Master Bathroom Help (new construction)
Hello, Friends!
We are speaking to the architect soon but trying to come up with better ideas for the master bath in this Florida Keys home. I hate this shower (pictured below) and also want to enclose the toilet for privacy. And I'd like a little seat for shaving my legs.
The only other thing is that the vent from the range hood in the kitchen below will be somewhere in that closet.
Master BR is at the top of the picture, window over the tub faces south (very close but shorter house next door), and the room to the bottom is an open space where the stairs come up and door to a patio (used in "model" as an office).
Here is the shower in the "model". I just LOVE how you have to reach under the cold water spray to turn it on. I know that you can move the controls across from the spray but I just don't like this dark tunnel shower anyway. And ours will be a simple rain shower, not those weird wall spray things.
My preference is to enlarge the "pop-out" for the tub to include a shower like the combo below. However my husband thinks it's too expensive a change. I just don't have the imagination to figure out where to put the sinks and this is hard! GW please help!
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- 4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
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I know you didn't ask about the closet, but I'm concerned that the way it's drawn is misleading. It shows dotted lines for the clothes rods (not how far clothes would come out from the wall, which is about 2'.) The rods are on perpendicular walls (which means you'd lose the corner space.) The rod in front of the angle won't work because clothes won't fit there. Clothes on the top wall would stick out past the door opening, and the pull down stairs would probably hit anything on hanging on that top wall.
The blue and pink boxes below show about how much space hanging clothes take; the overlaps would be dead space. The stripes are where you'd be able to hang clothes. You'd probably have better usable space with a single rod hung across the back (the pink space) and maybe some hooks on the other walls. Try taping it out on the floor to see how things would fit. You might be better off with a single rack reach in closet.
c9pilot thanked chicagoans - 4 years ago
- 4 years ago
Random thoughts, mostly about proportion:
- I'd flip the bathroom door so it opens into the bedroom instead of into the bathroom. Why? Because as it's shown, it creates an obstacle for both the closet door AND one of the sinks.
- I'd straighten out the closet walls so each spouse will have a simple 5' clothes area. At 3' wide, the toilet is absolutely average in size, no need for that angled ta-da area for the toilet.
- A bi-fold door won't work well on this closet. Why? The closet is 7' ... a nice size because it'll allow for two 5' runs X 24" depth each, which is just right /3' of walking space in the middle /a shoe rack to the ceiling. You don't want something deeper than a shoe rack because it'll block access to too many clothes. Thing is, the bi-fold door you've drawn is wider than 3' ... so your clothes'll be poking out beyond the closet door. I'd consider NO door, but a single hinged door that opens out into the bathroom will be your best choice for this layout.
- Why angle the shower? Your size is "just right" ... as long as you keep with straight lines.
- Where will you hang towels for the shower? I'd consider a shower curtain instead of a glass door.
- You should eliminate the steps in to the tub. They're dangerous and weird looking. Eliminating the steps means you can reduce the size of the tub bump-out /still have a comfortable sized alcove.
- What you don't have is a linen closet or any other storage (I wouldn't count on storing linens in this modest closet. I would eliminate one sink /downsize the vanity to 5' and put in a 24" wide closet, which will give you ample space for towels, extra bed linens and toiletries ... and will allow space for a hamper to be hidden in the lower half.
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