Look, finally you get to see a plan of the place! Now you can help answer some questions. With so much of the demo done, it’s time to start figuring this stuff out… the issue for today is the new bedroom in
Loft 4.
The room in the bottom left corner used to be a kitchen, but we’ve moved that and with the addition of a door [and closet?] it’s now a bedroom. The question here is what to do for said closet. The bedroom in a very similar loft downstairs had an old shallow pantry so we ripped that out- pretty much a no-brainer. The bedroom in this one has a cool built-in pantry unit with shelving. Our first instinct was “keep it, it’s neat!” But it also is right in the way of where the new closet would go. And after seeing the chimney exposed in the other loft’s bedroom, we’re thinking it would be neat to expose it in this one as well (with some elbow grease on the brick to expose that too) but that means ditching the old pantry. Opinions?
As far as the actual closet, we’ve wavered between:
a) a long one along the stairwell (sketched in blue) with the old pocket doors as sliding closet doors
b) a square one with a normal swing door in the corner where the old pantry was. It will stick out into the room a few feet.
c) buying a big armoire from IKEA and calling it a day
Whaddya think?
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Rip out the pantry and put in a new closet is my opinion. It will make the room feel larger. Also here in California a room has to have a window and a closet to be considered a bedroom. Not sure if an amoire counts.
Thanks for the suggestions!… after going back over and looking at it, the pantry is totally coming out =)
Re-use your pocket doors and build the long closet along the stairwell. I don’t believe your amoir counts when classifying the room as a bedroom.
aww, I was going to vote keep the pantry! 🙂
Next diagram would you number 1-4 and mark where the chimney(s) is? In the photo it looks like there’s enough room to build in a closet..depending on the depth between the window and wall.
Keep the pantry, don’t expose the brick in that room, and build a closet to the right with sliding doors. That’s my final answer. You’ll get your fill of exposing brick in the other room 🙂
Well the pantry isn’t gone yet, Mindy… although it is still probably going to go. We did think of putting the closet in the corner by the window as you suggested, but it would only be about 14″ deep- not enough to get much of anything in there. You need about 24″ to get a decent closet with a hang rod =(
This diagram shows one floor of the building, which is one loft (either Loft 3 or Loft 4- their plans are almost identical). The areas where the pantries were are in the bedroom with the blue door and closet sketched in. The red marks in that bedroom are where we removed the old kitchen plumbing wall (corner by the window) and where the old pantry is (in the corner by the stair)… the little part in between is the small chimney we want to expose.
Next time we promise better diagrams !