Help me design my bathroom - The Layout

Doozergirl

Gavin83 said:

One thing to consider is the toilet is probably the hardest element to move as you have the soil pipe to worry about. What's the situation at the moment, does it just go straight through the wall?

If you move the bath you'll likely need to mess about with the pipes too as often you'll find the run to the bath is 22mm but only 15mm to the shower. This'll need to be checked though.

I prefer your layout but 160cm isn't that big a space for a bath. You could move the wall as Doozer suggested though. I'd likely keep the toilet where it is and either keep the sink where it is or move it next to the toilet along the window wall. You'd need to consider what to do in regards to a mirror though if you moved it.

It's very easy to spin the toilet position by 90 degrees, particularly if you put the cistern in a cabinet and have a btw loo, but boxing the pipe in for a very short run would also be pretty easy.  

Kerreh

Ref your plan Number 2 - I have a similar set up (shower over bath, bath next to tiled windowsill) and I get a LOT of water settle on the windowsill (especially if a hairwash day) so have to squeegee it off every time - it gets annoying pretty quickly.

Would go with your proposed layout personally!

horsewithnoname

FreeBear said:

Deleted_User said: The door is inbetween the shower and the radiator and opens towards the shower.

I would be concerned that the door handle might make contact with the shower screen - If that were to happen, there is a good chance that the glass would shatter.

Could you have the door rehung the other way?

ashe

For window privacy, I've no idea why in this country we insist on "obscured" glass which is pretty easy to see through , at least in a way that you know what is there. Our bathroom has properly listed glass which allows light through but gives absolute privacy. I've never needed to see a blurry view of outside and definitely never needed people to see a distorted image of me getting out of the shower / bath and don't like blinds in bathrooms. 

This is our bathroom when we moved in - badly fitted lvt flooring with no underlay so by time we renovated it was in about 3000 pieces, the "tiles" were a cheap PVC wall coating and the waterfall taps in bath an basin looked the part but overshot the sink and bath and you could practically see out the window the obscuring was so poor - from inside I could make out people walking by so they would be able to do the same to me 😂 sink in front of window so no mirror for shaving, lot of wasted space with boxing and on the left hand wall where there was nothing 

We moved things around, got rid of shower as have one in en suite, obscured the glass with shotblast glass, moved the toilet over, our the sink against the wall so more sink storage and proper mirror above the sink 

But think the change in glass was my favourite thing about the room 😂

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ashe said:

For window privacy, I've no idea why in this country we insist on "obscured" glass which is pretty easy to see through , at least in a way that you know what is there. Our bathroom has properly listed glass which allows light through but gives absolute privacy. I've never needed to see a blurry view of outside and definitely never needed people to see a distorted image of me getting out of the shower / bath and don't like blinds in bathrooms. 

This is our bathroom when we moved in - badly fitted lvt flooring with no underlay so by time we renovated it was in about 3000 pieces, the "tiles" were a cheap PVC wall coating and the waterfall taps in bath an basin looked the part but overshot the sink and bath and you could practically see out the window the obscuring was so poor - from inside I could make out people walking by so they would be able to do the same to me 😂 sink in front of window so no mirror for shaving, lot of wasted space with boxing and on the left hand wall where there was nothing 

We moved things around, got rid of shower as have one in en suite, obscured the glass with shotblast glass, moved the toilet over, our the sink against the wall so more sink storage and proper mirror above the sink 

But think the change in glass was my favourite thing about the room 😂

I don't understand what you are saying about the windows. We can't have non obscured glass as we will be blatantly showing our bodies. I can see clear into the neighbours bedrooms if they have the light on. I can make out a silhouette in the bathroom, but the obscure glass makes an obvious difference in what I can see.. 

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I've started to order things in and get quotes from builders/fitters. I had one come over today who said I won't be able to fit in a vanity unit across the right hand side (from the perspective of standing at the door). This is because moving the toilet (because of the waste pipe) would bring it forward. I am therfore stuck between two options.

First is keep the toilet where it is and just have a small unit opposite. I've mocked up something below. I have no real concerns with this one other than it feels like I am wasting space in areas. 






The second option would be to get a smaller bath and have it the other way against the wall. Benefits will be I get my large vanity unit, all the space is used and there is enough room below the windows to add a radiator. It also solves privacy concerns having the standing bit of the shower away from the window. 




What are your thoughts?

Also going to tag in @Doozergirl and @Gavin83

housebuyer143

In the first 3d mock up the to vanity unit looks to reduce space to the toilet quite a bit and the bath/ shower is in front of the window? 
I would personally go for the second one. 

greensalad

What sort of structure is your home. Brick or timber? I ask because in my own bathroom design (for that bathroom I still can't afford yet...) I also had a shower in the window. My plan was simply to get a new window. We are timber clad studwork though so it's a lot easier to make changes like that. 

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greensalad said:

What sort of structure is your home. Brick or timber? I ask because in my own bathroom design (for that bathroom I still can't afford yet...) I also had a shower in the window. My plan was simply to get a new window. We are timber clad studwork though so it's a lot easier to make changes like that. 

Heya. We have a brick build. 

sugar-walsh

Hello!

When we bought put old house the tiddly bathroom had this layout..


(The bath did have a panel) the door opened in and you had to kind of shuffle into 1 corner to open the door.  The measurements were really similar to yours.

We flipped the door to open into the hall, that made a huge difference, and we went with this layout.



Put a bath with shower to the left, radiator in middle, left loo in position and built a sink unit. You could do the same, but with loo and sink in opposite positions.  I would install a rail above rad like this 



As we found this way better at keeping towels neat and dry, as well as warming the room.

We also installed a very large mirror in the old bathroom, with a shelf over for nice bottles/plants, the mirror helped make the room feel bigger. We also used a shower curtain as I found screens just never really keep the water in, unless you go for a full length.