I only have 2 children, a 14 yo girl & 17 yo boy...and we have 3 bedrooms & a playroom upstairs (master is down.) My son's room has its own bath, but we actually added another door so it also opens to the playroom. So glad we did this! Our daughter has a Jack & Jill with the guest room. She has her own very large vanity with a sink and drop down counter area where she can sit & apply makeup. Her large, walk-in closet in is this dressing area as well. There is a door to the shared toilet/tub area, which of course connects to the vanity area of the guest room. The guest room vanity is much smaller, a single, and the guest room closet is just a small walkin in the actual guest room, not the vanity area. If we had 2 teen girls sharing this set up, the one in the guest room would definitely get the short stick! Since we custom designed our plan & knew we were only going to have the 2 children, our set up works just fine. Dd was 8 when we built, and we knew the teen years were coming. Teen girls just have so much crap! Personally, if I were you...I'd make the two older ones involved in the process. I bet they would prefer sharing a J&J to having a hall bath. Make sure they understand you are not getting involved in any fights & that they have to figure out a system. It will be good practice for college where many dorms have this type of set up now. The little ones can have the hall...and when your littlest dd becomes a teen, the other girls will be adults & she can have the J&J to herself!

See I think a J&J is ok in lots of situations. We have one child who has a J&J bathroom. It is nice that he has access without going in the hallway - and it gives the occasional guest access to that bathroom. We do have another guest room so the vast majority of the time, the Jill portion is unused. Obviously we don't really need that 4th bedroom but resale.... We could cut the other bath and just have 1 hall bath upstairs, but then guests are using a hall bath and sharing with my son. That wasn't considered ideal. So we are building our second J&J. It could be a hall bath with access to his room but layout dictated a J&J. Harder to have a hall bath with a window also.

I would eliminate the doors you have circled. Agree. Too many doors. I really like J&J bathrooms -- when they're done well. The problem is that they're so rarely done well, and this one is no exception: what we see here is a bathroom made up of four small rooms, each containing one bathroom piece. The pieces will be choppy and small. I like the idea someone presented for one comfortable bathroom opening into the small hallway, but eliminate the mid-bath door /keep it all in one room. One large vanity with a single sink and plenty of drawer storage. Simple, classic, functional. A bathroom shared between only two children is quite a luxurious thing -- even if it's off a hallway. To get a “perfect“ design plan and include all our requests would have meant more square footage and we will have just over 4000 square feet of living space already in this house which is already more than we need and going bigger was out of the budget. Eh, no. "Perfect" doesn't mean larger /doesn't mean more expensive. Good layout doesn't cost more than mediocre layout. Like I said I’m not saying they are unusual big picture. I continue to say Houzz folk are really into identifying this as a perceived issue. Natural light is something that pretty much everyone likes /responds to very positively -- but people often underestimate its importance. As I think back over the houses I've lived in, all the rooms I've enjoyed most have had good natural light.

I don't think you will hit your elbows in a 3'6" x 3'6" shower but a shower curtain will work just fine. If you think that adding a glass down the road is a possibility, I would talk to the contractor about the extra cost involved to add a glass later as opposed to now. I see no problem with the curtain but it would allow you to take an informed decision. A curtain is also less maintenance as it is very easy to put it in the washer. Yes this shower is beautiful and the color scheme makes it looks spacious. This is something I mentioned earlier, I encourage you to put the drain in the shower in a location where you don't stand when you shower. It is more comfortable to the feet. In this picture, they put the drain far on the opposite side. They also put the faucet where it is really easy to turn on before entering the shower so you can set the water temperature before you get wet.