It's going to be fantastic from what I can see. We're also doing the tile at wainscotting height all around the room and to the ceiling in the shower. These are great renderings that you have. Did you do them yourself? I'd love to have something to help me visualize my space! Wish I knew how to work Google Sketch Up a little better.

The only possible thing I see is that the toilet location seems a little out of place to me, but honestly there is no good place for a toilet and I think you've probably found the least of all ills. Looking forward to hearing about your project as it progresses.

The person using the right side of the sink will trip over the toilet.
Do you have enough clearance between the toilet and the pony wall? It looks to me like it's insufficient.
Where will you put the toilet paper holder? Towel bars? Robe hooks?

Sailorgirl - yes, I did those sketches in Sketchup. Sketchup is very easy to learn. After a week with the software you will be able to build your bathroom to help you visualize. You will notice small details that you would not have known about otherwise and it will help you tweak your design.

I agree that the toilet is the biggest issue, but we wanted to fit a tub so that placement I felt was the best. I wanted to hide it behind a half wall. And it is pushed to the side of it's space like that to maximize operating room around the vanity.

Suero -

Yes, the tripping over the toilet issue was considered. There's 2 feet of clearance between the toilet and the edge of the vanity. Also, the edge of the toilet does not overlap the centerline of the right vanity faucet.

There is 8" clear on the pony wall side of the toilet. We have that condition elsewhere in our house and it is ample space to be comfortable while sitting.

Still have not planned out places for the other hardware like the toilet paper bar and towel bars. Towel bars will most likely go inside of the shower stall, out of view.

I absolutely love it. The only things I might change are:

Give each person their own sink
Line the light fixture above the vanity with the mirror

Sometimes, one person is messier than the other, so having two sinks helps in this regard. I like the looks of the trough sink, but not the practicality of it.

How big is the bathtub? The toilet does look tight next to it.

I really like the overall idea and I think it will look stunning.

I agree that the toilet and vanity look really tight. Is 2' really sufficient for between the vanity and the toilet? What if you swapped the tub and toilet placement (put the toilet in the corner by the wall)? Then at least if the person backs up it would be into a pony wall rather than into the toilet. I could just picture myself backing into (literally into!) the toilet.

Also, will that vanity be functional for you? What size will it be exactly? For me, I need a reasonable amount of flat vanity space to do things like put in contacts, etc. Your vanity space seems a little short, but it could just look small (like the space by the toilet looks small) when it really isn't.

karena_2009 -

We considered two seperate sinks, but we want drawers underneath the counter. The plumbing for two distinct drains prevents this. The trough sink is what works for what we want storage-wise.

Good catch on lining up the light fixture.

The bathtub is 60" x 30". We could go with a 36" tub if we wanted, but this might start to pinch the entrance a bit. And yes, the toilet is tight to maximize vanity space, but not so tight as to be uncomfortable (we have a toilet in another bathroom in the house that is 8" clear from the wall as this one is). We figure vanity space is more important than minimal difference in toilet space comfort. If we move the toilet any firther out, the vanity space will become an issue.

Hi rsanz,

I like the trough sink, too, and I would keep the clearance for the aisle as you mentioned for the bathtub. It is a decent size. A couple more questions:

What is the size of the shower in your current mock-up?
How often do you two take showers together?
What is on the other side of the window where the bathtub is?

Personally, I don't like where the toilet is, though, the more that I think about it. I might sacrifice some of the shower space and keep the toilet in its original position. Since I love a good soak in the bathtub, I'd be a bit worried about privacy on the other side of the bathroom. Hopefully, you don't have a second story neighbor looking down on your house ;-).

Hi rsanz,

You could possibly provide the dimensions of the proposed space. Knowing what the size of the room is might help in determining if the toilet could change positions, etc. Also, what is the proposed size of the shower?

Sorry, all, for not providing dimensions. DUH!!

Main bathroom: 7'-0" x 10'-6".
Shower: 3'-11" x 6'-0".

Some other random dimensions:
- Shower "door": 24"
- Tub: 5' x 2'-6"

Hope that provides some clarification to the above posted questions.

I would LOVE ideas on how to reconfigure the room to solve the toilet problem. My one caveat is that I do not want to push the shower wall back. As a trained architect, it would drive me NUTS to have the pony wall to the left of the vanity not in-line with the existing wall.

And I should add:

The shower stall is an existing closet of an adjacent bedroom whose space we've claimed for this bathroom remodel.

Here's my arithmetic:
Sink 22"
Are between sink and toilet 24"
Area between pony wall and toilet 8"
Pony wall looks like 6"
Tub 60"
Total 120"
Bathroom 10' 6"
That leaves 6" for the toilet.
The smallest toilet that I know of is slightly wider than 14".

suero:

The sink is only 18" wide
Area between sin and toilet = closer to 1'-8"
Area between pony wall and toilet = 8"
Pony wall = 5"
Tub = 60"

Give or take a few inches, of course.

Here are my issues (sorry to offer problems with no real proposal for solutions).

It seems to me that the 2 most time-consuming actions have the worst view.

I would not want to be using the toilet and gazing into the shower....nor would I want to be shampooing under the shower head trying to relax and gazing at the toilet.

Not sure if this will fit: I would (if it will fit) probably put the tub where the sink/vanity is now. Then move the door into the bathroom over to the right side of where it is now. Then put the toilet in the bottom left corner so you can gaze out the window, and then have the pony wall. then the vanity on the long wall, or maybe his/hers on each side. I think if you could get more storage in it would be good too.

rsanz,

Have you selected your tub yet? I'm only asking because 60x30 sounds awfully small. You might be able to compensate by finding an extra deep tub that is especially well designed. But you should definitely try it out before ordering it.

You really need at least 21" between the sink and toilet, but you have only 20". Remember, people are wider than a centerline.

can you put the toilet at the very back where the shower is, place a pony wall or full length wall to partially block toilet, put shower in space where toliet and vanity currently are and move the vanity down towards toilet???
i would definitely want the toilet tucked out of the way!

This will not pass inspection. Minimum distance from centerline of the toilet to any obstruction is 15", and even that's pretty tight for real world usage. You won't have enough room in from of the vanity either for real people. The tub is too small for real life bathing unless you find a Japanese soaking tub that's very very deep.

You've got great ideas on the aesthetics. Good sense of color, flow, and contrast. It's the nuts and bolts that are wrong. Nuts and bolts are the most important part. All of your spacings are wrong. Really wrong. Clear out all of the foo foo and start with the basic dimensions of the space and any adjacent space that impacts the bath such as a closet that you can steal some space from.

For what it's worth, you certainly can have usable drawers under separate vanity sinks. We do. We had a cabinet built, and added the mahogany top and sinks ourselves. We use the top drawers as our primary storage (for daily-use items like razor, face creams, etc) because there is no medicine cab behind the mirror. We simply had the cabinetmaker make the drawers about 3" shallower in depth than the front-to-back measurement of the case, so there was space for plumbing behind them, and then cut out the U-shape in back of the drawer for drain trap clearance.

The sinks are only partly above the counter, and about 5" or so below it (you can just see the white front edge of the sink bottom in the open drawer photo...)

This was modeled on an Ikea vanity. If you look into the Ikea sinks, you'll see they come with ingenious super-low-clearance drains that take even less space out of the drawer than mine does.

Her's an alternative layout that I think will work. The toilet is a Toto Aquia, which I think matches the one in your sketch. The tub is a Kohler, and the rest is custom.