Thanks for reaffirming what we had pretty much decided on already. I still have some concerns with the vanity area. It can be upto 94" in length. Hubby is worried it will look like a runway and end up being a major drop zone. (Current vanity is 84" in length so I don't think the additional 10" will make that much difference.) Any suggestions on configuration for the vanity. Again I am hampered a bit by the window that is 30" in from the wall. It has always made the first sink feel crowded (plus the door swung in to whoever was standing there). Would there be enough room to have a make up vanity approx 24" between the two sinks? I'd appreciate any guidance.

>>a house needs a tub unless it is in a retirement community and even then, if there is more than one bathroom, it should have a tub>> Hmmmm....maybe, maybe not. I'm 65 and like the majority of my friends, prefer showers. When we remodeled our MBa it has a custom shower and a double vanity, plus a matching 6' tall linen closet. Plus an alcove with another 3-drawer cabinet in that. I'm a firm believer in lots of storage, LOL. My MIL loved baths, hated showers. When she moved to a nearby retirement facility, she had a choice - shower or bath, both with attendant. Eventually she gave up bathing for the walk-in shower, saying it was easier and faster. One reason she moved: she was terrified of falling in the bathroom during her bath, when she lived with us. We thought about putting in one of those walk-in tubs, but she did use them at the senior facility instead before she switched to the shower. It's a reasonable alternative, but forget trying to wash a dog in them [smile]. They're pretty tight-fitting inside, with the built-in seat taking up a lot of interior volume. I can tell you that when I broke my leg at age 54 (I was out gardening and fell on concrete stairs), it was IMPOSSIBLE to lift the cast high enough to step over the (rather short height) tub-shower on the main floor, at first. It was almost 5 weeks before I could do it, wrapping the cast in a plastic bag. That tub is only 16" high at the rim - but it could have been a mile high as far as trying to get into it, when disabled. My vote is double vanity, linen cabinet, shower (3x5 is ideal and I wish we had that). Add in safety bars and a good vent fan, too.

You have about 10'4" between your bedroom door frame and the left exterior wall. Build your bath from the bedroom door to the exterior door along the hall and closet wall -- 10'4" long and 6' wide. Put the back of your toilet at the closet wall with its left side against that exterior wall. About one square yard would be what you'd need. From that same wall behind the closet, build a 36" dividing wall (2"x4" studs) along the right side of the toilet to create that niche for the toilet. Within that wall will be your plumbing for your tub/shower and, if you plan ahead, a shelf or two -- above and/or below that -- for a toilet tissue holder within the wall. With its faucet, shower and drain end against that dividing wall, put the left side of your tub/shower combination against that closet wall -- usually 62 ". -- and then build another 36" wall opposite the other dividing wall to frame the tub/shower. You've now used used most of that 10'4" Measure 3' from that last 36" wall to the next wall. Your door will go in that opening. Then across from that last 36" wall at the end of the tub, build a 2' wall (2"x4" studs) that will be on the right side of your 18" deep vanity/countertop with the left side of your vanity/countertop against the exterior wall. You could even hang an 18" countertop between the two walls -- exterior wall and the last 2" wall and have your vanity built only beneath where you want your sink(s), leaving plenty of room beneath the wide countertop for laundry hampers and/or roll under cabinets or a wheeled stool for sitting at the mirror. Plan ahead as you set your studs so you can build any "medicine cabinets" recessed into the wall above/behind the vanity/countertop. You could center the vanity base and sink(s) across from the tub and leave the space beneath the countertop across from the toilet open. Another option could be a sink and vanity at each end or even create a vanity beneath the entire width of the countertop. The back of the master bedroom closet(s) -- multiple closets or one elongated closet -- with bi-fold doors for access from the bedroom -- would be against the same wall as the back of the vanity -- about 10' 4" long and as deep as you need it to be: measure the heaviest coat with the widest shoulders either of you has and your closet needs to be deep enough for that coat to be hung in the closet without touching the front or back wall -- front wall with your bi-fold closet doors built in front of that between closet and bedroom. If possible, put a small window shoulder high in that exterior wall of the bath centered across from the door accessing the bath. You'd have a hallway alongside the bath and closet, not take up much more of the bedroom floor space and you could even add a door between the bedroom and the bath door in case at any time you wanted to leave the option for closing off the bedroom but not the bathroom.

I like #3 because of the contrast.