Shower cubicle or no

Tr1pp

Decent sized shower cubicle and small bath seems like a good option.

If your not moving then you could just turn it into a wet room but it depends how much you like baths or if you want kids. thats what i would do with my place if I wasnt worried about resale and alienating families....damn kids ruin everything

keystone

abwsco wrote: »

I've got it in my head that we could put the bath running under the window, shower cubicle where airing cupboard is and basin on back wall where bath is.

Just to confirm my previous post. From your pictures there isn't practical room for a separate shower cubicle. There may just be (on an interference fit basis) just enough physical room but your'll be tearing your hair out at the cramped nature of it forever both visually and spacewise. Lose the cupboard, put in a bigger (shower) bath to use up the extra space and hang your shower on (what is now) the back wall of the cupboard. Leave WHB and loo where they are.

DH just shakes his head and rolls his eyes. I'm driving him mad-lol

He will continue to do so. Don't make it an issue of confrontation. Anyway he'll never let you forget it if you cram that space full of stuff so theres barely enough floorpace left to stand on. You have to consider usability in your design.

You don't need a fancy planner to do it either. All you need is a pieces of squared paper with the room drawn on it to scale, scaled cut outs to represent bath, loo, basin and shower cubicle and play about with them on your scaled drawing to show you that a separate shower ain't going to work in that sized room.

Cheers

namecheck

As another poster has said, corner baths can be love or hate (and they're one of my pet hates).

I also like the sense of space in having a shower over the bath, but rather than buying a shower bath you could consider a bath with a straight edge, but is wider inside at the tap end. We have a steel Bette one and it's brilliant.

malc_b

It looks like you have enough room for a shower bath as some suggested. That is a bath with a round end to give more shower room. These usually have a round screen. Things to check are if the window is a problem and elbow room at the sink. You might need to move the sink towards the toilet.

FYI the arrangement toilet, sink, bath like you have is the most compact arrangement and will fit in a 6ft square space. Standing space in front of the sink is also getting out space for bath. Elbow room overhangs toilet and bath. That's how it is still workable in a small space. I've minimum room diagrams in my Collins DIY book but I guess these are on the net too somewhere.

abwsco

Thanks again everyone:) Bigger bath it is then:)

abwsco

Ok, can I drive you all mad again;)

Haven't got as far as graph paper yet but have done some measurements.

The wall where the radiator and old airing cupboard are is 1760mm and it's 900mm to the right of the radiator where you can't see from the pictures.

Any views on having a curved shower bath in that position (tapered to the section where the airing cupboard is now) so the washbasin could go on the back wall with a mirror above.

In my head that would give us the feeling of more space but I could be totally wrong:o I'm carp at visualising anything.

keystone

abwsco wrote: »

Ok, can I drive you all mad again;)

Already its too late so I don't know why you ask.

Any views on having a curved shower bath in that position (tapered to the section where the airing cupboard is now) so the washbasin could go on the back wall with a mirror above.

Bearing in mind yoiu have plumbing to think about what is behind the "back wall" and of what material is it constructed? In any event you won't have room for that massive WHB stand if you tried to put it there. I'd be downsizing that beastie even if it stays in the same place

In my head that would give us the feeling of more space but I could be totally wrong:o I'm carp at visualising anything.

Graph paper time then.

Cheers

abwsco

keystone wrote: »

Already its too late so I don't know why you ask.

Bearing in mind yoiu have plumbing to think about what is behind the "back wall" and of what material is it constructed? In any event you won't have room for that massive WHB stand if you tried to put it there. I'd be downsizing that beastie even if it stays in the same place

Graph paper time then.

Cheers

Thanks again Keystone. DH is ignoring me and I've no idea why pmsl :rotfl:Particularly as he wants a washbasin with a mirror above it on a wall.

The back tiled wall is the outside wall with at least 3 layers of tiles on. Including the original mid 40's tiles in a delightful green colour! Side wall where radiator is an internal wall with at least 2 layers of tiles on plus wood panelling on top. Just realised back wall to right of radiator is a "false" wall so that will scupper a shower going on there I bet!

The humungous beastie of a double kitchen cupboard with kitchen worktop ontop is defiantely going! It's served it's purpose well but I am sick and fed up of looking at it.

The only pipework which is now live in the bathroom all comes from downstairs so we'd thought we could rip up all the floorboards and get it all hidden. Is that possible?

What I really want is a humungous and luxurious bathroom but as I can't get humungous I want as luxurious as possible:) Typical female;)

keystone

abwsco wrote: »

The back tiled wall is the outside wall with at least 3 layers of tiles on. Including the original mid 40's tiles in a delightful green colour!

We;ll they'll all have to come off then. The rooms been getting smaller over the years. Original tiles will be concreted on so you are looking at a partial replaster at the very least. Being an outside wall then the WHB waste can go out through the wall easily if you want it there.

Side wall where radiator is an internal wall with at least 2 layers of tiles on plus wood panelling on top. Just realised back wall to right of radiator is a "false" wall so that will scupper a shower going on there I bet!

Actually no if by false wall you mean stud wall. Wood panelling plus n layers of tiles will have to come off anyway (see how this room is meeting your expectations by enlarging itself already ) so once you are back to the stud work the pipework can all be inside just make sure there are extra noggins to hang the shower valve on.

The humungous beastie of a double kitchen cupboard with kitchen worktop ontop is defiantely going! It's served it's purpose well but I am sick and fed up of looking at it.

I didn't want to appear forward before but now you've said that it really is quite horrid. Just getting rid of that is going to open the room out.

The only pipework which is now live in the bathroom all comes from downstairs so we'd thought we could rip up all the floorboards and get it all hidden. Is that possible?

Of course.

What I really want is a humungous and luxurious bathroom but as I can't get humungous I want as luxurious as possible:) Typical female;)

No comment.

Cheers

Clearlier

A tip for using graph paper is to draw the outline of the room and then cut sections of paper to scale for the suite. That way you can move them around to your hearts content working out what fits where.

Do you want to have a bath? If it were down to me personally and I never planned to move house again I'd go for a luxurious walk through shower and forget about the bath but those are my preferences. I might get kicked out of the house if I actually tried to do it