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Need help with designing bathrooms

10 hours ago

Hi all, the footprint for these two bathrooms is set. However, the layout can be configured however we want, including shrinking or enlarging the "office bath". For the office bath we will NOT be putting a tub, just a shower. The office bath does work best in the lower left of the plan so we would like to leave that as the location for that bath. There are mountain views to the North which is the top of the plan. We want to make sure the tub in the master utilizes that view. We would like the shower to be a steam shower with a bench and a minimum of 4' wide and 6' long. Thanks in advance!


Comments (12)

  • PRO
    10 hours ago

    Explain the "office" bath? It is attached to a flex space? bedroom you are using as an office? Vanity design is all wrong, sinks too close together. Potty closet needs a POCKET door. How will you clean around the tub shoved near two walls, it is too big. You're leaving th primary bath to a hallway....which has the bedoom at which end? Show this area in context of the whole living floor, bedrooms attached. Neither space lives in isolation from the rest.

    The 6 x 6 is already a shower, so not clear as to what you are looking for, beyond "steam".

  • 9 hours ago

    LIke asked, what is the purpose of the office bath. Not a fan of pedestal sinks due to lack of storage. If the shower in the master was made to a 5 x 6 rectangle, that would make the office bath 8 ft long, allowing a vanity with breathing room for a toilet and shower.

    Everybody loves suggesting pocket doors but they are not all that. People don't always remember that they kill that entire wall they slide into. No outlets, towel bars, etc can be hung on that wall now. That can really bugger up things. Ask me how I know. Signed, RN who has debated tearing out a wall with a pocket door.

  • 9 hours ago

    Why a completely enclosed toilet with a door in the master bath? It's not a public restroom. And it looks ridiculously cramped with the door.

  • 9 hours ago

    In this bathroom, nothing will be on the pocket door wall except a picture, maybe. Btw Btw, we had a house with a pocket door to a bathroom. Two double towel bars hung on the same wall, planned for, and in five years of little kids using them, no issue with the door.

    Will the office shower go all the way to the wall?

    I agree with using a vanity instead of a pedestal sink. There is always a need for closed storage of tp, toilet cleaner, extra soap.

    What will the master bath vanity look like? Lots of drawers of varying depths?

  • PRO
    9 hours ago

    Toilet rooms inside a bathroom make no sense and waste space . Steam showers are in many cases a use it for a month then the novelty wears off like Zacuzzi tubs . Steam showers require a great contractor with tones of experince IMO if you must get self contained one and put it in the basement where when it no longer is needed can be ignored or removed .Office bathroom is interesting who else will use this , why even have a shower? How oftn do you use the tub while the view is available ? Staem showers work best when small since it takes a long time to get up to steam.. For any thing else weneed to see a complete floor plan of this area. Make sure you have min. 12" on window wall of that tub even then you will be standing almost on your had to clean that wall

  • 9 hours ago

    Can you swap the shower and the other bathroom and move the door closer to the tub? That would give you a place to hang towels closer to the shower and prevent someone from walking straight into the side of the vanity.

  • 8 hours ago

    Good idea, lmckuin. And the steam shower feels a little more private rather than right at the door.

    Should the steam shower door swing out, for safety?

  • PRO
    4 hours ago
    last modified: 4 hours ago

    Where does the light switch go?


  • 2 hours ago

    Oh, i didn’t see THAT pocket door.

  • 1 hour ago

    Imagine trying to use the toilet room in the primary bath. You would have no room to swing the door open or closed unless you’re standing on the toilet.

  • PRO
    1 hour ago

    "unless you’re standing on the toilet."

    It is a mulit-purpose room that purges the bowels and blader, and develops balance and poise.

  • PRO
    1 hour ago

    "the footprint for these two bathrooms is set."

    Why?