Our Outdated Bathroom [ Plans for the new Bathroom Layout!]

Bathrooms are important. House sales tin depend on them. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mother’s stress degree tin depend on whether or non she has a dainty bath to escape to! lol. Our electrical flow bath is non proverb any of the correct things to me. When nosotros moved in, this was the origin room I wanted to renovate, but budgets together with timelines didn’t allow for it until now. NOW! Can yous believe that?? The twenty-four hours is almost hither to finally brand this bath layout piece of job for us! But deciding how to brand this infinite functional was a huge challenge….

Here’s a visual of the electrical flow bath layout. This bath has ever felt similar it has a ton of wasted space. I didn’t know how to brand our rectangular bath to a greater extent than functional, but I knew at that spot had to live on a meliorate design.

Here’s a quick tour of the existing bath layout:

A large vanity across the dorsum wall (and if I’m totally honest, I’m actually going to immature lady the huge amount of counter space!).

An outdated seashell toilet… with tons of infinite around it.

And an enclosed tub/shower combo along the wall. Complete amongst vintage faucets!

Then the wall behind the door is a totally blank wall of untapped potential.

So where practise nosotros become from here? My married adult man together with I started yesteryear listing each of our “must haves” when it comes to the bath layout.

Me: 

• A freestanding tub – I only love the hold off of a freestanding tub. I haven’t had a bath since nosotros moved to Green Acres together with I immature lady our quondam tub together with thus much! Plus nosotros definitely needed a bathtub of some form inwards the infinite because this tub is solely 1 inwards the household together with nosotros direct keep 3 children!

Him:

• A shower – Russel ever sentiment this was of import because this bath is our primary invitee bathroom. We debated putting a shower over a freestanding tub, but inwards the end, Russel’s practical side believed it would live on likewise difficult to proceed clean, together with thus nosotros gave upwards that idea. Separate bath together with shower it is!

Both of us: 

• Storage! Even though our novel dwelling household is bigger than our quondam one, it has waaaay less storage. Finding infinite for linens together with towels has been a scrap since twenty-four hours one.

And later on squeezing all of that in, nosotros also needed to add together a vanity together with toilet! We picked out a shower, bathtub, together with lavatory that nosotros wanted together with started to play around amongst the layout of the space. We knew that the vanity together with storage units could live on changed depending on our in conclusion bath layout together with thus nosotros weren’t strict nigh their sizes.

The dotted line across the oculus represents where the electrical flow ceiling summit changes. Which is of import because I desire to proceed the summit where I can, but nosotros didn’t desire a slice (such every bit our shower unit) to live on one-half nether the depression ceiling together with one-half nether the high side.

It took us nigh half-dozen weeks together with a LOT of humming together with hawing to come upwards up amongst a layout that nosotros were both happy with.

We essentially worked from layout 1 to layout 9, coming upwards amongst a argue to ixnay each unlike bath layout along the means . Such as:

• Did nosotros desire to bargain amongst moving a window? In the future, when nosotros create an addition, nosotros may lose that window… did nosotros desire to bargain amongst that now? We decided to concord off. 


• How crowded was likewise crowded? Layout 1 makes me claustrophobic. I hated the sentiment of sitting on a stool to bathe my kids, together with having a lavatory spot beside my face, or non having plenty infinite for a stool for them to climb inwards together with out of the tub. We also needed infinite to larn inwards the shower, together with infinite for people to practise their line concern inwards private…. preferably non correct side yesteryear side to the door!


• What form of vanity did nosotros need? Did it require to live on big? Did it require to direct keep 2 sinks? Did nosotros require storage inwards there? We decided pocket-size amongst 1 sink was fine, since no 1 brushes their teeth or does their pilus inwards this infinite (except guests). 


• How much storage did nosotros need? What did nosotros desire to utilization for storage? We dearest the Pax wardrobes (and all IKEA storage inwards general), together with it’s ever affordable, together with thus nosotros were drawn to that immediately. We decided to maximize storage soundless possible (i.e. flooring to ceiling!).


• Could nosotros expand the bath at all? One side has kitchen cupboards, the forepart has a hallway, together with the correct side has a utility room. If nosotros could expand anywhere, it would live on the utility room, but nosotros could solely movement a few inches (max!) or nosotros would direct keep issues amongst neighbouring doors. We decided to direct keep those few inches together with endeavor to maximize storage! It was the solely means to larn all of the bath fixtures nosotros wanted!


• Was it gonna hold off pretty? Always my biggest concern.

We had rested on layout number 9, but inwards looking at code (i.e. spacing for fixtures), nosotros can’t actually practise that layout… together with thus we’re revisiting the other ones, together with also looking into whether or non nosotros tin expand the bath a chip to a greater extent than (hopefully along the entire wall?). Which layout practise yous like?

WHAT ARE WE MISSING??? 

This layout isn’t laid inwards rock yet! Tell us your thoughts – are nosotros missing anything? What practise yous intend of the designs??

Once 1 time again nosotros volition live on sharing a TON of our real-time renovations on Instagram – come follow along! It volition live on some other calendar month earlier the renovation posts start hitting the blog!