3 doors in a row?

6 years ago

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Hi Everybody,

My husband and I recently bought a house and we are planning on renovating. I won't bore you with the details of how we are renovating, but I would ask for your thoughts and suggestions with one pickle we have.

The pickle is that we might end up with 3 doors in a row in one wall: garage door, closet door and guest bedroom (potential master) door. This wall is facing an open space between corridor and stair wall that has bi-folding doors. Do you think it would look too busy and weird? The current draft we have is as showing.

For now, I asked the guest bedroom door to be in the middle of the room but that's not ideal. We can move it towards the windows but I want to avoid that as we will have to step down into the bedroom. HELP!

Thanks,

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flopsycat1

6 years ago

Houses have doors. I don’t think three doors along that wall will look odd. You also have three doors much closer together at the entry. Locating the laundry so close to the living room is unusual. Without seeing the rest of the plan, it’s difficult to say if there might be a better place for it..

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decoenthusiaste
6 years ago
If the guest bedroom may become the master, turn that hall closet into an expansion of the current RIC that is already there. That eliminates one door and upgrades the closet situation in the bedroom Would you consider turning that storage north of the bathroom into a laundry room and recouping the under stair space for a guest powder room or storage. You already have plumbing available in both areas.
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roccouple
6 years ago
I think the doors are ok. But where will you put furniture in that living room? Where will you sit? I’m more concerned about the doors at the bottom, the HVAC and storage, so that bottom living room wall is not useful for furniture
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
6 years ago
I agree the LR is odd and really will be not much more than a couple of chairs in it as it is shown. You have tankless HW a mile from the bathroom that is always bad. No on wants to enter a LR from a garage. I think we need a lot more info and you have bigger issues that some doors , which IMO is not an issue.Post the entire main floor to scale with mwasurements to see if there are better ways to use the spaces .
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Mia B
Original Author
6 years ago
@decoenthusiaste Funny you say that. Because the storage is currently our laundry room. We are moving the laundry so we can use that space as our future office space. There is already a bathroom so an additional powder room will not be necessary. But we should consider your suggestion of just moving the hall way closet to the bedroom.
Mia B
Original Author
6 years ago
@flopsycat1 @roccouple @Patricia Colwell Consulting Thanks everybody for your input. I guess the "living room" on the draft threw everybody off. I removed it. It's not really a living room. It's just an open space, more like a big foyer, for lack of a better word. We will have our living room upstairs next to our open floor kitchen. So I'm not too concerned about furniture space. But the comment about WH location makes me question. I'll check with my contractor. Thanks for bringing that up!

But going back to my pickle, are we saying that's not that bad? I don't mind having 3 doors at the entrance but somehow 3 doors on a wall bothers me...
flopsycat1
6 years ago
I don’t think three doors on a wall is an issue. If it bothers you, and you don’t need a hall/coat closet in that area, it could be incorporated into the bedroom closet. If the space depicted in your floor plan is actually a foyer and not a living room, then the doors should be even less of a concern. Sounds like you’re working with an unconventional design. Hope it works out well for you.