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…)
My vote goes to taking out the tub and it becoming a powder room. It isn’t necessary with all the others in the home. Can’t wait to see the progress on this one!
If you are doing it just for you, not considering resale, I would go for the powder room. But, if you ever have to sell, having two bedrooms that don’t have access to a tub or shower without going through another bedroom becomes a problem. My MIL had a very customized house similar to this. HUGE master suite downstairs with his and hers bathrooms (yes, two full bathrooms accessible only through the bedroom) plus a half bath in a hallway. Upstairs were three bedrooms and 1 1/2 baths. The half bath opened to the hallway, but the full bath was ensuite to one bedroom. It took forever for it to sell with the strange configuration. No one wants their guests (or a sibling) to have to access shower facilities through another bedroom.
IMHO- powder room it is. dump the tub.
You are such an inspiration. I love your courage for jumping in and fixing what you don’t like. I can’t wait to see your progress!
Oh, definitely make it a powder room. You have so many full baths, I don’t think it will make any difference at all on resale. One less tub to clean!
Oh. My. Goodness! Get rid of that doggone thing and put in a closet or something useful. Having the extra shower adds something to the “paper” listing, but what’s more important than the number of full baths in a house is useful, purposeful, well-planned space and that shower does absolutely nothing for it. I’ve always been annoyed at those full bathrooms in the downstairs where a half bath would have been perfectly OK. The only time I would see this being useful is if you had someone in your home with special physical needs, but then the bathroom would have to be redone anyway since that toilet right in the middle would be difficult to access. OY! Go with yer gut, lady!