The Epiphany (And a challenge)
Wes guessed my idea. Or rather, he tricked me into giving it up! Surprisingly, he didn’t flip out about it. LOL So, now I can go ahead and share with you (if you didn’t already guess).
Currently, there is a private bathroom that is only accessible from one of the small bedrooms.
I don’t want to eliminate the possibility of two bedrooms for a future owner. If I had two small children, a jack and jill with a bathtub would be perfect. Even though we will NEVER use that second bedroom as a bedroom, that doesn’t mean that someone else wouldn’t like to and I don’t want to limit options here. I always have to think about resale and need to keep the floorplan as “general population” pleasing as possible.
The Epiphany!
Some of you suggested creating a Jack and Jill…and that’s what I want to do.
I’ve played around with dozens of different possible layouts and I can not come up with a way for each bedroom to have a separate vanity outside the “tub/toilet” area and still have a decent closet for each bedroom.
The Challenge!
Can you come up with a better plan?
Help me rearrange this space to create a show-stopping Jack and Jill Bathroom space (and closets). I just can’t get there no matter how many times I redraw the space.
I don’t care about the walls separating the closets and bathroom. They are NOT load bearing so I can reframe and the plumbing can be moved.
*The total depth of the whole bath/closet area is 102″.
*The width of the current bathroom is 58″.
*The middle closet is 50″ wide.
*The outside closet is 43″ wide.
I’d love to see YOUR ideas!
Chicken Scratch a floor plan and scan it in, or use a computer program.
I use Sketch up. (I’m not very good at it but it’s free and useful.)
Email me: (sawdustgirl (at) gmail (dot) com
Or post it on my Facebook wall.
I can’t wait to see what you come up with!!!
Can you give the dimensions of the small bedroom 2/office. Also is the floor plan where the this room slightly bumps into the dining room accurate? If so what is the depth of the “bump in”.
I think I would want to move the closet of bedroom 2 to the wall that is shared with the formal living room because I’m guessing there are windows all the way to the right. That might give you a little more width to add a vanity area to the bathroom.
PS I would find it very odd to have the bathroom through the closet.
I’ll try to explain as best I can. What if you just move the closet for bedroom 2 (office) on the other side of the room? Move it all the way over to the right and extend bedroom 2 where the closet currently is. Make Bedroom 1’s bathroom the closet, and make bedroom 1’s closet the jack and jill.
Office/bedroom: How about framing in a closet on the wall against the formal living room, and where the two closets back up to each other, you could bump out the office/bedroom, move the bath to the ‘middle’ and have the other bedroom’s closet on the left.
It’d make the office/bedroom shape a little funky, but that can be fun, too. I call it “character” lol
Have fun!