Is the chimney still in use and required, eg for a fireplace? If not, or if it's only used for furnace/water heater you might consider swapping those out for direct vent appliances so you could remove the chimney. That would open up your possibilities.

Please avoid removing the chimney if it's a prominent part of the architecture of the historic home.

What an awesome house--I love old Colonials, and yours looks to be very special.

My first impressions are that yes, you'd ruin the symmetry of the bedroom, and miss the southern light if you enlarged the bathroom in Option B. It's also difficult to understand the space from your photos and drawings.

What I would do is get a good bath designer there as soon as you can, preferably someone who is sympathetic to and appreciative of older homes. There is nothing to compare to actually being in the space and having professional experience when doing a renovation such as yours.

Good luck!

Maybe you could move the door to the bathroom to where the toilet is and close off the hall door?

What does the hallway look like? Any way to take space from the hall and move the entrance to the bedroom?

Good afternoon.

I carefully looked at all your photos and the plan.

If this is your personal bathroom, then the best solution would be to move the door.

Make her from the bedroom where the toilet is now.

Place the shower cabin at the highest point.

And the sink and toilet are on the wall with a window.

Make the door to the bathroom measuring 28' and as nearer as possible to the chimney wall.

So you can make shelves for towels in a niche near the sink 12'.

This should look like the picture, schematically

Well, or such an option.

Thanks to all!

We've had a pleasantly smooth decision making and construction process up until now.. My wife and I agreed on all major decisions including installing 3 zone central ac w/heat pump, keeping an old oil furnace/steam radiators for wintry days, insulating top to bottom and a full knob and tube remediation, electric service upgrade and all the associated fixture and receptacle decisions.

Our original plan was to install a shower head and curtain over the claw foot tub so we could move in quickly and do the bathroom reno on round 2. Unfortunately, the pipes are galvanized and sketchy so with walls open and needing new pipes, we decided to do the bathroom now.

Thanks to everyone for contributing your ideas.

@Joseph Corlett, LLC @rwiegand We considered removing the chimney as it needs work to be safely functional. In the long run, we intend to get the fireplace working so it's staying put. That said, from Knob and Tube holes, we are able to see we will get another 4"-6" of space in bathroom as there is significant cushion from wall to chimney.

@Diana Bier Interiors, LLC Pretty sure i failed 1st grade arts and crafts so thanks for bearing with my horrible rendering. Our biggest impediment is that b/c of the chimney, the first 4 ft of bathroom is only 53" wide.

@Laura Hill Good suggestion and yes, if we keep existing footprint of bathroom, we would move the bathroom door over about 4" and decrease door framing. If we go with option A and kick out shower in master bedroom, this will buy us an extra 6" of width to allow room for a vanity. Currently, there is only 15" from wall to door frame.

@roccouple @DOMARCH We are seriously considering this layout but the 77" exterior wall has a 45" window which renders it useless for sink or toilet. . From my 3rd grader floor plan, very hard to see.

Here's a picture of the 77" wall. Facing the window, to the left is the 40' wide x 24" deep toilet vestibule pictured above.

Assuming we move entrance to master bedroom and the 88" wall is where toilet, vanity and narrow part of shower lives, could use help with the math.

Here is what I know:

Toilet: From center to side window wall (direct line from existing toilet placement and plumber needs to align with existing waste pipe) is 18" + 15" to center of vanity.

Vanity/Sink: Here's where I get lost with trying to measure from centers of fixtures. What size vanity would fit and not make this feel like a first class airline bathroom - and give us some storage?

Shower (36"w 55"l): The shower would go where the current door from hallway is. This would give us a nice long 55" shower and assume it will be 36" wide. Is there a lip outside shower/glass that needs to be accounted for?

I see there being a fixed glass panel perpendicular to vanity (26") and perhaps a 30" door with handle on right (chimney wall) and fixtures/plumbing on this same wall.

Yes. I drew everything according to your size.

It turns out here is such a plan.

If you make the entrance to the bathroom from the bedroom, then you can place a toilet and a shower without problems.

I suggest placing the sink in the bedroom. To supply water and drain, you can hold pipes along the wall under the window.

You can make a glass partition to save light from the window or it is possible without a partition.

Thank you. My wife is leaning heavily towards fitting the shower, sink and toilet w.in existing bathroom on the 88" wall and moving door to master bedroom.

Ill post after pictures once we get this thing sorted. Thanks to all for your input!

Great idea. Starting demo on Tue. Hope extending into hallway is an option.Thank you.