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…)
I like the shower idea. personally i have a office (coulda been a bedroom) downstairs with a half bath across the hall. We use it as an office and when we moved in we said it would never be a bedroom. Fast forward a few years and unfortunately my dad is staying with us do to a stroke. I so wish we had put in a shower – not a tub. so that we wouldn’t have to figure out how to get him up stairs to shower. My gut says plan ahead and a shower might be important. I would move it in though to fix the other side of the wall. I noticed too the tile on the floor is cut. to me it’s screaming builder measurement error. Ugghhh…
Very good point, Sarah.
There is no room for a walk in shower especially when I move the wall in more. There is a ginormous bathroom and bedroom in the basement but that would be hard for elderly or handicapped. This house has 3 floors so it’s probably not a house that someone in that situation would choose. I suppose if I found myself in that situation, the bath in the other bedroom could be used.
I would get rid of the tub and put in shower (that way it will not likely affect the resale value of the house. )And each bedroom will essentially still have their own bathing quarters. lol
I mean c’mon the master bedroom closet alone would make me want to buy your house!
I was thinking the same thing, LOL.
I won’t have room for a shower though. Dilemma continues…
IF you have a full bath relatively accessible to each bedroom (same floor, don’t have to go through public rooms, hallways ok), then I would remove the tub and make a half-bath.
But that’s gonna leave you with 2+ additional feet in your half bath. Or 2-3′ inset in your living room. Guess you could put built-ins in the living room. Or ????
I can always figure out how to use up extra space. 😀
Get rid of the tub! An office and powder room would be great. Your house sounds like it has a good bedroom/bath ratio already. I love watching your projects!
Yeah! Office and powder room sounds easy. (Thanks)
sorry i just saw your comment above