Remodel of the 2nd floor tower room (the closet)

The adjoining room to the tower room is where our bed is located. The tower room was vacant except for the clothing closet. The only bathroom (or "CR" if you live in the Philippines) is at the north end of the hallway, roughly 60' from the tower room. There is a second "CR" in the house but it is located between the kitchen and dining room on the first floor. Needless to say, having only one bathroom on the second floor (where all of the bedrooms are located) is very inconvenient when the house is full of visitors. So we decided that the tower room could be put to better use with some minor modifications.

First, we needed to redesign the closet. The wall space where the closet originally was, actually had two closets, one that opened into the tower room and one that opened into the master bedroom. The plan was to shorten the closet in the west-east direction and lengthen it in the north-south direction. Then the closet door that opened into the tower room would be walled off with a new doorway created. By doing this we would have a tower closet similar in square footage to the original, but the modification would allow us to create a bathroom off of the tower room.

After everything was planned out we started on the modifications. First, the door from the tower room into the main hallway was walled off. Then I started with the framing of the closet. A party wall was built to separate the closet and the new bathroom. 

                                                (Party wall from the shower side of the wall)   

(New Closet to the left, new bathroom to the right)

We decided to make pocket doors because they take up less space than hinged doors. The doors we used were the original hinged doors. This meant that I needed to build the framework for the closet and bathroom pocket doors.

                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                   

After the walls were framed and the pocket door was installed then we put down the flooring. The floorboards we used were the original boards. We planed the boards before installing them. 

Two rods were installed on the east wall and one on the north for clothes on hangers. Shelves were added above the rods. LED light strips were attached to the underside of the shelves to illuminate the clothes. The baseboard was attached to finish the closet. Although the closet may seem small, it is still a walk-in closet. Even with clothes in the closet, there is still enough standing room to dress. 

*(I did not take a picture of the finished closet before we put our clothes in it so I am not including a picture on this blog).