Another bathroom layout help thread!

[WeAllHaveWings]

I have been procrastinating for the best part of a year trying to decide how to redo the bathroom and its starting to get desperate, old suite is nearing 20 years old and it looks it. I need help. Room is 2650 x 1860. Door is on internal wall and cant move.

Which of these layouts would you go for? Each have a 1800 x 80 bath (for a good soak/wider shower). Or can you suggest a better I haven't thought of? With an over bath shower/screen added (couldn't do this in the designer thing, or change colours).

1. Is similar to now, but bath and sink swapped to give a wall for a shower. Don't like because the sink appears too tucked away in a corner.
   
   
2. Hmm, trying anything but don't really like.
   
   
3. This is what I thought I would like before I put it in the design tool, the window would be properly sealed as near the shower. But now worried the built in bit will make the room feel smaller, and the toilet looks too close the door, not sure why I don't like that................

[YellowLawn]

2 would be the more practical.

how about a corner bath between door& window with shower closer to the door?

[OlennasWimple]

Three - lots of storage is a real boon in a small bathroom. The million bottles can make it look cluttered and even smaller

Plus I like having the towel rail close to the bath

[wowfudge]

Not sure three would work because the soil pipe will need to be routed to the external wall and there's not enough room for it with the bath under the window.

I think 1 is best because of having the shower over the bath and space in front of the loo isn't restricted.

[CrochetBelle]

Not #1. My sink is tucked away at the end of the bath there, and it is a royal PITA

[EpoxyResin]

Two!

DEFO not 1; like pp I've had that sink in the corner that you have to dodge the corner of the bath to get to and it was beyond annoying. And I was forever bashing into the edge of the bath in my clumsier moments.

[WeAllHaveWings]

The wall with a window and the right hand wall are both external walls so hopefully the soil pipe can move ok (the external downpipe is to the right of the window).

I was ok with this which was the original layout but have given up with solutions for a shower screen with the window placement (I don't want to have a curtain).

Towel rail close to the bath is practical olen, never noticed that before.

[blaaake]

With the layout you just posted, could you move the taps to the centre of the bath on the wall and have the shower on top?

[blaaake]

And then shower screens either side that pull out. I have a friend who has similar in her bathroom

[WeAllHaveWings]

blaaake I have tried to find shower screens (that are not curtains) but cant find anything suitable.

[GreenTulips]

I like the bath under the window - we used a cheap blind at the window as a shower curtain - replaced every 2 years - never had a flooded windo sill either

Can you fit a L shaped bath?

Could the bath go on the left side - build a fake wall to include a shower? - you can get smaller baths and storage baths etc to fit the space then loo by the window and sink opppsite the door

(Look at blue tooth mirrors!

Also cheaper to find different thing on different sites - we saved £2K doing this!! Worth shopping around

[chocolatepudandchocolatesauce]

How about turning the bath round so the relaxing end is by the window, then have a ceiling mounted rainforest style shower head the other end (near the sink) as then could have a glass shower screen round that end?

[GreenTulips]

Example

Loo and towel rail £80 each b&q
Tiles - Total tiles £15 sq mt cheaper than anywhere else
Sink - eBay (£30 instead of £180)
Bath shower screen on line £190 all in - £600 not so good quality £600 elsewhere!!

[blaaake]

OP I think she literally has a folding shower screen either side of the taps (which are in the centre of the bath), so it makes an enclosed space when you open them out and push them together! I can't find any selfies pictures on my phone in there but will have a look!

[FagAshMIL]

Nothing to add wings but would like to know the design tool you've used, looks great.

chocolatepud can you elaborate on the ceiling mounted rainforest shower? I can visualise the shower head but not the pipe layout (sorry to hijack, I have similar bathroom dilemma)

[blaaake]

Looks a bit like this

[namechangedtoday15]

3 by a country mile.

We have more or less the same layout and size, went to 3 or 4 bathroom designers and every one said to put the bath under the window. So glad we did, it looks so big given that its actually quite a small room. We have the toilet and sink in the opposite positions though, shower over the bath. We even have the built in toilet and sink that you have in the design and the wall mounted cabinets

[GreenTulips]

The pipe goes in the ceiling and inside the walls to a on/off shower fitting then hides again behind the bath - you can get 'visible pipes' particularly on Victorian designed showers

[littlem133]

Definitely 2. Flows better. Sink next to window for light and radiator for towel.

[GreenTulips]

Victorian type

[chocolatepudandchocolatesauce]

blaaake and GreenTulips have it right about the rainforest shower

[GreenTulips]

We are having a rain forest shower with a switch to change to a 'normal' shower

[GreenTulips]

Also - we are having centre wall mounted taps - with a shower attachment - for hair or the dog / leg shave etc rather than reach/stretch for the existing shower head

[SwedishEdith]

I like 2.

[thebigbluedustbin]

I like 3 best

[WeAllHaveWings]

Fagash design tool is free on the Ideal Standard website.

namechangedtoday15 how deep is your built in part, I was hoping 20cm would be deep enough? Also do you still have access to the plumbing/cistern?