Thank you! This is genius. I will send to my architect

I like Blueberry's changes. You might have to use a smaller size tub so that you have enough clearance to make the second sink usable. Goo job, Blueberry!

It's recommended to have at least 12" around all sides of a freestanding tub so you can clean around it, so don't put it too close to the wall.

Another option might be to place the toilet room where Blueberry has located the shower and tuck the shower in the space where you have placed the toilet room. I would center the tub on the windows for the sake of symmetry, as a focal point. (The toilet closer to the entrance to the bathroom might be helpful. The door could be a slider into the wall of the adjoining closet vs. a swing.)

Change all those doors to pocket doors. Those walk-ins are barely big enough to be walk-ins and the door takes up too much space otherwise.

But yes, absolutely no to the L-shaped vanity. Bluberry's idea is great, as is swapping the shower & toilet closet.

If you decide to keep the layout as is, I would just put a large bank of drawers. That is the only place you have storage since you can't have drawers under the sinks.

What 3 did because your secondary walk in closet is too small to be a walk in closet.

How big are both the closets?

How big is the shower and the toilet room?

I like to have towel bars for my wet towels. Where will yours go? I don't see any wall space for them.

I like Blueberry’s layout best. It highlights the tub and leaves you two good spots for hanging towels (hooks or towel bars).

If you use blueberry’s, you could make the closet on the left a little smaller and the one on the right a little bigger so that you can make the shower bigger. Looks like you have plenty of space in front of the sinks and could make a small shift.

Getting the opening to the "hall" of the bathroom/closet closer to the bedroom door would be better in keeping the circulation grouped and respecting a "privacy" zone for the bed. Especially with this "hall" being open to the bedroom, I certainly wouldn't want to stare at the tub each and every time I am in the bedroom.

@BlueberryBundtcake - 6a/5b MA

Here's the next version from our achitect. I obviously do not like that the tub isn't centered. Can the vanity be shortended to and the tub moved over?

I don't think a shower would fit in the toilet room space just based on the dimensions we have to work with, but I could be wrong? @ptreckel

You have a lot of options but a lot of it depends on your elevations and what you can/can't do with windows. Can you move windows? Add windows?

Yes we can move and add windows! @anj_p

I believe this one gives you a bit more storage in the closet but more importantly you have more room to circulate. The vanity is 7'0" long with a 3'0" cabinet. The shower is bigger and you have walls around the tub and the shower to mount a towel bar close by. I would move the window to be centered with the tub:

Here is a rough idea of what I might do. I have a closet setup like this and love it.

Across from the closet with the pocket door, I have built in drawers about 4 feet high with a mirror in the middle on top and shallow wall cabinets on top on either side. I have a door from the bedroom to this hallway. Keeps light out of the dressing area and bathroom.

I store all the underwear and jeans, pants and miscellaneous in those drawers. I have the light switch in the closet hallway as you enter so that I can close the door and turn on the light without disturbing my husband.

My bathroom is set up differently, but this might work for you.

You could put a linen closet on the upper right side of the bathroom, or a bench would be nice too.

I am not sure if you are able to put your shower head on the outside wall where you live.

I love your ideas, Karenseb. If there is an issue with piping the shower, the controls could be in the wall shared with the toilet (the pocket switched to slide behind the washer and dryer), and a short wall, shared with the shower, could house the tub supply lines. Like your suggestions for the closet and dressers/mirror combo, and the linen closet, too! OP, what do you think??

I think Karen's layout is the best but I would just make sure to put the plumbing of the tub on the other direction so when you rest in the tub, you see the vanity.

What are the dimensions of the laundry room?

I love it! I do not like pocket doors though (have had terrible experiences with them not closing properly and breaking so I would just put in regular doors.

Our laundry room is 10.5' x 5.5'

Thank you @Karenseb - I'll run this by our architect!

@Neha Mehta If you don't like pocket doors, use a barn door for your closet. The door blocks too much of your actual closet space otherwise (Imagine - walk into closet, have to close the door to get to your clothes, then open the door to get back out).

I have a couple pockets doors in this house and had another in a previous house. The previous house had a cheap pocket door and it failed. This house has great pocket doors. very solid. I usually leaved the walk in closet pocket door open, but I use the other pocket door with no problems. If you get quality pocket door, you will be okay.

My daughter remodeled her home and replaced one of the numerous pocket doors and it works very well.

If you swap the tub and shower to keep the shower head on an inside wall, I would consider a door that opens into your toilet room. Most of the time, that is not recommended because of a possible medical emergency in which a person has fallen and you can not open the door.. In your layout, your toilet room is almost 7 feet long, so I think you have plenty of room.

If you do the built in cabinets across from the closet, my cabinets are vanity depth on the bottom.

So the total space needed for the hall and the cabinets is about 5 feet.

If you are gutting a bathroom it should be 100% ADA compliant. All those small toilet rooms would not be.

If you are afraid of being stuck in the bathroom when you have an emergency, you could install a door that swings outward.

Here.s a picture of a shower and free standing tub, in the configuration of Karen’s:

@Karenseb thank you! This is amazing.

My only concern is that we'd lose a signficant amount of closet space this way? Or do you think that's not the case? Here is the current plan with closet dimensions.

I think you gain closet/storage space with Karen's layout and plus it would so much more easier to circulate. In your original layout you have about 2'4.25" wide space to circulate while with Karen's layout you get 3'0" wide space. If my calculations are right, the storage space you get is:

8'4.5" x 2 (two parallel rows inside the closet) + 7'0" of dresser along the hallway for a total of 23'9" in Karen's layout compared to 14'0" in your original layout.

If you look closely, in your current layout you have 3 spaces where you circulate (1 in each closet and the middle one to get to the bathroom) and 2 walls mount place rods. While in Karen's layout, you have 2 spaces to circulate (1 inside the closet and 1 to get to the bathroom) and you have 3 walls where you can place rods and dressers.

I think with a 7'0" long toilet room, you should be fine with a door swinging inward.

Hi The first rule is to move as little plumbing as possible. Here you have plumbing everywhere which does give you more opportunity. I suggest you leave water closet in it's location. It is costly to chop the floor. Not sure why everyone moves it. Does it work? I would move the shower next to the tub. But, I would leave it open. A walk on in and out. You have two walls and the tub. The floor slants to the drain. The front if you really want something use a simple 1)4 door off wall. Two simple vanities define each person's area. Where existing shower place chaise and small tall round table something fun.

Or a long wide comfy bench.

Enjoy back wall sensational tile. River great stone nice waves and a small tile floor at shower and up to end of bathroom with an S design. Same small tile in water closet area. Consistency.

Than back to 1'squares.

Walls left and right same as floor to 42" with pencil line. Design at 32-38 use the small floor tile as design.? Above tile Maharam Vinyl wall covering. Lasts forever. Cleans easy antimicrobial.

You can look on line and order samples. Rain shower head 24" with single hand shower on wall.

Simple and clean looking

Water closet door could change to one with frosted glass panel.

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My only concern is that we'd lose a signficant amount of closet space this way? Or do you think that's not the case? Here is the current plan with closet dimensions

Actually you gain USEABLE closet space because your original closets were basically two reach in closets. Now with Karen's version you have a reach in closet for him and a walk in for you.

You have approximately 12' to work with in the width. The reach in closet becomes 2'4" which leaves you 3' for the hallway and 6'6" for the walk in closet. That is basically what I have right now leading to my bathroom except my closet is 8' long by 5.5' wide if I recall. With closet organizers, that will give you a heck of a lot better use of both closets.

Here's my closet. I don't show DH's because even with his organizers, his is still disorganized.

And secret, I am 2" shy of the 36" walkway. With your closet being 6'6" you'll be able to have a lot more storage than mine.

I like COCo's suggestion to put a glass panel to your water closet door to let the light in.

If you were planning on putting clothes on all 3 walls of the closet, you would get more closet space, but it might not be as useable unless you do pocket doors.

Are you planning on just hanging clothes in the closets or do you plan to use some shelves and drawers like Cpartist has?

You could do as Cpartist suggested and instead of drawers across from the closet, make a full closet the length of the wall across from the closet. That would give you a lot of closet space. Corners in closets are not useful. With Cpartists layout, your closet would be 6'6" X7 feet.

(which allows for a 6 1/2 foot bathroom vanity in that layout.) Across from that would be a 7 foot long closet.

If you are doing a closet with shelves and drawers, I like my closet layout using hanging clothes in the large closet and drawers and shelves across from the closet.

The hallway seems more open with that layout. You also gain some space because the cabinets are not as deep as a closet, and you eliminate a closet wall. The closet in my layout would be 7 feet and the vanity in the bathroom could be close to 7 feet.

I definitely would want a door leading to the dressing area and bathroom to keep light out of the bedroom.

Here is a picture of a built in dresser. Lots of drawers! It has a mirror in the middle between the 2 wall cabinets which have shelves. The door leading into the dressing room from the bedroom has a full length mirror on the back of the door.

If you decide you want to keep the two closets as you have on your layout, you could put the tub and shower on the bottom wall and do two separate 4 foot vanities on either side of the door way.

Since you won't use a makeup atea, consider a tilt out hamper in that space.

What Karen said or if you have a hubby like mine and can't stand sharing a closet with your SO, each arrange your space to suit you the best. We have a dresser in the bedroom for DH's other clothes.

Thank you everyone! Our architect loved the drawing @Karenseb. Will do a barn door for the closet. I definitely prefer the cabinetry instead of a closet and love the photo you attached.

I have a huge standing mirror in room right now that I love and I'd have to figure out where to put it. Maybe in the bedroom?

I have no expeience with barn doors, but I imagine it would take up more space in the dressing room hallway than a regular door. In my last house I had a walk in closet similar to yours and I had a regular door that opened into the closet. I hung clothes behind the door that were not used often (long items, dresses, dressy clothes, some seasonal).

I have a pocket door now and I never even close the door. Maybe if company is coming, maybe not!

It is dark in the closet, nothing to see.

I am guessing that you would lose about 3" in your hallway or 6" of storage in the closet. If you think you will keep the door open all the times and you don't like pocket door, I would eliminate the door completely.

If you plan on having a little bit of counter top in your cabinetry, you might consider adding an electrical outlet close by to charge your electronic during the night (phones etc) or a plug-in motion sensor to guide you when you go to the bathroom during the night:

https://www.amazon.ca/Motion-Sensor-Night-Light-Adjustable/dp/B07MFSKB2Z/ref=asc_df_B07MFSKB2Z/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=335074207130&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15080546262357717102&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000672&hvtargid=pla-645782386201&th=1

Great ideas!!! I love it.

Yes I'm thinking we'd just eliminate the closet door completely!

I think you'll be so much happier with Karen's layout.

I put a light switch with a built in night light in our toilet room. Not too bright, but bright enough at night. Also adjustable and only turns on when dark.

Thank you so much! @karenseb, our architect said your design was brilliant and he wished he’d have thought of it himself! Ha! You all really ret the best 🥰