Height and spacing of open shelf “linen closet” in main bath
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Comments (16)Some good ideas here! The only "con" I can see to moving the door down the hallway is that then the only "powder room" downstairs would be inside your DD's room...unless you are planning on having guests come through your bedroom to use yours, they would no longer have an entry into bathroom without going into someone's bedroom. I'm with the others on linen closet taking precedence though! Now MY idea ;~) is that I'd do almost anything to move the entry door from the garage out of the laundry room. Having lived with it both ways I absolutely love being able to close the laundry room off sometimes and not having to walk past piles or baskets of laundry coming into the house. Look at how the door in from the garage and the door from laundry room to house interfere with each other...at the very least I would put a pocket door on the laundry room instead....but I'd also play with arrangements of the laundry room and the coat closet and think about having the door from the garage go directly into the house!...See MoreLinen closet dimensions and pictures - please post
Comments (1)We just installed a floor to ceiling linen cabinet in our master, it's 24 inches wide and 18 inches deep. It's split into two sections with two doors up and two doors down. I put the shelves in so there is about an 18 inch space from the top. But I only used two shelves in the bottom section, which we use for towels. In the open space below the second shelve I have a wicker basket for dirty clothes....See MorePleasing dimensions for a linen closet
Comments (13)I agree with both Annz and Patty Cakes' suggestions. I don't have a dedicated linen closet, but instead have built-in linen cabinets in our two main bathrooms. Neither have drawers, just shelves. But, I do have a similar set up to the one you've pictured, on one side of our guest room's walk-in closet that I'm using to store extra sheets, blankets and comforters. In there, my upper doors are double ones, making access to the shelves easy. But the drawers, deep as they are, are not working very well at all for storing my comforters in. I'm going to try Patty's roll & tie idea with them. instead. The drawers do hold sheet sets, neatly folded inside one pillow case fairly well, though. I can set them on end ( like books) in the drawers for easy access. The problem, up until Patty's idea, is that the comforters folded on the shelves are so puffy that my cabinet doors won't stay closed. Anyhoo, just more food for thought. But, how wonderful to be getting ANY type of extra storage, so I'm happy for you! Don't forget to post After pics of us. Lynn...See MoreLinen close shelf depth
Comments (5)so bring the shelves *most* of the way out (and put the trim on the inside BEFORE you install the shelves--shelves are usually the "afterthought") The access to the top shelf is a problem, true. What if you made the bottom half of the closet 16 inches or so, and the top half 12 inches? It would mean that you couldn't STAND that close to the upper shelf, and that your step ladder wouldn't be that close, but you would *probably* be close enough. And don't plan on keeping too much up there on that top shelf. At least, not anything you want often. Oh--one other "top shelf of the closet behind the header" idea--I found that SHORTER boxes are easier to use up there. I put my DH's out-of-season clothes in two under-bed boxes, and stacked them. before that, I had really struggled to get a full-height box in and out of that closet, but once I switched to a short box, I found it would slide between the shelf (and its contents) and the header much more easily (of course, I needed some EXTRA room above the box so I can tip the box...)...See Morecpartist
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