Renovation opinion

[krystee]

I would do a closet in at least one of the two rooms. An armoire would not have held all my clothes and stuff as a teenage girl! Plus I think your house would legally be a one bedroom if you don't add closets.

[Deleted]

I would build the closets. The bedrooms in our house are pretty small, but have closets. In one case I have a small chest of drawers in the closet, which works well!

[whitemerlot]

I would build closets.

[lindyanne]

Closets

[mlvmd]

I may be a dissenter here. DH has our entire walk in closet (it's for the best, it's the only way to contain his chaos.) I have a wall of IKEA armoire/closets. It blends into the wall and actually holds a ton of stuff. Two doors are for hanging things with a shelf and a drawer and one door is shelves and drawers only. So there are viable alternatives for clothes' storage. Since resale isn't an issue for now you could look into that option. Our set up wasn't cheap but I would think if you wanted to add a closet system and build one it wouldn't necessarily be cheap either.

[lurknomore]

Can you do closets with either pocket doors or barn doors? Then you don't lose space to the door opening but still get the closets. I am pro closets too, although my parents put huge built in armories in their master and those are awesome too.

N/M...I just reread your post.  Ignore me!

[magdala]

In our area, a room has to have a closet to be a bedroom for listing purposes. Have you factored in the potential impact to selling the house?

[thatgirl2478]

I would put in closets in as many bedrooms as you can. I don't think 10x14 is a crappy bedroom size. That's how big our old master bedroom was... and our kids room is 10x12 and I would LOVE 2 extra feet.

[moolarkey]

I believe in a lot of places if there isn't a specific built-in closet for a room that it can't be considered a bedroom. It doesn't matter that you can move an armoire in.

For re-sale, not having built-in closets would be a major detractor in my choosing that house over a house that does have closets.

10x14 is NOT a crappy bedroom size. Many people have 10x10, 10x12, 10x14 sized rooms. Our first house did.

Closets with pocket doors would be great, if you have room for the doors.

[pattieice]

I would want closets. Preferably with pocket doors or even bifold doors to keep the floor space.

[AAM2012]

Feb 1, 2015 11:59:11 GMT -5 moolarkey said:

I believe in a lot of places if there isn't a specific built-in closet for a room that it can't be considered a bedroom. It doesn't matter that you can move an armoire in.

For re-sale, not having built-in closets would be a major detractor in my choosing that house over a house that does have closets.

10x14 is NOT a crappy bedroom size. Many people have 10x10, 10x12, 10x14 sized rooms. Our first house did.

Closets with pocket doors would be great, if you have room for the doors.

Agree. I believe you cannot call it a bedroom on the MLS if it doesn't have an actual built in closet. However, I would ask a local realtor to confirm.

That being said...if you spent enough and did more of a built in storage system (i.e. ikea, container store, etc) I think that would be a good selling feature and I could look past the lack of actual "closet". For resale value I would not just put an armoire in there as that would turn me off as a buyer.

[momof2boys]

I don't know if all states are the same but where we live a closet in a room is what makes it a bedroom. Therefore if you only have one room with a closet you will have a one bedroom house, which would be bad for resale. When we did a renovation we had to take out closets b/c our septic size indicated how many bedrooms were allowed and we had too many when we added a second floor on. By removing the closets they were no longer a bedroom therefore we were legal

[L]

My IKEA Pax Armoires are way better than any closet in our 1900 house. And cheap & easy to put together (except the doors). I'm pro those unless you plan to sell.

[scout8]

Closets.

[savan]

Another vote for closets. Our kids' rooms are 10x8 so I would think 10x14 would be fine.

[sometimesrunner]

Feb 1, 2015 15:07:13 GMT -5 L said:

My IKEA Pax Armoires are way better than any closet in our 1900 house. And cheap & easy to put together (except the doors). I'm pro those unless you plan to sell.

Yes, this is exactly what I was going to recommend. I would build them in so they look finished and part of the room. They'll save space and probably hold more stuff, too.

[alleinesein]

You can never have too many closets!

[imojoebunny]

I am a closet nut. Our last house was a 3/1 built in 1929 that was expanded to a 4/3. A builder renovated it for his family with 3 girls. Every room had good closets, most of them really big (ok, so really big for old intown houses). I loved my old house for that. Even our new, new construction, house doesn't have such great closets.

[imojoebunny]

Feb 1, 2015 14:50:47 GMT -5 momof2boys said:

I don't know if all states are the same but where we live a closet in a room is what makes it a bedroom. Therefore if you only have one room with a closet you will have a one bedroom house, which would be bad for resale. When we did a renovation we had to take out closets b/c our septic size indicated how many bedrooms were allowed and we had too many when we added a second floor on. By removing the closets they were no longer a bedroom therefore we were legal

We have this at our cabin.  Our septic field is only for a two bedroom.  We added a third bedroom, but had to call it an office, and could not add a closet on the record.  

In the case of the cabin, we are not worried. We don't use it often enough, with enough people, to ever have a problem related to the septic field, even if we lived there full time.  The calculation they use for our our 2 bedroom is for 6 people living there full time (there is a loft too, which they consider for occupancy).  

[gibbinator]

You could eventually do captain's beds for extra storage too. But yeah, as a teen, I'd rather have the space than the closet.