Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry Re: Possible layouts for small bathroom - feedback please? 9Sep 03, 2011 9:11 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 2:02 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 2:49 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 3:13 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 !! 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 37029 0 10857 In Qld it is a requirement that a builder must have a cost breakdown, for building a home to the same specification, with the same inclusions and the same finish. So ask… 1 4381 |