Moisture transmitting from the bathroom to the bedroom. Sound transmitting from the bathroom to the bedroom. Light transmitting from the bathroom to the bedroom. Odor transmitting from the bathroom to the bedroom. Heat not being able to be contained within the bathroom space.

TERRIBLE idea! Everything said above and no privacy.

@Mark Bischak and @ Diana Bier Interiors, LLC - thank you both for your thoughts. I guess my concern is that the door is just to small so maybe we’ll just go with a wider door.

You could use a French door with frosted glass for a less opaque look.

Awful idea! Put in a door! One can just take so much "open concept".

It's really a very bad idea. What motivates you to consider it? Are you a single homeowner?

And it will likely be a deal breaker if you try to sell the house.

If you think that door will be left open most of the time, then you could do a wider pocket door. Just make sure you plan ahead to be able to add towel bars to the walls.

HIS closet is larger than HERS.... hope that's intentional.

HER closet is better laid out than HIS.... the room assignment was probably intentional.

I'm with the others: No, don't do it. Even with the toilet in a closet, noise will transfer between the two rooms. I have a traditional bathroom and -- even with a door -- I hate a few things about its proximity to my bed:

- If the door is open even a bit, light spills onto my side of the bed. Hate that.

- If my husband gets up in the night to get an aspirin or whatever from the bathroom, I often hear him. Hate that.

- If he has to get up early and I don't, I often hear him in there getting ready. Hate that.

And that's all WITH a door. How much worse would it be without a door?

If you're really, really in love with this idea, at least build an opening the size of a door (or double doors) so that later -- if /when you want a door -- it's easy to add a door.

Of course no door was common in the 80's - at least in our area.

We have a house like that where we lived for 10 months. We actually didn't notice it when we bought it. It wasn't a really big deal - we figured we would build a door but never did.

But as an aside - the bathroom is small and there is wasted space right outside the door and tons in some weird shaped office right next door.

As far as I see, you've mandated towels overlapping when hanging up which isn't ideal.

We moved to a house this spring with a large master suite + large master bath. There was no door between the two - there was a framed opening but no door.

We wasted no time in ordering a door and having it hung for all the reasons listed above. I mean really - who wants a bathroom with no door??!!

An open layout reminds me of a motel. I wouldn't do it.

Our previous place had an open plan like that (with toilet in the closet of course)

We kinda loved it, DH and I

we did.

To a degree that when we gut remodeled and added-we repeated the idea

It helped the master too, which was largely my consideration-I'd have a room that's too long too dark and too "flat" otherwise.

I did want more light. So having open plan helped with that.

Moisture and heat-not a problem where we live(coastal So Cal)

Odors..not a problem.

Sounds. They do travel. They'd travel with additional door too.

We sold our previous place-the open plan was never mentioned as a problem. Folks were much more interested whether the pool gets noisy. And in other stuff. all the community had same open plan-and it's a very sought after community. "cause others are worse. Lol. Believe me I checked when we were house hunting.

We have no plan at all to sell this place-but if comes to that, I foresee no problem. I felt in love with this house when it was much less functional. Somebody else will too-and they can install the door if they wish. We overhauled the whole house. Well it was kinda a fixer upper. But with a very nice landscaping, and where we wanted it to be. Installing a door is easier I believe.

In short. Each family and their priorities. Obviously all the cons above are valid. But they can be less cons where you live or personally for you. One can have all sorts of considerations.

The idea to build in a way that allows for a door later is especially nice.

I don't know whether I'd go open in your space-because In our case I knew I had such and such limitations to get light and dimension in the master. Maybe you don't have them.. Maybe your ceilings are higher. Maybe you live differently and other things bother you.

I dislike fully open concept in the living spaces at this stage of my life, much more than in master suite. That'd be more of a dealbreaker. I know many people love it-well I don't.

(Given of course I have a luxury to choose at all. )

Our last home was built in 1984 and had an open master, maybe it was a 80s thing. Even the toilet was open, just behind a wall in the corner and out of sight. None of the concerns raised above were an issue. I tend to not close bathroom doors unless we have company and it was never an issue. I live in a dry climate so the moisture is a plus. Don't be discouraged by people who don't like it. That is really just personal taste. My husband and I do not (or I rarely) use a hair blow dryer, that is the only thing that I can imagine making a too loud noise. Water running is super easy to tune out when sleeping. And sometimes a door closing is worse. Our current master bath has a frosted glass french door and we almost never close it. Our current bathroom has what some here refer to as a "gas chamber" and like to criticize. But I like it. Our toilet room has a window and it's own sink and it is very comfortable. It is also at the entrance to the bathroom and very convenient since it is as close to the bed/door as possible in an otherwise large and bright bathroom.