As long as they are walk-in, I would have two. I'm sure my DH would say the same since he's never had a closet in the MB.

I'm the messy one, and I'm sure that my husband would rather have a separate space! We have one large closet and the good thing is that it is big enough that I build an "island" for the middle of the closet that houses laundry baskets for sorting dirty clothes with our ironing board on top. I love having the ironing board permanently set up. Actually, in our old house the ironing board was always set up too, the problem was that it was in the bedroom. My husband irons his clothes every morning, so this setup works well for us.

I'm the messy one too. Course I have the walk in which means more room to spread out. Dh's closet is small, but he's organized it well. We recently did an addition (kitchen, laundry room, second bath) and included 3 closets. One is a walk-in where I now store off-season clothes and lots of the junk that used to take up space in my closet.

Two, definitely two.

Two. For sure.

Thanks for all the replies! We have the same problem - he is messy, I like a neat closet. We had two in our old house and it was nice that I never had to go in his closet.

They both will be walk-in, but not really large (we'd be going from one 6x8 closet to two closets, 6x5 and 6x4).

I'd love to hear more replies!

Another vote for two closets. I'm horribly messy (my walk-in closet is an embarrassment -- even the cats are frightened to go in, and they like to hide in little enclosed spaces ordinarily), while DH is neat as a pin and his small, non-walk-in closet is wonderfully organized. He'd probably either divorce me or kill me if he had to share a closet with me. ;-)

We each have a walk-in closet in master and 2 walk-ins in guest suite however one of those is all storage.

We have one largish walk-in closet, so I vote for two smaller ones. Because we share, we set it up so we have equal space, but the problem is that I have more hanging stuff and way more shoes. So he gets to spread out while I'm jamming things into my half. Plus his dresser is in the closet, taking up even more space.

Therefore: two, definitely.

Wooderlander - you need to use your girlpower influence to get more of his space!!

I have pretty much all the shoe space in our 1 medium sized closet but he has too much hanging. But, if I had to have 2 small ones I think I might choose 1 large instead - easier to steal his space.

Two definitely!
Also one messy person married to a neatnik...

Definitely 2 and you get the biggest :-) DH is the neat one and I don't wanna hear about how my closet looks.

I had to smile at mitchdesj who was amazed that her DH could put a sport coat on a rod with white shirts. Hey, the shirts don't mind a bit...lol. I'm just teasing. I actually envy those who can color coordinate their closets, I'll never be one!