Bathroom Remodel Ideas.
We are looking are remodeling our bathroom. We are trying to decide what to do about the shower. It's huge and cold. It measures 9' by 3.5'. The vanity measures 83" wide. I have a few ideas.
A) Leave the shower as is but glass it in all the way.
B) Making the shower smaller and add in a tub. The shower would stay on the right and we'd add the tub on the left next to the vanity.
C) Make the shower smaller. But I don't know what to do with the empty/Extra space space.
I would love some additional ideas and suggestions. Thank you!
(the door in the picture is a linen closet)
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Comments (1)If you don't use the vanity area with a chair, it makes sense to continue the cabinets wall to wall. That gives you a great storage area, and with new cabinets you can use deep drawers for more useful storage. Having a shorter vanity just leaves wasted space on the ends. However, if that is truly the only location for hanging towels, you might want the vanity shorter on the right side so you have room for either hooks or a towel bar to be hung at a better height....See MoreBathroom Remodel Ideas
Comments (4)There's a small window over where the soaker tub is in the provided image. Currently the vanity and shower are in the same place. The shower is just smaller with the linen cabinet tower directly next to it, and the toilet on the other side of that. We also currently have a jacuzzi tub along the wall that has the toilet in the provided rendering....See MoreMaster Bathroom Remodeling Idea
Comments (13)Given both those changes, an experienced designer would be a good addition to the project. You can, however ask for design help here in a new thread. You must include a diagram of that area of the house that includes the neighboring rooms, has measurements for every wall, window, and door, and shows placement of electrical and plumbing. You will get a lot of ideas and suggestions. Are you keeping the bidet? Will you consider moving the toilet? What is below this bathroom (ie: basement, crawl space, lower floor of multi-storey home)?...See MoreTransitional "Pink/Green" Bathroom remodeling ideas?
Comments (34)Okay, hold your horses. This idea of removing the tub and reusing the floor tile to fill in where the tub had been has a major flaw. No waterproofing. Your plan only takes into account the pretty surfaces and not the bones that actually make a shower work. When you build a shower, the layers underneath the tile and grout must be waterproof. Grout is not waterproof. A shower is built to account for that and you can actually take a shower in a properly made shower BEFORE the tile and grout go in and you will be fine. If you leave up walls from the 1950s or earlier, you are dealing with tile set into a thick mud base reinforced with wire mesh. Somehow, this system usually did not leak through and get the framing of the walls wet. But once the tub is gone, you are back to bare studs down there. There is no way for you to add tile there and tie it in to the old walls. Your new section where the tub had been will either just leak, will leak at the seam between the old wall and the new area of wall (if you manage to waterproof the new section), or will leak both where this seam is and where the new wall meets the shower floor. The only way to make a waterproof shower is to have a seamless layer of waterproofing using one of several methods from the drain in the shower floor to the top of the tile walls AFTER a professional slopes the shower floor properly. You simply cannot do it the way that you said you want to do it, re-using the floor tiles to make the lower walls. Research waterproofing so you understand a few ways of doing it and you will see what i mean. This is not a quick semi-remodel situation. As pros have tried to tell you, you must gut the tub/shower to make a shower here....See More
palmtree7653
5 years agoI think part of the cold issue is due to the shower not being enclosed. The steam and heat just escapes.
The former resident did not knock anything out. The house is just 2 years old. This is how it was designed by the builder.
Here is our bathroom layout from the original builder plan.
Here is my rough drawing of the bathroom with dimensions. I was measuring alone so measurements aren't exact but very close.
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5 years agoThe bathroom is very builder basic so I’d like to change out the tile and counter top and add a second light so there is one over each sink. I want it to feel more luxurious. The cold shower is also annoying.
I was thinking of adding this deep soaking tub like this and making the shower a little smaller.
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JAN MOYER
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoYou have a two year old house. Unless you'd truly USE a tub? I would say NO. Least expensive is an improvement to the chill issue, and a nice upgrade to materials with the fewest moves to plumbing. Basically? Add glass and then what you want to style.
OR.......... rip the whole right knee wall of shower entirely, and make the entire shower glass.
OR........... lose the bath entry to the linen closet, open it to the hallway instead. Extend the vanity.......ignore the numbers there. 39 x 72 shower, 47 inches path in front of vanity, and 22 for vanity . With little major plumbing changes. Just the loss of the linen. Much depends on WHERE you want the space, and how you store bath items. And the budget.
But............you don't have great space for decent shower by today's standards AND a tub that many do not use. At all.
or...................
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5 years ago palmtree7653
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoThank you everyone! You have given me some great ideas and lots to think about.
Due to space and budget, I think a tub is definitely out!
I'm wondering if I could make the shower small and add a makeup vanity under the transom window.
A vanity like this
And this is how I picture the shower
Here is my poor attempt at a mock-up of the new vanity
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