Hi Cat-Mom, Yup, we're also renoing Living Room and Master Bedroom at the same time- you? :>) I just faux-painted our entry stair railing to make do until we add on to our front entry. So many balls in the air, hard to juggle it all at one time. kgwlisa, That's what I had thought of so far, basement ceiling has been ripped down, so all the plumbing is fully exposed, and present shower and bath have leaking problems, so things pretty well have to be redone anyways. I was even contemplating 'borrowing' more out of the common wall when we build it, by building in storage behind mirror and perhaps a deeper vanity. I'm assuming this is a fairly basic/common plan, and hopefully others have paved the path... Rae

I notice 2 things that would bother me: It looks like the shower has the 2 shower heads directly across from each other, so that 2 users would be back-to-back in a 4' wide space. That would make for pretty crowded showering in a really large shower. I would leave the one head on the top exterior wall and move the second head to the short wall opposite the bench. With no shower head on the bottom side, you could have less wall and more glass between the shower and the rest of the bath, which will make the shower feel more open and let more natural light into the rest of the bathroom. I would not like to have to walk all the way through the bathroom to get to the closet. Unless it really messes up your furniture arrangement in the bedroom, I would move the closet door to the bottom wall of the bedroom. This should give you better storage in the closet too, since you can have two uninterrupted 12'-4" runs of rods and/or shelves.

Assuming that your bathroom is 16'8" x 9'8", this is one possibility. There are pros and cons to it in comparison to your initial layout: Pros: More natural light Wider walkway behind the vanity 2 cabinets (accessed from the 3'0" walkway) More spacious toilet area Shower can be doorless if you like Cons: Smaller vanity (I must say that a 7'8" double sink vanity is still quite spacious) The total eye level visual depth when you enter the bathroom would be 5'10" (2'0" for vanity + 3'10") as opposed to 9'8" Ideally, even though I would prefer a 4'6" walkway behind the vanity, 3'10" is still a functional space. EDIT: If you want, you can have a 21" deep vanity instead of 24". That will bring your walkway to 4'1". Also, may I suggest that you add windows on the East wall of your bedroom? I also recommend that your center your closet pocket door. This way, you can have a 2'0" depth space for your rod all around your closet.

Okay lots of thoughts going on here, I love it. @Jessica @Andrea C So I'm convinced I need to keep the window for lighting and potential ventilation so that'll stay. My biggest challenge is currently the door opening because with the distance from the entry to the shower both swinging doors open are likely to intersect. Back to that in a second. The reason I have the toilet almost in the corner is because, I'm thinking about a bypass door which would allow the shower user to either go out near the wall with the towel bar, or even just grab the towel to try, or go out near the vanity. If it's me, probably both of those functions. Grab a towel, dry inside shower, then exit near vanity. If I'm able to do the bypass then from the shower door /glass on the toilet side I have exactly 24 inches with is minimum needed for clearance, technically 22 from curb but I'm not worried about that. Okay back to the door, I'm not sure if I can accomplish a bypass in that space having only a knee wall and glass on top of that. I'd rather not make that wall full height because it'll cut off the small space even more. So if no bypass, and I do a knee wall with glass on top, now I have fixed panel with regular sliding (I hope) or swinging. If I go swinging, I'll likely need a pocket door for the clearance, I'm okay with it on a master bath as opposed to a shared bath. Okay lastly storage space. 46" vanity isn't that large but the headknocker should alleviate a lot of this tension, no? Hence also why I don't want to move the toilet closed to shower, visual cutoff and restrictions I'm thinking. Also, the towel bar area, I could play with, I can do bar and hook combo or bar shelf combo, or swinging. In reality I could get away with 16" there, it just won't be centered to curb. It'll be centered glass to headknocker. As far as shower design, I'm thinking bench on both sides and recessed wall shelving on top of the bench, so likely 2 on each wall. Controls would be dead center, probably underneath the window. If I get the placement right, rain showers in front of the benches, so almost to the left and right of the door opening. I'm also thinking about in each (almost) corner placing handhelds. I'm going to take a breath now. Thoughts?