If you are set on keeping a separate tub and small separate shower the second is much more accessible. In your first plan you would have less than two feet to squeeze through to fill tub and to get in and out of with out touching the toilet. To be honest I might consider losing the tub if there is another one in the house and go with a nicely sized walk in shower. Even a deep four ft tub is very small for adults. Japanese tubs work well for very petite people but I as a 5'7" woman am never comfortable in them and they are a bear as I age to climb in and out of especially with much less than 3 ft. If it is your only tub in the house I understand wanting to keep one.

Sure, this is actually the upstairs of the house that we are looking at. Yes, it would be a disaster to have that layout downstairs! Downstairs we have a small half bath. The other obvious location for a bath would be the library, but we only use that bedroom in the summer as it's ridicuously cold and there is no obvious way to run plumbing up there. Part of the reason for the existing plan is to get rid of the plumbing in the exterior wall that freezes fairly regularly. We had a pipe burst years ago before I learned to leave taps running and that was a mess! Planning to move the plumbing so that it comes up through the linen closet and the pantry below it. This will at least help with the problem. The basement under the main section of the house is concrete floor and functional, but under the smaller 1790s section where the linen closet is is crawl space. I just ordered a thermometer to put under there to track for the next couple months and figure out if I need heat tape.

Here's my suggestion ... For the boys' bathroom -- yes, this is a small space: - Since they're large boys, give them a nice big shower ... it'll fit nicely into that space to the left. Towels will have to hang on the back of the door. - The vanity isn't exactly spacious, but it will allow them to have some drawer storage ... which is good because they don't have any other storage in the bathroom. I'd put a train rack over the toilet for their towels. - The toilet is now over in a corner but not hidden away behind a door. Toilets-in-closets make the bathroom smaller /less comfortable, and it's harder to clean around doors. - The door swing opens so that a boy can enter the room /step over in front of the toilet to close the door. The door-over-door issue /the enter, then step-around to reach the toilet problem disappears. For the master -- yes, this is really too wide /you don't want a bunch of empty space in the middle, making the bathroom feel bloated and cold ... I'd reduce the space a bit and let that space open towards the bedroom. It could be a recessed spot for a dresser (or custom built-in drawers, or a built-in TV spot), or it could be a linen closet. While a linen closet in the master isn't ideal, it's better than NO linen closet at all. Other master thoughts: - I repositioned the tub so it's under the window ... it makes for a nice sight line upon entering the room. - The shower works well "up against" the boys' shower. Again, it's a nice big space, and it tucks in so nicely to this spot. It's out of the immediate sight line, and -- if you're going with glass -- it'll be a one-piece wall /no difficult corner joinings. - I'd lose the toilet closet and place the toilet nicely out of sight behind a pony wall. - This leaves you with a vanity that's actually a little bigger than the one you were showing. With no storage in this bathroom either, I'd lean towards a linen tower for storage ... this could be done in several different ways. - Circulation works well in this layout ... note that you walk into the middle of the room, so everything's only a step away. In contrast, your original plan requires that you walk the length of the bedroom, then turn and walk the length of the bathroom to reach the toilet. - Last thought: The bathroom door can now "park" in the little entry hallway ... nothing opens "over" anything else. - Alternate thought: You could shorten the vanity /have a linen closet (or just shelves) opening towards the little bathroom hallway. - Actual last thought: You have great windows in this bathroom. Are you and your spouse on different wake/sleep cycles because if so, the fact the clothes closets are on one of your sleep sides will be an issue. Agree ... even if your wake /sleep cycles are the same now, are you sure they'll stay the same? Our walk-in closets are similar to yours, and they're right by my husband's side of the bed. I always lay my clothes out the night before because I hate tip-toeing over by his side to reach my clothes. Barn doors do not offer the visual or audial or odorous privacy required in a bathroom, and they kill wall space. I stayed in a hotel with a barn door on the bathroom once. It was enough to convince me that they're impractical. I might accept one on a pantry or laundry room ... where the door would stay open most of the time ... but a bathroom? Never.

I like the last layout Suzanne did. I would rather have a bigger walkway behind the two sinks (maybe 42 inches instead of 36 inches), even if that means making the closet less deep. If you make bedroom 2 bigger, I would still make the master bath aisle 42 inches and make the closet 5 feet by 6'9". That would give you 10 feet of hanging space and I would do double hung for most of it. If you don't need another closet on the bottom bedroom wall, that would be a nice space for a dresser and would make the bedroom feel more spacious. If you do the dresser, I would add 6 inches to the office space from the bedroom.