Bedrooms, at least in the US, are nearly always constructed with
built-in closets, but I don’t see why? What’s the appeal?
Personally, I don’t like them. I want the flexibility to arrange
furniture however currently best suits my needs, and a built-in closet
permanently reserves a portion of the floor area. Stand-alone
wardrobes also offer flexibility when occupants vary in how much
stuff they have that is a good fit for a closet.
When we were adding dormers
to our house four years ago we needed to decide whether to
include closets in each of the rooms. Here’s what the three
new/expanded bedrooms looked like with and without closets:
Anna’s bedroom
What will be Nora’s bedroom once she’s out of our room. Currently my
office and where I sleep for the second half of the night.
Lily’s bedroom
We decided to construct all three without closets, and in retrospect
we’re both very happy with that decision: each of the three has the
bed in a position that wouldn’t be possible if we had kept the
closets.
(Sometimes people will say that it doesn’t matter whether you like
closets, building code requires them. This is a myth: the
International Residential Code (IRC) says nothing about bedroom
closets. And our building inspector had no issues with our closetless
bedrooms.)
Why Bedroom Closets?
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Bedrooms, at least in the US, are nearly always constructed with built-in closets, but I don’t see why? What’s the appeal?
Personally, I don’t like them. I want the flexibility to arrange furniture however currently best suits my needs, and a built-in closet permanently reserves a portion of the floor area. Stand-alone wardrobes also offer flexibility when occupants vary in how much stuff they have that is a good fit for a closet.
When we were adding dormers to our house four years ago we needed to decide whether to include closets in each of the rooms. Here’s what the three new/expanded bedrooms looked like with and without closets:
Anna’s bedroom
What will be Nora’s bedroom once she’s out of our room. Currently my office and where I sleep for the second half of the night.
Lily’s bedroom
We decided to construct all three without closets, and in retrospect we’re both very happy with that decision: each of the three has the bed in a position that wouldn’t be possible if we had kept the closets.
(Sometimes people will say that it doesn’t matter whether you like closets, building code requires them. This is a myth: the International Residential Code (IRC) says nothing about bedroom closets. And our building inspector had no issues with our closetless bedrooms.)
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