A closet that is 8x16 is considered large. Standard walk in closets are usually 7' wide.

What is the total s. footage of your house? Can you post the floor plan?

How much clothes do you want to store in the closet? What is the layout of the bathroom? Is it really 1,016 square feet? Who is designing the house?

did you include a sketch or- dont see anything here

right now it’s an 1016 bath and 8x16 closet.

Since I cannot even fathom a single bathroom half the size of my house, lol, I'm gonna guess 10x16 bath. :-D

An 8' wide closet gives you 2' of hanging space on each side with a generous 4' walkway. Sounds nice, not at all cramped!

My builder's subs put the rods along the wrong walls in my master closet (one side was supposed to be shelves, one side rods; they put rods parallel to each other), and it's definitely cramped. I just measured -- it's 57" from wall to wall. Dang. Good thing I'm Tinkerbell sized. :-(

Can you provide a sketch?

I am a big fan of dressing closets. All clothes are there and there is room to get dressed. For this, an island is ideal and that usually means about 12x12.

Our last house had a massive master suite. Bedroom was too big at 18 ft long - TV was far away and we never did anything there except bed activities (and no dressers). The closet was 16x12 or so with a 14x16 bath - all estimates. A realtor came over (sales agent for neighborhood - it was mixed spec and custom hood). He made the comment, "you can never have too big of a master closet but you can have too big of a bathroom". I think that statement has some merit.

With a large bath, it is harder to warm up. We had a aux heater for shower time and it had to run forever to get it warm. It was your standard heater/vent - 1400 watt. With a smaller bath, the shower alone warms the room. We had more storage than you need so I collected crap that didn't belong in a bathroom. I think we each had 7 feet of vanity with a corner cab in the middle. All that countertop - costs money, let alone the cabs. Let alone the heated tile floor. We did have a walled shower with glass only up high - some privacy but some light, no door - and that was the shining star.

New build - bath is 12x12.5. A little bigger than we wanted for sure. Closet is nearly identically sized. So it looks like we "downsized" to about 150 sqft for each. Same shower requirement as you (sounds like) and it was our second time with large suites. We have 4 foot vanities (each) with some air around them this time. A display free standing tub. 4x6 shower.

Layout of the bathroom will be just as important as the size, if not more so. As others have said, post the floorplan of the bathroom, closet, and surrounding space. Then the gurus here can help you figure out a configuration that helps you get what you want so you love both spaces!

i just came out of my 5'x8' shower. do that. clothes are over rated.

and do open. your husband doesnt care about the size of your tush nearly as much as you think he does. (and if he does, good riddance, who needs that in this day and age.)

I thought I posted my drawing last night but I didn’t. Here is that end of house. My hubby is gone with the big plan.

Can y'all move your Laundry/Closet door so that it lines up with your Closet/Bath door? I think you'll gain more closet space this way, and make your Bed --> Bath --> Closet --> Laundry --> Mud --> Exit path *much* better.

call me crazy maybe but i'd rather walk through the closet to get to the bath, then walk through the bath to get to the closet.

I'd rather not walk through either to get to either.

Both sizes mentioned in the original post seem plenty big to me. I've had bedrooms far less than 10x16 feet... The smallest bedroom in my last house was 9 x 14, and that's smaller than the walk in, and even if I doubled the amount of clothing I owned (before I un-pack-ratted to move) to reflect two people sharing the space... that walk in would be more than ample.

It would depend on the overall size of the house you plan to build, actually. And what you want all the space to be used for. I built my current master bath to be 7 x (I think) 12 feet... and that was to make it wheelchair accessible should I ever need that. Right now, since I don't need one, it is actually a foot or so too long.

i'd prefer not to walk through either, either. but if it had to be one way or another, having the bathroom further on, with the plumbing all grouped with the laundry, might work better.

And the toilet will be even further from the bed in the middle of the night.

Open shower = glass to clean.

bigger bath, you'll spend more time in the bath over your lifetime then you will in a closet.

A well designed 10x16 bathroom is great and a 127sf closet is also good too; ours are similar however we have two, his and hers closet 125sf each on opposite sides of master suite corridor.

I’d put the closet on the left side, with access to the laundry, but I’d give the laundry a few more feet. Bath on the right and give the mudroom a few more feet. Where is the entry to the mudroom, though? Funnel traffic through the mudroom on the way to the rest of the house; otherwise, it won’t get used.

Do you require a toilet closet?

Maybe instead of a pair of blocks... run those two rooms long instead? The bathroom on the left/south side, the closet on the right/kitchen side. Either make both rooms 8x18, or perhaps the closet a smidge smaller depending on how much space you need. Bathroom 9x18, closet 7x18?

Maybe instead of a pair of blocks... run those two rooms long instead? The bathroom on the left/south side, the closet on the right/kitchen side.

Love this idea. :-)

My MBR, MB, and closet are very similar to yours, but slightly small. MBR 14'8" x 15, bath 12'6" x 15 (less a 4'4" x4'4" cut out in one corner). I much prefer the closet off the bath and easy access from the closet to the laundry. Ours is a walk though closet approx 15' x 7' 6". Doors opposite each other giving DH a space of a bit more than 5' x 7'6" and I have about 7' x 7' 6" on my end, so basically two decent sized, but not overly large walk in closets sharing a 3' walk through between the bath and my office (but steps from laundry). During the day, I most frequently access the closet and master bath from my office. Very convenient. Our closet is plenty large for dressing. DH has a bench on his end and I have a chair in my end. We both have one wall with dressers and cubes. However, it could be a bit cramped if we didn't have a large out of season closet upstairs for ski jackets, winter coats etc.

We also considered running them along side, but it seemed cramped in the design maybe with a bit more space it would have worked though.

Bigger bath. You could use one bedroom as your walk-in closet.

I think the dimensions you have for your bath and closet are good. I disagree with a previous post, I think it makes more sense to walk through your bathroom to get to your bedroom, especially as it is a master bath. If you get a good organization or built-in system for your closet, there shouldn't be much reason for it to be too cramped. If the organization system is 2 ft deep on either side of the closet and maybe 3 ft deep on the back wall, it still leaves you with walking space of 4ft by 7ft. More of less depending on if you are messy or tidy! :)

On your bathroom, I would put the shower on the wall farthest from the kitchen; that way you can have the deep shower without glass (if thats what you decide on :) and then I would put the sink/vanity and toilet on the other side of the bathroom. since it is a master, I think a double vanity would be appropriate however the space may not allow for them to be side by side on one wall. You could consider a vanity that goes in a corner, and has one sink on each wall. That way, you would actually gain depth for decoration on the corner of the counter and you would each have your own space. I don't know if that makes any sense...

My master bath is approx. 9x12 and every time I stop to look at it I just see all the wasted space that could have gone toward a closet or additional space in the bedroom.

It's 4 fixtures, including a whirlpool tub that's been used possibly 10 times in 17 years (except to water plants in the winter). There is 5 feet of empty space between the vanity front and the tub. I'd enjoy the master suite more if it were smaller.

Having said that, the bath and bedroom are the full 3rd floor of the house (to the home's original depth, the first 2 floors are deeper). So I'm not cramped for space--except closet space. I'd love more closet space.

But mostly I'd just like less bathroom.

I find it odd to have to walk through a closet and bathroom to get to your bedroom. I also don't like the master right off kitchen. My old bedroom was right off the main foyer/kitchen/living room and I HATED it. You have to keep your door closed at all times or else everyone sees your private mess. My bedroom now has it's own hallway and it is much much more private/personal. Feels like a retreat.

I would be temped to rework the plan to factor in a hallway or an alcove for the main door to the bedroom at least.

I don't think anyone is saying that they have to walk through the closet and bath to get to their bedroom. I can do that, and it is convenient at times, but I have a primary entrance off of a small alcove off the great room. Actually if you consider living patterns sometimes an entry near the kitchen works nicely. The first thing I do in the morning is make a cup of coffee and the last thing in the evening is get a glass of water to take to bed. Other than to make the bed, which I usually do as I get dressed for the day, I rarely go into the bedroom during the day, spending more time in the office andvrest of the house.

what beesneeds said. I think you can maximize your space that way. Mockups below are rough estimates and you may change the sizes as you start placing fixtures and doors. Left/purple lines: two spaces next to each other. Middle/blue: if you don't want 2 doors from the bedroom and do want the closet and bath more connected, make a little vestibule for both doors. Right/green: if you don't want a blank wall in the vestibule you could have a nice built in linen cabinet for sheets, towels, etc. etc. In all mockups the laundry and mudroom are combined to one larger space (might not be your cup of tea), and there is access from the closet to the mudroom. Even though you'd have to walk through the mudroom to the laundry I'd keep the spaces like that so that you get windows in the bathroom and can have your dryer on an outside wall for venting. Also, the closet will be a buffer between bathroom noises and the kitchen.

Hehe, got a tidbit from someone looking over my shoulder while I was in this thread. She's a bit of a clothes horse..

She suggested a full closet gallery. Cut the bedroom down to 12x16 (you only sleep there anyway if all your closet is elsewhere), leaving the south wall open for a 4x16 shoes and shiney/jewlery section. Run the bathroom and closet long like I originally suggested with the even 8x18 division, closet also on the south end. Run the south end with lots of windows (frosted of course) for natural light with benches/storage under the windows for folded clothes, breaks/divisions between windows tall boys of storage for smalls like socks, ties, scarves, unmentionables, ect. The full run of the 18 feet along the bathroom wall being for hanging storage. With breaks for a couple dress dummies. All with bottom to top shades on the windows, with additional lighting worked in too.

She wasn't sure how to work the bathroom.. I had to remind her it needed at least access from the bedroom to count as a master bath, lol.

But I thought it an interesting off the wall addition to suggest here. I thought my own suggestion of two longs instead of two blocks a shake up. I do like the two blocks as is as well.

Sorry I haven't read all of the replies, but I'd want to lay out the fixtures in the bathroom before I decided on optimal sizes. For me it would be about the functionality of the bath (rather than floor size) and then I'd maximize the closet space after that. Thoughtful closet organization setups can make a slightly smaller closet function wonderfully but a bathroom with a too small shower or unuseable sink area can't really be fixed so easily.