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…)
Hi Sandra
My wife follows your blog here in Australia and she loves it. Being a builder myself she asked me for a few ideas about this bathroom. First if you have 4 full baths now why on earth do you need another one even if it is a half bath. Most houses only have at most 2 full baths and alot more have only one so why not make it a study or maybe a library or even a craft room. Another bath just seems a little over the top to me. Or even it could become just storage for whatever. Anyway good luck and always think outside the square. Also when it comes to resale I don’t think one more bath or shower is gonna make a dimes worth of difference when you decide to sell considering how many baths you already have.
Thanks for your input. I think I regularly think outside the square! LOL The only downside to tearing it out is that the other two bathrooms on that floor are both en suite baths and not accessible outside their designated bedroom. I do agree with you that making that other small bedroom an office/craft room… will make it OK to have just a powder room there. Sweet.
That is NOT a small bathroom. The bathroom I just had redone in my NY west village studio is 4′ x 7’11. I think it’s always nice having another full bathroom. I’d rip that tub right out and put a groovy standing shower. Get some of those great gorgeous spa tiles and put a glass door up. I love having a bath and shower on the first floor, it’s great for guests.
I think my wide angle lens distorts the picture because it is small. Very small.
Doh, just took a look at all of the pics again. Wondering if the other door is on the wall to the left of the shower? Another grand idea (I am all about grand ideas) since the rough ins are there– could you: 1) Close off the door to the left of the sink. 2) Take the sink out. Put a small diagonal shower where the sink is. Put a sink where the shower is. I don’t know that I am sharing my thoughts well, might need to send ya a pic, lol.
Interesting option I had not thought of! It might be weird to enter the bathroom with the shower being the first thing you see…but it might work – space wise.
Maybe you could do one of those fancy open showers like this so you could move the wall a little closer to the toilet. It would never be a deal breaker for me to not have a full bath connect to every bedroom, but it is a huge plus since you already have it. Especially since the room you’re using as an office seems to be a logical place for a guest room for future buyers.
Very pretty inspiration rooms. Wish I had a bit more room!
So this is the tub that juts out into that “closet” that is no more? Please tell me it doesn’t jut out to the right of the shower head- it makes that extra space next to the toliet even more goofy if is does! Are you able to maybe draw a pic of the floor plan and scan it in for us to look at? I am thinking pedestal sink, small shower and maybe some type of linen closet but I need to see the floor plan to understand why you think a shower would be too big?
Floorplan added. The shower/tub did get bumped out to the right of where it needed to be. SO DUMB! Uggggh!