I just had an idea after writing that last post! What about this idea?

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Here's a better photo:

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On your second layout, do you really want to walk through your bathroom to get to your bedroom??? As I see it, that is the only door to the bedroom. Not the best layout, IMO

Agree completely with poohla - I would not want to walk through the bathroom to get to my bed!

As for the closet - How many sqft does that come out to? My husband and I each have 63 sqft closets in our new house and honestly I could fill up even more space! You deifnitely can't have too big of a closet in my opinion!

If this is going over a kitchen addition, how about moving the bathroom to the bottom right, so that the bathroom plumbing is over the kitchen plumbing?

Yeah, turns out my DH didn't love the "walk through the bath" idea either... It just seemed that having a hallway uses SO much space uselessly. The room in the upper left is currently our bedroom and will become a kids'/guest room in the future. They would need access to the bathroom. I didn't mark it clearly, but the door to that bedroom is where the small dashed box is (it's a step down to the room). We could put the bathroom in the top big room, but it's only about 5' to the doorway and there's nowhere for a window. We can't straddle the wall between the two parts of the house easily.

The closet in the first design is about 44 sqft and 50 sqft in the second. Guess it just looked big compared to the rest of the room...

Any suggestions? Thanks for the feedback!

Aaren

Hmmm, suero, I never thought of that. I was only thinking about bringing up the plumbing from the downstairs bath, but the kitchen would tie-in just as well. What about access for the other bedroom? Also, our best light and least privacy comes from the SE corner. That might be problematic for a bathroom - cutting off light from the bedroom and having to obscure the bath windows.

Amazing that after looking at these plans for about a bazillion hours I never thought of moving the bath to the SE! Thanks for the idea, I'll play with it a bit...

Aaren

Sorry it's been a while since I posted an update. I've been working on the kitchen downstairs.

Turns out that it's against code to walk through another room to get to a bedroom, so that idea is out. Oh well. DH didn't love it. We don't really want to move the bath to the SE corner because of the long distance the hot water will have to travel. DH loves scalding showers and it just won't happen with that long run.

What do you think of this layout. Essentially the same as the first. Couldn't really come up with anything better... What do you think of the proportions of the bed/closet/bath?

Thanks for your help!

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Here's an alternative layout. Fewer windows, no narrow hall. The rectangle to the left of the vanity is a linen tower.