Bathroom layout challenge
Hi, I would greatly appreciate views from the Houzz brain trust on this one: considering purchasing a property (as a temporary living solution for about a year and future investment) which needs a bit of TLC throughout, mostly straightforward except for the baffling bathroom layout which I'm not convinced is salvageable. Constraints: laundry must have 2nd sink per local rental rules, internal walls difficult if not impossible to move.
So, can it be done (i.e. improved) at all??
Note: the 'wall' between the round sink and the hot water tank (marked 'L') does not exist.
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Comments (10)What are the dimensions of the existing room without walls, where are the windows, in the toilet and over the vanity in the shower room? 3M x 3M what are we working with. If you remove all the walls except the linen cupboard and does the linen cupboard also have hall access? If so get the linen opening out of the bathroom and have doors to hall side, which will make both elements work better. I know toilets in main bathrooms are not everyone's cup of tea, but if you can have a 720 door from i take it, a hall, run a custom made vanity unit, and it must be custom made to fit exactly the space available, and take it from hall and over the toilet cistern, which should be a concealed cistern, maintenance panel is the flush plate, and just pan is displayed. Two vanities if needed, one bigger one is more on trend, and hang the cabinets off the floor under the vanity top, to make it look longer and makes cleaning under the cabinet so much easier. That leaves a lot of space for the bath where the second vanity unit is now, which would look fantastic as a freestanding type. A simple frameless glass or semi frameless glass shower screens, allow access to bath, so it might be say 1M wide, if you install those long grid type floor wastes and the shower is long enough you might get away without a shower door. New taps nice big tiles to ceiling and this will look sweet. Close off the toilet and it becomes a bit of a rabbit warren. R...See MoreWhich bathroom layout should I go with?
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last monthlast modified: last monthAlso I found floorplans for other units in the complex. The original layout was: bathtub where shower is, shower where WM/dryer are, laundry area with bifold doors on bedroom side, corner vanity on kitchen side. Seems better to me, and may allow for a bit more laundry space if closing off the bedroom door?
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last monthlast modified: last month@siriuskey I don't have actual dimensions unfortunately. Everything is quite tight - see below picture which might better convey how 'piecemeal' the space is. Hot water tank could potentially be moved to the kitchen but I suspect it would be difficult.
@bigreader - sorry, I've added a picture of the original layout in my comment above.
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