Primary Bathroom too big--need ideas?
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Comments (32)I have never had a closet accessed directly from a bathroom so I have no personal experience, only professional. One client claimed space aliens planted the mold on the clothes and were going to return to earth in 58.72 years to harvest the mold, but I have no way of verifying that. We have questioned a Cladosporium, but they have opted to rely on their fifth amendment rights so it lead to a dead end. Our research has been hindered by funding and time constraints so we rely partially on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....See MoreHow can I fit a larger bathroom and closet into my primary bedroom?
Comments (4)Definitely along the lines of your first option. And try to move the door to the primary bedroom back a foot or whatever so its wall is in line with the rest of the hallway. It’ll make for one less awkward jog and give you more room to walk around the bed and access the new closet....See MoreTile and wall colors in Primary bathroom
Comments (4)Make up mirror suggestion, based off the vanity details: Get one with lights hidden in it, trim it out with wood to coordinate with your vanity/table or any rustic looking wood you include in the room (dark like the floor would work as well) and you can even add some black mounting (like small barn door accents) to tie it in: https://www.amazon.com/HAUSCHEN-Lighted-Bathroom-Mounted-Dimmable/dp/B07BPHKXWG It would give it this look, just making sure the lights show just inside the wood trim. As for your vanity table, one option: https://antiquefarmhouse.com/rustic-reclaimed-wood-console-table.html You could apply a grey weather stain or leave it as is, depending on where it's going in the room and trim the legs if the height is too tall. If this is too wide, what is the layout/dimensions of the room you are working with?...See MoreHelp with primary suite layout - bathroom + closet
Comments (10)I think you're showing the old and the new on the same drawing? As others have said, this is confusing. But the new master suite is a simple layout with a closet-bath-bedroom? Okay, if I'm reading this correctly, here are my specific thoughts: - Simple layouts are always best. Thumbs-up. - The hallway to the bedroom will make things private. But the hallway is something like 10' long and dull ... on the positive side, you'll be walking towards a door with natural light /makes for a good focal point. I'd like to see low-wattage motion-sensored lights in this hallway to make it pleasant at night ... if you place two lights midway in this hallway, the light won't spill onto the bed and disturb a sleeper. How wide is this hallway? I hope no less than 42" ... personally, I'd steal a foot from the ample bath and closet and add a set of built-in bookshelves into this hallway. I'd love to see it maybe 48" high with space above for artwork or display items. A 42" hallway with a half-high bookshelf on the left wall would feel luxuriously wide. This would give you a ton of storage and would create a more pleasant walk than an empty hallway. Imagine 10' of this: - I would definitely flip-flop the closet and the bathroom. Why? Because "as shown", you have the toilet sharing a wall with the bedroom, which can be noisy. In contrast, the closet is a quiet space. It also means when you want to use your own bathroom during the day, you're a step closer. - After making this flip-flop, keep the water items on the wall shared with the closet. This will mean more quiet for the secondary bedroom on the other side ... and if (when) you someday need service of some sort to the bathroom, a worker would be able to break through your closet wall, which means preserving your expensive tile. You could even ask for access doors to be left in the closet, which would allow you to reach the water works simply by moving the clothing out. - I'd definitely want a window in the bathroom, even if it's a small one up high over the tub. - Is that an open shower next to the tub? Eh, okay but not great. Personally, given that you have a very large closet right next door, I think I'd keep the tub at the end of the bathroom and create a shower that kinda "dips into" /steals space from the closet. I'd be willing to steal a bit from the large bedroom to make this happen. - In designing the bathroom, don't forget to plan where your towels will hang. - I don't know where you stand on closets-opening-from-bathrooms, but I think I might be tempted to close off the closet-door-from-the-hallway and open the closet from the middle of the bathroom ... meaning you'd enter the middle of the closet instead of the end. Maybe. - I note that you don't have a linen closet IN the bathroom, and that's something I really like. If you open the clothing closet into the bathroom, you'd be able to use that space for bathroom storage too. - I like the door in the master bedroom (fire safety), but I'd like to see a few more windows. The best rooms have windows on two sides to allow natural light from two different directions. - This is a fairly large bedroom, and you're showing only a bed in it. What do you plan to do with the rest of this space? My old bedroom was roughly this size (13' wide) and a king bed with two nice-sized night stands fit nicely on the short wall, but I was always a little irritated by the wasted space at the foot of the bed. - Where is your laundry? Ideally it'd be near the master bedroom as a step-saver. Your closet is large ... could you have a small stack-up unit in the closet?...See MoreK Laurence
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