Hey Summer....what happened to you? Lot's of time consuming and thoughtful responses to your question in your other thread https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5883875/which-floor-plan-would-you-choose-for-2nd-floor#n=12 but it looks like you left the building over there.

The Jack and Jill bath will not be a good experience for the child nor the guest.

It is difficult offering up advice when it goes in one ear and out the other. Sometimes responses have to be crafted to get noticed.

Free standing tubs are best located where they will be easy to clean in and around.

So did you fix the issues from your plan that were discussed in the other plan. I will say a J&J bathroom for guests and your kid is a bad idea. I would rather have two small bathrooms than a J&J . I like to have a bath so I would like a tub in my guest bathroom. We have friends with a B&B and did some research before building and found that many guests like a tub after along day of sight seeing or hiking Free standing tubs are a PITA to get in and out of and need at least 12” all around to be able to clean plus the fact you will need to get in the tub to clean the wall behind it. If you really want help post the new floor plan if this is not already done.

Personally, I would do the acrylic tub/shower combo. We are doing those in three of our bathrooms. I like them for being able to better keep water IN the tub.

I agree with the others, too, about a J&J bath. I like them sometimes but not in your layout. I would move bedroom 2 to the left corner so it can have more windows and put a long hall bath adjacent to the stairs.

That bathroom is a huge waste of space. Just do a hallway bathroom that is a full bath with shower/tub. Done. What you have will never work.

BR2 still needs a bigger window and IMO you could do 2 bathrooms in the space you have for the J&J IMO the whole top floor needs work. I never like access to a closet through a bathroom I hate toilet rooms they never make sense and eat up space . I see no reason for a upper floor family room when will it be used ? This is a poor plan that needs work . Where is your architect is this process.

"We haven't reached out to them yet."

Who is "them"? A licensed local architect I hope.

Proper solutions to "fixing" this second floor plan may involve alterations to the first floor plan. Based on the problems with second floor plan, I assume the first floor plan is not immune to problems.

Hi Shead
The reason the br2 isn't at the corner is because of the roof line of the garage, there can't be any window as of now.

You need a tub for a child's bathroom. How old is your kiddo? Tubs are needed (especially for resale) for kids' bathrooms due to using them for young kiddos as well as if a child is ever in a cast.

Some comments:

• All three bedrooms should have two windows, but each has only one.
• Bedroom 2 only has one exterior wall for windows, so it should have a second small window on that exterior wall.
• Bedroom 1 will hear the master toilet flush late at night, in the middle of the night, and early in the morning.
• Bedroom 1 will be disturbed by mom and dad taking a shower and getting ready for the day every morning
• Bedroom 2 will be disturbed by the shared toilet flushing during the night by the occupant of Bedroom 1
• Why do you need such a large Family Room on the second floor?

Honestly, we need to see the first floor plan and the elevations. I don't think your second floor is designed efficiently at all. The second story family room eats a ton of space that could be better used for bedrooms, closets, and bathrooms.

I disagree all bedrooms need two windows. None of ours have two windows. Not a single one. Yes that one bedroom needs a bigger window for sure but two is not needed.

If there is a way to make the bathrooms back to back that would help with noise?

I would love to post the first floor plan but there had been lots and lots of changes and we do not have the first floor plan that is associated with the second floor plan I uploaded yet because they were trying to show us and ask which floor plan we like more for second floor so they can go on making tweaks on the first floor.

Mark

So we're going thru our local builder and they design the completey custom floor plan and the construction.

"So we're going thru our local builder and they design the completey custom floor plan and the construction."

As a general rule, builders are not licensed architects.

No wonder you're having issues with the floor plan.

To your original question, wouldn’t bother me to have a jack and Jill bathroom at all. Someone else using it once or twice a year is just no big deal to me. But no way would I use someone else’s bathtub when spending the night.

Sounds like the second floor plan drives the first floor plan--which seems backward to me.

i agree the bathroom setup is space-inefficient. Some people looooove lots of space in a bathroom. I consider them utility rooms--they are for very specific purposes, and I don't wish to spend any more time in the bathroom than necessary. So less space on that and more space elsewhere, in my opinion,.

Aside from the pertinent quibbles others have expressed regarding the bathroom, I don't see why the master closet has to be so accessible from the bedroom. It would drive me crazy to have to walk through half that huge bathroom just to get to my shoes.

The fox is guarding the henhouse here. And trying to convince the chicken that they have the talent to design the chicken coop. They don’t. They’re just holding your money hostage and giving you dreck. One thing the shutdown has done is give you the ability to sever that relationship. You’re foolish if you don’t take it. It’s a bad plan, produced by someone you don’t even want building that chicken house.

Are you going to want Charlie to wire your house, he's not very good and is not a qualified electrician?

Are you going to want Charlie to plumb your house, he's not very good and is not a qualified plumber?

Are you going to want Charlie to frame your house, he's not very good and is not a qualified carpenter?

Are you going to want Charlie to roof your house, he's not very good and is not a qualified roofer?

Charlie is designing your house.

Maybe something like that (blue square is a linen cabinet):

GET AN ARCHITECT.

As a guest, I’d never use someone else’s tub. So I’d ask the primary user (the kid) their preference. If they’re too young to have a preference, definitely a tub. I’m not a fan of the three piece though surround though; I prefer an alcove tub with a tiled surround if that’s an option.

I don’t like the three piece tubs, either, but one pieces are still made. I’d take them every day of the week over a tiled surround as they are much cheaper and easier to clean.