Hi Cat-Mom, Yup, we're also renoing Living Room and Master Bedroom at the same time- you? :>) I just faux-painted our entry stair railing to make do until we add on to our front entry. So many balls in the air, hard to juggle it all at one time. kgwlisa, That's what I had thought of so far, basement ceiling has been ripped down, so all the plumbing is fully exposed, and present shower and bath have leaking problems, so things pretty well have to be redone anyways. I was even contemplating 'borrowing' more out of the common wall when we build it, by building in storage behind mirror and perhaps a deeper vanity. I'm assuming this is a fairly basic/common plan, and hopefully others have paved the path... Rae

I'm bumping this up, but this whole floor plan looks odd to me. (Lots of jigs and jogs. The secondary bedrooms' closets aren't big enough to be walk-in, and why would you put closets on exterior walls when you could have bathrooms there, with windows?) Maybe you want to post in the Building A House forum.

With regard to the towel bars, there is no room to have towel bars anywhere else unless you do through-the glass mounted towel bars on the shower enclosure itself, which I think would defeat the purpose of the clear glass shower. So unless you are going to throw your towels right into a dryer they need a place to hang. Aesthetically, I think with the various things you have going on, the white wainscot is the odd man out. It doesn't particularly tie in with anything, and to have it only on the toilet area end of the bathroom and not on the wall where the towel bars are isolates it even more. Personally I would probably use the backsplash tile as the wainscot all around. Or if you want the wood wainscot, do it all around and paint it a color other than white, because the only white thing in there is going to be the toilet.

How much time do you really plan on spending retiring to your bedroom sitting area? I ask because that sitting area seems more to be an aspirational lifestyle area vs something that will truly get used / is worthy of that much dedicated space. Agree ... I would only want a "sitting area" in my master bedroom if I lived in an extended family situation, which would make a "get away" nice. I was just saying to DH last night that it would be nice to have a sitting room that is not within the bedroom, but around a corner, or behind a wall, so that one of us could read it watch TV (with earphones) when sleep eludes him or her. IF I were to have a sitting area in the bedroom, yes, I'd rather it be set apart from the bedroom somewhat. Visual and acoustical privacy.