Bathrooms Storage & Closet Design Dilemma

bathroom/closet layout-help!

7 years ago

We are building and the current master/bathroom layout is attached. The closets seem really inefficient to me. Thoughts on how to make the bathroom/closets more efficient? The bathroom is smallish but do-able...but if I could get it to be a better space (natural light anyone) that would be awesome. Maybe this is as good as it gets?

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Karenseb

7 years ago

I like Deco"s ideas. It is hard to tell from your layout if outside and inside walls have been accounted for. For example how wide and how long are the interior dimensions of your walk in closets? What are the actual interior dimensions of your bedroom? The bathroom appears to be 5 feet wide and 12 1/2 feet long interior space?

If you want your bed on that wall in order to have a view from the bed out those windows, perhaps one of these ideas could work.

If you put the toilet on the upper wall with a window behind it and not have it separated from the bathroom, you will get more light and a roomier feeling bathroom. Then you could have a walk in closet that has more accessible hanging space and a larger area to stand in.

Walk in closets like you have in your planned layout should be a minimum of 5 X 5 feet interior. Yours look much smaller. Make you bathroom hallway narrower (42") and make the closets larger. Even then your corners are not as accessible in the closet.

If you keep your plan with the pocket doors, they are not as user friendly as standard doors.

Here is another idea that gives you more hanging space, but you would still have to use a pocket door in the bathroom. The walk in closet on the bottom should be 7 feet long interior and 5 feet wide. You could have a reach in closet on the upper wall. You should aim for a 3X3 ft space to stand in a walk in closet.

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decoenthusiaste
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Can you move the windows to the east wall and put the bed opposite the entry door? Proven better more restful and secure sleep that way. Then you could flank the entry door with closets and get a little more room in that small looking bath. If the closet in that bottom bedroom could move to another location you could open the sitting area a bit and have the master bedroom door more centered in the room so the closets would be balanced on each side of it and the bed would center on the wall.
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Kim
Original Author
7 years ago
The house only has 8’ setbacks on the side (houses are close together-beach community) so no “view” other than out the back. I will Have to think about that Idea.
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decoenthusiaste
7 years ago
Well, consider two windows on the north wall that would flank the bed, with the two closets as I suggested which would be on the south wall flanking the entry.

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Kim
Original Author
7 years ago
Per the notes on my plan, i believe inside walls are measured to the center of the wall. Outside walls are measured from the full outside point. (So in my 24’ total house width there is included 6” of framing on each side of the house for internal maximum width of 23’.) all the ideas are appreciated. I find myself gravitating to the drawing that has just one large closet. That seems to me to be more efficient than having two separate closets. I should also mention this is a vacation house that will be rented when we are not here. I don’t really need closet space for myself/renters, but need a decent amount for resale someday.
Kim
Original Author
7 years ago
If it helps, here is the whole upstairs. I could steal the sitting area but we are trying to have pretty equal personal space for everyone and I was planning for that to be shared space upstairs...
Elizabeth B
7 years ago
The hallway between closets is a waste of space. I like Karen's 1st option best...
Kim
Original Author
7 years ago
I am thinking decos idea of moving the bed might make the most sense. (And allow me a few extra inches of bathroom space if I want it.
decoenthusiaste
7 years ago
Adjust your plan and see what you think. It is a better option than you have now.
Kim
Original Author
7 years ago
for sure....
Annette Holbrook(z7a)
7 years ago
I like Karen’s first plan. Assuming you have a great view out the back and you’d like to maintain the wall of windows. If you leave the bed where you originally showed it you could add some clerestory windows for additional light on that wall.
Kim
Original Author
7 years ago
I didn’t know they were called clerestory windows, but they are a great idea!
decoenthusiaste
7 years ago
Clerestory windows won't help you see the view, but they can be practical if you want light coming in the east wall but no view of your neighbors.