I have a small house. Small baths. You don't like housecleaning nor wiping down after kids. One thing I did was I got rid of the ceramic tile tub surround and had white swanstone panels installed. I never want to clean mildewed grout again. I love tile and put it above the panels. Yes, I prefer, way prefer the look of tile but not at the cost of cleaning it. The swanstone looks pretty good. Sorry no pics. I have two Americast tubs and I think they are acrylic..I love them. Had cast iron before. They are shiny, sparkly, fresh and white. I think my cleaners use a spray to clean them. I am glad you are thinking this thru before you do extreme drastic measures. 1000s f is not going to be better with the addition of windows. Editing, building up, and up going storage will help, not windows. Natural light is overrated. Look at small space solutions and not at glam or cliched luxury sites. We built closets onto our bedroom walls instead of new dressers. Up to the ceiling. Think California closets. With drawers and cabinets. Not pretty but functional. We have ikea Brimnes headboards with under bed storage drawers in our new house. I am an ikea slave. Your family is always going to take a lot of time and energy and that's just the way it is. A 1000sf house will not be easy but it's home. And I love love your kitchen. Think about the life you live for now. Think first before acting.

The "regular" bath layout that jensbride posted first is very similar to what our DD & DS shared for years and worked very well. The door, however, was a pocket style and placed directly across from the toilet. This allowed the vanity to be scooted around the corner to take up the whole wall. It leaves the toilet close to the tub, but with lots of elbow room. Our kids just learned to keep the door partially closed when the bath wasn't in use due to the "view".

There’s one active thread that has over 22,000 comments. Many of these long ass threads are the same posters chatting, and JAN coming on fussing at everyone. Whatever, cool, but I agree with Oly — they bump new threads down with ”Would a light blue, semi light blue, medium blue, darker medium blue, dark blue, or very dark blue pillow look better here?” I think Houzz should move them to the “Other” board, but they never ask me.

The best bet to keep costs down is to leave your plumbing where it is. So you won't be appreciably moving the fixtures. First, find out what's in the wall where you'd like to move the door. Then find out why the shower is 3.5" lower than the rest of the floor. Once you know those 2 things, you'll have some idea of what is possible. Then you need to decide what the main use for this bathroom is. If it's basically a powder room that happens to have a shower, your approach will be different from what it would be for a full-use bathroom. For a full-use bath, this is what I'd do: if possible, move the door over consider boxing in the ceiling pipes if possible, raise the shower floor get rid of the framed, glass shower door. Consider replacing either with a curtain (inexpensive and easy to clean) or a an unframed glass shower enclosure (expensive) do the entire floor including shower in the same tile decide if there is room for a vanity instead of a wall sink. If not, determine where other storage space can be created add more and better lighting add an exhaust fan