Hall bath layout advice

weedyacres

6 years ago

Next on our whole-house renovation is our current hall bath:

Across from the toilet is a tiny shower.

Here's the floor plan:

Our plan:

Remove shower and dip into closet space to make room for a full tub/shower combo.
Replace vanity and give it 2 sinks and a linen closet.
Remove tile and install heated tile floors.

So I've got a preliminary vanity design. Nothing earth-shattering, but I'd like any input you've got. Ignore the dimensions; I wasn't placing everything exactly on the wall.

This is 33" sink bases and a 24" drawer base between them, and a 24" linen on the end. 24" wall cabinet in the middle.

Questions:

1. Keep or nix the wall cabinet? Sticking out 12" seems like it might be too big.

2. Linen: will this be big enough to put a hamper in the bottom of it?

3. Mirrors/lights: I'm thinking two singles, with lights over the top of each.

4. Counters: I'd like stone/stone-ish. Any suggestions? Color scheme of the room will be probably gray floor, deep blue/green mixed in somewhere (art? shower tile? towels?)

Any other unsolicited advice for unasked questions is welcome.

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suero

6 years ago

Omit the cabinet in the middle, Instead have 8" deep mirrored recessed cabinets over each sink. You can also have the tower cabinet on the end go up to the ceiling to hold extra supplies that are convenient to have in the bathroom but are accessed infrequently, like extra rolls of toilet paper. Yes, that cabinet will be ample to hold a laundry basket.

Where do you have in mind to hang towels? I have a similar setup for my vanities. Two 36" sink bases, with an 18" drawer base between the two, and a linen cabinet on the end. Where you have the 12" deep cabinet, I have a magnifying mirror flanked by towel rings for hand towels. Mirrored recessed medicine cabinets, with mirrors inside the doors, open to the left, for the left cabinet and open right for the right cabinet so that I can see the back of my head.

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weedyacres
Original Author
6 years ago
Anyone?
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weedyacres
Original Author
6 years ago
I'm thinking towel rack(s) on the left hand long wall, behind the sinks, so they're adjacent to the tub.

I've not heard of medicine cabinets with mirrors inside and out. I'll have to look into those.
Nancy in Mich
6 years ago
You need at least 30” and preferably 36” for the toilet. Measure from the center of the waste hole. You must have 15” to 18” in each direction from the center of the toilet, going right and left.
weedyacres thanked Nancy in Mich
Karenseb
6 years ago
I like a larger space for the toilet. I like the idea of a tall vanity, but it may block your light switch on the wall and if you put it next to the toilet, it blocks the light from the window.

Perhaps you could do a 15 inch bank of drawers, 33 inch sink cab, 18 inch hamper in middle, 33 inch sink base and another 15 inch bank of drawers and then filler.

Put the linens in the bedroom closets and add medicine cabs over sinks or a medicine cab on the side wall on the right.
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bpath
6 years ago
Weedy, I got fully-mirrored medicine cabinets in our old house, loved them.

One was above the sink, so it was good to still have a mirror when it was open. In fact, the back of that cabinet, behind the shelves, was also mirrored.

in the other bathroom, cabinet was on the side wall, but the mirror over the vanity was as narrow as the vanity, so even though the open cabinet blocked the wall mirror, we could use the interior cabinet mirror. The current house doesn’t have them but the bathroom mirrors are much larger so I don’t miss them as much.
weedyacres thanked bpath
weedyacres
Original Author
6 years ago
The toilet has plenty of room. The dimensions on the vanity layout are not correct.

Karenseb: We have exactly 21" from the wall to the edge of the light switch cover, so it looks like the linen will barely fit. Thanks for that warning!

We are empty nesters, so this is the guest bath. I'm still considering medicine cabinet/mirror options.