Help designing a narrow shower room.

[jeevescat]

Hi

I'd quite like to squeeze an ensuite on the top floor of our house by chopping the end of one of the bedrooms.

Realistically what do you reckon is the narrowest we can go on the width of the room, ideally with shower, wc and basin.

Cheers.

[GuinnessMK]

Will the door be in the end or the side?

If you put a sliding door in the middle of the long wall, then shallow but wide hand basin opposite, pan to one end, shower tray to the other end, then about 1100mm x 2800mm minimum.

We rented a place which was smaller, but it was a wet room, where you effectively walked under the shower head / over the tray to get to the pan, and the back of the door formed one wall of the shower. That was too small...

[bodhi808]

Presumably the width of a shower cubicle door really. About 2.5-3 feet.
Layout like this


Alternative would be to take a square out which would offer a little more space around the basin.
about 6' square.


This site has a few suggestions.
http://www.houseplanshelper.com/small-bathroom-flo...

[jeevescat]

Door in the end, something like this..

[BigRickus]

The en-suite I created in our last house was 1100mm x 2800mm, done as a wetroom, with a concealed cistern wc with the cistern boxed in the built in wardrobe in the bedroom behind.

[untruth]

We are doing exactly the first diagram above in our downstairs toilet, which is already around 70cm wide (or narrow, rather). We are knocking through into a room that will allow us to lengthen it, and fit a shower, with a slight widening at a width of 86cm.

We think it is possible and achievable, as long as you can find wide, but shallow sinks, and be clever about the toilet such as inbuilt cistern to give illusion of space.

[robwilk]

[quote=bodhi808]Presumably the width of a shower cubicle door really. About 2.5-3 feet.
Layout like this


We have an ensuite exactly like this in the spare bedroom , it was originally designed as a built in wardrobe but an off the cuff remark from the missus and it became a ensuite, its 900 x 2200 of there abouts and its fine for what it is a spare room so only for guests.
not much use if you want to store toileties etc in there but perfectly useable.

Rob

[untruth]

RE: storage and that layout above, we are looking at having a boxed in cistern, with storage above the cistern which I think could work well.

[Iang84]

bodhi808 said:

Presumably the width of a shower cubicle door really. About 2.5-3 feet.
Layout like this

Had an en-suite like this in a place we were renting worked perfectly

[Origin Unknown]

Where is the existing stack pipe in relation to where you want to build the en-suite? What about other services to the room?

Also, with a little ingenuity and planning, I see no reason why you couldn't locate the cistern in the loft (space/accessibility permitting) saving you ~200mm. You do need to consider storage too. A lovely modern, minimalist room with no storage doesn't work in the real world.

[RockyBalboa]

bodhi808 said:

Presumably the width of a shower cubicle door really. About 2.5-3 feet.
Layout like this

What sort of shower door would best suit a set-up like this?

[bodhi808]

RockyBalboa said:

What sort of shower door would best suit a set-up like this?

If you've got the space between the shower and sink, then a regular open outward cubicle door would give the best access and egress. If very little room like in the image, then probably a bi-fold inward door like this sort of thing. Clicky

[Gingerbread Man]

bodhi808 said:

Layout like this

Our current rental is like this. I find it tight between the door (which slides in our case) and the basin. If it was an en-suite, you could get dried out in the bedroom. This would save the squeeze.

You can make it a wet room, or throw in a 900x900 tray or similar down on end. Toilet and cistern with smallest projection. If you're building the walls as stid from scratch, you could sink the basin into the wall a bit. Maybe a square basin and maybe a mirror above also sunk in. Might create a feature, but also win you some space.

[dirty_dog]

untruth said:

We think it is possible and achievable, as long as you can find wide, but shallow sinks, and be clever about the toilet such as inbuilt cistern to give illusion of space.

we fitted one of these in our shower room, with the tap on the side you get a decent sized basin still.
http://www.saneux.com/Products/Wall_Mounted_Basins...


They do narrower too... http://www.saneux.com/Products/Wall_Mounted_Basins

[BoRED S2upid]

Do you need a wc in it? How many have you got at the moment? We have a very small en suite but no wc just shower and a small basin.