Bath conundrum

tomstickland

Favoured current plan.

silvercar

Favoured plan wastes the space between the sink and the bath. I prefer the plan at your post #7. Regarding the airing cupboard, would it matter if the hinge side of the airing cupboard door uncovered a 20cm wall? So when you open the airing cupboard door you have full access to a narrower airing cupboard, but the door is the original size.

silvercar

Any reason why you can't move the door further along its current wall? That way it won't open onto the sink.

red40

Tom is there any reason why a 900x1400/1500/1600mm corner bath cant be put in?

That would leave you with 500mm for the WC taking it has a slimline cistern. Also leaves, anything from 800mm to 600mm to fit a reasonably sized wash hand basin/vanity unit.

Which basically means no excessive building work. I know you said he wants a full size bath, but if you put a 1600 in that is pretty much the length and water capacity of a standard 1700 bath.

Sliding door instead of a hinged door?

Depending on your soil pipework, fit a 1700 bath, put the WC where the wash hand basin is and vice versa, but that depnds entirely on the soil pipe.

aliasojo

Any particular reason why you cant just get a 500mm wide basin and put it where it was before?

andrew-b

Door would be better in the middle with the last plan..but if your moving the door you might as well go the full way and move the whole door wall down by 300mm. Though how wide is the door...if it's 27" door the entrance will be a bit tighter than 30".

Does look a bit strange with the dead space at the end of the bath - might look more balanced if you were to shift the bath along by 250mm to even out the space between each end.

Another idea refining the above plan slightly and a sort of compromise between your plan and aliasojo's suggestion ....leave the bath tucked up at the left side but twist the basin 45 degrees anticlockwise and slightly back up into the 500mm space - so it's diagonally in that corner. That would give you more space at the doorway so your not constantly squeezing past the basin. You'd have to build suitable support for the basin (timberframe) but it might just work and give you that extra bit of shoulder space in front of the basin. A storage cupboard could then be fitted into the space behind for the usual bottles, bog rolls etc that clutter up bathrooms. Just an idea that gets round moving walls or doors.

The door could also be a sliding door which may be more intuitive when entering the room than outward opening - sliding along the wall towards toilet on bathroom side of wall. Though the slider kit is obviously more expensive than hinges.

andrew-b

Or another structural idea that just occurred to me on reading back my last post...

if you were considering moving the door to the middle, then rather than blocking up the opening of the old door just remove the frame and leave be..then build a couple of partition walls up into the hallway/landing outside the room to create a recess for the basin - so when you face the basin your back will be to the bath with the basin in the area that in your above plan is occupied by the outwards opening door. Hope that makes sense!

Another messy structural one..but again eases the design of the bathroom itself.

tomstickland

If it was my house then I'd use this scheme:


However, it's not my bathroom, so I have to go with what my friend wants to do.
i.e.: this:

This involves no structural work.

tomstickland

aliasojo wrote: »

Any particular reason why you cant just get a 500mm wide basin and put it where it was before?

Yes, it's not enough leg room.

The space at the end would have a built-in cupboard up to bath top level and be tiled on top.

Doozergirl

If it were mine I'd go with his but I'd put in a 500mm wide fitted kitchen/bathroom cabinet next to the bath and put a separate basin/bowl and tall tap on top of it. That 500mm gap with a basin bang in front of it is equally as odd as your curvy bath idea

If there is not enough room to stand in front of the bowl in that 500mm then put in a 600mm deep kitchen unit to level it off to the bath and you stand in front of it. And yes, rehang the door so it opens outwards.