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Closets, especially glamorous ones, really catch the attention of most gals. I had to add several of these to my closets board.
I agree. It’s like a luxurious master bath – the ultimate luxury… 🙂
These are absolutely lovely but seem so self-indulgent. I live in a one-bedroom apartment with the usual closet with sliding doors that is cram packed with all of the clothes and shoes I own except what is cram packed into a four-drawer dresser. Perhaps a look at how best to deal with more typical conditions would be enlightening.
That’s an interesting point. When we moved into our townhouse it had a big master closet like this, but ugly wire shelves and lots of wasted space, so these closets provided inspiration for me to organize a large closet with no direction. I can try to find inspiration for smaller closet storage, as well.
These are lovely! A really great idea for a small unused bedroom. I love the idea of having the dresser in the closet instead of the bedroom. The dressing table/desk and window are wonderful. I’m not into owning tons of clothes or shoes, but I would use some of the space for bed linens, extra blankets or storage for gifts. It would be my private place to retreat and keep small treasures, where I can see them, but away from tiny, dimpled, but curious, grand childen fingers.
I agree. I just love compartments where everything has a place… 🙂
Beautiful closets, however, my master bedroom is the size of one of these closets. I would love to see how others organize their closets rather than large closets that I will never have.
Interestingly, large closets often offer lots of empty space. Plenty of room to walk, places to put furniture and decorative items, mirrors and seating, but the storage itself is against a wall just like in a smaller closet. In our old house I had a closet designed and built but it wasn’t spacious like these because we didn’t have the room. I had just enough room to walk in and have hanging on one side and tiny shallow shelves on the other. While it wasn’t a beautiful space to look at like these, it was a powerhouse for storage. In our new house, I was faced with a much bigger closet, but when I designed the closet, I based the storage on our old closet in our prior house. I used the same measurements to ensure it fit what I already owned perfectly.
These closets are very nice, but not realistic for my home. They also seem to stress shelves and drawers, but I need all the space I can get to hang clothes on a rod! Also, those of us who are tall cannot have two rods in the closet unless the top one is placed very high in the closet.
That’s a really interesting point. I would think double rods would be easy for tall people since you can reach the top rod. For me, at 5’ 1”, I have real trouble with double rods because it’s hard to reach the top rod. So I keep a step stool in my closet, where it’s easily accessible. Do you mean it doesn’t work for you because the clothing itself is so long it doesn’t fit? I would never have thought of that. My husband has double rods on his side, and he’s a lot taller than me.
Right, long clothes require a longer space. Otherwise, the top of the clothes on the bottom rod are covered by the bottom of the clothes on the top rod. I’m roughly 6 feet tall and my husband is almost 7 feet tall, so we both deal with this issue.
My in-laws’ house actually has triple rods and a long stick with a hook to retrieve clothing (like they use in some clothing stores). This is only possible because they are not as tall as we are and their closet has an extremely high ceiling; unfortunately we don’t have high ceilings in our house.
I guess my only suggestion would be to do a little of both then. In my closet, most of the hanging space is double rods, but I have one section for dresses that’s single rods (since they are longer). Maybe you need more single rods, but could still gain some extra space using double rods for items like blouses on the top and skirts and shorts on the bottom (even if pants wouldn’t fit).