Weird.

I'd put a pocket door in (or barn door), so that it could be closed, but so it can also be wide open most of the time for your light.

Or, get a frosted glass door.

It is one thing to make that decision for yourself, but to put your guests in this position would just make some very uncomfortable. I have been reading the other thread about the MB thinking, "how could anyone want to have no door on their bathroom, that is just weird". And honestly, I am a mid thirties (so not old and set in my ways), been living with my husband for 13 years, so not shy, but sometimes you just need your privacy.

I agree with kirkhall, add a pocket door or similar.

If I were sharing the guest room with anyone else, including my husband, I would want a door (since there is no separate WC). Otherwise, I would be trekking to the hall bathroom every time I needed to use the facillities. Use a pocket door or barn door that can be left open most of the time. I like the idea of using lots of clerestory windows around three sides of the bathroom to let in light from outside. You may want to have clerestory windows between the bedroom and bathroom also.

Well...we haven't had a bathroom door in either home by way of never completing projects for over 10 years. It wasn't a design choice. I'm use to it by now but if we ever get to the master bath, the doorway will have a door.

Seems like a frosted glass option would be the best of both worlds. I like pocket doors, too, but not everyone does. With the frosted option, the room would remain brighter even when the bathroom was occupied.

I wouldn't appreciate the openness, since visual issues aren't the only reason for a door. Sometimes you want the noises from an upset GI tract to be as muffled as possible!

Make sure you have some kind of night light in there. I would hate to be awakened by a bright light in the middle of the night, which would happen with a frosted door.

We have a pocket door, I love it and 90% of the time its open. After 23 years of marriage, not much is sacred around here, but there are times when being separated by a door is imperative!

I think a door of some type is needed - a frosted door certainly would be a great compromise. I would probably just install a standard interior door opening in so in the open position it hides the pony wall and toilet. You could leave it open all the time, with little impact on the light getting into the bedroom, but guests would have the option of closing it when desired.

Any type of door gives ALL of your guests the option to be comfortable. Open or shut!

I agree that not having a door has the potential to be uncomfortable for some guests. I would not like using a guest bathroom where there was no door between it and the bedroom (especially without a toilet room). While I've been with my significant other for 15 years and lived together for about 10, I still prefer to have the door closed when using the toilet. If you can install a door (pocket or standard) such that the door can be open most of the time, I think that's your best bet.

Thanks for the feedback all. So clearly the consensus is door. I just hope I can work that out. This is a small bath being added on over the top of a kitchen addition on the first floor. Access to it will be through a window approximately 30 inches wide. At present the window is part of a whole wall of oak built-ins original to the house (built in 1907). Thus the window is set about 20 inches deep into an enclosure which consists of matching 40 inch wide by 20 inch deep cupboards on either side, a window seat below and molding/valance affair above.

So, since I want to keep the cupboards and moldings joining the two sides over the window, I may need to get a custom sized door. I think a pocket door might work, recessing it into the newly built wall behind the original oak cupboards. Or, if it turns out that the pony wall planned to corral the toilet area won't work, I'll do a door that hinges on the left and swings inward, blocking the view of the toilet.

I just KNOW that this is going to turn out to be horribly complicated in real life.! >

Access to it will be through a window approximately 30 inches wide.

Do you mean a window, as in climb over a window-sill?

Oh my goodness I wrote that poorly. Sjhockeyfan! I mean the doorway will go where there is now a window!

Glad I misunderstood!!