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help reconfigure bathrooms!

2 years ago

My husband and I recently closed on a split foyer summer home. We plan on building new in 5-8 years, but are doing some work now to buy some time.

We are a family of 6 (4 kids ages 5-15).

Upper level will be a master en-suite , 2 kids rooms with full bath, and a powder room. The kitchen / dining / living room are on the same level, but on the opposite side of the house.

Lower level will have 2 kids rooms, full bath, guest room with full bath, laundry, and family room.

We are reconfiguring the upper bedrooms and bathrooms. The goal is to keep the bathrooms in the general vicinity of the current bathrooms . Moving walls and plumbing a couple of feet , but not like across the hall or anything .

Attaching the latest drawing from architect. I feel like the master bathroom, powder room, and hall full bath can be re-worked more efficiently. However, I can’t seem to come up with anything! Please take a look and let me know if it looks ok . Thank You!

Comments (4)

baybgrl41
Original Author
2 years ago
Also, we don’t need a tub in the hall bath. I’m not sure if that helps with layout.
baybgrl41
Original Author
2 years ago
Another option .
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Here's another idea. Son's room (he seems too old for boy's room) is now in front...with his own bath. This would be great location for future guest room. Since he has his own bath....I gave the girls window seats and hutches for books, display, etc. Their bathroom is slightly bigger (I think) and should have a larger sink/vanity area. I redrew that space a lot! LOL The laundry is a bit smaller, but easier to access. Light from other spaces should make this a bit sunnier and I added a few examples after the plan. Also...have you considered putting in a stackable washer/dryer in your closet? Maybe even an extra linen cabinet? There's room in this plan :) Washer and dryer in built-in cabinets...goes away when not needed and just looks like pretty storage! And....maybe washer/dryer in your closet?
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@cd7733 This is the old layout. We added a 30x30 addition to a Cape Cod. @Lindsey_CA Yes, it is pretty big. We are a family of seven. We have a 9 foot table that opens to 12 feet. We didn’t want to have to scoot around it on holidays/parties when more people were in there. When we took down the wall between the old kitchen and the old dining room, we just ended up with a really big room but it works for us. We put two accent chairs and a table on the end near the window and the other end had built-ins. @Mark Bischak Besides the dining room, which spaces do you think are too big? Our architect was going off of sizes that we told him we’d like to maintain in the rebuilt house. I definitely think the two bedrooms are too small and I don’t love the angled wall. Any ideas on how to get two bedrooms and a bath in there?
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You mentioned widening the stairwell, do you mean the stairs themselves, or the hall landing? I think it would be nice to widen the hall at the top, shrinking that front bedroom a bit. And that's fine, if you use it as your closet. Anything to do with the bathrooms? We remodeled two bathrooms and the only plumbing moved was to make the shower a foot longer. Just replacing everything I including tile) with standard stock was $8k, $10k in the bath where the shower plumbing moved by a foot, and that was 20 years ago near Chicago. So, if you can live with the bath as is, do it. Maybe steal the space to the right of it for more storage, that will just be demolition of a short wall and building a new one with door facing the bedroom. You could even leave that little closet for a linen closet.
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How important is 2 sinks in the hall bath? I think you're too cramped in there. You've got 14'x14' to work with. What about this: make the hall bath a standard 5x8 with a single sink. Then your master can have an 8' vanity and a 3x6 shower. And your closet is 8x9. If you absolutely need 2 sinks in the hall, then you could eat into the closet space thusly and put some shelving in that closet nook:
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Verbo
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
Forget dumping 150K+ into this if its not going to be a long term home. Live with it as is.
emilyam819
2 years ago
The bathroom layouts are fine (I like the first you posted best). I’d work on getting the master closets on the shared wall with the other bedroom. And if you can re-work the doors into the bedrooms, get the reach-ins in between the other bedrooms, with half accessible from one bedroom and the other half accessible to the other.

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