Adding a bathroom linen closet, where would you put the door?

[disney]

My house has no pantry and only one non-bedroom closest, so storage space is inconvenient and cramped. I planning on removing a 66" long vanity from guest/non master bath, and installing 36" vanity, and using the rest as closet. Cant seem to decide where to put the hinge/ which way the door should open. Not interested in folding/bi folding doors, slider not possible. (Digital) penny for your thoughts?

Hopefully you can get a general idea from my rough, mostly to scale sketch. 'V' for hinge near vanity, or 'W' for near wall. The new closet door would likely be about 24", so it would hit the main bath door if trying to open both at same time, but if main door already open, no issues...

 

[kcflhrc]

If it were me, I would do a bi fold. Cheap and easy.

 

[KennyG]

I have a similar configuration in one of my bathrooms. It's original as planned by the architect. However, my bathroom door swings the other way and the closet hinge is next to the wall, adjacent to the main door hinge. It's kind of a pain but it works OK in practice. I would hinge the closet by the wall so that the door is not in the way when accessing the closet from inside the bathroom (which is what you would do. If you hinge it by the vanity, the door will block access to the closet while you are in the bathroom.

 

[/pine]

In many cases where space is limited...even 1-1/2" walls and returns take up much of an additional closet space...some designers will opt for a floor to ceiling linen hutch etc...over framed walls and a hung swinging or bi fold door etc...

 

[prichard]

I vote W

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I built a unit above the stool in our master bath; the stool is between the wall of the shower and the bathroom outside wall. I opted for double doors, like on the kitchen cabinets. The space is only 30" wide, and it works very well; certainly better than one door would.

 

[Tompet]

My house has no pantry and only one non-bedroom closest, so storage space is inconvenient and cramped. I planning on removing a 66" long vanity from guest/non master bath, and installing 36" vanity, and using the rest as closet. Cant seem to decide where to put the hinge/ which way the door should open. Not interested in folding/bi folding doors, slider not possible. (Digital) penny for your thoughts?

Hopefully you can get a general idea from my rough, mostly to scale sketch. 'V' for hinge near vanity, or 'W' for near wall. The new closet door would likely be about 24", so it would hit the main bath door if trying to open both at same time, but if main door already open, no issues...

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Two digital cents, If the closet is for both bathroom and home/bed linens, with your rough sketch, I would probably go with hinge V so when shower is in use and bathroom door closed access is ok for some bath items. When bathroom door is open access to closet is direct from bath entrance for home linens etc. with V position hinge. If linen closet is bathroom only items then hinge on W.

 

[jfh28]

this is a pretty standard arrangement in a bathroom.......done hundreds of these over the years.......hinge for closet goes on the wall side......now given your lack of storage in the house and the fact that this is a guest bathroom you probably will be storing things you need everyday in there so the majority of the use will be for the occupants of the house and minimal use the occupant of the bathroom......so if this was my house I would cut a new door in the hallway next to the bathroom door so access to the closet is from outside the bathroom which will make the storage space much more useful......this is more work though.........Jack

 

[disney]

.....so if this was my house I would cut a new door in the hallway next to the bathroom door so access to the closet is from outside the bathroom which will make the storage space much more useful......this is more work though.........Jack

Interesting Idea, there is a light switch that would have to be moved, but my bigger concern is I think the hallway (where the door would open into) might be load bearing. And that is way more work that I would like to get into. But I like the concept. Thanks.

 

[turnkey4099]

If it were me, I would do a bi fold. Cheap and easy.

I had a similar problem as the OP - lack of clearance. Bi fold solves that. My linen closet in the bathroom is alongside the toilet. Plenty of clearance to putstuff in the closet with the bifold open. I am a fan of those doores, have 3 different closets with them.