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 agree with the peeps before me who say yank out the tub, move that annoying wall and replace it with a shower. You can get custom liner pans online, so really *any* size is possible – and using tile instead of that fiberglass unit is sooooo much classier 😉
Regarding the location of full/powder baths: We use our den (on the main floor) as a spare bedroom sometimes, and it is a pita for our guests with bad knees to have to walk upstairs to use the shower. My vote is any configuration that allows for a toilet + shower (or bathtub) on each floor that has a bedroom is ideal. I’m guessing that your house is fancy-pants enough so the plumbing isn’t all in one wall; having a shower on a different line is really nice for dealing with clogged lines/reno work.
Whether to have an office or two bedrooms: umm, I’m a little confused by your description of how many bedrooms are already in the house. But….. it is awfully nice to have extra closet space to organize [read: hide] stuff. Even if you just use it as an office for now.
I’m pretty sure this house is not fancy pants in the least! Doubt there is a separate plumbing line for the shower. Would be nice…
Is this bathroom near the kitchen? It sounds to me like having it be a half bath would be fine, and that is one less bath/shower for you or a future owner to have to clean. 🙂 Are there any other full baths on the main level, with the bedroom(s)?
Yep, it’s near the kitchen and there’s another bathroom IN the other bedroom.
Since I’m living in a 5 bedroom/2.5 bathroom home configured like this (basement with powder room, 1st floor with no bathroom, 2nd floor with 3 bedrooms and 1 separate bath, and an attic with 2 bedrooms and 1 full bath in between the 2), I’m okay with the powder room.
I say take out the tub, close the door to the office, make it a powder room, and call it a day!
And a great house!!!
Actually, it’s a basement with a toilet in a room and a work sink outside it…
Goodness, that sounds like an interesting house you live in. Big and interesting. One door powder room vote – noted. 😀
I think the best bang for your buck is to rip out the tub because
1. Who likes those enclosed tub/shower combos anyway? They are U-G-L-Y.
2. Replace that bad boy with a walk-in shower. You still get the benefit of having a “full” bathroom for resale purposes, washing the dog, cleaning stuff, putting in pretty new tile, etc.
3. You get your extra space that that you want!
If you have other tubs in the house for resale purposes it is not going to make a HUGE difference if you have 1 less tub in your house. I ripped out our master bathroom shower and LOVED the walk in shower. I think tubs are nasty so I am more of a walk in shower girl.
Good luck. I know whatever you decide it will turn out great!
Meg
Wish I had enough room for a shower. It seems to be a popular choice. If I move the wall in, there won’t be much room for anything.
I would be totally okay with a small powder room there. It would not phase me at all to not have the tub if I were a buyer. From what you’ve described it sounds like there are sufficient bathrooms to meet the needs of each bedroom already. I say out with the tub!!! 🙂
Sweet! Thanks for your 2 cents!!