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 hubby is a plumber, and one of his first projects once we move at the end of May will be to add another 3/4 or full bath in the basement where my work space / craft room will be. 🙂 It’s SO nice having a plumber (and painters!) in the family!
My two cents (a little late). Make it a powder room. If you only have a daughter and have guests who need to be on the main floor, she can go stay in another room for the weekend. I would be in heaven with 5 kids and have 4 full bathrooms. And I echo the comment, “with a closet like yours who cares if there is another full bath” Amen! Good luck!
Another vote for the half bath. If you ever sell, then play up the office/bonus room feature to the hilt! You have enough bathrooms for heavens sake!
~ Lynda
My vote is to get rid of the tub and make it a powder room. It will be a really nice and big powder room. My initial thought was that you should never get rid of a bathroom for resale value. However, if I’m understanding right, then a half bath upstairs will become a full and you still have the exact same amount of baths that you started with. Go with what will work best for your family. Everybody’s situation is different. If you will never ever use the tub, then get rid of it and make the house flow better for you.
Sorry, just saw that was one of the things you suggested. I would definitely go with that option.