Need Help Choosing Freestanding Tub
Anyone with experience to share re: freestanding tubs? Budget is under $2K for tub + faucet. I'm having trouble reading specs and understanding how they translate into 'will I like this tub or not?"
I will be the primary user of the tub in a master bath (total gut remodel; ceiling below is already open from other structural work so access is good). I'm 5' 1" and tub will be centered under 77" window. I'm trying to decide between 60" and 65/66" options. 66" will crowd the vanity area a little bit but will 60" look too small in the space and/or too small to be functional?
Top choice right now is the Wyndham Collection Melissa tub, which comes in both sizes (mainly for the sloped side making the most of 60" and the lower height to fit under our window); second choice for budget/interior space is American Standard Cadet; third choice is Wyndham Collection Soho in 60" for looks but not sure if slope is too high.
Should I be looking at gallon capacity to judge? Or is depth to overflow a better indicator? Or do my room dimensions more clearly support one size over the other? I think I need to go to 60" tub - true?
Here's a sketch from earlier in the planning. (In this one, I did not account properly for the width of the knee/hip wall so I'm not going to get 42" of shower space to the window and that wall will be right up against or under the window frame which is only 23" from the floor - those are problems for another post, though. Also, vanity/linen can go back to a more standard 22" if we go with a larger tub and tub faucet will probably be a freestanding floor mount.)
Thank you!
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roarah
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoYou do not have much room to get into your linen closet with even a 22 inch deep unit and a sixty inch tub. So definitely not 66 inches. To be honest I have a slightly deeper and just as long bath and I feel you are trying to fit way too much into it. You have less than three ft to get out of the shower before touching a toilet! Have you considered a larger shower, 3x5 in the bottom corner, keep the tub under the window and flank it with two separate vanities on each side and 86 the linen tower?
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7 years agoThanks again so much for sharing your ideas! Your points gave me a bunch of inspiration last night. I might not yet have it exactly right and I'll, of course, work more with our contractor and get a designer review, but I'm so much more excited and happy about having some new prospects. This is an "unplanned" master bath redo b/c of plumbing and structural problems - on top of a bunch of other never-ending projects - so it was kind of rushed and I knew I wasn't happy with keeping it mostly the same but I didn't have a good vision of what else was possible. Here's what I'm off to investigate now:
Losing the linen closet/tower and splitting the vanities and gaining pretty much a full size shower made me so happy! I couldn't stand those sinks being so close together with our 60" vanity and all this $$$ for the remodel was killing me if I was going to end up still with a tiny shower. Our quotes for a new vanity/linen tower were so high, too, that I may end up not really spending much more overall to get what works so much better for us.
roarah
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoI just did a plan for your bath very similar to your new one before reading this. This has a 60 vanity, for budget reasons, with a linen closet across from it. A 66 tub and a 42 by 60 shower. I did change your entrance to a standard door.
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