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…)
Main floor, common area? Get rid of the bath. I wouldn’t want Grandma to walk out of the shower into the family room.
The real estate listing won’t reflect the location of all those bathrooms, anyways. Just extra selling power I guess?
I, too, had to chime in…
When we built our huge (not so much now) home with one child, pregnant with the second we were so excited to have a guest room. We laugh now that we have four kids and are tucking them into every corner, no guests here :)Our “kids” bath is configured as yours is and I’m wanting to tear out the tub combo and build a tile walk-in shower. You know the specs a whole lot better than I, but have you considered turning the shower so that it is situated next to the toilet but entered from the hall wall side (within the bath of course!)? I know you say there isn’t enough room, and not to second guess, but wondering if that could work instead for both of us! I love watching your projects, especially the time lapse videos, so great! My husband, I’m sure, doesn’t like that I enjoy it!
On that note, should my idea not be possible, lose the tub and leave the plumbing in the wall for future buyers’ reno. Lose the door, or install a pocket door!
Can’t wait to see your decision come to fruition! Living vicariously, I guess!
Sandra,
I haven’t read every comment so I hope I’m not repeating anyone and wasting your time.
Now that I have a better idea as to your layout and that the other room is going to be your office, I say make the hated bathroom a powder room. Wih the extra two feet or so from where the tub was, make that a storage wall with cabinet doors to cover up the linens or candle sticks or whatever is in there. Line up the wall in the living room so that is even and looks more cohesive.
The room that is going to be your office – if you are going to use it as an office then make sure that everyone that may buy this house in the future knows it’s an office or library by making built-ins to house books or DVDs or…
I know that the built in closet in the bathroom and the shelving type units for the office are much more work for you but you would be working with a clean slate basically and could make it as you want it.
As for the room upstairs, you want to make that a full bath and if I remember that room is huge. It could be split into two bedrooms for resale value and then those rooms would share said bath.
I hoped I helped.
Maureen
This is so easy for me. Just a powder room. A friend of mine has a “hall bath” with a shower, no tub…and when she has company, they (I) must use it. I hate feeling like I am in their private space. Well organized, but still…shampoo, towels…not a guest feeling at all!
My vote is for the powder room. Every house should have one that guests can use. And with the bedroom being converted to an office a powder room just makes more sense. I would make the office a dedicated office/study space with some built in bookcases and maybe a nice window seat. We are looking at converting a one car garage into my hubby’s man cave with a storage room in back for a freezer/extra fridge and other “stuff”. Just a thought!