Small bathroom Reno design

8 years ago

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We are looking to update our only family bathroom which is tiny and shower has a cracked base.. We still need a bath for the kids but shower base is only a tiny 780x780mm. Is there any way we can make shower bigger without making vanity smaller. Current vanity is 750w.. Door opens onto shower so limited space wise.

Total size is approx 1.8x 2.3m and we like the layout with bath under the window.. plus it might keep costs down unless there's another way?

cavity door was a thought but we need to hang a towel rail in the wall so can't put any screws in wall if door needs to slide into it.. Toilet is in another room.

any tips?

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Sue Johnson

8 years ago

Hi Kate, You could put the shower over the bath to create more space... or you could incorporate the toilet space and hallway (presuming they are next to each other) into the one bathroom area giving you a lot more space to work with.

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Connie
8 years ago
strongly advise against putting toilet in the bathroom-we did this when the kids were small -now they are teenagers, its a nightmare. consider a custom made vanity, with a shelf that runs along the wall over the bath. you can store things in pretty baskets, etc, and virtually halve the floorspace the vanity takes up. you actually gain some bench space. also consider the size of the vanity basin-often the basin is actually much bigger than we need - if all you do is wash your hands and brush your teeth, a smaller one (square) is just as/even more practical. if you butted it up against the bath, you could easily gain an additional 30 cms in your shower. can you put a pocket door in the wall next to the shower? so you walk in facing the bath? then this would give you an entire wall to hang a really long towel rail? we made our own, using a curtain rail and shower rail hooks, which runs the full length of the room, and extends over the bath. and you could always hang another one up higher, that the adults can reach.

or if you are talking about a remodel...turn the bath 90 degrees along the wall where vanity and shower are. put shower next to it under the window. put a vanity where the current shower is. plumbing is all essentially in the same place, so probably not much difference if you are wanting new fixtures anyway. think this would actually be the best idea. good luck
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Our bathroom is the same layout - the vanity butts up the bath one side and the shower the other side so would gain you some space to make your shower bigger. Our vanity has space under to so makes the floor area bigger. We have a very small lidded bin inside the cupboard which gets emptied often. You could have small (heated?) towel rails (1-3 under each other ladder style) well above one end of the bath?
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Agreewith Marj kibby swap vanity and shower so can get elbow space from above bath space - I love my wet room just get drainage right then only need one shower screen btw wet area and vanity
I have towel rack on wall with sliding door depends on studs or could perhaps put on wall oppos vanity if swap it with shwr postin
Jacinta O'Brien
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If you switch the vanity and the shower you can create a wet area style bathroom. The shower becomes hobless and a frameless glass shower screen enables the rest of the bathroom to be protected from the water. There are loads of pictures on Houzz with wet area type bathrooms.
Maya Saric
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about the door - instead of a sliding cavity door, that means you cannot screw anything into the wall, what about a sliding barn door over the wall with a ladder style towel rail as an extension of the roller hardware? I'm not fond of the shower over bath thing as both I and the kids have had falls getting out.

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