Master Bedroom/Bathroom Dilemma

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

So my husband and I recently purchased our first home. The master bedroom is on the snug side, and it has a half bath off the bedroom. (full bath being down the hall)

Ive been tossing around the idea of adding an extension on to the home to increase the size of the bedroom, while adding a full master bath and a larger closet-preferably a walk in.

I mocked up some rough ideas that keep our interior walls and doors the same, and keeping the half bath where it is.

The best idea I have seemed to come up with is a floor plan that you walk through the master bath to get to the master bedroom. I think this would be the best, the toilet would remain in its "half bath" state-becoming a toilet closet. So it wont be out in the open.

Im hoping to bounce around some ideas here. Knowing that this may not be a desirable option for resale.

Image 1 is our current lay out.
-One window

-Half bath closet with sink

-long narrow master closet (can't even get to the other side of the closet when there are clothes hung up.

-cramped layout

Image 2 is the proposed layout.

-Take the sink out of the Half bath to add storage

-knock out existing master closet to extend the spare room sqft

-No door between bedroom door and entry to bathroom- just a case opening to give it some seperation

-Pocket door between bathroom and bedroom

-door/double doors off master extension onto porch

-more windows

-walk in shower a must

-tub optional

Any ideas or proposed layouts would be welcome. We cannot extend the house to the right of the image. We would have to move the hvac and would be encroaching on a drainage ditch. So the only way to extend it to the top of the page (into our backyard.)

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eld6161

6 years ago

I agree with Denita.

Walking through the bathroom to get to your bedroom is not a good plan.

You need a professional.

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Denita
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
The best way to approach this is to first have an accurate diagram of your entire floorplan with dimensions of everything. The last thing you want to do is to spend a great deal of $$$ adding onto your home with a dysfunctional layout that will reduce the value of your property. I've seen additions that turn a functional floorplan into something that is not at all functional and you don't want to go there.

None of us can give you any advice with the information provided other than seek out an architect. You could get better advice with the floorplan and its dimensions including doorways and windows and closet areas.
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weedyacres
6 years ago
Sketch a floor plan of the full house, with dimensions. We may be able to help with creative solutions.

But my first thought is why not put the bath/closet in the addition, instead of the bedroom?
Halea Martin thanked weedyacres
Halea Martin
Original Author
6 years ago
@weedyacres Thank you! Im simply looking for some creative brainstorming. I by no means plan to do any of this without a professional. Just looking to have some ideas outside of my own.

Im open to that- I think what I was attempting to do is keep the toilet where it is currently so that its one less thing to move. but if we are putting in new plumbing for sinks and showers, it wouldn't be a big deal to move it into the addition.
Halea Martin
Original Author
6 years ago
Ill do a more detailed sketch with measurements. Just did a quick one to get the ideas across.
suzanne_m
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
I agree with weedyacres. You can get so much more functional spaces if you move bathroom and closet in the addition. Can you add the rooms surrounding the current bedroom and the dimensions of the addition?
suzanne_m
6 years ago
How big will the addition be?
Lindsey_CA
6 years ago
"But my first thought is why not put the bath/closet in the addition, instead of the bedroom?"

But wouldn't that give the bath/closet the coveted exterior corner walls, which are great for windows, leaving the bedroom on the interior with only one exterior wall for a window?
suzanne_m
6 years ago
I agree with Lindsey_CA but then, it is a choice you will have to make. I think I would choose the entrance in the bedroom and keep the extension for closet and bathroom. Both solutions are not ideal. You just need to weight the pros and cons. In the meantime, here is an option. It is hard to know if it can work without have any idea of the size of the addition:
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
6 years ago
I for one would need a detailed to scale floor plan but access through a bathroom never. we need to size of addirion how it will look on the house and really what you need is at least an interior designer and probably an architect too.