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   Matt | Jan 12, 2009 05:18am | #1

   22" sheetrock to sheetrock.

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   apiersma | Jan 12, 2009 05:47am | #2

   I'm not even close. How bad is 19"

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   MikeSmith | Jan 12, 2009 06:07am | #3

   you'll have to hang clothes sideways

   we  use 25" as our minimum for framing to framing... so it finishes  at 24"Mike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   Matt | Jan 12, 2009 07:15am | #5

   Can you turn the studs sideways to get some more room?  What kind of door is to be used?

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   MisterT | Jan 12, 2009 03:23pm | #6

   you can get kiddy hangars that will fit....turn studs fire archytect....
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   Hudson Valley Carpenter | Jan 12, 2009 03:34pm | #7

   I'm not even close. How bad is 19"?

   A wire coat hanger is 18" so I suppose that, if you don't mind a few wrinkles and can hang heavy coats in another closet, 19" finished depth can be made to work...but I'd look for a way around that. 

   Can you frame the closet walls with 2X3's? 

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   apiersma | Jan 12, 2009 05:08pm | #8

   My 19" is with the back wall consisting of nothing more than 1/2" plywoood and then sheetrock glued to it for a total of 1 inch thickness. I guess I could use 1/4" drywall. Every 1/4" counts :)I think kiddie hangers are a great idea.

   Edited 1/12/2009 9:09 am ET by apiersma

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   DonCanDo | Jan 12, 2009 05:21pm | #9

   Depending on who the closet if for, you could forego a closet rod altogether and just put in shelves.

   Or, if you just need to hang a few things, use some brackets on the back of the door.

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   reinvent | Jan 12, 2009 06:53pm | #13

   If you get swivel hook hangers you could put them in at an angle.http://www.allendesigners.com/subcat-9-54.htm

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   DanH | Jan 12, 2009 06:57pm | #14

   I remember a TV ad recently for a gizmo where you could put a bunch of hangers on an extendible rod and compress them into a small space for storage, expand the rod to access them.
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   DanH | Jan 12, 2009 06:11pm | #11

   What do you have for a door? If it's a bifold or sliding door that exposes most of the width of the closet you can put rods sticking out from the back wall rather than long ways Build shelves in the ends that would be inaccessible for clothes.
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   Piffin | Jan 12, 2009 06:37pm | #12

   bad enough to make the wife complain 

    

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   USAnigel | Jan 12, 2009 06:19am | #4

   Can you make the outer walls out of plywood? This would gain some space.

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   JDRHI | Jan 12, 2009 05:43pm | #10

   Have you considered hooks instead of hangers?

   24" is the typical minimum for closet depth....but even that is really too small for a coat closet, as coats are larger and bulkier than most clothing that goes on hangers.

   The closet in my own entrance foyer is small.....22-23" deep. When I first finished it off, I tried to make do with the standard closet pole and hangers. Fine for the kids clothes....but realistically, it was a jumbled mess with coats and jackets falling to the floor regularly as we would go in and out of it.

   I redesigned it, and got rid of the rod. A few hooks low for the younger children, higher for the adults, and some extras here and there for misc. (hats, caps, backpacks)

   There is not as much storage as with a rod, so we end up swapping things in and out with the change of seasons, but overall, it works MUCH better on a day to day basis.

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   oops | Jan 12, 2009 07:55pm | #15

   How wide is the closet?  Could you put the door to one side and put the rod at one end, running the rod the 19" way. Just a thought.

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   apiersma | Jan 13, 2009 05:42am | #16

   I bet the swivel hangers would work well. I wonder if there is a closet rod that zig-zags across the space and you hang your hangers at a 45 degree angle. Sort of like /////// with all the hangers on the parallel sections only. Goofy, but it might work well.Running the closet rods front to back for the 19" is pretty creative. I have 4ft of width from a wall to a stair tread. I need to mock it up to see if I can run two rods front to back with a 36" door. It might work.Thanks for all the great ideas.