Your plan will take your usable floor space down to 10'4" X 12'. That leaves 144" of wall for your king (80") bed which means once the bed is centered on the wall you will have 32" on each side of the bed. The plan will work but leave very little if any space for a dresser.

Are you open to the idea if swapping to a queen bed?

What if (for now) you kept your clothes in the baby’s closet and bought an armoire/wardrobe to use as her closet? Is there room for that?

Or can you store your clothes in the nursery that you mention?

you should measure all the furniture in your bedroom and site it on your diagram too....just to see the space between after all is said and done.

My current bedroom in a small 1950's ranch has that exact same diagram that you've drawn out....with my door opening up and there being a wall right there. It bothers me none. You still see all of the room when looking in from the hallway. But I have a double bed. I personally am not too fond of furniture taking up all the space in a room making the space look crammed full. But you could probably manage with it that way until you do your fuller home reno.

@Karen - no, we upgraded from a queen and can't go back!

@yvonnecmartin - the plan is for the nursery to be otherwise occupied in the next year :)

@Sammy - I could just keep the kid's clothes in the nursery closet (until it's needed) and continue using the closet in his room if I can't come up with another option...

@Design Interior South that's why we'd put a tall narrow dresser in the closet blip!

@Jennette Home good idea - I will.

There’s no need for a 36” deep reach-in closet. 30” should be fine (interior space at least 24”). Every inch counts!

ooh good call @emilyam819 thanks!

I would take the part that's currently his closet (the blip) and turn it into a small closet in an adjacent room, if possible. So your closet is a simple rectangle. Wall off the blip. That extra space won't get you anything imo but could be a useful linen closet in another room.

^^^ I agree - unless you’ll use the blip for storing rarely used items like luggage or holiday decorations, with your clothes rod running the full length of the closet in front of the blip.

@roccouple @emilyam819 it's not really possible - there's another bedroom with closet, exact same layout but flipped, on the other side of the house with the backs of the closet touching. The empty space between the bedrooms/closets is a bathroom. When we renovate, we'll incorporate the closets into the bathroom. The other bedroom is used as a guest bedroom, so that closet doesn't need to be any bigger. We could just wall off the blip until the renovation and make a normal closet, but it seems like a waste of space! Might be worth it though for ease.

I bought a Queen Anne with closet “blips” in a number of rooms. The blips left their marks and cutouts in the floor, ceilings, and trim work. I wish they had just purchased armoirs instead. It’s also good advice to watch a couple Marie Kondo episodes before adding more storage. Maybe it’s not even needed.

The 36” deep part makes no sense it does not give you any more space , so just do a reach in closet with that extra deep part accessible for off season clothes you can access a couple of times a year or even for stuff like suitcases etc. Check out Pax from Ikea for great use of soace closet and if you can maybe a pocket door then the closet could run the whole width of that wall.

I think the pro of walking off the blip would be that the floor space in front of the blip becomes usable. The blip won’t be useful except for long term storage. I guess it’s up to you whether you could use the blip or if it will just be a place stuff gets lost. i think it’s good to add the space to another room someday!