If you don't mind getting it cleaned$$$$$$ Have at it.

Would be too large for me, too big when showering.......but that's your decision : )

If I'm the cleaning lady, I'd probably quit.

I'd separate, and ROTATE the tub . You lost four feet of wet space with the new plan. A six x six shower is still very generous.

Bottom line? I don't love either plan - each having issues of space overkill in one place or another : )

A 16' x 15' 6" bathroom... a gigantic closet....or, or.

Honestly, with that much square footage, I'd want a bath all to myself. His/hers

So, someone takes a shower and then another person wants to take a bath and has to travel across the wet floor. After, who comes in to squeege the glass and walls and floor, unless you have a live-in housekeeper who attends to this room after every use. I do not understand this new phenom of large wet spaces. Having had glass enclosed showers for the past 20 years, I love them and know I have to clean that glass after showers so it doesn’t spot.

True luxury is having a bathroom all to yourself.

Agree with above comments.....the whole wet room idea is so ridiculous. Why would you not just do a big, beautiful shower and separate tub? Way more practical in my book.

I think the wet room concept is pretty trendy - it’s likely to become the giant corner jacuzzi tub of the 90’s at some point

Along with more than a few OTHER things: )

Echoing above? Do we need to SHARE every space ? Maybe not so much. You share a bed: )

I like the closets being accessible from the bathroom - makes sense. Hate the wet room for all the reasons everyone stated. The second plan looks good - just separate the tub and shower area. Personally, I prefer a built in in tub to a freestanding one - it’s easier to access and clean. I also like to have jets and air bubbles for a spa experience.

IMO wet rooms work only in the tropics where you can shower and tlet the toilet and sink dry on their own Who ever thought this was agreat idea in an actul full bath was an idiot. Why do you want to clean and wipe down the whole spae everytime you have a shower ?I always sugget to my clients they go test drive a FS tub they are a PITA to get in and out of not to mention cleaning the wall behind the tub an in a wet room that means every time you shower you get to stand on your head to wipe down the wall. I also think his and her closets waste space and honestly I have never needed both I uch prefer a huge shared one

Well, the shower is wheel chairs accessible. That is the only positive thing I can say.

I love that you have given so much thought on what works for you.

It doesn't really matter if someone else can share a closet if you and your husband can't. I could never share a closet or bathroom with my husband. He left toothpaste in the sink and empty bottles of shampoo/conditioner/soap in his shower and shoved as much clothing as could possibly fit in his closet. I am a minimalist who likes everything in it's place and use a one in one out rule for clothing, shoes, sheets, towels. I can't stand mess or clutter.

I don't need or want a huge bathroom or closet, but I can't advise you on how much space you need. When I decided to move I measured everything in my last home and made notes on what would be ideal to determine my needs for my next home. I had a 5' reach in closet and 6 drawer dresser. The dresser was fine, but I needed a bit more closet space. My new home has an 8' one sided walk in closet and is right sized for my needs.

I did the same thing with kitchen space and storage space, vanity space and even room sizes. I know everyone says you need 36-48 inches between counters in a kitchen. My kitchen often had 4 or 5 people in it. I had 5' isles and that worked much better for the way we cook and bake.

What I see in your designs is wasted space. In a bathroom having 4' aisle between the vanity and the tub/shower is pretty generous unless you need a 5' turning radius for a wheelchair.

Hallways are always a waste of space. 7' closets with the walkway through the center are the most efficient use of space. Can't use corners to hang clothing on both the walls. You can only use one or the other. Love walk ins with drawers/shelves on one side and hanging clothes on the other (but that is what works for me).

I don't like to clean all that much, so I like showers that are longer, tiled and don't need a door.

I am also fine with toilets that are behind a pony wall or a full height wall without having to fully enclose the space and have a separate door. Feels too much like an airport or mall toilet stall for me.

I also like generous storage space /counter space in the vanity and chose single bowls rather than double in both of my bathrooms to gain the extra storage. Most of the time spent in front of the vanity is for doing hair and makeup, not brushing teeth or washing my face. I only need about 7 minutes a day using the sink.

I love this bathroom other than it needing a tub. feels like it would be easy to clean, provides adequate privacy and feels "right sized".

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As for the free standing tub. Think about what others have said. I chose a 21" deep alcove tub with a bench a bench at the end so I will be able to sit on the bench and bring my legs over the edge as I age (61 now).

My sister built her alcove tub into a space that had room for a nice ledge all the way around the tub that is probably 8-10" deep and she has shelves on one wall behind the tub. It feels good, she can have a glass of wine, a few candles, a place to set a book or blue tooth speaker for listening to an audio book.

I would give some more thought to the design and see if you can come up with something that is more efficient use of the space and is perfect for how you live your life.

Thanks for the comments, everyone!!

The home we currently live in has a standalone tub. We have about 1' clearance from the walls, so it's not hard to clean around at all. I believe a wet room could make it easier, but Like everyone else, we don't like cleaning glass :( Thinking more about it, a 6x6 glass shower enclosure would have the same amount of glass as a 12 x 6 wet room. A glass wall on one side only though would ensure less of that chore! Agree, the bathtub can be rotated. A small side table can now be put next to it for reading, wine, etc... The windows could use some changes too. Not sure if two large windows in the bathroom is outrageous, but the side facing the back is private. What do you think?

With all that space i would want my own toilet,

With all that money? I'd get my own house next door: )

"Your house or MINE tonight?"

Hubby and I are also building in the PNW, and we also have planned a 5x6 shower with two heads. We tried to make it work so that the shower heads were set up like your last photo, but we taped out a space on the floor and marked where the shower heads would be, and then we stood there and pretended like we were showering... we were knocking elbows like crazy, we were just too close to each other. We ended up deciding to place each shower head on opposite walls to make it work. (Hubby and I have been married nearly 30 years, and frequently shower together. We’ve had dual shower heads once before and it was glorious to each have our own stream of hot water. Do make sure your hot water heater or tank can handle dual shower heads.)

Also, think about where you want to hang/place towels for drying off. In such a large bathroom, you might also want to consider a heated floor.

Where do you hang towels? Do you want to be able to hear each other using the toilet?

I get having your own closets and separating the bedroom from the closet. Our bedroom has no clutter with the closet and drawers on the other side of the bathroom. I think you’ll like your choice on this. We have reduced the “Honey, you are such a slob” or “Who was your mother this time last year?” conversations.

I’m not sure you have enough space, though the halls seem to be taking up some valuable real estate, having a laundry in our closet/dressing area has really reduced the workload. We installed a whole-house heat recovery system and the space is very open, so we don’t have moisture issues; proper ventilation is always a consideration. Our drawers, across from the laundry, are topped with solid surface and that makes it great for folding laundry and putting it right away in the drawers below. We plumbed in a shower pan under the laundry that is integrated into the flooring much like your wet room, so overflow is not a concern.

I studied how my husband interacts with his clothes and designed his clothes plopping areas and 13 wall hooks. It did the trick - “secloistered” seems like a perfect portmanteau word for how I cleverly, if I may say so myself, had him manage his junky area . Wise of you to go with separate closets! The plus of ours is that I get to see my husband’s cute buns in unexpected ways.

BTW if a wet room is sloped properly and your floor tile has a supper COF Slip Resistance Rating, over splash should not be a problem. Consider installing in floor heating. We installed radiant floor heating throughout and our floors dry quickly, we stay comfortable and I only dust every couple of months. I designed our bath so we don’t need a shower door since I hate cleaning glass shower doors and their tracks.
(I’m all about kicking little irritants to the curb.)

Thank you for sharing and giving me this opportunity to share. Nice!

Is this a,lowed under your local building code?

Yup, for many reasons I am definitely in the Pro shower door/anti-wet room group.

I like Marylut’s design, and would add a handwash sink next to the toilet. Sometimes you just need that. The toilet being across the wall from the bedroom in the earlier design made no sense to me. if you can afford a fabulous space, why be awakened by every flush from your partner late at night or early in the morning?

Verbo, I believe that the table next to the tub came into being after the OP ditched the wetroom idea. The glass wall in her last design only went as far as the shower, and the other shower wall is left open, hopefully with a good slope in the floor to the oposite wall. I am not so sure that this would work in a 6 ft long shower with one shower head pointed toward the open side.

For those who hate wiping down the walls of their showers, I suggest that they consider solid surface walls next time. Corian, Swanstone, and my Transolid shower do not need to be wiped down. I do occasionally squeegee them, but I have never washed them in 4 years and they look the same as new. I do wash the floor every few weeks and the shower curtain occasionally. If you avoid glass altogether, life is easy.

Does someone HAVE to poo while the other is in the bath?? Honestly....the poo "privacy" thing makes me nuts.

Same 12 ' of vanity......

Not that it is a solution for this OP, but sometimes it's fun to totally rethink a room. "Go big or go home" sort of idea:

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Just some ideas:

I'm all for spaciousness, but you can have too much of a good thing. Personally, I would find a bathroom of this scale uncomfortably large. My bathroom has 4' of open space between the vanity and a freestanding bathtub and I have never felt at all cramped in that space. I can't imagine the need for twice that amount of empty space. Unless you're already accustomed to living in spaces of that scale, I would rethink it. The space allocated to the bathroom in Jennifer Hogan's layouts is much more reasonable.

Marilyncb, I believed that space was reserved for rumba practice. Dancing is the only answer I can find to the question of what such large bathrooms are meant for.

Until I noticed that there was a toilet up against the bedroom wall, I was going to suggest moving the vanity wall in two feet and having a space for built in drawers or a bookshelf in the bedroom there. Jan’s hand drawn plan has the same problem, toilet flushing on a shared bedroom wall. Bad, bad idea if you can afford to not have that.

Thank you for all the comments! It's clear to me the wet room concept isn't what we need or should do. Didn't know about the code issue for the toilet room either. We love the ideas. The ones from Jennifer and marylut are amazing! Thank you both for drawing them as well! marylut's first design checks all the boxes and more, so we're planning to use it or a slight adaptation of it. In many ways, the design is similar to what we currently live in, which we love. Here it is by the way (it's a spec home)

Thank very much!

The HVAC locale is an issue, but when you get the darn toilet to the back? ( So do the GO alone IN THERE!) The closet can increase, and the waste within the bath is a lot less. Keeps the 12' vanity. Increases the shower and doesn't crowd the tub. Let's put it this way.....it was a big wish list ( read her wants up there ) and if you can ? You can.....: )

No It's not a neat drawing, I'm not getting paid, right?

Back to pros of wet rooms, Our house on the Arabian penninusula was all wet room with drains throughout. After the Hoboob winds blew off the deseart, the house opened up for a good power cleaning inside and out. I doubt this is your concern and thankfully so.

Some of the wet room conviences have an expression in our current house. In addition to our laundry, our toilet rooms are wet rooms, toilet bowls are wall humg with tanks inside the wall and TP holders flip into a watertight compartment Also, a Shattaf is plumbed into each toilet room. Bidets at that time we built were separate fixtures, ugh! Though its hard to find a good quality Shattaf in the US (direct-plumbed, temperature and pressure control, backflow preventer), I think they are becoming more available. In addition to it’s bidet benefits, especially the Covid induced TP shortage, this set up makes it easy to clean the whole room using the Shattaf and the right brushes — clean and done in less that 10 minutes. i wish i could tell you how much it cost; we did all the work ourselves over a 5-year period.

I thought about being twenty-five years older and projected my older self into cleaning our future home. This stimulated different choices. Now I’m there. Most worked. Consider projecting yourself 25 years into the future…

WOW! you;ve got quite the group of creative advisers! it will be interesting to see how you weigh all their advice to come up with your creation. Enjoy!

JAN MOYER, Sorry, I couldn't keep track of all the comments. I'm not a pro :) The plan you shared is absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing it! Btw, by adding 1.5' to the the toilet room/section length, the toilet can also be re-oriented so it's not backing to the BR. There's certainly enough room for that I don't know enough about the code to say this is needed. Just an observation.

Maggie V Thanks for sharing! I agree with your comments about the bidets. The hand-held ones, like this for example are very helpful. Btw, I use a similar way to clean our shower enclosure. A few years ago, I replaced our main bath shower head with a combo that included a handheld part, a bit similar to this one. That made cleaning the glass and walls a breeze. After spraying the shower enclosure with a cleaner, I use the handheld shower to wash everything including the floors. A bit of scrubbing would only be needed every 6 months or so.

If you want the bidet feature, I recommend the Toto Toilet - a toilet with built in bidet, and Toto Washlet - a bidet seat that fits on any existing elongated toilet. Both have a wall mounted control with personal settings. You just need to wire for an electrical outlet by the toilet to plug it in (it warms the water and has a drier).

Thank you find the kind words, glad you found something appealing in my first attempt at a layout. Soooo, I believe ideally you want the BR located on a corner to take advantage of natural light and views from windows on 2 walls, the closet walls not on any exterior wall, the toilet not on BR wall, and window in bathroom (nice but not necessary in dressing room). This layout makes your BR long and narrow, allowing for spacious sitting area/tv viewing by double door, the bed area, and 3rd area for whatever (ie, coffee bar, reading nook, etc)

I ordered this bidet seat for a new toilet. I prefer not to use a hand-held wand, because the reason I started to use a bidet was back spasms that made twisting around or forward nearly impossible.  https://www.us.kohler.com/us/c3-230-cleansing-toilet-seat-elongated/productDetail/toilet-seats/1065576.htm

The reason I like a private toilet compartment is to ensure toilet spray is contained, or at least is less likely to get to the vanity area. One person chided me that it wouldn't be a problem if I could make everyone close the lid. I can't make other people obey my will anywhere, let alone a toilet, and this one will be used by casual visitors and trades people. So I opted for a walled-off area.

My first bidet was pre-pandemic and was a sort of trial. It was an add-on. We soon bought additional ones for the other toilets. https://www.amazon.com/BossBidet-Luxury-bidet-attachment-toilet/dp/B01DXE2BEC/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?crid=31H2NLLAFYK1C&keywords=boss+bidet+attachment+for+toilet&qid=1665389787&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjgzIiwicXNhIjoiMS42NSIsInFzcCI6IjEuNzcifQ==&sprefix=,aps,529&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

Then the tp hoarding made me switch to small towels that get washed in hot water and bleach, though with the bidet, they never get dirty. It's more psychological.

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I put fresh ones folded in a basket on the tank. Used ones go in a basket on the floor. TP doesn't get used but is there for guests.

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I don't know if you will find any of this useful or not. I am sharing, because I couldn't find good information when I was trying to figure out how to make it work for us. In fact I found a few really silly ideas that might discourage someone from even trying.

After considering all the ideas, we got rid of the wet room. We're still refining it, but this is our line of thought so far.

The vanities area will receive more light (a priority to us) than before with the new 6x3 window. And, since it's high, we may not need to even cover it and will bring some morning sun.

I was worried at first because the two vanities would face each other, in case the mirrors would cause a fun effect like this one https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5862874/help-with-vanity-mirrors-facing-each-other. But, the walls are 11' apart, so I hope will be enough space between the mirrors.

Looks fine, and whatever works best for YOU.

I'd strongly consider stealing 18 inches depth from hubby closet in the passage.......for a linen closet.

Rather absurd not to have a dedicated linen in a bath this size. There's a lot of junk that needs to be in a bath...and most of it not pretty. Mirror the doors: )

You can adequately light a closet with electricity, and maybe that man closet should have a pocket door, back side of linen

This is a great improvement. The only other thing I would consider is a small hand washing station in the toilet room and a place to store a few extra rolls of toilet paper.

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/small-bathroom-vanities-and-sinks-for-tiny-spaces-248559

You don't need a hand wash IN THE LOO. For heavens sake.........if you don't fully shut the door, or if you use a scrap of tp to use the handle, you will find nothing will kill you.

Your body is meant to encounter and defend against.....quite a lot. Or you wouldn't still BE here lol

If you have a neuroses? Keep a bottle of hand sani in there with the anti stink spray. My lord......

Hmmm - I wonder why powder rooms have sinks? Not really necessary I guess. Glad that restaurant employee bathrooms have sinks even through they could just use the kitchen sink.

They may have sinks ... doesn't mean they always use them!

Is the toilet closet itself not in the bathroom ? Right there with the vanities?? Really.....it's not a "powder room" where your next destination would be the kitchen or the dining area......or even your bedroom or an automobile!

You're IN the bathroom. Help me lord... !! Wash your hands. Clean the bath every week. Keep a Lysol spray in the loo closet for the handle. This stuff of "over think, does make me a bit nuts : )

Thanks for all the comments!! I like the idea of a linen closet! And while I know not a popular feature, I can see how a sink in toilet room maybe useful. I like it.

Also, I understand the windows in closets are debatable because they eat valuable space. We've had walk in closets with windows before and many without. Natural light makes a difference sometimes. Also, we keep the closets doors open most of the time for ventilation, so that would add some ambient light to the short corridor between the closets and the toilet room.

I have never had a window in a closet, but have read that your clothing can fade from the sunlight.

There's very little sunlight were we live in PNW :-( There's a reason all vampires live here (as proven by many shows). If they fade from sunlight, I'd actually go around showing them to everyone and they'd probably be envious!

"so that would add some ambient light to the short corridor between the closets and the toilet room".

So would a pretty light !! and some mirrored doors on a linen closet.

In a hundred years, I will never understand the appeal of a walk in IN closet within the bath. I want OUT of the steamy warmth for me and my clothes. I don't even dry my hair in the bath room.