enclosed toilet in small master bath
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Comments (13)Jen does have an beautiful vanity, graceful and not at all overwhelming even though it is pretty big, although I think her bathroom is a bit bigger than yours. I'd like it too! I just don't think I'd like to go around a tall glass box to get to the toilet, or see the window through one. Which do you want more, the big shower or the big vanity? If you gave your toilet 30", you would still have 42" for a vanity next to it. You still could get something of the effect of Jen's vanity in miniature, with two 9" wide towers on it, enough to store plenty of smaller things, even a few rolled towels, and still have 24" full depth center space for a sink and a tall medicine cabinet. Wall mount faucets would help clear the deck. Bigger things can go in the vanity. If you make the vanity taller than usual (36" is quite comfortable for a shorty like me, more comfortable than the standard height) then you get that much more storage space, enough to allow for legs and continuation of visual space. The question is how much storage space you need for big things - you can squeeze in plenty of small things in recessed cabinets or small towers. Maybe some big things can go in the bedroom closet, or under the bed? My vision: a frameless shower door enclosing a large shower on the left side of the room, maybe with a teak bench or built-in seat, the same marble tile on the shower floor and the rest of the bathroom, a white-painted marble-topped vanity next to the toilet, maybe a subway tile in the shower continuing around half-height under the window and behind the toilet. By "framing it out" I meant building the stud walls - you and your carpenter can plan recessed storage space with headers and cripple studs to accommodate it - much better than projecting cabinets. You could even extend the tower space into the stud space and gain four inches of depth, and have them project less on to the vanity top Are you able to shift the door right or left at all?...See MoreDoors on master bath toilet
Comments (29)We resolved the poo on the doorknobs by having a half bath (2 piece washroom) in the overall master bath so you can wash hands before leaving the toilet area. Because it's larger and provides necessary space, a half bath makes more sense than a toilet-in-a-closet, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone on this site plan such a bathroom. My youngish SIL is disabled following a stroke a few yrs ago. The toilet closet in my master bath is difficult to maneuver for her in her smallish wheelchair. My grandmother lived to be 100, and she had no medical disabilities of any kind -- but she became slower and more unwieldy in her movements. Public bathrooms were a big problem for her, and she'd do anything to avoid them: If I were taking her out, she wouldn't drink anything (and this led to some problems with dehydration), and she began wearing adult diapers outside the house. A handicapped stall was better for her because she could bring her walker in and because they have hand rails all around the edges, but getting into a standard stall, turning around, and manipulating her clothing in a small space was difficult for her. She was also very slow, which bothered her more than it bothered me. At home she had no problems with her bathroom: She had a large, square bathroom and could push her walker in ... she had ample space to manage her clothing, and she had a handrail right there by the toilet. Putting your toilet into a closet is essentially limiting yourself to using a small public bathroom stall ... all the time....See MoreHELP - 11x13 Master Bath - privacy shower and toilet placement
Comments (7)Thanks for feedback- we have a tub in the guest bath on current main level. For the pop-up we can put a tub in the kids shared bath. They are getting to an age where they probably like standup shower like our current 3x5 but can do combo for family bath on resale if that is better for families to bathe younger kiddos down the road. I think it is a 50/50 mix in our area (NoVA/DC metro). The really small remodeled homes don't have them. The ones we may 'compete' against would be new builds which are larger square footage. So if no tub (which we are fine with) is to find a design for a really nice shower but feel airy and spacious in the room. If we go no tub, should we reduce space and widen walk in closet or do something with laundry closet? Or just make shower a little bigger - if shower at entrance would that be a wall or just go with frosted glass? Our master bath had entrance adjusted so DH could get his 'sitting space' and place a TV or something on a wall there (also to avoid door to door direct line Feng shui with opposite bedroom. Current laundry is in basement so we thought we should at least have a mini w/d upstairs. We are blowing out some walls on main level so don't want to lose storage space on main to place laundry there as a compromise option that had come up....See MoreSmall master bath Reno with toilet move and expansion into next room?
Comments (6)20K barely covers a like for like renovation of a small 3 piece hall bath. Bigger is more. Moving plumbing is a lot more. More plumbing fixtures is more. Loss of value for creating a tiny bedroom also comes into it. You’d do better to think about an addition rather than a subtraction of space. You get more added value based on adding square footage. 2020 numbers are out of date for the rapidly rising costs of building materials. 2021 numbers are likely to see a big jump. https://www.remodeling.hw.net/cost-vs-value/bathroom-addition?y=2020...See Morejust_julie
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