Help with small bathroom access and layout
We’re hoping to re-do our bathroom in a 2-bed flat in a Victorian terrace. We put the current bathroom into the second bedroom when we moved in 14 years ago, as the only other bathroom is 1.5 floors down.
It’s important to bear in mind with everything that all the plumbing is on the outside wall (behind current toilet and shower) and can’t be changed.
Originally I had the idea of having a bathroom on the landing, so as not to take away space from the bedrooms. I guess this is completely out of the question (or at least prohibitive cost-wise) due to the drains being far too far away (they are on the outer wall by the current toilet)?
So then with the current layout, my preferred option would be to enter the bathroom from the landing, rather than from the 2nd bedroom. Is there any way to do that without losing too much / even more space in the 2nd bedroom? (Of course the staircase is in the way here…)
Is there a way to increase the shower size, e.g. by extending the shower to include where the toilet is and move the toilet next to the basin?
Any other clever ideas?
Thank you very much
(sorry about low quality floor plan).
Bathroom dimensions are 2.0 x 1.3m (marked in red).
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Comments (9)HI -- gross635 -- Your right to some degree but you can't move the main floor bath to the other side because then that interfers with the floor plan on the second floor. Would not work . I would have loved to turn the whole plan around but it won't work in this case. Added note to what I posted before is to get rid of anywalls you don't need and also not every room has to have a door. Like the one on the lounge and the one at the end of the hall. I would open the lounge up by not having the walls on the entrance hall . As for a closet , there is space in front of the set back powder room for some coat hooks etc. I also question the fact of , if the lounge is really needed. Everything could have been shifted to the front and the kitchen set back , then that would have made a larger dining/familyroom area . But that would have ruined the resale value . So I think moving the bathrooms was the lest and best for this plan. One question I have , is this an English plan ?, because the English love putting doors on every room ?And usually the doors swing the wrong way....See Moreneed help with bathroom
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2 years agoThank you Wumi. The layout would be good. But I'm worried about the pipes. They are all on the outside wall (facing the roof garden). And if I were to keep the bathroom completely internal I'd hope to go for the most space saving option of using the landing.
But this would pose the same pipe work problem...
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