Walk-in Closet Plan

[FoxInFiji]

After about 30 different plans I think I'm finally down to the final closet design.  I decided to try to keep most of the hanging on one side because we don't really have the recommended width to have hanging on both and still have a decent walk way in between. 

The floorplan:

The pink are pull outs (two drawer sections and a pants pull out), the light blue is the edge of the upper shelf, the dark blue is the iron board pullout, the yellow are the hangers and the dash shows the recommended hangers + clothes space.


The back wall when you walk in:

Double hanging on both sides, drawers with shelves above in the middle, a pants pull out on one side with a little extra hanging next to it (the pull out can't be on that side because the shoe shelf overhangs this area by a few inches).  I have the drawer section drawn as 36" wide but I may bring them down to 30" wide for ease of constructability.

All of the bins on the top shelf are these clear boxes that stack and have straight sides so you can fit more stuff in them.  Not the pretties thing but they fit all of DH's hat collection and all of the items I was looking to store in them.  I'm also going to get a couple of the bigger ones if I ever do want to store anything taller.


Rotating around there is a large mirrored jewelry cabinet that opens.  This is going to be a big DIY project.  I want to have lots of little divided acrylic "drawers" that pull out for my earrings so I can see them and possibly keep one on the top of the built-in dresser for items used everyday. 


The top would be a fabric covered corkboard for hanging necklaces and the bottom would be a couple dowels/rods to hold bracelets.  I don't have near enough jewelry to fill this thing up but I thought it was the best use of the space and I wanted a full length mirror.  For the acrylic pull outs I'm thinking I can buy some already made from The Container Store and add some "wings" onto the sides so they have something to hang by.  Do you think that would work?

The door side would have a small section of tall hanging and some more drawers.  The drawer with the knobs is actually a flip down door with a hidden ironing board behind.  In the shelving above there is a spot for our TV equipment (an outlet and pass through for wires) to be so it's hidden from the master bedroom. 


On the wall behind the door we have extra deep shelving to fit totes for off season clothes storage and a full wall of shoe storage.  I don't have enough shoes to fill this either but I figure I can use some of the upper shelves for purses or other items if I wanted. 


These are the items I thinking of buying for this layout:

2 belt racks


1 tie rack


2 valet bars


1 multi position ironing board


1 pants pull out


I'm not sure if I should go with this style where the hangers come out or an open ended one where the rods swivel slightly. 

Does anyone have any of these?

Rods and everything in ORB.  The wood will have a cherry stain and the knobs/pulls are black.

So what do you think?  Any ideas on the jewelry storage or pants pull out?

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I think Wow.

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What's the room dimension? Distance from door to back wall? It looks tight.

[kitty]

I am too jealous to rationally comment on this post

[house]

me too! Paint me Jealous!

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What's the lighting plan?

[FoxInFiji]

Feb 1, 2013 14:08:19 GMT -5 d0ri said:

What's the room dimension? Distance from door to back wall? It looks tight.

It's 6.5' x 11.5'.  Everyone who visits thinks it's big but it's really not that big when you start putting everything in it especially when you consider I won't have a dresser in the bedroom anymore. 

The old closet was 6.5' x 5.5' with the door on the right wall where the mirror is going.  The previous owner had hanging systems on both sides and it was tight. 

[FoxInFiji]

Feb 1, 2013 14:32:27 GMT -5 @juno said:

What's the lighting plan?

That's a separate layer in my CAD file.  One for the actual fixture and one for the the outlets, switches, and connecting lines.  LOL

We have two of these in ORB centered in the room:


And some LED rope light for under the upper shelf (hidden behind the L shape at the top).  Right now though I only have a high switch that turns on with the light switch on the back wall so I won't be able to light the side with the ironing board unless it's manually controlled.  Only one outlet was put in based off the original plan. 

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I'm not able to picture the LED ropes/switch locations. We have LED pucks over our hanging rack and I really like them. If your rope lights will light up your hanging racks, thumbs up. Two lights in the ceiling are good, but all those shelves/cabinets will throw off a lot of shadows. The pullouts would help with that though.

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Feb 1, 2013 14:33:27 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

It's 6.5' x 11.5'.  Everyone who visits thinks it's big but it's really not that big when you start putting everything in it especially when you consider I won't have a dresser in the bedroom anymore. 

The old closet was 6.5' x 5.5' with the door on the right wall where the mirror is going.  The previous owner had hanging systems on both sides and it was tight.

The size is not bad but there seems to be too much crammed in there. It's fine; at least you know it will feel tight after everything is in there especially after the hanging rods are filled with clothes.

Only comment though is on the ironing board. Is it going to be your primary ironing board? How often/long do you iron? H irons his clothes every week. It takes him at least 30min, but typically more like an 1hr. I told him he can iron in our closet, but he refuses! I think it's spacious enough (8.5'x15') with no hanging area on opposite sides so it has lots of dead space plus it has a 3'x5' window. He said no way will he do his ironing there.

If one of you is into ironing like my H, I would eliminate the ironing board and do all the ironing somewhere else. The room will be too tight. But for quick ironing, I think it's fine.

[mrs.jacinthe]

As regards the pants thing ... R had one in our last closet, although it wasn't quite like that. If you get one, make sure it is textured somehow. R's was metal and we had to wrap rubber bands around it to keep the pants from sliding off every time we pulled the rack out. And if they weren't sliding off the open end, they were sliding off the pole sideways. It was way easy to put things away, but a royal PITA to keep them there until we added the rubber bands. They're not attractive, though, so if you're looking for something "pretty" make sure it already has a texture or buy the other kind.

[FoxInFiji]

LOL I love some of these responses! Y'all know I'm a crazy, detail oriented engineer right? What did you expect? In the new bedroom I don't have any room for a dresser so this is my dressing room and it needs to fit as much as possible while still being ultra functional.

Juno - Yes the LEDs are to light the hanging...well at least the upper hanging. Same idea as a puck light. I got them for really cheap after Christmas so I'm not opposed to looking at pucks or something else instead. How do your pucks turn on? The room is drywalled and I'm working on painting it so we can't really do much electrical work without creating a big mess at this point.

Dori - I'm the ironer. Right now I have to iron all of my shirts for work despite them being nice quality no-iron ones. I'm hoping that when we get a new dryer (soon) that I may be able to avoid some of that because our dryer takes forever to dry and things get wrinkled in the process. We're still having a full size iron in the laundry room for most of the ironing and for ironing big things. But I think it would be nice to have for a quick touch-up or for when I'm not on the ball with ironing everything the night before/the Sunday before.

Jacinthe - Good point about the slipping! I saw some pants pull outs that have rubber rings on them to keep things from sliding. I'll look into those. I think the removable hanger option looks more textured than the all metal one.

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I think either is great. Just wanted to suggest some sort of lighting in the hanging sections because it can be really dim under there. We wired the LEDs on the same switch as the overhead, but we have a really different situation since ours is a reach-in.

Wouldn't work for a walk-in, but if we weren't DIYing our reach-in closet, I would have LOVED to have door switches for all the closet lighting. I have that in my linen closet and loove it. But when the electrician was here, we weren't even almost ready with the header/doors. Oh well.