Jan posted:Houses are not normally designed to be layout friendly which is too bad. Can you modify the mechanical room? Can the door be made to swing in or be a pocket door? Can the door be moved to the adjacent wall? As long as walls aren't load bearing the can be moved or removed.
Also, you have the space underneath the layout for storage? Can the 3x5 box be moved there? Set your layout height to take advantage of the space underneath.
Instead of compromising the layout "compromise" the house.
Jan
The 3x5 box was mine and just an example because that's what I was faced with when I had to make room for opening the door. My point was that just moving the layout enough for the door to swing open or even changing them to open inward doesn't mean that a large item can be moved out. I have a 2 bedroom doors on angles across from a bathroom door. In order to get large items in one bedroom, like a mattress, we have to do a 3-point turn, go into one bedroom then back into the bathroom before we can go into the other bedroom. I that case, the door is not the problem, it's the angles things have to be turned to get them in/out. Similarly, moving the door to the hallway might still limit what can be removed because of the opposing wall. However, I think Kevin said they were folding doors, so they might open wide enough so things can be turned.
