New layout for two adjoining bathrooms

9 years ago

I'm getting close to signing a contract for a bathroom remodel and getting to the stage where there are lots of detail questions. The gardenweb community was a huge help in 2011-2012 when we remodelled our kitchen and I'm looking forward to your help and hopefully being able to contribute to some questions myself as I get better at this!

You may remember my kitchen with three working doorways and three floor to ceiling windows...well, now I'm back with two bathrooms that function like a hallway...

The house predates indoor plumbing (1850), so the bathrooms are an after thought. You can get from the front of the house to the back either by going through my husband's office (frowned upon when he is on conference calls) or by walking through the two baths. So, no, we don't plan to take out the door between them. It's also kind of nice when we are both getting ready to go out to be able to carry on a conversation without actually being in the same room.

Here are the two baths as they currently are. And below is the planned new layout. The tub bath stays the same (I actually really like it as it is, just need to replace things that are failing). The vanity in the shower bath moves to the other wall, toilet moves over, and shower stall expands. We are very excited to have a shower big enough for two for the first time since we got married. I'd like bigger still, but I think this is the best we can do given the radiator in the other corner and a window that goes almost to the floor.

This is the current wall of fixtures in the shower bath. Very cramped.

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Another view of same area.

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Wall of shower bath where new vanity will go.

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Adjacent Tub Bath--this will stay the same except need to replace the leaking tile surrounding the cast iron tub and the rusty pedastal sink (which I'm going to miss!) with as close a new one as I can find.

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So, I think the new layout works, but know from past experience I should post it before I get into the other questions! I have a bunch of questions about laying out the shower, but first wanted to get feedback on the general layout.

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cpartist
9 years ago
Can you post the bathrooms in relation to the rest of the downstairs. I wouldn't want to walk through bathrooms or my DH's office to get from one end of the house to the other end.
njannabelle
Original Author
9 years ago
Sure, this is actually the upstairs of the house that we are looking at. Yes, it would be a disaster to have that layout downstairs! Downstairs we have a small half bath.

The other obvious location for a bath would be the library, but we only use that bedroom in the summer as it's ridicuously cold and there is no obvious way to run plumbing up there. Part of the reason for the existing plan is to get rid of the plumbing in the exterior wall that freezes fairly regularly. We had a pipe burst years ago before I learned to leave taps running and that was a mess! Planning to move the plumbing so that it comes up through the linen closet and the pantry below it. This will at least help with the problem. The basement under the main section of the house is concrete floor and functional, but under the smaller 1790s section where the linen closet is is crawl space. I just ordered a thermometer to put under there to track for the next couple months and figure out if I need heat tape.
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cpartist
9 years ago
Ah, for some reason I thought it was downstairs. Still not ideal, but old houses have their own quirks. What about making the office narrower to put a hallway there?

If you could steal 40" from the office, you could create a hallway so everyone wouldn't have to walk through the office or the two bathrooms to get to the back bedrooms. So the office would still be a generous 17'6" x 17'.
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njannabelle
Original Author
9 years ago
My first response was, huh, that would work! Then went to look and there are attic stairs that would prevent moving the doorway and a fireplace that would be cut in half by the end of the hall.

On paper, it looks good:) Thanks for the creative thinking.

I'm not really eager to make major changes to configuration of the house since I'm not really bothered by the current situation as it's just the two of us and we plan to be in the house for another 15 years, so not really worrying about what others are going to want.

Really just posted the layout because I know as I put other questions out there it will come up and did want to make sure I wasn't missing an opportunity within the existing footprint.