also for safety having a back door is essential in case of fire etc. Make sure the door is an exterior grade one to keep "night visitors" out. I've seen laundries housed in cabinets...the firsts suggestion sounds nice but i haven't seen your floor plan layout. is that double laundry sink your bathroom vanity as well? maybe get the washer hardware happening inside (and preferably an under bench model for more bench space and an integrated look), and choose a farmhouse design sink. choose all white and grey tones. best of luck.

a simple retile, new vanity, shower and toilet will be at least $10,000 with very careful choices but anything that involves a leaking upstairs bathroom is a much bigger issue so first priority is to ask a plumber to try and identify the problem and then make plans that start from fixing the leak before any more damage is done...if there's a problem that needs the whole bathroom to be stripped out and relined, pipes repaired. new waterproofing and refinishing as well as repairs to downstairs walls and ceilings expect a much bigger price and rearranging the wiw wall could be done at the same time (btw when the plumber identifies the reason for the leak there may be some insurance claim)

rhyzar perhaps send through a larger floor plan please so this all can be understood/analysed in context? how far along is the project? Good ideas here however it's assuming capacity for changing/taking over passage/access to what appears to be leading down another passage at the top of the page? Or am I missing something? Another way to do this without completely taking over passage space is to flip the powder over to the external wall which would enable natural light into it. I'd also vote for a double basin set-up. Attached sketch of this option/idea if space is restricted - dashed line shows walls of the plan you sent Good luck! PD

Hi Mark — if you can keep that wall clear then all external modifications can be considered like plastic surgery: elective, aesthetic and can be as cheap or expensive as you like. You could leave that wall as is and spend the budget entirely on fittings and finishes (if you don’t mind an external door in a bathroom), or rip the lot out and replace with something else. Either way it’s best to decide beforehand to negate the need for further patching, but what you do with that wall will have an enormous impact — if, for example, you ripped that wall apart and put in a 1.5m window, you would have space next to it in the corner for a shower or towel rail; or you could remove all windows and replace the door with a tall frosted window which would open up space either side. Nutshell: what you do with that outside wall — if anything — will determine most of the layout. Best place to start then might be to price up alterations to the brickwork, replacing windows etc, to see how much of the budget will be swallowed up by altering it, especially as the trades to alter external walls are totally different to renovating bathrooms. Money money money MONey — MON-AY! Hopefully that helps :-P