StephDRebel
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Post by StephDRebel on Jul 8, 2019 15:37:01 GMT
I'm considering leaving the doors off to make the space look a little bigger. In the room I'm using as my office its working well but I'm not sure about the bedroom. I feel like if it's open it will stay tidy and declutter. My issues begin when I close a door. Ha. Am I crazy to consider? I can always put the doors back on but it's a pain and cant be done quicky if guests show up and it's a mess...like right now. (In my defense my washing machine just got hooked up yesterday! Ha) The room is 12x12 so I'm trying to maximize every bit of space and make it look as roomy as possible. 
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blue tulip
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Post by blue tulip on Jul 8, 2019 15:39:42 GMT
yes, but it's because we're too cheap to order custom height doors for them, lol. they are in the kids rooms and they don't really care. we're going to get curtains for one of them so he can shut it if he wishes.
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pilcas
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Post by pilcas on Jul 8, 2019 15:41:38 GMT
No, I think even nicely organized it gives the bedroom a messy, unpeaceful vive.
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wellway
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Post by wellway on Jul 8, 2019 15:42:49 GMT
With the best will in the world, I can't see an open closet looking neat and tidy.
How about doors with mirrors to reflect back the light or Ikea have interesting door ideas.
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Post by busy on Jul 8, 2019 15:42:56 GMT
That would drive me crazy. Even the most well organized closet still brings a lot of visual clutter to a space. I wouldn't want to look at that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 15:43:38 GMT
It's not a look I enjoy, no matter how neat and organised there's just nothing attractive about rails of hanging clothes.
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Post by mom on Jul 8, 2019 15:45:45 GMT
I wouldn't do it. My bedroom is very calm, and neutral colors. And my wardrobe is not. I don't like clutter, at all, and I know there is no way I wouldn't have it cluttered in two days.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 8, 2019 15:51:35 GMT
I would consider it in an office if I was constantly in and out of the space, had it nicely organized, and it was visually appealing. I did this back in the days when my studio was in a spare bedroom.
But in no way would I do it in a bedroom. To me, that would make the room look cluttered.
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Post by bc2ca on Jul 8, 2019 16:10:15 GMT
I took the closet doors off to paint three bedrooms when we moved into this house 11 years ago and they are all still stacked in the garage. Without the doors we were able to put a chest of drawers in each of the kids' closets and make more efficient use of the space. DD did hang an Urban Outfitters beach theme tapestry from a curtain rod over her opening a few years ago. The other room is my office and I don't miss the closet doors at all. Doors can limit how you use a closet most efficiently IME.
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StephDRebel
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Post by StephDRebel on Jul 8, 2019 16:12:26 GMT
The doors need some work, I think that's why I'm not sure. I wonder if I could use wallpaper to make them part of the decor. My current situations. I have baskets for the boxed pajamas and lingerie in the bags that I think will work. The bedroom however? Jesus take the wheel.  
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 8, 2019 16:13:49 GMT
Office, ok... Bedroom, not for me... I have BTDT and it was not so good, although I also had a chest of drawers on my closet.
On second thought after seeing your work closet, I think I would put up the doors.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 8, 2019 16:22:39 GMT
My closet doesn't have a door. It's a super skinny closet, and hasn't had a door because of it.
Even being as neat as I can, it's still visually distracting.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Jul 8, 2019 16:27:57 GMT
Only if it was an office and was using the closet as a nook. Something like this:  If it's an actual closet with hangers, I don't think it does anything at all to make the room look bigger, it just adds visual clutter as busy said above.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 16:32:32 GMT
Neither one of my kids' closets have doors. We took ours off because when open, it blocked half of a window. We have no plans to ever put it back.
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Post by bunnyhug on Jul 8, 2019 16:32:42 GMT
We have a home office that was always an office (by that I mean it's not a bedroom, it's a room on the main floor just beside the door) that has a large closet full of shelves. When we bought the house and moved in, the closet doors came off of it in the reno and never got put back on--on purpose, because I couldn't see why we needed doors to block off shelves. I keep all my scrapbooks in there, as well as pretty baskets full of office supplies and my sewing stuff. I lasted a few years and then hung curtains to close off the shelves because, even though they were always neat and tidy, they really weren't restful. My eyes need more 'resting' space than open shelves provide, and my brain just can't concentrate on my work if there's something else for it to concentrate on--like books and bins!
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jul 8, 2019 16:46:00 GMT
I'd be hard pressed to leave the doors off even an office closet unless it's super organized and neat. There's really no circumstance that I can imagine not having doors on a bedroom closet.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 16:48:06 GMT
If I were to remove a closet door I would only do it if the space was going to be used as a tiny room and furnished. If it is going to be a storage space I want to be able to close it off. Even neat storage can be visually cluttering especially with hanging clothing. If the storage is bookcases, or something similar that you don't normally find in a closet, with baskets and everything under the basket rim it might be ok. I think your office closet is semi ok because you have restricted the color palette in the space and don't have the hanging rod crammed tightly with clothing. I don't think you will get the same result in a closet of mixed color palette and mixed clothing styles. Most of us tend to have slightly more clothes than a closet should really hold.
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Post by monklady123 on Jul 8, 2019 16:55:00 GMT
We took the door off of dd's closet (her request) because the door was annoyingly close to the door to the hall. In order to get the closet door opened completely you had to have the other door shut completely. The joys of a small house.  -- Anyway, we took it off, bought an inexpensive tension-type curtain rod and hung a nice curtain. It's a filmy eyelet type and looks very nice. I wouldn't want just an open closet door without something. No matter how neat I'd say I'd keep it, I wouldn't in the end. Plus, it would just be too much visual clutter. I have enough of that in the living areas without adding a closet to it.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jul 8, 2019 17:13:12 GMT
Sliding barn door—hardware is easy to install and you can get really beautiful wood doors or other decorative materials (faux barn door look).
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scrapngranny
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Post by scrapngranny on Jul 8, 2019 17:14:02 GMT
Having no closet doors would send me to a place beyond my medication’s ability to cope.
Clutter is makes me very uneasy. If that isn’t an issue you deal with, it’s your home, do what works for you.
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StephDRebel
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Post by StephDRebel on Jul 8, 2019 17:18:48 GMT
I have people here often that need to be able to easily access the office closet. The top shelf will have 3 matching baskets with the white boxes in them, the rest of the stuff is going to the basement as soon as I can get the shelves up down there.
Maybe a curtain would work, the more I look at it the less I like it. I think I was overestimating the difference it would make once the bags are gone. I thought about a barn door but I cant afford to lose the 6 inches it takes to hang it.
Fitting your things into a new space is challenging!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 17:21:23 GMT
We do. But our closet is in the master bath so nobody else sees it and we only see it when in the bathroom. And we have a curtain up to hide it. But it takes up less space than a door that opens and closes. The previous owners had taken the door off and put it in the basement. We decided we like it better this way.
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Post by beepdave on Jul 8, 2019 17:31:18 GMT
I have a closet double the width of yours and I have a tension rod and 2 curtains that stay closed most of the time. I like that look much more than the wood doors looked before.
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Post by mikewozowski on Jul 8, 2019 18:03:17 GMT
i think if you make it look like a built in desk or bookshelf it is fine, but i don't care for just leaving the closet doors off with a clothes closet. they have doors for a reason.
edit - since your work closet is being used mostly for hanging clothes, i would prefer the doors on.
i don't like a lot of visual clutter, like many posters above.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 8, 2019 18:25:59 GMT
No, it would drive me nuts.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jul 8, 2019 18:45:45 GMT
I took the doors off the reach-in closet in DD's room over 20 years ago. I had a curtain rod mounted on the inside of the closet above the frame and hung curtains that matched her decor. After we remodeled I never got around to hanging the curtains back up, but the room is basically a storage room now so I haven't been in a rush to do it. I don't plan to ever put the doors back up because they really limited the access to the closet space.
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Post by SockMonkey on Jul 8, 2019 18:48:32 GMT
No. It would make me NUTS to have stuff in there that was visible, no matter how organized.
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mallie
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Post by mallie on Jul 8, 2019 18:56:39 GMT
Oh, hell, no.
I am a BIG fan of doors, closed doors.
No one has ever called me a neat freak or OCD. BUT I hate seeing visual clutter and to me, clothes hanging up (no matter how neatly and color organized) is still visual clutter.
I also know from experience, that when it comes to my craft stuff, I make a mess when I am working -- piles of this, stacks of that, fan outs of something else. That is how I create. I have projects that take weeks and my piles (aka organization of supplies) is meaningful. I am not going to clean it up and restart it every time. . So as much as I loved my last huge craft room, I also hated it because it did not have a door and I reallllly wanted one to close the door on my own mess.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Jul 8, 2019 19:08:34 GMT
My DH took the door off my laundry room a few years ago when he moved the washer & dryer from one wall to another one. It drives me nuts. I really want it back on, but we went to some open houses for new builds and several had pantry and laundry rooms with doors with frosted panels. They were etched with the words “Laundry” and “Pantry”. Some had a design etched on them. They were super cute.
I like the frosted panels because it gave the room an over all lighter look, yet covered any clutter. I’ve decided that’s what I’m going to do once I repaint the laundry room this fall.
Perhaps a door with a frosted panel would work. A custom vinyl decal with your company name and logo could look nice too.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 8, 2019 19:42:01 GMT
No. My personal preference is my closets must have doors. Because what's inside is usually a mixed assortment of items and various colors, and that would distract from the overall home decor "everything has to match and co-ordinate" ambiance. Assorted things being stored and contained in a closet, must remain behind closed doors. I'm crazy like that.
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