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Alternatively titled “Why We Purposefully Want a Smaller Coat Closet.” This is part of the FHA 203k work.
There’s a lot of goofy things going on at our house* – things that obviously aren’t “make or break” since we bought the place, but things we will be fixing now and over the years.
And one of those things is (was, really!) the coat closet.
Foyer, before
Us trying to use the coat closet as is – ha ha, my dad moved all the coat hooks from the left side to the right side when he visited (so coats didn’t hang over the shoes) then that wall was demolished five days later. I told him all his hard work was for NOTHING! Ha.
We have a double door entry to our house, with a sidelight on each side. And for whatever reason, the coat closet was encompassing one of the sidelights on the inside. So we had this HUGE coat closet, but it was odd that you could only see one sidelight in the foyer, and that from the outside, you could see in to the coat closet via that window. It made my inner architect crazy.
The window inside the closet
So we had the contractor push the wall back behind the sidelight, to reclaim it for the foyer.
Already looks better!
Sloppy in progress photo, but you can see the extra light in the foyer
Moving this wall has presented a few issues, of course:
- The closet can’t be the typical 2′ depth, because of the location of the window trim from the back (garage) wall (which is already furred out, unfortunately). It’s a couple of inches short, so our coats won’t have as much space as a normal closet, but they’ll fit.
- The previous owners didn’t leave any extra floor tiles in the house (we did find some pretty mosaic tiles though), so we had to try to match the demolished floor. And they put the floor at an angle, so we need a bunch of tiles. We couldn’t match the color exactly, but matched the pattern. We don’t want to redo the whole floor because that would require us to figure out the entire feel we want the house to have over time, and we are SO not there yet. I plan to use a rug to break up the difference in color. Ha. Now you all know my little secret.
But! We think it looks much better this way!
We’ll pick out a new closet door handle, and get to the tile in early March when it comes in.
Much more open!
*We’d love to have a history of the house and all the additions/work on it!
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