Bathroom Design

M2808

I am hoping to expand my bathroom and completely redo it this year and have been toying around with ideas. Having a shower over a bath is driving me mad at the moment. It might be because both aren't of the highest quality, but ideally I'd like to have a separate bath and shower.
The bathroom is small: 2m x 2.75m (after expanding) and it has a slope in the floor in one corner as its over the stairs.

I've read all the other threads and people warning that there's no point getting the smallest bath and smallest shower as neither will be comfortable.

Then I saw this idea.
https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/3149263/list/why-you-might-want-to-put-your-tub-in-the-shower

My favourite so far:
(The one with black tiles if that is just the web page)

What do other people think?
I know its weird and I'm worried it might put people off when I want to sell (6 years or so). But then again anything I do might.

Any drawbacks anyone can anticipate?

Doozergirl

I have something like this saved on my Pinterest account and we had something very similar when I was a teenager as my mum was disabled. Everyone thought it was really cool - which was nice, considering that it was a disability aid!

I think doing it with a sloping floor rather than the step-up can make it very discreet indeed. The step is quite American in style. I don't mind it at all, but it's unusual for the UK.

Question is whether you genuinely have space.
An average bath is 75cm wide and you'd want similar, at least, for your wet area. Leaves you 1.25m of length to open the door, get the toilet in and the sink. It's possible if the door is well to one side.

In reality, we removed a separate shower from our identically sized bathroom and just have a huge bath with well dropped sides and a really nice fold back shower screen.

And a lot more space. Which feels more expensive than cramming everything in.

Practically, one needs to ensure that the area under the bath is wet-roomed just as well as the shower area itself and that the bath sides are waterproof inside and out.

The tiles in the pictured room are blue, by the way!

Doozergirl

MSE isn't working for me very well recently. It kept logging me out everytime I changed page and now I seem to be logged in but it won't let me edit. Apologies if my comments are all over the place.

andyhop

I would avoid a stepped wet room. You will get splash on the lower level . You want a level floor wetroom which is fully tanked .The drain should be under the shower

M2808

I thought they were blue - my partner told me I was wrong and they were black :rotfl: .

Thanks - I know it might be a bit crammed but I don't want to give up either particularly and the shower over the bath is really irritating me at the moment.

I'm thinking of changing the door so it's not in the way when it's opened, fitting the sink above my stair slope and the toilet on the other side.

Everyone seems initially positive about the concept, which I didn't really expect, and it sounds like you had the same.

My door is to one side, opposite the stair slope, and the window similar to in the picture, but wider.

I was still thinking about buying a large shower tray for it, and waterproofing under the bath before fitting the bath in (with something that can be removed for easy access to the plumbing).

M2808

Yeah, I though the drain was in a weird place. I'd put the shower on the left wall and have the drain at the left side.

My wet room couldn't be stepped like this as I would have to raise the floor a little bit to get the toilet to have enough drop. I think thats a really good point as in this picture all the water would get trapped, and I hadn't thought about that. Thanks.

Doozergirl

Do not put a shower tray in. It needs to be a proper wet room with as little angles, nooks and crannies as possible.

It'll look silly as well. The key both aesthetically and to keeping it leak-free is to making it as simple as possible.

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Thank you for this thread. I have a bathroom of very similar size (although floor is level), and a need for a separate shower because of some physical problems. It gives me a starting point.