Disaster Bathroom…Help Needed!
OK, so it’s not that bad. It’s “Blah”. I could easily make it “Look” awesome enough. The problem is that the tub placement is upsetting my living room plan and I JUST CAN’T GET PASSED IT!
That tub…right…there!
It just needs to be 8″ closer to the toilet! There’s room. I realize that would just make this already small bathroom even smaller but what is that weird extra space on the right of the toilet doing for anyone? Really? (It does make a nice place for the new “Flip Top” trash can that Brody can’t get into! (But I’d just put a trash can under the sink if I need to.)
So I’m considering moving the tub over or getting rid of it altogether and just having this be a pretty powder room. The bedroom that this bath “services” will never, not once, be used for Showering as long as we live here.
My question is:
What would you want if you were to walk into my house, if it were on the market?
Would you want two small bedrooms, each with their own bathroom?
Or, would you be OK with an office and one small bedroom with it’s own bath and then another bedroom with a bathroom upstairs (in addition to the master “wing” with bedroom, closet and bathroom AND the guest bedroom and bathroom downstairs)? So, it would still be 4 and 1/2 bathrooms in the house. (I’d just make the half bath upstairs a full bath and the full bath HERE a powder room.)
So, that’s three questions. Help me decide because I’m at an impasse here. I HATE this bathroom and would love to get rid of the tub altogether but I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot when it comes time to sell.
What would you do with this baby?
EDIT: I had to scratch this floorplan out for all those asking for clarification. Sorry it’s so hard to read…I was in a hurry!
Nothing is to scale but you can see where everything is on the main floor. The basement has a GIANT Guest bedroom and bathroom so our guests would NEVER use this TINY spare bedroom. There is a 1600 sq/ft open room upstairs that currently has a half bath. I want to make that a full bath with walk in shower and put in bunk beds so that upstairs would technically be a “bedroom”.
The only way I can see anyone actually wanting to use both of these small rooms as bedrooms is if they had two small children and then they wouldn’t really care if they had to use the en suite bathroom in the one bedroom. Right? Anyone with teenage kids would probably have the teens upstairs in the “Groovy Teen Hangout” room (that isn’t groovy yet but all in due time…)
Ok wait – are you saying that the current floorplan has 4 bedrooms with 4 full baths? And no half bath?
The only way that I want a house that has a bathroom for every bedroom is if the bathrooms are all en suite. Meaning if there are bathrooms that just open out into a hallway next to each bedroom, then that’s unnecessary.
If the bathrooms are not all en suite, rip that out because you need a half bath off the living area.
okay that’s my 2 cents. 🙂
The other small bedroom (Madison’s) has an en suite bathroom so it’s not accessible to the other bedroom. The bathroom I hate has a door from the hallway AND the second small bedroom that we are using as an office.
I would definitely take the tub out and just make that a half-bath. I also would prefer to have two small bedrooms with their own bathrooms. Much more convenient for guests.
But if I take out the tub then one bedroom won’t have it’s own bathroom. But I’d make that my office and make a new “Bedroom” upstairs with a full bath.
Every bedroom having it’s own bathroom seems a bit extreme. A 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath house with an office or den can still resale for as much as a 4 br 4.5 bath house.
I say do a powder room.
Am I correctly counting 4 bedrooms in all? Is there any way, given the floor plan, the bedroom on that floor can share the full bath if you make this a powder room? Every bedroom having its own bath seems a wee bit excessive.
Without knowing the floor plan as it is (I got totally lost on your video tour), it’s hard to advise, but my gut says make it a powder room.
Yes, there are 4 bedrooms and 4 full bathrooms (and one half bathroom upstairs.)
There is no way to do that. I would have to tear out 2 closets and reconfigure the “private” bath. I’ve considered it but it would just be too much cost and effort.
I was going to say the same thing, put in a shower and call it a day. Some (older) people might just like having a shower only with no tub. I would!
Maybe instead of having a full tub, you could put in a shower. If you do ever sell that would probably be good enough for most buyers, assuming there’s another tub somewhere else in the house.
If I move the wall in 8″ there won’t be enough room for a shower (I don’t think). It wouldn’t take up less space than that tiny tub anyway.