A drawing would be immensely helpful.

I did a master suite addition back in 2001 that included space for a single or double sink vanity, makeup area, walk-in steam shower and linen closet. I also did a walk-in closet, reach in closet and an upstairs laundry room.

There's a very old post still in the gallery section here at GW. Click on the link below to see all that I was able to squeeze in. I love the look of the tiled shower better. Plus I loved have a 6ft bench. It was tapered back for more foot room when standing. I've seen other seats done different ways too.

My bathroom area was 8ft8" x 12ft. We had the doors swing IN to the hallways since they were almost always open anyway. I didn't want to have to walk around an opened door swing.

Get a steam shower....you will love it and will keep you warm and cozy on cold nights and will help you stay healthy.

Kompy

Ps. The link below also shows a FLOORPLAN that might help you get started on a layout.

Here is a link that might be useful: my master addition

Kompy-- your bathroom is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

I am having trouble getting the addition drawing to show here. It is saved as a .pdf. Any suggestions??

You will need to save the images as JPEGs, then you can upload them to a site like TinyPic.com. When you upload the pictures resize at the Message Board size. After it's uploaded copy the HTML for Websites code and paste it right into your post.

http://tinypic.com?ref=2n9ascn

Thank you terriks!! (hopefully it works)

No, it didn't work. Copy the HTML for Websites and paste it in to the post.

Here it is. Looks a little compressed, but you get the idea.

Is that a long hallway between the master and the existing house? If so that's eating up a lot of space. Information about the layout of existing house where it meets the new addition would be very helpful in creating a fluid addition instead of getting a pieced-together feeling.

You have a lot of long thin spaces. How about placing the laundry on the west side so that the closet and bathroom can be shorter and wider?

Couple of things, 20 feet divided by 3 is a little over 6 feet wide, that will be a narrow closet and laundry room. we are just finishing a big remodel to fix that problem.

My closet pre-renovation was almost exactly 6X10, and with hangers on both sides of the closet, you couldn't walk down the middle of the closet (I will go home tonight and measure, I can still see the footprint of the old closet, and I will give exact dimensions). We have spent a fortune basically getting rid of that closet! Be prepared to only use one side for hanging or to be rather cramped.
Can you make the addition larger? Is this the only laundry room? Do you have to access the laundry from the hallway? Can you combine laundry and closet or laundry and bathroom? Why haul the clothes around the corner?

I can't get my floorplan onto the computer at work, but we added on 6 X 19'5". This allowed us to put a laundry room in our bath.

Overall now our space is 21' 10" by 19' 5", with a little cut out (3 X 10) area that is part of the other downstairs bathroom, connected to another room. We have a 10 X 11 closet and a 7 X 8 ft laundry room. The bathroom area is is 21 feet long and varies in width from 7 - 9 feet. We have tons of space in the bathrom and laundry. We did not increase our closet space that much, but we are doing closet organizing, and I think it will work. If you chose to not put a WD in the laundry area, there would be 2 large closets.

Last thing, if you stick with this floor plan, do pocket doors.

The long hallway looking part is actually 6' of the new addition that we thought we be of better use making the family room larger instead of having an overly large bedroom, so it is not technically a hallway.

Our thought was to put the laundry room where it currently is drawn so that we can add a door for access to the backyard, thus not wanting to walk thru the master bedroom. Currently the existing back part of the home are bedrooms and a small bathroom.

An existing bedroom butts up to where the laundry room is currently drawn.

The 29' wall is the side of the house and as I said the laundry, bathroom and closet are shown on the back wall of the home.

If you have any more questions or need more clarification, please let me know. We GREATLY appreciate any and all ideas to best use our new space.

I meant our bath/closet/laundry is 19X21, yeah it is big. Before we had a true his and hers bath with double closets, that space was roughly 16 X 15.

Ok, how about this...keep laundry where it is and put closet next to it (maybe even a door connecting it?), but move bathroom to west side? Or vice versa for plumbing costs?

Not drawn to scale at all, but what about something like this? Of course you'd want to shift windows and doors accordingly after you decide on basic placement.

cangelmd-- How big did your old closet end up being? We really can't make the addition bigger as we had to get a variance for what we are doing. We would be bringing the laundry up from the basement. We really don't have a mud room or anything either. You come in from the garage directly into the kitchen.

alku05--That is an idea. Approximately what are you thinking for the dimensions for the bathroom and the closet? My one concern is not being able to look out the front window, but I guess that is something you just get used to.

cangelmd-- How big did your old closet end up being? We really can't make the addition bigger as we had to get a variance for what we are doing. We would be bringing the laundry up from the basement. We really don't have a mud room or anything either. You come in from the garage directly into the kitchen.

alku05--That is an idea. Approximately what are you thinking for the dimensions for the bathroom and the closet? My one concern is not being able to look out the front window, but I guess that is something you just get used to.

The closet in our old house was 6 x 6, and it was fairly functional. We had clothes hanging on each side and did have enough room to walk down the middle.

I hadn't considered dimensions yet...you'll have to think about what you want to fit in the closet, bedroom and bath and then dibby up the space appropriately.

About the window...in the layout I posted above, you can line up the door to the bath (or closet if you want it the other way around) with the window so it is still in the line of site from the bedroom. Alternatively, you could do a walk-through setup like the one below. Again, you can choose whether to walk through the closet to the bath, or vice versa.

alku, I was going to suggest the same thing. Here it is entering through the bathroom to the closet

And entering through the closet/dressing room. You could have mirrored closet doors to make it a nice dressing area.

I think that walking through the closet/dressing area would be nicer, because then you would have windows in the bathroom and a nice buffer zone between the bedroom and the bath. You also wouldn't have to worry about one person using the bathroom while the other needs to get into the closet.

I like the idea of going through the closet to get into the bathroom. It allows the rooms to be more square than long and narrow. My only concern is that we were hoping for a walk-in closet so having each closet enclosed with mirrored doors isn't ideal. I wonder if we could just leave it a normal walk-in without the doors?
Or the other option would be to see how "big" we actually need the bathroom and closet to be and have one on each end and make sure to line up the front window with the doorway. My one other question is, would be weird to have a double-hung window in the front for the bathroom or closet?

Thanks again for your input.

Sorry, we've been cleaning and moving into the new bathroom. I'll have pix over the 4th.

My old closet was a little smaller-5'8" by 9'10".

The problem is more the shape. I could'nt get to the back third! Perhaps if I was more organized??

I like the walkthroughs Terriks posted.

How old/many kids? Could you get away with a minimal laundry area? Stack the WD and have a folding sorting table with hanging above? You could put that directly at the hall door and that would leave options for the remainder of the space. I would expand the closet into that space and give myself a bathtub. With a door into the laundry. Or if you aren't a bath person you could have a bigger closet or shower or a private water closet so two can be in the bathroom. More to consider

"My only concern is that we were hoping for a walk-in closet so having each closet enclosed with mirrored doors isn't ideal. I wonder if we could just leave it a normal walk-in without the doors?"

Absolutely! Our house's original master has just that- a rectangular walk in closet that had two doors, one leading to the bedroom, and the other leading to the bath. We liked it quite a bit. In fact, the new master in our addition has two walkin closets, one on either side of the hallway connecting the bedroom and bathroom. It's a nod towards our old "walk-through" closet.

Thanks for the ideas and help everyone. Things are coming along. We are a week into our addition and the basement is complete and they are working on the sub-floor today. We have had computer problems and I was off-line for a bit. I will post the final layout once it is configured.

Please do update when you get things settled! I'm curious to see what you end up with.