My contractor’s family has been plagued with flu this week, so actually nothing has gotten carried out on our bedroom-turned-closet and laundry room but. Ugh. It’s simply that point of yr, I suppose. However I assume that’s good in a means as a result of it’s given me a bit of additional time to suppose by some particulars.
There’s one element specifically that I’d like to implement, and whereas it seems to be superb in my thoughts, I’m feeling a bit insecure about transferring ahead on it. Specifically, I need to take away the door to the longer term closet utterly. In order that begs the query…does a walk-in closet really want a door?
Let me clarify my thought course of. As you understand, I’m within the technique of turning every little thing previous the music room cased opening into our bed room suite. The hallway will now be a type of anteroom that’s open to the bed room, and the previous visitor bed room shall be our closet and laundry room combo. The doorways to the hallway toilet will ultimately be relocated in order that the lavatory is accessible by way of a extra public space of the home and never by our bed room suite.
Earlier than all the demolition/development began on the bed room doorway, there have been two very separate bedrooms, every with its personal pocket door full with door casings.
After which I made a decision that I needed the doorway that separated the bed room from the hallway utterly gone (principally for Matt’s profit as a result of that allowed an extra 12 inches of width for him to maneuver his wheelchair into the bed room with ease). So after that doorway was utterly eliminated, it appeared like this…
Till a couple of days in the past, my plan was to maintain the present pocket door on the closet/laundry space. As I shared a couple of days in the past, I do plan so as to add a little bit of a visible separation between the hallway and the bed room through the use of trim on the partitions and ceiling in that little slim space resulting in the precise bed room. That means, the 2 areas could be distinct whereas additionally being large open to one another.
I’m planning on doing one thing like this, solely with out the arched prime, and with the trim going all the best way to the ceiling.
However I’ve been pondering that I’d like to create some continuity between the 2 rooms by having an analogous entrance into the closet. And the best way that I’d do that may be to take away the door utterly and take that opening all the best way as much as the ceiling as effectively, identical to we did on the bed room.
Now clearly, the closet doesn’t have slightly hallway-type space main into that room, however I might definitely create that look with the cupboards that I construct to create the closet. I’ve seen this a thousand occasions, and but, after I tried on the lookout for an instance to point out y’all, I couldn’t discover precisely what I used to be speaking about. So I attempted to create a mock-up to point out you. It’s not superb, but it surely’ll should do. Hopefully you should use your artistic eye to see what I’m speaking about.
However mainly, I’d construct the cupboards proper on the fringe of the opening between the closet and the hallway, after which the perimeters of these cupboards, which might go all the best way as much as the ceiling, would create the doorway that I might trim out precisely like I’d trim out the doorway to the bed room. And identical to the bed room doesn’t have a separate door on it, neither would the closet have a separate door on it.
Now clearly, it is a horrible mock-up, however I hope it not less than conveys my thought. I don’t plan on having cupboards that deep. Mine will solely be 14 inches deep. And I don’t plan on having doorways on mine, though I’ll have fairly a couple of drawers.
So you may hopefully think about the perimeters of these cupboards creating the doorway into the closet, and the perimeters of the cupboards could be trimmed out precisely like the doorway to the bed room. The distinction is that the doorway to the bed room is longer, so it can have a grander look to it. And because it’s seen straight from the brand new bed room suite doorways (i.e., the doorways I put in on the cased opening between the music room and hallway), the bed room (particularly the headboard wall) would be the function as soon as an individual enters the bed room suite. However I believe having related entrances to every space will add continuity to the separate areas of the bed room suite.
I don’t know if any of that is smart, and I don’t know if that image even conveys what’s in my thoughts. It makes excellent sense to me, however which may be as a result of I can see clearly what’s in my thoughts. 😀
Additionally, whereas the closet wouldn’t have a door on it, I might add a door (a 15-lite pocket door) between the closet and the laundry space, and the laundry space may have an exhaust fan. Simply as a reminder, the laundry space would be the finish of the room the place the window is.
And right here’s the final format of the deliberate closet and laundry space.
So these two areas could be separated from one another with a pocket door whereas the closet from the hallway wouldn’t have a door. As an alternative, the opening into the closet would go all the best way as much as the ceiling, and the perimeters of the closets that type the doorway could be trimmed out the identical means that the slim entrance into the bed room is trimmed out.
Hopefully that is smart. However even when it doesn’t, the primary challenge right here is…
Is it loopy to have a walk-in closet that doesn’t have a door on it?
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can study extra about me right here.
