Preferred size for a walk-in closet?

Agreed, as long as there is a tub in the bathroom that services the other bedrooms, usually kids rooms. A house with NO tub is a hard sale to anyone with rug rats, or planning on them.

We had a similar design question and wound up at 9' x 12'. The two side walls have clothes rods, one end is sliding drawers on ajustable vertical posts that we got from the Container Store. There were two considerations that we learned while trying to design this area. (1) Don't have clothes rods on adjacent walls -- the corner where the two rods intersect is not very convenient. The pullout drawers make much more sense, and (2) Once you've gotten about 8 feet wide, you don't gain much by increasing the width, because you can't just add another row of clothes rods down the middle. A walkin closet with rods on each side plus one in the middle would have to be about 14' wide. So when you increase the width from 8' to 10 or

For the bathroom, think about the idea of having the sinks outside of the bathroom, at one end or side of the bedroom -- especially if you have a fairly large bedroom (ours is 24' x 36'). We first saw this done in the suites at the Burswood Casino outside of Perth, Australia, where it was quite effective, and incorporated it into our redesign.

Exactly my plan.

No, it's got a stall shower.

Our master has a 6' x 6' shower with a rain head but no wall mounted head. I like the rain head but if I were to design the thing it would have one wall mounted head. It's a PITA to clean, as it is. The master also has a whirlpool tub, that hasn't been used (I woldn't care about a tub in the master, but SWMBO does). There are two more full baths upstairs (and a half down), one in a guest room suite and one outside the third bedroom, with more conventional one-piece fiberglass tub-showers.

In our previous residence, I added a walk-in closet. I think it was 4x5'. Open door, take one step, turn on light, all clothes are within reach yet far more convenient than a conventional closet and less % corridor than a larger walk-in. OK, so this was in a singlewide. Build to fit your needs and your house.

We are now in a 1953 "real house" and I wish I had that closet here. We've bought six wardrobes to augment the closets.

I agree with the comment about ventilation -- at least make sure the closet has good air flow. Especially A/C to avoid mold and mildew on the clothes.

I think the bedroom I grew up in was 10x12'. My sisters shared the smaller bedroom. This was in a very large 1300 sq ft house. It was large because the available area was used for real living space and the bedrooms were sized for sleeping only. Fifty-four years after my parents built it, they are dead but one of my sisters is living in the house, and my other sister would retire there if it were available.

Edward