"bill allemann" wrote in message
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I'm looking to design and build a unit along the wall of a walk-in closet,
the usual clothes hanging bars with a few shelves, etc.
I want to just draw this up first so I can think out what I want.
I'm trying to find the dimensions that are commonly used for when you have
tow clothes bars one over the other, and that sort of thing.
I could just measure off some of my stuff, I suppose, but I thought like
everything else that's built, there would be some commonly used design
parameters.
I would have thought that would be standard stuff on the DIY websites, but
I've looked through dozens of them, and apparently that info is an
intensely guarded secret.

Anyone know of a source?


Nope. I had this problem a few years ago. I solved it by putting my pants
on a hanger and then measuring the distance from the floor to the hanger.
Then I repeated for one of my shirts. I chose 48 inches for pants and 40
inches for shirts. My wife is shorter. I put her bars at 39 inches. I
installed the bars so they could be adjusted easily. Haven't needed to in
the last twenty years. I like strong bars made using inch and half
electrical conduit with inch and a quarter pipe flanges driven onto the
ends. Don't like the length to go much over 4 feet. Definitely wouldn't go
5 feet. I install them 11 to 12 inches from the back. Generally 2 bars
fills the available space floor to ceiling. I like the left side of the
closet to mirror the right side. I build the kitchen cupboards and vanity.
I also build cupboards for the closet. When the bar length gets to be 4
foot or so I install a floor to ceiling cupboard to fasten the bar to.
Width can be anything from 12 inches and up. Depth is usually 15 to 16
inches. Sometimes I leave them as shelves but mostly I add doors. Usually
the bottom half is made into drawers. When I put in a single bar at 63
inches I put a cupboard over it and extend the cupboards ends down to within
3 feet of the floor so bars can be fastened to it. I put similar panels at
the end walls so I have a strong surface to fasten bars to. I think of them
as dressing rooms. I install mirrors and chairs. I like a center isle of 3
feet. I like to put bars for hanging on one side and cupboards on the other
side. With a good closet the bedroom can be small with little in it other
than the bed and night stands. I like the closet to have a width of 6.5
feet.