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!!!
Sandra,
I have thought and thought about this bathroom situation. I don’t know anything about these programs so I will try to describe as best I can my idea. Rip out all the walls and start with a big rectangle.
Since the first design is basically a large rectangle separated into roughly thirds I thought this would be the best way to do this. With the outside wall being North, Madison’s bedroom wall – south – take the southeast corner and put a wall about two thirds up from the there and run what will be the bathroom two thirds along the southwall.
—————————————–
I CLOSET for I Hallway to closet I
I other I I
I room I pocket I
I I———- door ——-I
I—————- I PottyI
I I BA I —–I
I CLOSET for I TH I SI I
I Madison I TUB I NK I
I I I pocket I
–closet door————– door ——–
After racking my brain on how to describe this I was able to make a rough sketch using my keyboard. The door to the other room’s closet could go anywhere past the pocket door. And you wouldn’t need a door to shut off that small hallway to the North pocketdoor.
I bounced over to Facebook to double check your daughter’s name – Sorry Madison! – and saw the sketch there and like that one also.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? No, I’m not screaming at you; it’s just that there are so many choices to be made here.
I hope that I helped.
Maureen
P.S. Love the pictures of Brody!
When I originally suggested the Jack and Jill bathroom, I envisioned swapping the original bathroom to where the closets are, make it bigger, and reclaim some of the existing closet space for bedroom 2/office. I’d move the closet for bedroom 2/office to the right side of the room but against the livingroom wall next to the door since you wouldn’t have windows to deal with there, and make it somewhat smaller.
Personally, from the perspective of someone who has been looking at tons of houses over the last six months, the size of the closet for a kid’s room, an office or a guest room would be much less important to me as a buyer than decent access to the shared bath between the two rooms or the size of the rooms themselves. For what it’s worth, I think having a super nice bath and more usable square footage in the second bedroom/office itself would trump having a huge closet space in that room, especially if you are going to add closet space in the hall next to the powder room.
The house we finally decided on after looking FOREVER has a fairly small guest room (11×13) with an average sized closet (i.e. not a walk-in) in the room itself, but just outside that room is a fairly large, long closet in the hall where extra blankets and pillows or other guest amenities could be stored. In our case, that room will never be anything other than a guest room, so having a huge closet in there would just be a waste of useable living space for us.
Hope this helps!
Turn the lower left bedroom’s bathroom into a closet for that room.
Then for the 2 interior closets: remove the 2 closet’s interior adjoining walls and run the jack and jill bathroom horizontally on the diagram instead of vertically.
Then the office’s closet would run also horizontally along the back wall.
Not sure if that was clear so I am emailing you an iPhone photo.
Hae
I haven’t read all the comments so I don’t know if this has been suggessted but lets call the lower bedroom, Bedroom1, and the right bedroom, Bedroom2. If there is enough room could you take the bathroom and make it perpendicular to Bedroom2 and have Bedroom2’s closet skinnier but run the length of the bathroom and Bedroom1’s closet be in the space of the previous bathroom. Does that make sense? If you divide the two current closets in half the bathroom would be in the lower half. Then it wouldn’t be as awkward.
LOVE the blog BTW.
I would make the power room a closet for bedroom #2 and then make the closet for bedroom #2 the jack and Jill bathroom. That leaves you with an L shaped bedroom if you want to do something like a sitting area on the far side. Just a thought 🙂
Hugs,
Bj