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Toilet Placement in small bathroom

4 years ago

Heeelp! I'm losing sleep over this...basically our toilet is currently located across the entrance. As soon as you open the door there it is...It was placed there because of function. The wasteline is in the shaft under the window. I'm personally not a fan :( Any creative suggestions or do I have to give in and accept it as that's the best and only option? The doors will be sliding (to save on space). I've included a pic of the current layout plan (bathroom not yet built). Would really appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.

Comments (11)

  • 4 years ago

    It's a small bathroom, so I don't know where you can hide the toilet. The only alteration that might help your concern is to slide the vanity all the way down to the wall where the door is, rotate the toilet 90 degrees, and put it in the upper left corner. However, you may have to shorten the vanity a bit in order to provide the side-to-slide clearance your code requires. In the U.S., that means 15" (380 mm) of unobstructed space on either side of the centerline of the toilet. My view is that it's a bathroom, and bathrooms have toilets. It's not like you're going to invite people in there for dinner... ;-)

  • 4 years ago

    I agree with the suggestion above. Here is pic of my bathroom if it helps you visualize

  • 4 years ago

    I would slide the vanity as suggested above, but swap the toilet and tub so the tub is under the window. And go back to a swing door to keep the toilet a bit hidden behind the door. Sliding doors in bathrooms are rarely as private as a swing door.

  • 4 years ago

    If the house isn’t built, can you put the toilet where the vanity is and the vanity on the wall where the toilet is?

  • 4 years ago

    Thank you for all your suggestions! Would there be enough clearance if I move the toilet instead of the vanity? My architect advised that the further that toilet is from the wastepipe the more chances we could have issues :( I can't make up my mind!

  • 4 years ago

    Can you move the door?

  • 4 years ago

    Bpath not really. As in it has to go on that wall as to the left there is the stairs and the right is the wall to the bedroom.

  • 4 years ago

    LH CO/FL-

    My house has 4 bathrooms and they all have well-fitted pocket doors. Privacy is not an issue. All doors -- swinging or pocket -- have clearance under them anyway, and if you are concerned about the point where the pocket door touches the jamb, that's easily addressed with a small piece of vertical trim on the jamb to form a tiny "pocket" when the door is closed. Using solid core doors is probably the most useful thing you can do for noise control regardless of whether it's a swing door or a pocket door. And using well-built pocket door hardware, like Johnson brand, means you won't have to worry about a pocket door becoming problematic.

  • 4 years ago

    @kudzu9 Good to know. Last week I was staying in a hotel with a pocket door to the bathroom and it was horribly noisy and didn't close all the way to the jamb. Glad they're not all bad!

  • 4 years ago

    LH CO/FL- Pocket doors get a bad rap for precisely that reason you cite...cheap hardware, and a pain to fix when they start to get when that happens. My current house is 20 years old and the pocket doors still glide quietly and securely. My previous house was over 50 years old when I sold it, and the pocket door that closed off the kitchen and was in daily use was still going strong.