What is located to the right of your master bdrm? Are your french doors already there in your bdrm?

@karenseb the living room is to the right of the master which has a brick fireplace along that wall. We thought about trying to do a wall of closets there, but we are planning to keep the fireplace so makes it hard. The french doors are not already there, but we wanted to get some extra light in the room and access to the backyard. Here is the existing floor plan. We are pretty set on moving the master to the back of the house as we want the privacy of being atleast a little bit away from the other bedrooms and being at the back of the house.

And here is the floor plan we had decided on, but I am having second thoughts about making the front bedroom so small and changing that window.

Thanks!

Thanks, Karen! It is so helpful to get more opinions on our space as it is such a permanent decision! Interesting idea to do the bathroom/closet the way you presented. I worry about the convenience of having to walk through the bathroom to get to the closet. I fear I might never put my clothes away. :) But the functionality of the closet space looks really nice and the added length in the vanity would be nice I am showing in my design that the toilet is 2'6". I realize the way I posted the images was not ideal and you can't really zoom in on them. I couldnt figure out how to upload my PDF.

I like Karenseb design. I would suggest to move the vanity on the east wall and move the toilet and shower on the other side. This way you can get a window above the toilet.

Good idea Suzanne.

123ag- Your design has a one thing I like. Separation of shower and other bathroom noise from the bedroom. I like it. I just think you would be better off with one single sink for a 60 inch vanity. I wonder if you keep the pocket door on the closet, move the bathroom door to the opening to the bedroom and then do a tall vanity cabinet at the bathroom entrance and a longer sink. Unfortunately, there is a large closet lost with that idea. Personally, I think I would still go with your idea.

Funny, my drafter was also trying to convince me of one sink, but I found a vanity I love that has two and I am tired of fighting my husband over the sink in the morning. I really appreciate your ideas - it is so hard to say, "OK, this is the best design and I am done", but it definitely helps to have someone else who thinks it works best too.

You could rearrange the layout you have decided on a little bit so the location of the closet's door does not dictate the width of the cabinet.

I would probably put no door in the closet just to make it feel a little bit more spacious. If you want to prevent humidity in your closet when you use the shower, you can have a (pocket) door between the shower and the closet. I would also put a pocket door accessing your bathroom. I turned the shower's door the other direction: you have more space to dry yourself and you can mount a towel bar on the wall beside the vanity.

I am not sure if I would do it but I would certainly consider a pedestal sink beside the toilet, if it gives a one sink vanity with more counter top on the other side. You could even maybe have room for a little cabinet.

I am supposing that the 2 rectangles on each side of the window in bedroom 2 are closets. If yes, what if you move that closet on the east wall? You might not need to change the window:

Are ok with reach-in closet? (You could have just an opening instead of a pocket door in front of the 4x2 closet):

Suzanne - It is hard to see, but there is another window on the east side of the bedroom.

As far as reach in-closets, I am ok with that - I just want to make sure we have enough storage and the design you posted definitely has a lot of storage! If the shower was 3 x 4 and the space between toilet and shower was 1 ft smaller, I might be able to keep the guest bedroom 10x12. This could work!

I see the window now on the east side of bedroom2. You might be able to move the kids' bathroom 2 ft towards the south's wall in order to place bedroom2's closet on its north wall.

I have not allocated 4" for the thickness of the walls in the floor plan, you will have to check if everything fit. For sure, I would use a 1'9" deep vanity instead of 2'. Try to keep at least 3' in front of the vanity.

Also, you might consider pre-built wardrobe cabinets with their own doors (such as the PAX system from IKEA). This way you can save 4" that you normally need to frame a regular closet. You could have the same system for bedroom2 to save another 4".

Reach in closets with returns waste a lot of space. Do a long run of floor to ceiling built-ins, some with three drawers in the bottom and butt doors above. Others can be configured for double hanging. It makes space between closet door and ceiling more useable and gets rid of much of the return that is hard to access. Ideally you can incorporate enough drawers so you don’t need a dresser.

I definitely like the idea of built ins to save space, i just played around with another idea, bit not sure if it will be nice to have that extra space at the entrance of the bedroom or awkward. The shower is also pretty small, but tying to keep the door to bathroom 3’ vs 2’.

I think that if you are ok to lose 3' of closet, a 6' wide entrance is nicer than 3'. However, your drawing looks like it is using the same width for the bathroom's door as the layout I drew (4' wide shower and 2' deep closet -- leaving 3' for the door).

I do not recommend a 2' deep shower. Personally, I think a 2.5' which is the same width as a tub should be the minimum especially if you have a glass door. You will hit your elbows.

Suzanne...Ah, I meant to make the shower 2.5', I will have to double check to make sure that is doable. In your drawing the pocket door before the entrance to the entrance the bathroom, could only be 2' if we keep the bedroom at 12' wide. Maybe that isn't a problem to have a 2' pocket door?

Yes, I drew a pocket door that could be, I believe, up to 30" wide but in my comment above I mostly wanted to tell you that you and I had the same width around that area .i.e. 4 ft wide shower and 2 ft deep closet which left in both cases 3 ft for the door. Probably a regular door is better than a pocket door and I think a 30" door should be enough.

Also, if you want, you could have a cabinet inside your bathroom. ... you can reduce the 4' closet to 3' long and reserve a foot facing your bathroom.

Unless you are very limited in your space, I would try to make the shower 3' deep. Even though a tub is 30" wide and you can shower in a tub, the fact that you have a glass instead of a shower curtains make the shower feels less spacious. I believe some stores like Home Depot have inserts that you can use to replace a tub. Those showers are 5' x 2.5" (just like a tub) and have a glass. You can go and get inside the sample on the floor and see how it feels.

BTW, I wonder where is your bedroom's door in relation to the hallway? It's hard to see all the measurements on your floor plan but it seems the location where you put your bedroom's door it would open half way in your bedroom and half way in the hallway (red line). The blue lines show where I estimate your hallway is?

EDIT: Maybe I am wrong ...

Hi Suzanne, the east wall is 16' 1" to the hallway. In this last drawing, the bedroom door would have landed just south of the hallway and the bedroom would be 12' wide. If we end up going with the floor plan that we had drawn up, I would probably switch one thing, keep the bedroom 12'8" and make the closets 8" smaller so we wouldn't have to remove the existing wall. In my mind that wouldn't really effect the usability of the walk in closet, as I would just do hanging on the north side and shallower drawers on the south side of the closet, but we would lose 8" on the reach-in.

Sounds good as long as you feel your shower is deep enough and the space in front of the vanity is good too.