During the renovation this was one of the trickier parts. The house, as it was marketed, had three bedrooms, but the middle bedroom had no closet and was the only way to get into what is now the master bedroom without going through a closet or the only full bathroom the house had at the time. In what should have been that middle bedroom’s closet was a water closet, if you will. There was a single toilet and a pedastal sink, right behind a set of bi-fold doors. One of the weirdest things we’d ever seen.
As a result, what is now the second bedroom lost a good chunk of real estate to accomodate the aforementioned water closet. Combined with a cedar closet that was built out of the opposite corner of the room and a closet bar stuck between the two this room was extremely tiny.
During the design stage we ultimately sacrificed this oddly placed “middle bedroom” and carved it up into a good sized closet for the second bedroom, a walk in closet for the master bedroom and a second full bathroom that the house did not previously have. It made the flow of the house floorplan a lot more logical. From an appraisal standpoint this was never a three bedroom house because quantifying a room as a bedroom requires that it has a closet. Since that “middle bedroom” had a toilet and sink in what was supposed to be its closet it was really just dead space, well, maybe just a glorified den.
Regardless, we reclaimed that wasted space and squared the room off, gave it a functional closet and, ultimately, close access to the second full bathroom in the house.
