What do you think of this bathroom layout?

ijrwe

My old bathroom had a sink, toilet, shower and bath. Soon it will have only a sink, toilet and bath (with shower above). There are two possible configurations, both are equally awkward and involve an approximately equal amount of expense, extra work and inconvenience when completed.

The arrangement that I'm about 51% in favour of currently would have the sink and toilet on the short, far-from-door, window wall, thus:





I would envisage a small shaving mirror on the windowsill, perhaps, and then other mirrors elsewhere (one possibility shown) but there wouldn't be one centrally over the sink.


I have never seen a sink placed like this relative to a window,what do you think of it? Would it strike you as very odd? Very awkward?

Thanks for any input

2013yearofthehouse

Our sink is directly beneath the bathroom window (and always has been, was built that way 40 years ago) and looks fine, isn't a problem, lots of neighbours have the same. Our window is long and high though, so the window sill is at about shoulder height (or a bit below).

You could get a pull out mirror? A bit like this: http://www.hhhomemakers.com/bathrooms-c7/bathrooms-accessories-c36/tc-accessories-c243/liberty-c245/tc-woodbury-extendable-shaving-mirror-p1868

And attach it to the wall on the right, to just pull across when needed. It should fold and swivel to fold right back against the wall. There are quite a few different styles like it.

ijrwe

2013yearofthehouse wrote: »

You could get a pull out mirror?
And attach it to the wall on the right,

Yea, that would be a good idea, then have a fixed wall mirror either nearby as well for easy glancing use.

I guess it seems a bit odd just having some blank wall in front of you instead of a mirror, which is what I've always been used to. I think I'd prefer it being directly under the window instead of half and half, but I don't want to move the toilet.

StuC75

Why not have the sink on the wall to the right - that way can have a cabinet or mirror above the window, and there will be room to stand at at the sink between the toilet and the sink.. Otherwise just looks unbalanced on that wall with the toilet and sink staggered by the window..

With the sink where you've put it on the pic, where is the bath shower going and how much room would that have between sink and the bath if its going further down that wall to the right?

rustyboy21

It's a pity you have bought the sink unit already, as my suggestion would have been get a corner vanity unit like this.


http://www.clickbasin.co.uk/prato-ceramic-corner-washbasin-sink.html?gclid=CJLOv5LxnL4CFbDJtAodVQsAGQ


Get a corner Loo like this
http://www.bathrooms.com/toilets/corner-toilets/soane-corner-toilet?$$ja=cgid:11372058253%7ctsid:55987%7ccid:171066493%7clid:56799195241%7cnw:search%7ccrid:42806482213%7cdvc:c%7cadp:1o5&gclid=COu-3JzynL4CFQP3wgodiXAAeQ&gclsrc=aw.ds


And a shorty bath with shower overhead like this


http://www.betterbathrooms.com/baths/p-shaped-shower-baths/modern-left-hand-1675mm-shower-bath


Doing all that would totally open up what is quite a small bathroom. Did this myself in effect and it really made the room look bigger and especially putting the rectangle tiles on the side, instead of paortrait, made it look bigger too.

ijrwe

rustyboy21 wrote: »

a corner vanity unit like this.

a corner Loo

I considered a corner sink but they'll be too small and a bit awkward. Also moving the toilet will be more trouble that it's worth, I won't achieve much that way

And a shorty bath with shower overhead like this

I've got a 1700mm left-handed bath coming, so it can go either in the "front right" corner (in the photo) or the back left one, behind the camera.

quite a small bathroom.

Thanks for the tile suggestions as well, I'll consider that.

Bear in mind that this room is actually over 3.1m long, it's not as small as you may think from the photo. If a bath was installed to the back left of the camera, running up the left hand wall, it wouldn't actually appear in the photograph.

StuC75 wrote: »

Why not have the sink on the wall to the right - that way can have a cabinet or mirror above the window, and there will be room to stand at at the sink between the toilet and the sink.. Otherwise just looks unbalanced on that wall with the toilet and sink staggered by the window..

Yea, that was my first (probably 100th actually) plan. Apart from a bit of extra plumbing and trying to hide the pipes, what I didn't like was window light on only one side of my face, especially considering that there is no electricity at that front right corner so that means no over-mirror/sink light, unfortunately.

With the sink where you've put it on the pic, where is the bath shower going and how much room would that have between sink and the bath if its going further down that wall to the right?

With the sink in either of the front right positions, the bath will be in the back left corner out of shot altogether, so the whole right hand wall will be clear.


Does anyone know a good free room planner program or website? I sketch up blueprints for some things but something with nice ready-made bits of furniture would be handy when shuffling things around like this.

ijrwe

Some layout options:





Similar options, the first one requires more plumbing and will have some hard-to-hide pipes (they're currently aligned for the second option as a bath used to be there) but it's not a massive problem. No electricity for a sink light in either case.

The second option, avoiding the window/sink overlap, just seems to eat up a lot of the nice space along that wall on the approach to the sink.



Another option, advantages including no plumbing (sink and bath replace old sink and bath exactly) and a light over the sink. Disadvantages include more damaged wall to cover somehow (probably with cladding).
I also do like the huge free space at the door end, would be quite nice.