Planning The Storage Closet – My Preliminary Ideas

The lavatory that I’m speaking about is behind these double doorways within the bed room suite lobby.

That loo used to appear like this, and it’s been our major visitor rest room all the time we’ve lived on this home (since 2013).

It appears just a little completely different now. I had a brand new countertop put in a few years in the past. And at one time some time again, I used to be planning a toilet makeover, so I took the colourful bathe curtain down. However for probably the most half, it nonetheless appears the identical right this moment, and it’s nonetheless getting used as our visitor rest room. For the foreseeable future, my studio rest room can be our one and solely visitor rest room (as quickly because it’s completed), after which I’ll have the ability to take away every thing from this rest room to show it right into a storage room.

I’ve had every kind of lofty concepts about how I need this room to look and performance, however the one factor I’ve by no means accomplished till now’s sit down and make a listing of every thing I need and must put into this room after which attempt to give you a strong plan of motion. I’ve had lofty concepts of getting a utility sink, a lot of cupboard storage, and naturally, our scorching water heater must go in right here. I’d additionally like for the cats’ litter field, meals, and water to be in right here.

However after I sat down and really began planning the room structure, I spotted in a short time that simply how small this room is. The entire room is simply 93″ x 88.5″. That’s 7′ 9″ x 7′ 4.5″. That’s fairly small. And as soon as I put a scorching water heater (even when it’s tankless), a Hoyer raise, a bathe wheelchair, an influence wheelchair, and a utility sink in there, that can go away nearly no room for precise storage. So one thing has to go, and clearly, that factor must be the utility sink.

I’m just a little upset, but it surely’s positive. To be sincere, I haven’t actually had a necessity for a utility sink. I simply thought it will be useful to have one. However sadly, I’ve no room for issues that aren’t requirements.

After taking the measurements and coming to the conclusion that this room must be a “requirements solely” space, I began serious about what sort of storage I need in right here. I would really like one full wall to be a storage space with cabinets and drawers, after which the opposite wall can be for Matt’s gear with cabinets above them going the entire size of the wall. After which I’m hoping that our tankless scorching water heater will be put in within the middle of the wall reverse the door.

For the one storage wall, my first thought was to check out IKEA Pax wardrobes. That may be a lot simpler and quicker than constructing from scratch. On one wall, I might match two of the widest models with about 14 inches between them the place I might add extra cabinets.

Whereas I’d love the benefit of simply buying one thing that may be put collectively shortly, I don’t assume this may work due to the door placement within the room. Right here’s a structure of the room…

The wall the place I wish to put the storage is the wall to the best of the door within the structure above. On that wall, I solely have 21.5″ of area between the wall and the trim on the door. The IKEA Pax wardrobes solely are available in two depths. One is 22 7/8″ deep, which is simply too deep for that area. The opposite is 13 3/4″ deep, which is able to go away an excessive amount of wasted area. I wish to make the most of each inch of area that’s accessible for storage, particularly since I need drawers in there, so I need the drawer storage to be each little bit of these 21 inches of accessible depth.

So it’s wanting like I’ll be constructing from scratch. Once more, that’s one other disappointment as a result of I wished this to be so simple as doable. However I don’t wish to sacrifice cupboard space simply to make issues simple. Since that is our without end house, I wish to get this proper.

I’ve much more to assume via earlier than I’m able to decide to a particular plan or perhaps a particular structure for the room, however a minimum of now I do know for positive that (1) there’s no room for a utility sink, and (2) I must gear up for a customized construct for the room. I additionally must assume via each single factor I plan to retailer in right here and be sure that there’s a spot for every thing. That features issues like my vacuum cleaner, carpet cleaner, energy mop, cleansing provides, and so on. All of that actually must go in right here, and I wish to take my time to plan this out excellent in order that every thing has a spot. I’m studying in a short time that designing small areas is definitely far more difficult than I assumed it will be when most utility and most storage is the purpose.

I’m actually enthusiastic about this venture, although. If I’m being completely sincere, I’m far more enthusiastic about this storage room than I’m about my studio rest room. We’ve lived on this home for therefore lengthy with out enough storage, and I dream of a day when every thing has a spot and every thing will be saved away correctly. My walk-in closet was an enormous step in the direction of that purpose, and this storage closet can be one other big step in the direction of that purpose. I wish to get it proper.

Anyway, I’m actually hoping to get the wallpaper within the studio rest room completed up right this moment in order that I can present you the progress tomorrow. I’ll additionally share the main points on why this wallpaper has been probably the most troublesome to put in. What I assumed can be a two-day course of has now change into a four-day course of. At one level yesterday, I used to be nearly able to throw within the towel, however reasonably than rip all of it down, I made a decision to cease, sleep on it, and have a look at it with contemporary eyes and renewed vitality this morning. So right this moment, I’m plowing forward, and I feel I can get it completed right this moment. Extra particulars on that tomorrow (hopefully).