Guys/gals - not everyone GIVES AWAY remnants for free! And before all of you chime in about how someone else has already paid for that material - THINK AGAIN! Suppose your job need 1.25 slabs of stone to complete. I (stone guy) has to purchase 2 slabs as the yards don't sell 1/4 slab. Lets say each slab is 50 sq. ft. and you are being charged $60 a sq. ft. for your tops. DO you want to pay me $60 a ft. for just your 62 sq. feet, or would you like to pay me for all 100 sq. ft. of the slabs I bought so that the next guy can get a "free" remnant for his sorry little bathroom with just one little ol' sink cutout? Perhaps you'd also like to send me an check every quarter for the inventory tax I'm going to have to pay the city/state/county for just keeping that xtra 37 1/2 feet of slab that didn't go into your job? Still think you should get that little ol countertop for just labor? Just because the economy is headed down the tubes doesn't mean that stuff in the construction industry is "on sale" or "close out" prices any more than your physician is cutting his rates because socialized medicine is on the horizon. Nor, are either trying to gouge or rip you off. Sometimes it's an honest pricing error, and sometimes it's simple overhead. A Rolls cost more to make than a Benz and both cost more to produce than a Kia. Now a Rolls might not be for you, but it doesn't mean that it's 300k price tag is rip off or that there isn't that much value in the product.

Me again, glad to hear your attic is insulated. I have no idea why I fixated on that last time, I think I was just imagining cool towels meeting wet air and seeing condensation happening all over them! Anyway, what a nice space you have to work with! With a bathroom, though, fixtures tend to hug the perimeter of the space, just as you have drawn the room. It makes for a nice 6x8 space for dancing in the center of the room, useless for anything else, since the two of you will be crossing it in so many different directions! So twirl your partner when you happen to meet in the center. You could possibly change the direction of the tub under the window so that the foot or head of the tub were directly under the window, and the tub was jutting out into the room, kind of parallel to the toilet wall (or is it a half wall?). For this to work, the vanity of the tub user would be moved over to the right, so that this person kind of walks around the tub a bit to get to it. You could put in an "L" cabinet there, giving the tub user a bit of a sitting vanity at the South end of the window (lets pretend this map is done on the NSEW coordinates). Day lighting and makeup table may go together well. Or not. Back at the current vanity area, we have possibly created room to insert a shallow Towel Tower 2' - 3' wide and as high as you like or need, between the two sink vanities. Try to keep it 1 ft deep, as the other occupant still has to squeeze past on the way to the vanity on the right. Maybe the towels can be rolled and placed into a grid, so they will stack while rolled and slid into their cabinet. Like bottles in a wine rack. The other obvious place I saw for a towel-holding piece of furniture was next to the door as you enter from the closet area. If the little potty alcove is as small as you have drawn, a dresser could be placed there to hold bath linens. I will go shopping at Pottery Barn for an example, and post it here. One way to make your walk-in shower not need any glass door or shower curtain would be to curl in the "wall" or "glass" that is represented by your dotted line. By simply adding a curve to that wall and making the entrance walk a little bit past that curl, you will keep most of the water of the shower contained. If you want to be sure that steam escapes so the shower will dry out, you have a good fan exhaust system to run after the shower, and you do not have the shower walls go much higher than the head level of the occupants. If the walls are solid, people may appreciate having such a large shower be low enough to see out of, as well. Here is a link that might be useful: dressers to hold towels

Pondering your master bath again. Maybe the answer to shower entry is to have a free standing bath tub. It sure frees up floor space in both width & length directions over the typical “tub in a box” that the bigger tubs with tiled surrounds to support them take up. If you look at my pics, you’ll see one end of our slipper tub. it is a 6’ porcelain pedestal tub & not inexpensive - it was our splurge. But free standing tubs are popular & so many sizes, shapes & materials so all kinds of prices. just looking at your floor plan, imagining the space freed up with a free standing. A nice touch of luxury in a master bath too. We tiled our walls around the tub up to window height & the plumbing is in the narrow bump out under the window which I use as a shelf. You can see that in pic too.

tartanmeup, I apologize if I seemed to ignore your longer post about paring down. Our internet is an on and off again thing combined with my aging pc means that some posts arrive late. Yes, I live in a rural area. For example, we left at 10am yest morning with our granddaughter, shopped at Target, late lunch, refuel car, then got back home just before her dad arrived after work to pick her up. Yes. I use the shampooer, about once a month. Cleaning chemicals: laundry pre-treatment, pine-sol, eco-friendly surface cleaner, oil for wood cutting boards, gallon jugs of vinegar and bleach. We keep batteries in the house since the summer heat resulted in throwing out a half package of AAAs a few years back. Linens: 2 bathrooms, 2 towels per person, extra hand towels for when grnddaughter gets one muddy, or uses it on one of our pets, or takes them to her outdoor play kitchen. She's an independent 5yr old and not a neatnik. Bath mats are a total of 4. Paper products are an issue for us. For some reason our one local market still has an aisle of nearly empty shelves. Even the Target we went to yesterday is still limiting purchases. So I try to keep 2 packs on hand, buying just one at a time. I don't buy the mega-packs because of my storage issues. Paper towels are bought 1 roll at a time. They are only used for messes that I choose to put the towel in the trash, like when a cat brings in his prize catch. I'm reluctant to reduce the quantity of dishrags and kitchen towels. I've been changing them everyday since I read an article about how they harbor clostridia, salmonella, e-coli, etc. I cut up some of the larger old feed sacks and hemmed them to use for daily scrubbing. Surfaces get dirty and gritty fast when that's what surrounds you and you have no mud room.