Is it a bedroom if it has no closet?

[Anonymous]

Technically can you call it one? It’s on the second floor where the other bedrooms are and is 12 x 15 but it has no closet anymore bc a prior owner incorporated the former closet space into the present hall bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Depends on your state. I live in CA where you can legally label a room a bedroom without a closet, but in MD I believe you must have a closet in order to call it a bedroom.

[Anonymous]

Not a bedroom but you can stage it like one.

[Anonymous]

Where I live no, that wouldn't be legal. It would be a den/office. So 2 bed+Den but couldnt be called a 3 bed.

[Anonymous]

No closet requirement in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No closet requirement in Virginia.

Just has to be 70 square feet, have a 6'8" ceiling , and have a window of a certain dimension and height from the floor, depending on the jurisdiction in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No closet requirement in Virginia.

But it has to have a window I think. A lot of states are window plus a closet can be a bedroom.

[Anonymous]

Realtors will tell you it needs a closet. The pp hit the nail on the head with the minimum requirements per the code. Also, a wall cannot be less than 7ft. Granted, localities may or may not follow it to a T.

https://buildingcodetrainer.com/minimum-bedroom-size/

[Anonymous]

Maryland (or Mont. County, at least) says closet is required for a bedroom, as well as egress/window.

And, conversely, a room without a closet does not quality as a bedroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on your state. I live in CA where you can legally label a room a bedroom without a closet, but in MD I believe you must have a closet in order to call it a bedroom.

This whole thread, and this post in particular, took me straight to the Hannibal Buress skit about the lyrics in a specific song; best presentation for here is from a Rolling Stone article:

Jeff Rosenthal of Rolling Stone: You have a line on your song with Plies ("Lose My Mind") where you say, "House stupid dumb big, my rooms got rooms." Hannibal Buress, who has a Comedy Central special coming up, has a joke where he says, "Those are just closets, Jeezy."

Jeezy: He said that about me? Nah, his crib probably ain't as big as mine, that's all. Tell him to upgrade his crib, that's all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland (or Mont. County, at least) says closet is required for a bedroom, as well as egress/window.

And, conversely, a room without a closet does not quality as a bedroom.

contrapositively, not conversely.

[Anonymous]

In DC you do not need a closet to call it a bedroom. There are minimum size and ceiling height as well as egress requirements though.

[Anonymous]

Stuck in an ikea pax unit and trim it out for the closet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland (or Mont. County, at least) says closet is required for a bedroom, as well as egress/window.

And, conversely, a room without a closet does not quality as a bedroom.

If this were true in all of MD, my 19th century rowhouse would have to be listed as a 1 bedroom. (It's 3, but there are only two closets in the entire house, and only one is in a bedroom. People used to have freestanding wardrobes and bureaus.)

[Anonymous]

Apparently a lot of people here have never been in an 18th or 19th century house, when closets where rare.