anyone?

I did not study your plan, but I can tell you that it would not be too small if properly fitted with shelves in a high cost area like mine, and if it were in an 1800 sq foot house. It woudl be too small for two people who each have a lot of clothes and shoes. My guess is that it would be seen as small by most of the US for a 2700 sq foot house, unless you are in a lower-income area where walk-ins are not common. Look to your house's "peers" for guidance. If you are not concerned with resale, just do what you makes sense re: your time and costs.

well its in a secondary bedroom not a master bedroom and would be for one person. the alternative is a standard 10ft wide 30" deep closest with bifold doors.

I don’t see that the walk in gets you more useful space, really it would be less hanging space than 10’. not sure what’s so special about a walk in vs a reach in to go to all the trouble? unless you need a bigger bedroom for some reason.

Space-wise, reach-ins are more efficient. I would expand the bedroom by putting the bedroom door perpendicular to the bathroom door and then continue the reach-in closet all the way across the room. You could put a similar closet back-to-back in the office, if desired.

I am not understanding the dilemma here. I think you have 2 bedrooms for kids, with closets, and another room without a closet used as a "Den." Yet the existing bedroom reach-in closet is not adequate for some reason, and you want to build a walk-in that will be smaller, all while reducing the width of the room from ~12' to ~10'? And does the squiggly black line with pink shading represent you are splitting the "Den" into 2 rooms, of which neither may not meet minimum floor area requirements, light & ventilation, or HVAC needs?

Why don't you just build a reach-in closet in the "Den" right behind the bedroom closet, which is what this plan was designed for? Then remove the doorway to Entry, so then you have a true 4 bedroom house all with closets and you are flexible for any situation?

If it's not the master bedroom, I think it will work just fine. Get some good closet organizers in there to really maximize the space.

Geesh. no need to be condescending 3onthetree.

The den has its own bump out for a closet but is setup as a theater room where the closet area in that room is used for a projection screen. when i sell the house, i'll convert that area to a closet.

the squiggly line is to show that the house continues in that direction so someone doesn't think i have a room thats 4' wide and focus on that like you did, or that i have a closet heading up to no where. Its also why i showed my whole floor plan. I guess i didn't set the bar low enough for you though.

If it's not the master bedroom, I think it will work just fine. Get some good closet organizers in there to really maximize the space.

Just curious, do you have any you like? i dont know much beyond ikea, amazon, wayfair.

Space-wise, reach-ins are more efficient. I would expand the bedroom by putting the bedroom door perpendicular to the bathroom door and then continue the reach-in closet all the way across the room. You could put a similar closet back-to-back in the office, if desired.

so you'd expand the room as if i was making the walking but instead use it as bedroom space? thats not a bad idea either. To my uneducated self, i thought having a "walk-in" would be more desireable for potential buyers and/or just be more desireable in general as its a cleaner look to have the clothes separate (especially when dealing with kids and hteir mess.

@ahreno I often recommend Elfa shelving from the Container Store. Good quality, and a lot less expensive than California Closets.

Wow, you think that was condescending? Going off a cliff there in your response? Good luck and have a great new year!

I don’t see that the walk in gets you more useful space, really it would be less hanging space than 10’. not sure what’s so special about a walk in vs a reach in to go to all the trouble? unless you need a bigger bedroom for some reason.

Maybe its just me. i always found walk ins to be a lot more desirable than just a bifold reach in, like to the extent i'd rip a wall out to put one in.

@Sabrina Alfin Interiors (ah i had forgotten how to tag people here). thanks for the recomenndation. see, to me, that style stuff just looks really cheap and junky. maybe its because my experience has been limited to walmart/home depot versions. I just would never think that would be an ideal setup in a $800k house

Elfa makes other versions besides the white wire basics. You can get their Decor Series with Platinum shelving and a walnut fascia, among other options.

I think these look great. They're having a sale right now, too.

Sure walk ins are great but only because they are huge. you don’t have enough width to do hanging racks on both sides of the walk in. so it’s going to have less storage space as so much of it will be walk way. reach ins are very efficient - no space lost to walk way. for resale i don’t think anyone is really going to care whether a third bedroom closet is a walk in or not. we just hung clothing racks and built shelving ourselves in our 2 closets - prices seem astronomical on the premade ones! and nothing is remotely square in my house so it was a good thing we were doing it…

It's not a binary choice between expensive walk-in and cheap reach-in. There are some very nice custom closet systems. And they need not have bi-fold doors. People want well thought out storage. We turned down a condo once because, among other things, it had a 5' wide walk-in closet with a bar on either side - essentially unusable. A bigger bedroom could be very attractive to someone with two children sharing a room.

Maybe its just me. i always found walk ins to be a lot more desirable than just a bifold reach in, like to the extent i'd rip a wall out to put one in.

Walk ins are only more desireable if they're more efficient use of space. What you're proposing is not especially since you'll lose bedroom space. Bedroom space is more important than a walk in.

And no, children don't need walk ins.

And why bifold doors? Design it so it has two sets of doors to open into the closet.

My DH has a reach in in our master bedroom. We had shelving and double hanging racks. They are not cheap looking. Only reason I won't show his closet is because he's not the neatest person.

We did a reach in for our guest room closet. Floor to ceiling shelving and a hanging rack. Obviously if someone was using the room, we would have designed the interior of the closet differently. Both look professional and are not cheap looking at all.

Note they are not bi-fold doors.

Obviously we use the closet for extra storage.

@lharpie i agree i'd lose a small amount of hanging space since it probably can't quite handle a hanger on each side but it could handle 5-6' of hanging space on both the top and bottom (10-12' total) on one wall and 12" shelves on the other along with built in 40" wide worth of drawer in the bump out on the one wall. is that much hanging space even that important? its more clothes than both me and my partner have. honest question, not trying to argue.

one thing i'm having a hard time agreeing with is the fact that the walk in would lose room space. ( @cpartist, @User). I'd say at this point i'm leaning away from the walk in.

If i dont add the walk in, i lose 30" deep by 10' wide (25sqft) for the reach in, where as I would lose 5'x30" for the walk in and would better utilize the completely unused hallway space thats just a junk trap. (plenty of room for vacuums etc in laundry room)

I do like the dual door idea. would doing sliding barn doors be a bad idea?

Unless a barn door is consistent with the style of your house, don't do it. If it doesn't fit it just screams fad. I don't see anything wrong with bifold doors if they're solid wood in a style that goes with the other doors in the house. The metal ones are the ones that seem cheap. I will vote for the reach in closet as well. In closet systems you get what you pay for. The really nice looking ones are considerably more expensive, but everyone gets to decide how they want to spend their money.

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@kandrewspa do you have a brand you recommend?

@Sabrina Alfin Interiors do you have experience with both the elfa and ikea closets? the elfa looks nice, but looking into the drawers etc they seem to just be front on wire mesh drawers which seems similiar to ikea quality (or less). an on sale elfa solution @$2100 is intriguing but if its similar to a $1k ikea solution i'd lean ikea. I have ikea drawers elsewhere and they've held up excellent

Like Sabrina I wasn't interested in spending a lot of money on ours. We removed those cheesy wire builder shelves with thin hanging rods, so anything else was going to look good in comparison. We just used Closet Maid from HD. We didn't buy drawers because I didn't need them, so I can't vouch for them. My closet is like the one in the picture I posted except shelves all the way down where the pictured one has drawers. It's a walk-in and we did the two sides identical to each other. DH has above average DIY skills and installed them himself. They are very sturdy and suit my needs. Since there is such a wide range of products you are going to have to look at what's available relative to the price and decide which one suits you. If you want drawers those might be the feature that helps you to decide.

It may be worth having a look at the Container Store. They have a number of options.

@cpartist can i ask how far to the right and left does your closet go from the doors? if that makes sense.