How would you lay out this bathroom?
We are getting our bathroom fully renovated. It's fairly small and I'm finding it quite awkward to come up with a layout. Currently the soil stack goes out the top left, but as we are getting bifolds put in, we will be moving that to the side of the house (right hand side of the bathroom). Water pipes go out the top right and they'll likely stay there. In the current bathroom, the bath is in the bottom right corner, sink above it (squeezed in under the window) and toilet top left. I'm thinking of putting the bath under the window at the top running left to right, and toilet and sink on the right hand side of the room.
Another thought was to install a pocket door (as the door/wall will be getting removed and rebuilt anyway) and have its opening more centred, that way we could put a sink on one side and toilet on t'other. Only issue is that the bathroom is situated at the top the stairs (though there's a landing).
Any thoughts on this?
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Karl Knuttel
2 months agoThanks for your thoughts on this Siobhan. You're not the first person to give that warning about a pocket door actually. Good to be able to strike that one off.
Regarding the sink position, I had thought of that, but the clearance between the toilet and the sink might not be big enough to be able to access it comfortably.
Something like this might work?
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siobhanmcgee90
2 months agoKarl Knuttel
last monthHey folks,
We've decided to take approx 30-40cm out of the neighbouring bedroom to make the bathroom a little bigger/wider. We are giving space back to the bedroom from the extremely deep HP (on the floor plan) so won't lose much if any floor space in there.
This gives the ability to lay out the bathroom in one of the two ways (that I can come up with). Apologies I'm using IKEAs bathroom planner for this, but in both designs both vanity and bath will take up entire space they sit within. (130cm or so for vanity and 1800x800 for the bath).
I'm edging towards the first layout. Feels like better chi and can add extra storage to the hall.
Any thoughts?
Karl Knuttel
last monthlast modified: last monthHey rinked,
Thanks for the idea. I had considered that before, but wan't sure about taking quite that much out of the room. It would be an extra 2-300mm but as per your sketch I hadn't thought about leaving the nook behind the door which lessens the incursion (and in the bed room that space could be used for storage too).
We are moving the soil pipe to the side of the house to allow for the bifold downstairs, so the toilet on the outer wall as per your sketch would really be better. Of course we could use a pump or so, but that's not ideal. Bath drainage could also run out that side too.
We are completely renovating the room, everything is coming out and it will be tanked and retiled etc, so seams aren't an issue. My main consideration for having the toilet and vanity on the other wall is to perhaps conceal the toilet with a false wall, and also so that the light from the window (extremely bright as south facing) isn't to the side when looking in the mirror.
Thanks again, lots to think about!
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Mocking it up, it could look something like below...
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