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Master suite floor layout dilemma

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

Hello Houzzers! Looking for your design insights on our Master suite 3rd floor. Our 3-story rowhome has a smaller third floor, which we’re transforming from 2 bedrooms, 5 closets and a bathroom... into a master bed, bath and Walk-in closet. The dimensions of the floor are 28’ L x 15.5’ w. The catch is, we can’t move the toilet (according to our budget and contractor) because of the joist situation In these types of homes. Also the stairwell will need to stay as is.

Looking for help on the layout! We’d like to keep the bedroom in the front due to the 2 large windows, but am open to moving it. When I move it to the back of the house, I’m stuck on the idea of where to put the bedroom door, as I don’t love the idea of a master suite loft. Here’s the plain graph paper draft with what can’t move... design away!

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RappArchitecture

4 years ago

Can't help without a floor plan

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Lauren Fitz
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4 years ago
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I like the larger bathroom, but I think the doors conflict and it is nice to have them open into the closet. I'd do a good pocket door into the bathroom to avoid more conflict although it could open against the wall next to the sink. You do loose more closet storage, but corners aren't all that valuable in a closet. You could fit a lot of clothes in there by double hanging rods. That would save some money over the Pax system. Plus your closet now seems more separate from the bathroom by extending the wall. Here is another idea for the main bath. My daughter has stacked washer and dryer and is short, but uses the arrangement well. You have plenty of room in front of the W/D to get clothes in and out. The toilet is off to the side. The vanity could be 72 inches with 2 sinks. The bonus is the door would open up against the tub and the room would feel more open. The laundry would be easily accessible without the bathroom door being in the way. Folding laundry in the laundry room is overrated. I had a nice space for folding laundry in our 1 st house with a window to look out. I usually took the laundry to the TV area and sat down on the floor to fold.
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I'm interpreting that the layouts have progressed from: 1) standard model; 2) his/hers "utilitarian" both separate; 3) his/hers "luxurious" separate bath with shared closet. From a larger perspective, it seems that typically when one wants to incorporate separate his/hers areas, a "luxurious" house size and genre would take advantage of complete separated "retreats." As opposed to only "utilitarian" where it could be just a separate toilet/sink for stink or splatter. In the assumed third schematic, the "luxury" part was focused on for the bath, but not the separate "retreat" part. So reading between the lines the progression of where you would ultimately like to be: Also from another wide perspective point of view, to begin with, going modular today has less savings than in the past. And usually, when you custom design to the extent you are, much of that savings is eliminated. Add on the fact that modular presents many limitations as to layout, so a truly custom design is hampered quite a bit for what might end up being a 2% savings.
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Lauren Fitz
Original Author
4 years ago
And just for fun, here's one we came up with so far
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RappArchitecture
4 years ago
Your layout is a good starting point. In the bath, I would pull make the vanity the full 7-1/2' so there is adequate separation between the sinks and not a dead corner by the door. The shower could be reduced by a foot to 3' x 5' which would allow 4' of space between shower and vanity. At the closet I would eliminate the door from the stair hall to give more wall space inside, also maybe make a pocket door between bath and closet. A 5' linen closet is excessive but perfect for a side-by-side washer dryer if plumbing allows. In the bedroom, putting the bed on the long side wall would allow room for a nice sitting area on the opposite shorter wall near the front window.
lyfia
4 years ago
I have a question about the toilet. Does the little wall you drew have to stay there too? I totally get needing the drain to stay where it is, but can the toilet rotate on that drain or is that then an issue with the closet bend underneath. Ie does the closet bend have to be in a certain direction with the toilet? I guess I'm wondering if you can rotate the toilet 90 degrees or even 180 degrees. Not sure it matters if you do, but may allow you to think of other options.
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Lauren Fitz
Original Author
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
Lyfia- no that wall doesn’t have to stay! We can absolutely rotate the toilet in towards the room... I got to drawing this layout and then forgot to stop after the skeleton of it was drawn lol.

RappArchitecture- I love the idea of a sitting room! I agree we'll definitely need a pocket door both in to the bathroom and into the closet. If we removed the linen closet- would you add that square footage to any of the other rooms or does it become an XL hallway? You’re right it would be perfect the laundry but we have that in the 2nd floor stacked in a closet :)

thanks!
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RappArchitecture
4 years ago
It would only make sense to add it to the bedroom but I'm not sure how useful the space would be.

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