Ok, so I’ve been playing with my bathroom. I have not yet come up with any designs that involve moving the closet wall; those are next. 🙂
I was doing some reading online about bathroom remodels, and it turns out that moving plumbing can be difficult to impossible, depending on your house. So these three designs try to keep the toilet in the same place (the most difficult plumbing to move), and keep some of the other plumbing in place.
This option keeps the toilet in the exact same place, gives up a sink, and trades the existing tub and shower for “corner” tub and shower units. I believe that all existing plumbing could be easily used with this option.
This option also moves the door from the bedroom to the bathroom a teency bit, and doesn’t require that the closet door be removed. (I removed it in this diagram, but mostly cuz I was moving stuff all over the place before I settled on this.)
(I know that pedestal sinks are the new rage, but I got to have my counter space, as well as under-sink storage.)
This second option sorta keeps the toilet in the same place, it just rotates it. The extra-long, double sink vanity is maintained, and the tub is moved from one side of the bathroom to the other.
The shower is traded up to a slightly larger corner shower.
This requires moving the closet door to the bedroom wall, and moving the door into the bathroom just a teeny bit.
This third option rotates the toilet, gives up a sink, and requires moving both doors. The gain is in getting a larger corner shower, as well as getting a corner tub (not any larger, but perhaps fancier looking).
Votes? Comments?
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First, keep in mind we were discussing moving the walk in closet back, then running additional pipes between that new wall to support a shower up there.
I’d be in favor of the third option.
Since it got a vote (and it’s my favorite option!) here’s some screenshots:
Hmm, I’m gonna play devil’s advocate and point out a few things that may, or may not be problems.
Can you rotate the toilet and keep the existing plumbing? I don’t know if you can use the same hole in the floor with everything rotated. If you can’t, then the only option that seems to work is number 1. Can you access the tub controls and open the shower door with that option?
Another thing that may throw a monkey wrench into all the options but #1, I wonder if the wall between the bedroom and the closet is load-bearing, and that’s why they had to put the closet door in the bathroom. I wouldn’t think that it would be, but I wonder why else they would put the closet door in the bathroom. If that were the case, then you might have to leave the closet door where it is and go with #1, or move the closet wall.
If neither of those things are a problem and you go with option 3, I might suggest moving the sink to the “shower side”, so that the sink user is not encumbered by the tub.
Here’s another option, which is the least exciting, but possibly the most practical. Leave the bathroom mostly the same as it is now, but replace the whirlpool and micro-shower with a good old-fashioned tub/shower combo and, if there is a little room left over, build a linen closet next to it.
Luckily for us, none of the walls in our house are load bearing – except for the outermost walls. At least, that’s what the inspector told us, and I suppose I can believe it, seeing as the house is all of 20′ by 30′. One of our neighbors did have their closet door moved to the bedroom wall, so I know that much at least is possible.
Good, old-fashioned tub shower? Where’s the fun in that? 🙂 You’re right, though, that does make a lot of sense. I was trying to stay away from that option so as not to lose the ‘fanciness’ factor – something that concerns me more and more as we have a neighbor selling their house for $150K less than what we bought ours for.