I agree that, as drawn by your architect, that bathroom definitely does not seem "roomy'. Your suggestion sounds like a huge improvement. But if I might offer another option? If I'm reading your plans correctly, it looks like you have 10'8" by 10'4" of space floor space in that room. Have you considered the possiblity of dividing the space into two smaller bathrooms so each boy could have a bath of his own? Don't know how old your boys are but, in this day and age, teenage boys can spend nearly as much time in the bathroom primping as teenaged girls! If you divided the space horizontally, each bath would be 5'0 x 10'8" and each could open directly off one of the two bedrooms. This would also give you a 10'8" long unbroken wall in your hallway where you could put bookcases, or a small sitting area/reading nook, or your kid's computer desk, or something like that. The bathrooms in my current home are only 5'x 7'. Each contains a 5' tub/shower combo, a toilet, and a 32" wide vanity. While my bathrooms certainly aren't particularly "roomy", DH and I have managed to share that 5'x7' space for 25 years with no problems. So, a PRIVATE 5'0" x 10'8" bath would definitely feel nice and roomy to me. LOL! The bath serving BR 2 would not be able to have a window but you could use a solar light tube there instead. Since the two baths would be back to back, the additional cost ought to be pretty minimal and if I were a teenager, I'd happily give up having a window in my PRIVATE bath rather than have to share a bathroom with my brother. Just another idea... By the way, I really like the rest of your home! I'm drooling over the master bedroom and the second en suite (bedroom 4). Because you don't have any bedrooms downstairs, the one thing I would recommend that you don't have is a home elevator. If elderly relatives come to visit, or this is your "forever home" or even, God forbid, someone in your family should break a leg or have to have knee surgery, getting them upstairs to a bedroom could become really problematic. A home elevator is NOT that expensive, especially in comparison to the cost of 4400 sqft house. The one I am putting in my new home cost just $28K installed and we upgraded to the largest size available plus got upgrades on the cab finish. I think your architect could fit in one of the smaller ones without doing too much damage to his design. If you want to look into it, here is a link to the manufacturer (ThyssenKrupp) who made our "Lev". Other home elevator companies include Savaria Concord Lifts Inc, Matot, and Waupaca Elevator - but I don't have any personal knowledge of their products. Here is a link that might be useful: Thyssen Krupp

Our budget right now is $30k. I am not quite sure how much that’ll get me. I have never undertaken anything like this. This will absolutely be something we take on in stages. This space is what we’d like to tackle first and is the largest. In our kitchen at some point we will replace countertops and in our other bathroom we will swap out the toilet, tub and vanity. Luckily the rest of the house is functional for us. I lack the vision and knowledge that a lot of people on here have of being able to see a functional layout in disaster zones lol. My intuition tells me all these spaces can somehow be rearranged to give us what we need. I’m completely wrong, please help. Im also completely fine and understand if it’s impossible, financially or practically to have it all. I do have a consultation with a designer scheduled for this week (so excited), and I’m praying that she’ll have time to take us on as clients but I got excited and wanted to ask the Houzz community first. Thank you !!

I vote for the bath in the hall. Some parents want to shower their kids starting at age 4. Some want the option of baths for much longer, even into young adulthood. You don't know what your hypothetical children will prefer and you have no idea what any future buyer will prefer. A shower/tub combo in a hall bath is quite innocuous for those who don't use a tub and a necessity for those who do. Plus it's not only good for bathing little kids. Who wants to give their labrador a bath in their beautiful master soaker tub? Or fill a scrub bucket in the kitchen sink and lug it upstairs to wash the bathrooms? Or support a sick kid who just woke up puking and shower them off? (Sitting them in the bath to shower them is *much* easier I assure you) All those things are really difficult in a wide, deep soaker tub. Whether or not you choose to have a second en suite is up to you but remember this: if one kid gets their own bathroom, the other should too. It's fairly easy to justify having to share a bathroom and impossible to justify preferential treatment. I agree that it's hard to give specific advice without knowing the layout and style of the house. You can rest assured that your kids will grow up knowing that whatever you have is "normal" so don't worry about planning for their potential preferences which are completely unpredictable. Soon enough they will grow up and be able to create the homes they've always dreamed of!

I think you chose the best layout by picking the one Karen drew. Are you considering two pocket doors? If you have two 2'6" you will have interference between the two if the main door is 2'6" too. I recommend that you avoid that interference, I find it just too annoying to have that little part of the main door that is in the way when you enter and exit the closet. You have to walk around that part of the door which means you might as well have a 2'2" door ... that would be the space you have left to walk between the frame of the door. See below. If you really want two 2'6" doors then I recommend two pocket doors or the closet door being 2'2". I am guessing the placement of the toilet in the layout below and I am not sure you are going with a free stand tub or not.