Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Apr 25, 2010 6:40 pm Hello All, First time on here so firstly a quick Hi to everyone I have a question regarding the Ensuite layout of the house I am currently building, and would welcome any advice. The ensuite is 3500mm wide by 1900mm deep. Along the back wall (which is 3500 wide) I currently plan to have an insitu shower, a double vanity and a WC. The WC is seperated from the vanity by a 90mm internal wall. The In-Situ shower is located in the LH corner and is 900mm wide. The WC is located in the RH corner and is 900mm plus a 90mm internal wall adjacent to it which seperates it from the rest of the room. Between the Insitu shower and the Internal wall (adjacent to the WC) I plan to have a benchtop/vanity with double basin. The length of this vanity will be obviously 1610mm (3500mm -(900mm+90mm+900mm) ) My two concerns are: 1. Is 1610mm really wide enough to have TWO basins installed and allow 2 people to use them side by side. Does the size of the basin width make any difference? Currently I'm looking at 470mm wide basins with a space between them of 330mm. This would then leave me 165mm from the outside side of the basins to the shower / internal wall. 2. As the vanity/benchtop will butt up against the side of the glass (of the in-situ shower) my other concern is that when I am showering, I will be able to look through the glass and see the side of the vanity & benchtop which IMO would look unsightly. Does anyone know how I could resolve this? Any help much appreciated, Chorlton TIMING OF BUILD 25Feb - Site Start 25Mar - Base Stage Complete 31Mar - Frame Completed 11Apr - Roof Tiles 20Apr - Brickwork Started Re: Help with Ensuite layout 2Apr 25, 2010 8:47 pm Hi (another newbie here) Your ensuite is very similiar to the one I am doing. Mine is 50cm shorter though and 30cm narrower. I am not having the wall between the toilet and the vanity but I am having one between the vanity and the shower. You can either do it to the height of a normal shower screen or even to just above the vanity and put glass on it and use the ledge as a shelf. My parents had their shower next to the vanity and it always looked ordinary and was very hard to clean between. Not sure about two basins though. I have a brochure here with two sketches and their shortest double vanity is 150cm but there isn't much room on either side of basins. There next size up is 180cm and it looks better but I prefer lots of actual bench space so I wouldn't even have one of these. Hth Donna Re: Help with Ensuite layout 4Apr 30, 2010 11:33 am Thanks for the reply. I'm not keen on having a short wall with glass on top as I can envisage water pooling on the top ledge which would annoy me. The other option is to take the wall to the ceiling but the downside to this is that it could make the room look smaller. I think I need to come up with some other ideas ..... TIMING OF BUILD 25Feb - Site Start 25Mar - Base Stage Complete 31Mar - Frame Completed 11Apr - Roof Tiles 20Apr - Brickwork Started Re: Help with Ensuite layout 6Apr 30, 2010 6:53 pm In my rental the shower screen butts against the vanity benchtop - it's a total pain to clean the glass on the outside as there is just no room to get in about and there is always a bit of glass that I can't get to at all. Just something to bear in mind! Re: Help with Ensuite layout 8May 04, 2010 1:04 pm Pushing a vanity hard up against a glass shower screen is a bad design. They used to do that in the late ninety's. Now days you typically leave a gap of about 100mm so you can get you hand in and clean. This of course will not help you with your space limitation. Personally I'd be building a nib wall as has been mentioned. Even if it was only 1200 high it doesn't get to much water on it and as long as your tiler places a slight slope (and it only needs to be very slight) on the tiles then no water will pool on the top of it. I think it looks far more classy building a vanity between two walls than having an open end and screen at one end. At the size of your shower you could extend the wall 1000mm leaving a 900mm opening and almost get away with no door. That's the option I'm looking into for my build. Less shower screens to clean. Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Help with Ensuite layout 9May 04, 2010 8:50 pm chippy Pushing a vanity hard up against a glass shower screen is a bad design. They used to do that in the late ninety's. Now days you typically leave a gap of about 100mm so you can get you hand in and clean. This of course will not help you with your space limitation. Personally I'd be building a nib wall as has been mentioned. Even if it was only 1200 high it doesn't get to much water on it and as long as your tiler places a slight slope (and it only needs to be very slight) on the tiles then no water will pool on the top of it. I think it looks far more classy building a vanity between two walls than having an open end and screen at one end. At the size of your shower you could extend the wall 1000mm leaving a 900mm opening and almost get away with no door. That's the option I'm looking into for my build. Less shower screens to clean. Hi chippy, Thanks for the reply. My current idea is as you have suggested ie Using a nib wall between the Vanity and the Shower. The nib wall would be 1200mm high and extend into the room by 1200mm, which would leave a gap of 700mm to enter the shower. There would be no door. I would then put glass on top which would be around 800mm high (total height of 2m) and extend into the room by the same amount as the wall. On the other side of the vanity (where the WC is located) I want to use another nib wall as I would like to achieve some form of symmetry within the room, as you walk into the Ensuite. However, my current dilemma is how high to make this nib wall? I want to extend it into the room by 1200mm (with no door) so as to create the "symmetrical feel" but I'm not sure whether I should take it right up to the ceiling? If I do then potentially the room will look cramped and the feeling of symmetry may be lost ??!!?? I be interested in yours & others views on this... Thanks.... TIMING OF BUILD 25Feb - Site Start 25Mar - Base Stage Complete 31Mar - Frame Completed 11Apr - Roof Tiles 20Apr - Brickwork Started Thanks for the suggestion. The space between shower and sinks was too tight. I agree about the toilet location. 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