Buidling a walk-in closet

1. walk-ins are usually three feet deep
2. and generally as wide as the room they are in

Depending on the size of the bedroom, if you really NEED a walk-in closet, you might be better off just turning the whole *room* into a closet.

Seriously.

Turn it into one of those really big "dressing room" closets, with a bench and everything.

The usual depth of a reach-in closet is 2'. The width can be anywhere from 2' to the width of the room.

You should measure what you've got now, so you know what you're doing.

If it's really 2'x6', then you've now got 6' of hanging space. To get more than than with a 6'-wide walk-in, it'd have to be more than 3' deep. Each foot of depth in the closet is taken from the room.

Keep in mind that the aisle space in a walk-in is taken from the room and is visually lost. The most efficient use of your space way well be the 2'-deep closet you've got now. You can go ahead and call it a walk-in if you want.

A chaise lounge would be nice. Full length framed stand-up mirror.
If you have a spare bedroom or small extra bonus room, it's a good idea.
With only one bedroom, you can just get an amoire for more clothing storage.

It's "chaise longue", not "chaise lounge".

^^more trolling from trollalanhart, within minutes of my comment being posted^^.
He has nothing to add to this discussion, no suggestions. He's just here to troll.
It's the start of another long morning-day-into-night of trolling. It's all alanhart has to do on a beautiful Saturday in NYC.

Call the different companies and they will come in and give you a free estimate and also give you some ideas. They will try and give you a pressure sell though at the time, so just resist. This is what I did, but then actually just got a contractor to come and build what I wanted. Contractor was same price as the comanies and used real wood, versus melamine (ikea particle board material). For what you are mentioning I would think $1500 as a ballpark.

$1500 sounds like a reasonable estimate.

Maybe it's spelled "chaise lounge" at Gertz ... a great totally totally totally off-topic suggestion for someone who wants to build a walk-in closet without losing too much bedroom space.

^^more trolling from alanhart^^.

My comment was following Matt's suggestion.
My suggestion to buy an amoire was an on-topic repy to cykang, who wants more closet space without losing space in the bedroom. The size of the bedroom stays the same and the amoire can be taken along for the move when cykang re-sells.

Thanks OttawaNYC and NWT. The room isn't that big...average sized one bed. 13 by 11 or so..so I could only afford to lose about a foot (or two max). I will look into contractors..
Thanks.

cykang325, at most you'll gain two linear feet of closet space, and lose a considerable chunk of your bedroom. For me, that would be no-go.

Two alternatives:

1. If your closet's back wall has a hallway behind it, you can move the opening of the existing closet to that hallway, then build an additional 2-foot deep closet into your bedroom, opening on that side. A little more running around, but you'll double your closet space.

2. Install supercheap (but unglamorous) Rubbermaid coated-wire shelving ... the most basic, direct-mount kind, avoiding both the fancy rail-system options and the "kits", carefully choosing what you need instead. That will give you equal double-decker storage for shirts and things of that length, unequal double-decker storage for most other things, and probably a tiny section for truly full-length things (even then, they're not likely to need 8 feet of height). If you want to spend more money, you can look into the cost of removing the door header and getting doors that open all the way, floor-to-ceiling.

trUth, desist.