Talk:Walk-in closet

My 1906 1676 sf home in town was built with 4 original closets; one a water Closet for bathing, and one in the hall for linens. The two in the two bedrooms are walk in and measure 5‘x 5‘3“ with a porcelain single bulb bare socket; the house was built with electricity, the first in town. It’s a Bungalow type floor plan where one enters directly into the living room, very cutting edge in that respect, especially considering it’s style was a Free Classic Victorian (featuring a tower room, bays, unpainted woodwork, a wide arch and balustrade into the dining room, and featuring solid pocket doors. Doorways are 36“— even closets.

I’ve seen lots of other house plans from 1902-1910, which feature closets. It was more common than not to include closets for new homes over 1300 sf at that time. Over the years, bathrooms were added or expanded and homes lost bedroom closets. I’ve seen this in person too on more than one or two occasions. The assumption that homes built c. 1890s-1910s lacked closets is largely false. Lots of 1920s renovations of older homes also removed kitchen pantries in favor of eat-in nooks.

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