 or 10'9" feet. We are doing an addition but we've maxed out our lot/set back in the design that I've shown here, so we can't add much more space beyond what these drawings show. I've attached a photo of what the adjacent master bedroom will look like in the remodel. Right now there are french doors to the backyard, which eliminates the opportunity for putting a dresser right there. I guess one option is to not make those doors and just put a wall so we can have a dresser there. But it still feels like it will be tight because the length of the room is only 13 feet and we have a king bed. What do you think?

How much clothing do you own? How much linear hanging space do you currently use and how much drawer space do you currently use? Do you need all the clothes that you have? Is there an alternate location to store off season clothes?

My sister and her husband just downsized from a 2700 sf home to a 900 sf apt. I was helping unload boxes yesterday and got a look at their new closet system.

Her closet is almost identical to your dimensions with 8' ceilings except she has a bathroom linen closet that eats one corner of the master closet.

Here is a diagram of what she had built.

She does have 2 dressers in addition to the closet.

My other sister has given up hanging space in her closet after adopting the Marie Kondo method for clothes organization and storage.

If you're willing to give up the tub, you could do this which would give you each 8' closets (with a closet system, I think this could be very doable):

Your shower seems pretty small as it is, so I would seriously consider 1 sink and a larger shower as well.

anj_p, that’s a good design!! I like it. Do you think having one sink and a shower only (no tub) in a master bathroom affects resale? I don’t know a lot about real estate and selling homes to be honest

A lot of people are foregoing tubs in their master bath and going with a large luxurious shower instead. If you have another tub in your house, general advice is it shouldn't affect resale...but if you're doing this addition I image you're not selling any time soon? If that's the case, you should do what works for you, not what will work for a future buyer. In our home's design, we omitted the tub. 2 sinks only REALLY matter if you get ready at the same time/if you hate sharing space. I wouldn't put in 2 sinks if the trade off is a super small shower (I can't tell exactly but it looks like it's the minimum width). Plus by omitting a sink you get a lot more storage.

You may have space for a small makeup vanity on the back of the closet if that is something you'd like.

I’d focus on how you can make more use of the bedroom. There’s plenty of space for a large dresser or a couple of smaller ones. e.g., you could put the head of the bed on the other wall (and have high windows above it), or you could move the French doors to the side. I can’t tell precisely the measurements, but I suspect you could even have small dressers on each side of the French doors in the current layout. In sum - much more space for clothes storage in the bedroom than trying to find little extra spaces in the closet/bathroom area (yes, you probably also want to design that closet well; but the big gain will be in the bedroom).

Do you need all those hallways? That’s wasted space, IMO.

You don't need double doors into the bedroom since you're short on wall area. If you have one 30" door you will probably have room on either side for two tall dressers. Figure out what the exact dimensions would be and then look at the dimensions of dressers. They usually come in tall, narrow or short, wide sizes.

Do you use all of the space in your kitchen pantry?

More on my note above about making use of the bedroom -- We're going through a remodel/rebuild, and we've had several conversations with our architect about whether something needs to be centered (because the architect thinks it needs to be precisely centered) or if it needs to be more functional (because we want to fit something there -- like a couch, or a wider freezer). Worth really spending time thinking through how the main rooms the architect designed will be furnished.

Regardless of what you decide about a dresser in the bedroom, I would not do double doors into your bedroom. They are awful for privacy and really have no benefit. I would do a single door not centered so that you at least have flexibility with a partial wall for something (chair or dresser or even just large, pretty art).

There appears to be a lot of space that could be captured for your bath and closet. Do you need a desk area (?) next to the laundry? What is the large “closet” area off the kitchen? A pantry? I would rethink some other parts of your plan so that you can get the maximum use of your limited space. The desk area and the pantry might be reconfigured, halls eliminated, passage ways reduced to single rather than double doors, etc.

Seems like you're giving more space for your canned vegetables than your clothing. :) Think about what's more important -- walk-in pantry or closet, and which makes your life easier. If you took space from the pantry and rearranged the bath and closet to eliminate wasted hallways, you could have a really nice-sized closet and keep the tub and double sinks.

Do the double doors open to the outside or to the interior? If inside, definitely just a single door. If outside you could keep them but move them one way or the other to have space for a double dresser (or desk, or any other non-bed furniture you might need) by concentrating the wall space. And agreed with L W about considering function over form in a space like this. What’s in your bedroom now? Does anything else need to have a home in the new space?

Can we see the entire design. There may be a more efficient way to create access to the bedroom and bath that uses less hallway. What is the other walk in closet and stuff that is below the master bath on the plan? What are the dimensions for the bathroom? How do you access the laundry from the master?

The double doors would really depend on what is outside of those doors and what need are the doors fulfilling.

I spend a lot of time outside in my yard. I often wished I had access to my back yard from the bedroom side of the house in my last home. The traffic pattern through the house was a big U with backyard access at the start of the U and the master at the end.

I made an offer on a home with double doors from the master to a secluded hot tub area that they created in their backyard that was a fabulous space.

I still don't have a home with access from the master, but it is easy access from the master to the back yard.

or, another idea altogether:

My husband and I just added onto our house and have a closet that is 8 feet by 9 feet 7 inches. It’s is plenty of space for us and we have room for more and don’t even need our bedroom dresser. I will warn you that custom closet systems are exorbitantly expensive — even for ikea type laminate shelves/cabinets. Our initial quote was 20k for our master (and this didn’t even include many drawers). To put basic white laminate shelves in a linen closet that is around 2 feet by 3 feet cost us 2300$. We ended up using the ikea pax and shoe shelves from modular closets to save money on our master closet and my daughters closet. When I was planning the closet I counted every shirt, pant, shoe… you get the idea. Measured over and over again for the right closet cabinets. You can use a planner to see how much room each item takes up. Most clothing does not need to be hung unless you wear a lot of suits and button downs. You can use drawer dividers to make things more organized. You can also store winter clothing at the top of closet cabinets; I do this in my daughter’s closet and store a lot of sweaters in my own. There are also lots of hacks to make ikea closets look nicer — look up Erin Kestenbaum or Chris Loves Julia. We added trim and drawer fronts to our closet cabinets and drawers and are about to paint them. Pocket doors or narrow French doors are good to not take up much room for the closet.

Loved Moore4’s reconfiguration. Since you have another entrance into the bedroom, maybe put your pantry here?