Stair Box in Bathroom help.

last year

So I'm purchasing a house, one thing that's really annoying me is the stair box in the bathroom. It's taking up a lot of space. Here is a slight picture of it and the layout of the house so you can see what it would look like. The last picture is what the vendor said it would look like under the boxing. I'm wondering what I could do there?
To open up the space more. I was thinking of seeing if I could knock it and put a bath against the slat on the stairs. Something like the last picture maybe and move the sink and toilet into a different position.

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cat_ky
last year
The stair box is there for a reason, even though it is in an odd spot, its best to leave it alone and camoflauge it with a cabinet built around it. It wont give you much storage, but, it will look a lot nicer.
Kendrah
last year
Gutting an entire bathroom and relocating all of the plumbing is a large and expensive job. What they have done with it is surely odd. But, I'd live with it for a while before ripping apart the whole bathroom.

I cannot tell where the stair slant actually is within this odd box they created. I'd rather see a closet there with the slanted part on the bottom half and the upper half of the closet used for shelves and linen space.
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Design Fan (NE z7a)
last year
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Are there two stair boxes in there?

I understand the first one (natural wood) must be adjacent to the doorway into the bathroom as your floor plan shows the stairs going down.

But I don't understand the second one (blue painted) next to the tub.

The first one can be turned into a linen closet as suggested by @Kendrah. Perhaps the second one can be turned into a table top to put a towel, soap, book, etc. while using the tub.

Relocating stairs can be expensive or structurally impossible. Do you need both sets of stairs or can one/both be inexpensively closed off?
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
last year
It may be possibe to make it smaller depending upon how the box is framed and constructed. You'd have to do a little selective demolition to find out.
3onthetree
last year
Rereading a few times, the first 2 pictures (MLS photo, plan) are the existing house. The last 2 pictures are internet examples of similar situations (stair in demo'd closet, tub over stair).

Here, there is no way to "enlarge" the bathroom by moving the fixture locations nor eliminating the stair ceiling.

What it looks like they did is DIY move a freestanding sink bowl out to align with the width of the stair, then drywall all of it together in plane to include the stair ceiling and sink bowl within that "box," leaving the strange shelf behind the sink and all of it drywall.

I would restore the bathroom to where a sink/vanity is placed against the exterior wall like shown in plan, and build a closet above the stair ceiling as the internet example had demo'd.