Flat woe #2 and #3

Many of the houses out here in NE, and in fact pretty much everywhere, have slanted roofs. I think they tend to be a bit more slanted in places that have snowfall. Makes sense. Don't want to have snow accumulating up there too much. The upshot of this is many of the top floor flats in such houses have slanted walls. I actually think this is fine and adds a little charm to a place.

... except in my case. Somewhere down the line someone decided they didn't like slanted walls and so they decided to reduce the usable space of this flat by adding walls whose sole purpose was to hide said slanted walls. This causes a strange sense of boxing within my flat as yet more walls and vertices were placed within. It seals the place in a bit and I prefer the more open area, even with the slanted walls. It at least would give more usable floor space.

Someone must have thought about that just a little too, because in addition to sealing off the slanted walls they opted to add closet doors to these walls. Well one of them didn't have doors but rather a waist-high opening. (I find this one the most puzzling and the most unsightly of all. I just don't get it.) These closets are barely usable. You cannot stack much in the way of boxes in them due to the irregular shape. You definitely can't hang clothes in there. It simply is a cosmetic thing to make it look like you have a closet when if fact you really don't. And it unnecessarily clutters the look of the space.

Which leads to my next woe which is actually the main woe of this post: lack of functional closets. Every once in a while I get way behind on my laundry and I end up doing nearly the whole of my functional wardrobe in a single day, such as yesterday. There is only one closet in this flat worthy of being called a closet, and one which is more of a coat closet that I use as a main closet due to its location. It's rather small. After doing most of my laundry I realised once again that I do not have enough closet space to hang all of my garments.

If this were mine to remodel, I'd knock down all of those shameful walls and even what closets there were. I'd much rather get a nice set of armoire's in an open room. Can't rightly do that now due to the presense of the walls and pseudo-closets since they'd subtract too much additional room space. I surprise myself a little thinking about such things as apartment aesthetics but in this case the complaints are rooted in functionality and I feel justified.

But alas, there's nothing I can do about it other than maybe make another round of clothing donations.