help with bathroom layout
Discussion
After sorting the shower room post flood, (pics on here somewhere), its time to sort the main bathroom. I had begun to strip out before we had a burst pipe damaging some of downstairs so this was put on the back burner along with having another child so no time for diy much recently.
The other evening the shower turned on by itself, or so I thought, except a pushfit waste upstairs decided to jump ship and deposit all the water to (fortunately) the shower tray in the room below via a ZEP1!
Anyway, its pretty small but there were some great ideas recently here for some one after layout advice so thought I'd test you all again.
Below is a rough layout with rough sizes...
Both bath wall and window walls are external. Door opens onto square landing so the door placement is negotiable. I've thought of turning the toilet onto landing stud to conceal the cistern within but otherwise think I'm pretty stuck with what we have? We need some storage as there is none so vanity is looking favourite at the moment.
Any help/ideas would be much appreciated.
The other evening the shower turned on by itself, or so I thought, except a pushfit waste upstairs decided to jump ship and deposit all the water to (fortunately) the shower tray in the room below via a ZEP1!
Anyway, its pretty small but there were some great ideas recently here for some one after layout advice so thought I'd test you all again.
Below is a rough layout with rough sizes...
Both bath wall and window walls are external. Door opens onto square landing so the door placement is negotiable. I've thought of turning the toilet onto landing stud to conceal the cistern within but otherwise think I'm pretty stuck with what we have? We need some storage as there is none so vanity is looking favourite at the moment.
Any help/ideas would be much appreciated.
The first thing I'd do is hinge the door on the other side so you walk into the room and not the basin. The rest is probably six of one and half a dozen of the other; I can't see any real improvement to be made by shuffling stuff about.
One cunning wheeze I did with my bathroom as to set the basin into the stud wall - it moved it back 3" and really made a difference.
One cunning wheeze I did with my bathroom as to set the basin into the stud wall - it moved it back 3" and really made a difference.
Agree with door comment above.
The size of the toilet and basin is wrong or you have MASSIVE ones.
I'd place the basin next to the toilet - looks better having everything on one wall and opens the room up.
Although you then couldn't have a mirror over the basin (I wouldn't move the toilet as I don't like toilets next to baths)
The size of the toilet and basin is wrong or you have MASSIVE ones.
I'd place the basin next to the toilet - looks better having everything on one wall and opens the room up.
Although you then couldn't have a mirror over the basin (I wouldn't move the toilet as I don't like toilets next to baths)
Renovation said:
Agree with door comment above.
The size of the toilet and basin is wrong or you have MASSIVE ones.
I'd place the basin next to the toilet - looks better having everything on one wall and opens the room up.
Although you then couldn't have a mirror over the basin (I wouldn't move the toilet as I don't like toilets next to baths)
Agree with the above, having everything on one side may make it feel more spacious. The size of the toilet and basin is wrong or you have MASSIVE ones.
I'd place the basin next to the toilet - looks better having everything on one wall and opens the room up.
Although you then couldn't have a mirror over the basin (I wouldn't move the toilet as I don't like toilets next to baths)
Perhaps a smaller sink or a sink mounted on the left wall (90 degrees to loo) could leave a teeny bit more space between loo and bath (for me loo and sink next to each other is more useful even if then the loo is nearer the bath).
AndrewCrown said:
I agree on hinging the door the other way...
I'd reorganise as below..
Now you have room for a longer bath and pop a shower mixer at one end... there might even be room there for a 'p' shaped bath..
I wouldn't do this for two reasons, 1) the space left for the depth of the wc is too small. Just over a metre in total, with an average wc being approx 650mm front to back only gives you 350-400mm in front of the pan, personally that's too close to the bath. 2) your space for a bigger bath is in fact wasted space, as there's no real point going much bigger than 1700/1800 anyway.I'd reorganise as below..
Now you have room for a longer bath and pop a shower mixer at one end... there might even be room there for a 'p' shaped bath..
You would also find your general space would feel smaller with the layout like this, there would be very little room to move about in and that always makes it 'feel' more cramped.
With bathrooms like these, that were designed around a standard bath size the only viable options are to either use subtle tweaks to the layout to improve space, such as moving the basin over to besides the wc, which would give a lot more usable floor space, or bin the bath totally, put in a quadrant shower in the corner and really open the room up, just maybe not what you want with a newborn!
AndrewCrown said:
I agree on hinging the door the other way...
I'd reorganise as below..
Now you have room for a longer bath and pop a shower mixer at one end... there might even be room there for a 'p' shaped bath..
I wouldn't do this for two reasons, 1) the space left for the depth of the wc is too small. Just over a metre in total, with an average wc being approx 650mm front to back only gives you 350-400mm in front of the pan, personally that's too close to the bath. 2) your space for a bigger bath is in fact wasted space, as there's no real point going much bigger than 1700/1800 anyway.I'd reorganise as below..
Now you have room for a longer bath and pop a shower mixer at one end... there might even be room there for a 'p' shaped bath..
You would also find your general space would feel smaller with the layout like this, there would be very little room to move about in and that always makes it 'feel' more cramped.
With bathrooms like these, that were designed around a standard bath size the only viable options are to either use subtle tweaks to the layout to improve space, such as moving the basin over to besides the wc, which would give a lot more usable floor space, or bin the bath totally, put in a quadrant shower in the corner and really open the room up, just maybe not what you want with a newborn!
Wow thanks everyone - a load of replies and a mock up all before I get to work 
I cant hinge the door the other way as the bedroom door is right next to it - this is a bit annoying as when the bathroom door is open (most of the time with the kids!) it bungs up the landing. Excuse the shocking pic but you get the idea...
Moving the door is a lot more work but as the landing isn't decorated yet, is a possibility but then will likely involve moving the loo also.
I like the idea of everything in a line but it would need to be bath - loo - basin in order to get a mirror/cabinet above due to the window position.
I cant hinge the door the other way as the bedroom door is right next to it - this is a bit annoying as when the bathroom door is open (most of the time with the kids!) it bungs up the landing. Excuse the shocking pic but you get the idea...
Moving the door is a lot more work but as the landing isn't decorated yet, is a possibility but then will likely involve moving the loo also.
I like the idea of everything in a line but it would need to be bath - loo - basin in order to get a mirror/cabinet above due to the window position.
dirty_dog said:
I like the idea of everything in a line but it would need to be bath - loo - basin in order to get a mirror/cabinet above due to the window position.
I had similar issue with my bathroom. Solved it with this sliding mirror cabinet...http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004CK9YOC
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