What would you compromise on in a small bathroom?

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We're trying to make our about to be renovated bathroom in a terraced house as lovely as poss. The space constraints make it hard to have what we want.

We've gone for a normal bath and back to wall toilet and slightly smaller sink than I'd like - the Starck 3 range - Starck 3

Will we notice it being smaller? Will we care?

Just wondered what other people did?

Best think I did was remove the bath and make the shower huge. This only works really if you have a bath elsewhere (we have one in ensuite).

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Shower over the bath, presumably?

I would go for a slightly smaller bath - unless you are really addicted to spreading out, it has to make sense and will be cheaper/save energy too.

Slightly smaller sink will not be a problem, I'm sure.

We went for a smaller basin and it's not been a prob.

I think you've made the right choice to sacrifice the sink. I have a slightly smaller bath and I hate it, I never bother having a bath as it's so uncomfortable. The worst was when I was pregnant and none of me seemed to fit in it

We built and en-suite that was probably about 7 ft by 3.5 ft, which included toilet, shower and small basin. Would ideally have liked larger basin, but that was what fit in the space. Had no problem with it once it was in. Didn't feel mean because that is what fit the space.

I had the opposite - I chose a smaller than average bath (with shower over) and a large sink.

But then, I am pretty small, so small bath wasn't much of a compromise for me (wasn't planning for lanky DH at the time!). And I didn't really have much of a choice as the "obvious" space for the bath was quite short and rearranging the bathroom would have been a real pain.

Can you get a shower bath in?

I'm just doing the same...our bathroom is tiny and a really awkward shape. The old sink overhung the edge of the bath.

I bought another the same width but squarer, and it's massively too large now, so that's being replaced with a smaller basin and put in a different place I think - plumber coming to advise tomorrow!

I've bought a 40cm round marble basin instead of a 560 wide bathstore Victorian one! And planning to put it on a small cabinet thing.

I really wanted a big sink but it was that or a bath and tbh we need a bath to dunk the kids in, they'd have broken a glass shower surround in no time!

The Ideal Standard Space range is really clever for small bathrooms, I was going to use it for our ensuite but managed to push a wall back under the eaves to buy a bit more room instead.

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Our main (and still only as the other isn't plumbed in...) bathroom is about 8 foot x 5.
We went for full size bath in the far corner opposite the door, loo ahead of the door, basin in the gap at the front, but sticking up over the end of the bath. Built-in units around the loo and basin, heated towel rail on the wall, mirror cabinet with lights over basin. The units had to be made to measure to ensure they fit, and the tiles go up to them not to the sides.

Best decision was to take off the door and rehang so opens outwards - otherwise it would be impossible to have a potty in there as well, or more than one person giving dcs a bath. The glass shower screen divides the sash window in two so it's a bit hard to clean the far side of the window - you have to climb in the bath!

We could add more shelves to the walls, and install an extractor fan, but both would be hard and make it look cramped I think. Obviously laundry and spare towels have to be stored elsewhere.

We're thinking of doing that with our door, NC.

I think it would make a big difference.

I think it depends entirely on what you want your sink for - the Stark 3 seemed fine to me when we were looking at it. Have you tried measuring it out in the space and comparing it to your current sink? We found that the issue was not sink size per se, but the depth of the sink (a lot are very square and shallow) and the amount of size at either side to put things down on while washing.

We're not having a toilet (we have a separate upstairs toilet) in either of our small bathrooms when they're re-done. We're going to have a really large shower in the smaller of the rooms, and a really large bath in the larger, instead of the current set up of a really large bath in each bathroom. The sink in the smaller room is going to be undermounted into a countertop, so it fits neatly into a particular space. If there's space, we may be able to fit a shower into the larger bathroom, if not, we'll stick with it over the bath.