Thank you palimpsest. I'm looking at different kind of vanities that can fit into the sink area, without taking up too much space. Please feel free to thrown any suggestions.

I think you may do better with a free standing or wall hung sink because of entry to the shower. Is it possible you could go as wide as 4 feet?

I'm building this bath in between 2 bedrooms (making one of the bedrooms smaller, converting it to guest bed/office). If I go more than 3 ft, the bedroom becomes unusable I think. I'd like to have room to keep at least a twin bed in there (for resale value). Here is the partial floor plan.

Just. Not. Enough. Space.

Seriously. This would be a small, uncomfortable half-bath, and you're trying to make it a three-piece. You'll have to turn sideways to scoootch around the sink to enter the shower or to reach the tub.

I suggest you get some cardboard and make a dummy version so you can visualize it.

If this is absolutely all the space you have, I'd suggest you go with a wet-room, which is more complicated but would mean no shower door.

The only way I can think of having a bath and a bed room work would be to borrow at least a foot from the other larger room if the wall is not structural, or having a tiny sink in the bedroom proper and just a 8x3 toilet and shower room or maybe it is reasons like this that I have seen open bath tubs and showers in bedroom images on line. Maybe have the shower door entrance in the bed room with a solid wall inside the bath area with the sink on that wall. Like this. Unconventional to say the least and hard resale but so will a tiny hard to use bath and tiny bedroom be a hard sale too.

The reason why I asked if you could do four is because I did a 4' wide 3/4 that is suprisingly comfortable, with a wall hung toilet, and put the toilet where you are showing the sink, had room for a vanity where you show the toilet. Maybe you could steal a foot from the other bedroom.

That said, I would rather use a 3' bath as you have it drawn (with a small wall hung sink) than have none at all. Sometimes you work with what you have.

Also. 6'10" would not meet code requirements where I am for minimum room dimensions (other than kitchen or bath). 7 feet in one direction is the minimum so you may need to take space from both rooms anyway, even to get 3' inside the bath.

@palimpsest I'm considering 4' wide as well. About the wall-mount toilets, how maintainable are they? Do plumbers charge anything extra for such toilet repairs? Also, would you mind sharing the 4' wide bath pictures you mentioned?

You could get a bigger office and bathroom if you were willing to move and reconfigure closets.

The in wall tank toilets supposedly can have all working parts replaced through the flush plate. Time will tell but these have been used in Europe for a while .

Thank you for the suggestion. I am willing to move the closets, but am clueless as to how to make it work. Couldn't come up with any floor plans for the office.

My bath is configured like this:

It means a small closet in the office but you gain closet space in the other bedroom.

Thank you palimpsest! This opened up many options for me. This is the 4'x7' plan for bath I came up with now by reconfiguring the closets in the office/bedroom as you suggested. Please feel free to throw suggestions on making the 2'x3' closet (in the bedroom) work.

You can't actually do a toilet on 12" centers (24" total width anymore. It has to be a total of 30" (or 36" in some locales). So there isn't much point in tucking the toilet back like that because you would only be left with about 12" deep shelf space in the office not a closet.

You could get away with this with a short enough toilet and a tiny hand washing sink if you want a 36" wide shower.

How about using pal's shower and toilet area in his last drawing and use a 24 inch vanity sink in a recess instead of the toilet?

Sinks must also have 15" from the center of the drain to the nearest obstruction.

Damn codes ;)

Modified the plan so the width for toilet is 30". Found IKEA PAX wardrobe system (39 3/8 in x 13 3/4in) that fits in the new closet space in the bedroom. Looks like this is finally coming together. Thank you all for your valuable inputs!

@roarah I follow Feng Shui, and having toilet facing any door doesn't work well according to that.

I too prefer toilets that are no visible to other rooms.

Ihave the narrow pax and am very happy with them.

I agree about the toilet facing the door. It is the one thing that I don't like about the layout which otherwise is extremely efficient. I juggled the entire bedroom around so the closets are now over by the bathroom door and the bed is at the other end of the room and has no view into the bathroom.

In the hall bathroom I had the same issue, where you walked up the stairs and looked at the sink and toilet through the doorway. I managed to tweak that layout a little but you still catch a glimpse of the toilet coming up the stairs and the only way to conceal in more would have been with a 24" door into the bathroom :( --and I was only able to shift things as much as I did because 100% of the plumbing in the house needed to be replaced after a stack failure.

Although I do not love seeing a toilet, in tight homes or older houses there is sometimes no alternative that works. My house has a bath right off a kitchen hall , the toilet is not seen but it is very obviously a powder room and only main floor bath none the less. I have tried to find a way to move the bath else where on the main floor but with out totally altering my house's floor plan, which I love, or adding a very expensive and not needed extension, the bath is in the only logical place.

I am glad you found the way to get the extra foot you needed to conceal the loo.

You say this is for a MIL suite. Is a real MIL or FIL going to be using this space and if so, how old are they? I ask because if they're getting up there in years, it will not be workable for them if they have any "issues". Something to think about.

I think that depends on whether the MIL or FIL functions well with grab bars.

If the individual is in a wheelchair, any bathroom that does not have a 5 foot turning radius and transfer room will not function for them anyway.

But a bathroom such as this where there are walls that fully enclose the toilet could have grab bars on each side of the toilet and they could back in with a walker to both shower and toilet area because it is small enough that the walls with the grab bars are "right there" so to speak. My mother functioned best for many years in the bathroom that had a 32" wide area with the toilet at one end and a shower at the other because she was fully supported by grab bars that were not too far apart. But I would not use a glass enclosure on the shower I would use a shower curtain for this reason.

For a person who is mobile with a walker, a bathroom that is too big, with walls too far away and a toilet and shower that are not well enclosed can be more problematic than a small bathroom unless the large bathroom is then fully universal access where the individual can walk right into the shower on their walker or roll right in in their chair, and also transfer to the toilet.

It also becomes a moot point if the doors in the house aren't wide enough to be universal access anyway. There's no point in worrying about the bathroom if the person can't get down the hall or into the bedroom. These things have to be put in complete context. My city, when they started changing all curbs to be wheelchair accessible placed new concrete curb/ramp areas on sidewalks that were not accessible anyway because of preexisting houses, stoops, utility poles and boxes all of which encroached on sidewalks. The houses would have to be torn down to make some sidewalks accessible. They placed ramps at the corners of blighted lots with no sidewalks at all. That's not completely relevant to this thread but the point is. there is no point in being concerned about access in a room that is in a larger environment that is not accessible anyway.

I designed an apartment that was universal access with a wheelchair accessible bathroom, but the house had 28" front doors up two steps. (It was two combined row houses) The only thing that made this feasible was that they owned another lot and a walk could be ramped around the house and through a wide enough door at the back of the house. Other than that the disabled person would have had to have been carried into the house first anyway.