Xpost from Decorating: Help with Master Suite layout

10 years ago

Hi,

I posted originally on Decorating forum in the hope of getting help but I got none. I have seen folks post layouts for Master Suite here, so I am trying my luck on Bath forum.

I am designing a new house and we have liked pretty much everything in the current plan except perhaps the master closet. Somehow the layout does not seem like most efficient to me, and I am interested in sharing and hearing ideas about this arrangement.

My choices are either to move the walk in closet to the extreme right wall (since as per the building rules we cannot have any clear windows there due to neighbor privacy). I am quite happy with the way the bathroom has shaped up, but would gladly consider another option if it gives me a similarly large vanity and shower, and enclosed WC (those are my requirements).

But the main focus is on the closet; current plan is his-and-her, but that is not a must. Getting most storage from the space is important.

Larger closet is 7'x5', smaller is 5'x5'. Thus current design gives us 12' hanging space in Her and 5' space in his. I find this on the lower side. Besides, I would like to reduce the number of doors to the closet to one, so we get more wall space.

I am open to considering a shallow set of built in drawers on the wall between two closet doors, to store lingere etc. Over the wall we plan to wire up a TV (DH's dream). The bed will be against the windowless wall.

Behind the closet is another bedroom, most likely DD's. There is another spare bedroom at this level that she can occupy, in which case the previous room becomes our multipurpose room for sewing, making crafts, projects etc.

Once again, as long as the closet leaves a good sized wall, we can hang a TV there.

Thank you, and hope to hear comments!

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Oaktown

10 years ago

>Pretty nice as it is now, but here is another possibility:

DD's bedroom moves to the inside corner where the MBA currently is drawn. Current door to MBR becomes door to DD's room, closet is on top wall separating DD's room and MBR.

MBR oriented with the short wall on the R now. Door from hallway can have view through to window.

MBA on far left wall, from top to bottom, shower/bath room, vanity, toilet room.

Passage from MBR to MBA has reach in closet on the lower wall (in line with toilet room) and large walk-in on top side. I think you can get a 6-7' reach in and a 14+ linear ft of hanging space in the walk-in. Stack the rods for more.

>Either way, I'd let DD choose her bedroom and have the bath be close to it, swapping the laundry and secondary bath if needed to make that work out. That also will make it easy to use the extra room if you occasionally want additional laundry drying space ;-)

Good luck!

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homey_bird
Original Author
10 years ago
If it would be helpful to consider entire floor plan, here it is. Except, we like the general way that it's laid out and prefer to not make big changes. Open to ideas though, we have not committed to this plan yet and it's not late to make changes, if they absolutely made more sense.

In my current plan I like the fact that BR's are a good size and we have a laundry room with space to line dry our clothes (we line dry 75% of our clothes).
Oaktown
10 years ago
Is this a remodel?
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homey_bird
Original Author
10 years ago
Hi Oaktown, this is almost a new build and this level is a new addition. However, due to city building rules being very stringent, there is a strict limit on total square footage and window placement etc. Net net, internal walls can be moved at this point but if external walls are moved, then a lot more will need to be changed.

Looking forward to some great discussion and ideas!
homey_bird
Original Author
10 years ago
Bump, bump!! I know lots of great ideas are brewing.
homey_bird
Original Author
10 years ago
Ok great. I will draw it up and post for confirmation.

In the meantime though, on the current plan, can we fit any other shelving etc. on the walls that are not shown having hanger rods? Will that make the space too tight to walk?

Will a walk in closet be ok with 2'6" walk space? Or will it feel claustrophobically small?

Thanks a lot for the alternative!!
Oaktown
10 years ago
In our old house DH's closet was ~5x5 and mine was ~5x7. Both closets had "L" configuration hanging rods. Looking at the sketch in the OP I think you would be better off with "L"s so that you can avoid the "clothes behind the door" in the larger closet.

I think dressing space adequacy depends on a lot of things -- DH felt like his closet might as well be a reach-in, but he is large. I had a dresser on each of the walls where I did not have clothing rods, and I could still get dressed inside my closet -- but I am small.
homey_bird
Original Author
10 years ago
Oaktown, is this what you meant? This does give room for closets. I do believe though that this can be tweaked further to make more functional. Rightmost part of MCL2 can be used as hallway linen closet. Our bed can be along the smaller edge and MCL1's wall can have a wall mounted TV (which, in original plan, we were planning to put on the wall space between two closet doors).

I am also at a loss of how my doors to both closet areas would look? Will they be bifold? There's not much scope for pocket door here.

Thanks a lot!
Oaktown
10 years ago
Split the difference on DD's closet so her BR would be ~12x10 and yours would be ~15x12.5. Move her door down and she can have a whole wall of closet. Then you don't need the little indent into your BR.
homey_bird
Original Author
10 years ago
Ok, great! In that configuration, her door will be right across from the stairs. Will that be ok? Is that to be avoided typically? Never seen a house like that before but DH says that he has lived in one and it was ok. (The distance between the doorway and stairs will be ~6' assuming the wall will not move).
Oaktown
10 years ago
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Oops, what I meant was scoot DD's closet door down just enough to allow the closet to take up the whole top wall (if you want). Closer to opposite the bathroom door.