Help me design my bathroom - The Layout

Doozergirl

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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

I've not changed my
mind.  Option 2, but with a slightly longer bath -  leave the door where it is but just steal 10cm of the hallway for the width of the bath! 

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sugar-walsh said:

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.

Thanks for this. 

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Another thing I'm stuck on is the whole vanity suite. How does one go about putting one together? What I mean is, I can see separate unity, different basins I like, different toilets etc. How do I get them all I'm a single suite? 

For example, am I supposed to by the cistern (?) and backing separately from the actual toilet I want? 

ashe

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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.. 

you've misunderstood my post. We do t have obscured glass, I.e the patterns - as you can literally make out things through it. As you say you can see a silhouette - to me people seeing my naked silhouette isn't privacy.

our windows are sandblasted / frosted / whatever people call it.it's basically like the middle section below. It allows light in, but completely obscures the view. I can look from the street as my partner is in the shower and it literally just a silver/grey square with no silhouettes or anything. I much prefer this to having a pattern of flowers or shapes that obscures details but still allows some two way vision