Disaster Bathroom…Help Needed!

Hall Bath Before

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!

Hall Bath Before 2

That tub…right…there!

Hall Bath Before 3

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.)

Hall Bath Before 4

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?

Hall Bath Before

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”.

FloorPlan of Small Bedrooms

 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…)

TN FloorPlan

 

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120 Comments

  1. What if you make that bathroom into a half bath, and turn your half bath upstairs into a full bath? That way you still have the same number of full baths when it’s time to resale.

  2. As a Realtor I would advise to never take away a bath for resale. You never know what the next owner wants/needs?

  3. I have read most of the comments and I have to agree with the get rid of the tub and an extra door. Due to already having a bedroom with an attached bath downstairs is plenty. However, I would not get rid of the idea of having a 1/2 bathroom downstairs because coming from a mom with three kids, that bathroom will get used a lot. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.

  4. Rip out that tub! It seems everyone is looking for houses with home office space now anyways so I think a powder room would be just fine.

    I’m all about the powder room. I’m always a little weirded out when I’m just visiting someone and have to use the bathroom in a full bath. I feel like I’m invading their personal space…but that’s just me.

  5. Rip out that annoying tub and don’t look back!! Powder rooms are where it’s at, baby!! 😀

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