IMO a PR needs minimal storage and I would do a new wall hung vanity with a couple of drawers and forget any other storage . Why do you have a shower in a PR ? Maybe we need a bit more info and a to scale plan and some more pics could help.

@Patricia Colwell Consulting - The issue with anything square like a hung vanity, is the walls in the corner where the sink goes are not square and in fact, you lose about 1.5" in room width between that and the door into the bathroom (which comes in about midway for the 8 feet length). Anything square would make the crooked walls look obvious, hence replacing our old pedestal sink with a more modern pedestal sink. The door also opens into the sink/vanity area which makes accessing it more challenging as well as the sink more likely to get hit. The powder bath is off of a main hallway from the garage, so adjusting the hinges so it opens outward is not an option.

There isn't any shower, just a toilet with a cabinet over it on one end (toilet ripped out in photos), and a sink on the opposite end with a medicine cabinet to the left. The area in the middle is where you walk.

The only way I could take more photos is by putting a mirror in it. It is literally a 35 3/4" (toilet side to 33" (vanity side) wide by 8 foot long room that has 9 foot ceilings and nothing else.

Here is a photo from the original blueprint. It shows how the powder room is blocked in by the stairs, the garage, the hallway, and a closet/wet wall where plumbing is.

The tiny closet is my only closet storage on the main floor, which is why the cabinet in the powder room is heavily used. There is also not a storage closet upstairs, outside of the bedrooms ones, and a tiny linen closet. For such a open, spacious floor plan, they really didn't take into account storage outside of bedrooms.

I would hang the storage cabinet higher on the wall and paint both the cabinet and medicine cabinet (trim and all) the same color as the walls so it "disappears." Get a great mirror and light fixture so they steal any attention the cabinetry previously received.

Refacing/Updating the cabinet door style would also go a long way in updating the space!

Directly across from the door, is there by any chance unobstructed space between the wall studs that could be used for a narrow built in closet? Or even two side by side? If so, I’d put a nice built-in “closet” in there with narrow door(s) painted the same color as the walls. This closet won’t be very wide or deep, but neither are the things we need to store in a PR.

Then, I’d remove both the medicine cabinet and the over-toilet cabinet. Light paint and some pretty lighting and your PR will shine!

Here’s where I see it in your layout and an inspiration pic.

@Sofia - I like your idea, but I don't think it will work in that space. The stairs all along the wall the across from the door, so we'd have only have about 3.5" of recessed space aka the depth of the studs, and no place to put a door without it being in the way. Since the room is only 34-36" wide, and the entrance door to the bathroom swings in that way, it would be a clearance issue as well as getting little bang for your buck.

I also think there might be plumbing in that wall. I'd say recess the cabinet a bit into the studs over the toilet, but due to the open floor plan of my house, it's likely load-bearing.

@Maureen

I love the idea of floating shelf to help balance the room by moving the cabinet up (also helping so the doors aren't ridiculously long or too-hard to reach for the cabinet).

I will say, the linen closet we have is ridiculously small, and triangular, making efficient use of the space more challenging, which is why it overflows downstairs. It also saves a trip up/down the steps each time you need something, since there isn't much space. My new kitchen can hopefully store a few more things in the future. :)

Regarding color, we were thinking of wallpapering as it gives a bit of interest for the tiny space and little less monotony. We were looking at this more modern wallpaper I shared a sample of below. Would I just want a nice dark color/stain on the cabinet, or would it stick out too much still?

Here is the wallpaper sample, as well as of a photo of our new kitchen cabinets, which have a very dark brown, almost black stain on the oak where we've replace the old honey oak you see in the current bathroom photos.

Would those work well to help make it disappear? There is just no way to light this entire room well (no windows, narrow walls) so a lighter color would make the shadows more pronounced and just look dingy. You can see a tiny bit of the new floor tile in the photo I shared in another reply that shows the floor.

Wallpaper sample.

Cabinet wood color (no facings or doors installed yet):

Wallpaper sample next to the dusty wood in the kitchen where it is much brighter. :)

Do you use that shower? If not you can take it out and make a nice linen closet in there. If there is a shower on a floor with no bedrooms, that puts some future buyers off.

@tfitz1006 Did you mean closet, and not shower? We use the closet for jackets, shoes, backpacks, etc.

It's a powder bathroom, so no shower at all.

You can see the powder room here. The top side is the staircase along the full length. The right side is the garage. The bottom side is the hallway running from the garage to the foyer. The left side is the main floor closet which is tiny because I'm pretty sure there is a wet wall with plumbing behind it where the hot water pipes run from the water heater into the slab for the kitchen plumbing. The powder room is completely boxed in.

About the only thing you could do is a small built-in lower cabinet that goes into the slanted area under the stairs, but because the doorway is only 2' and so cramped, it would be more difficult to access, and it allows us to store larger items out of the way in the garage. Given how hard it would be to bend over to access it in the cramped space, this would not be worth the money it would cost. We chose to put our money into the master bathroom and kitchen instead, but this was sort of rolled into it when we learned the kitchen flooring had an issue mid-remodel, and had to pick a floor tile that worked with our old tile, which we weren't going to replace because it covered so much area, including the bathroom. We replaced all of the old tile that was connected with new tile, but we had planned to do the powder room at later date until that necessitated removing the toilet and sink anyway...

Got to love the snowballing of a remodel, right?

Gotcha. I mistakenly thought there was a shower....

@tfitz1006 - I agree, that would have been weird. :)

I did think it was a shower too now I realize just the way the pics were overlayed.I do not see the angled wall that you mention is it the one under the stairs ?Maybe I just do not understand the crooked wall thing.

@Patricia Colwell Consulting The wall in the sink area is on is not square or straight. The width of the room goes from 34" to almost 36" is the small space between that back wall and where the door hinges are for the entry. Where those 3 walls meet is more trapezoid shaped, and some of the wall is slightly bowed. It means without a lot of drywall and possible stud repair, putting a cabinet beneath the sink for any storage, will only highlight the issue. We also don't want to redo the drain pipe or look at it (if we just did a small floating sink) as that is your lovely view from the toilet. :) So while I would love to put the storage under the sink, it just isn't practical.

The cramped area and poor lighting makes it hard to take a photo and show the wall issue, whereas your eye can easily see it if you're looking for it.

It is also hard to access it, as you have to maneuver around the door since it opens into the vanity area. You have to enter, walk to the side of the toilet, close the door. Walk to the sink, open any cabinets, grab items, carry items by toilet and hope you can work the door with your shoulder or foot and reopen it. Then finally exit the powder room. Compared to above the toilet where you can open the door, grab something, and immediately exit. :)

Hopefully that makes sense.

It sounds like you need a cabinet over the toilet to have any storage at all. I would not put it any higher, unless it's a taller cabinet that would extend higher. Remember, a user would have to reach over the toilet to get into the cabinet.

How about an over the toilet shelving unit? Not sure if they're not "trendy" anymore, but they do provide storate. (ignore the first photo.....inserted by mistake).

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Maybe shelves (with doors) set into the wall-maybe behind the toilet

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Could you flip the door so that it swings out instead of in? We did that for our powder room. Previously the door hit the toilet, and it required a squeeze around the open door to get into the room. Now you can walk right in. Our size is similar to yours - 38" side by about 8 ft long, 9 ft ceilings. Used a dark wallpaper, it turned out very nice.