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…)
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!!!
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
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!!! 🙂
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.
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.