Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Aug 08, 2011 9:27 pm Hi, this is my first post on here, but I have enjoyed browsing through the forums for a little while now! We are hoping to renovate our bathroom soon. It's the only bathroom in the house and it's small! But at least the toilet is separate. I'm hoping to figure out how to post a photo to illustrate how, ahem, delightful the bathroom is now, but in the meantime I'll try to describe the bird's eye view of it. Imagine a rectangle, with the top and bottom sides corresponding to 2.5m long walls and the left and right sides corresponding to 1.6m long walls. You enter the bathroom at the bottom, to the left. Straight ahead there is a shower cubicle, protruding about 80cm and with a width of 100cm. Adjacent to the shower (along the top of the rectangle to the right) there is a 150cm long by 73cm wide bath tub. On the right side, there is a 90cm wide vanity under a window - so it overlaps the bath tub by a couple of centimetres. This configuration is really yuck. It's annoying to have the vanity in the way of the bath when bathing the kids, and there's very not really enough space between the entrance to the bathroom and the shower. So I've been thinking alternative layouts, and trying to weigh up the pros and cons of each. I'm assuming it's okay to have a shower next to a window, as long as the builder waterproofs appropriately. Option 1 - vanity at left of top side, shower over bath along right side. I'll assume the bath is around 80cm wide, so 250cm-80cm=170cm. I'd want enough space to access the whole length of the bath, so that would probably mean I wouldn't want a vanity any more than 120cm long. Option 2 - vanity at left of top side, shower over corner bath in top right corner. I like the idea of a nice big tub to stand in when showering, if you have to be standing in a tub at all. But I'm guessing it would take a fair bit more water (and therefore electricity too) to fill to the same level as a standard bath, and we use the bath every day. think a smaller corner tub (120-130cm sides) is the only real option here or it would take up almost the whole bathroom. Option 3 - vanity at left of top side, bath along right side, walk in shower in between (taps and rose in middle of top side) This is the one I particularly want some feedback on whether it is really feasible. I see you can get a 150x74cm bath tub. We'd need a strip of at least 90cm width at the left of the rectangle (sorry if that's really confusing!) for the entrance to the bathroom. So that leaves 250cm-74cm-90cm = 86cm width for the walk in shower. That seems plenty wide, but that would mean walking through the shower cavity to get to the bath, and I'm not sure what kind of frame the shower would need. And I don't know how we'd fit any towel rails into this configuration, without converting the bathroom door from hinged to sliding. I love the idea of a separate bath and shower, but am I trying too hard?? If you were renovating this space, which option would you choose, or do you have any other suggestions? Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 3Aug 13, 2011 3:33 am Hi there,
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Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 4Aug 21, 2011 1:55 pm Hopefully I've figured out how to post photos. Let's see... Here is what you see from the door of the bathroom: http://s1141.photobucket.com/albums/n583/EmmaJane001/?action=view¤t=IMG_0649.jpg Here is what you see when enter the door and turn to your right: http://s1141.photobucket.com/albums/n583/EmmaJane001/?action=view¤t=IMG_0649.jpg#!oZZ2QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1141.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fn583%2FEmmaJane001%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DIMG_0648.jpg I like to think if it was a more functional bathroom it'd be easier to keep clean and tidy, lol. Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 5Aug 21, 2011 7:38 pm Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 6Aug 21, 2011 10:03 pm Wow, what a dillemna. Have you thought about a shower in the bath? A friend of ours did that. They brought a nice big corner bath and put a shower above it. You could then put the vanity infront of the door. Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 7Aug 21, 2011 10:25 pm Can you give a layout and dimensions Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 8Aug 22, 2011 11:23 am Had a very similar layout in our last bathroom. I would turn the bath 90° to go along the wall with the window and put the vanity between the shower and bath. That way you can have a mirror OVER the basin, Who'd of thought that would be a good idea? (pick the guy who nearly broke his neck shaving every morning) Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 9Sep 03, 2011 10:11 pm Thanks Kiwi for posting those pics properly - that's what I tried actually but it came up as a question mark, so I just reposted the link outside the html tags as well. I've tried posting images and URLs again but to no avail. I must be doing something wrong but it seems too simple to mess up! Can someone help? So I'm leaning strongly towards the option with a 90cm vanity straight ahead as you walk in the door, a bath along the wall under the window, and a shower in between, so that you walk through the shower to get to the bath. Here's a sketch (I hope it helps!): I've actually found a couple of photos of that kind of arrangement since my initial post. I can't find the shower screen websites I downloaded them from, but I've saved them in photobucket - Now my biggest questions with this configuration are, what kind of shower screen to use? In these photos, there is just a fixed panel but my shower would be facing the wall with the door in it, and the shower area is immediately adjacent to the door, so I think we should make it an area that can be full enclosed on the vanity side. It would be ideal if there was no lip under the shower screen, but I understand you need a steeper sloping floor to avoid water getting outside the shower area. I'm not sure if that's a problem in itself. I'd also like to be able to open the shower area right up so it gives more room to move, because this option only leaves a strip 90cm wide between the shower area and the wall on the non-bath side of the shower. A 3-panel sliding door (ie 2 sliding panels) could be good, but I'm pretty sure that no such thing is available in a frameless design, and the 3 panels might take up too much of the shower width anyway. I have seen a central opening sliding door - Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and there is an accordian kind of thing for showers over bathtubs in the UK that would probably be the ultimate solution if they were available here in a longer size - Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ . An outside the box idea I had was to use a roller shutter! Too weird?? I figure they must be weather proof, perhaps not waterproof enough for a bathroom though. Any suggestions? Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 10Sep 05, 2011 3:02 pm The bathroom style you've picked is also very similar to the layout Josh & Jenna used on the Block for their ensuite. Have you seen it? I have a photo saved here http://pinterest.com/pin/165182402/. I'd probably put a fixed piece of glass across half the room, and then have a pivot glass door for the other half. You can do this with a semi-frameless screen which would still look very stylish - I used one in a builder's display home recently (piccie here http://pinterest.com/pin/165218980/) because they don't use fully frameless screens. Even though this bathroom has only a shower behind the screen it's about the same width as your bathroom so you can see that you could use a similar shower screen set up. Also, if you use a semi-frameless screen they generally just seal the bottom of it which means you don't have an enormous lip in the floor; just the frame of the screen itself. Anna Ethos Interiors is a fresh and creative design firm, specialising in online interior design services for clients all over the world. http://www.ethosinteriors.com.au Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 11Sep 05, 2011 3:49 pm Thanks for the pic and shower screen suggestion, EthosDesign (Anna?). I love the ensuite from the block, it looks fantastic. I'm intrigued by the choice of a free-standing bath for the space though! Had ruled it out assuming cleaning would be impossible. Do people actually do that?? Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 12Sep 05, 2011 4:13 pm alt0160 Have you thought about a shower in the bath? I would only do this as a last resort. I did this in my house at the moment, it solved a problem of space but now I am finding out the problem it created. I have just had a major op on my knee and have a brace on my leg for 3 months. Showering with my leg wrapped in plastic would have been relatively easy, but as the shower is over the bath I can't get in standing up due to the leg brace in a fixed position for 3 months. I have the most difficult job of wrapping my leg in a garbage bag and sitting on the edge of the bath and slide/tumble/falling into the bath and then having to hold my leg in the air whilst bathing. NOT HAPPY JAN !! yes it is possible but watch for noise transmission, decouple as best you can. Maybe wider top and bottom plates with 70mm studs to allow the cabinet to be recessed fully 1 4799 You can wash over existing pavers with 10% solution of water and hydrochloric acid, then wash off. The acid will provide for required bond key with new concrete. 1 32179 0 1547 |