Tiny ensuites

[herhonesty]

any body got one and care to give me their measurements. Trying to keep family bathroom as big as possible.

ours is 80cm x 2m
door in the middle, shower right, loo left, tiny sink straight ahead.
smaller would be difficult, unless you want the sink on your lap when on the loo.

Same as mousy mouse.
Basically a rectangle the width of a 90cm shower tray about 3m long. Shower in the one end 90x90. Loo in the other end.
Door in the middle with sink unit opposite the door.

We got a narrowish sink from Wikes but there is also a space saving range - cant remember who makes it. They do very narrow sinks and also loos that fit into corners, corner shower tray etc, quite pricey though but may be worth it if you have a very small space.

Mine is 2m x 1.5. I have an offset quadrant shower cubicle 760 x 900mm, toilet, sink & heated towel rad. Small window & door opening out into the bedroom.

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I'm trying to convince my MIL to get one of these integrated toilets and sinks as she has next to no room.

I have NEVER seen one of those before!

But quaint! Great for really tiny spaces!

When we rebuilt most of our house, much to the amazement of all the builders etc we took a conscious decision NOT to go for an en suite.
We have a family bathroom and a family shower room which have defaulted to a his and hers
so when the kids go to bed they each have a bathroom
and when DH and I go to bed we do not have to share basins and toilets
AND
no bedrooms have bathroom doors so one can fart at night without guilt ....

Talkinpeace us too. Sorry but i think en suites are disgusting... all those smells,noise and steam wafting into the bedroom. Yuk! We have two seperate bathrooms too, neither en suite and i use one and DH uses the other. Perfect as i do not want to use the same loo as him. And the shower is always adjusted to my height and temperature.

Not in actual existence yet but our development plans for the house also contain a mini shower room 90cm x about 2m - seems to be the limit on smallest possible size.

However, I wouldn't go for the loo&sink combo linked to by piprabbit - look at the small print, you only get cold water - I would always want to have warm water available for washing hands properly. There are other space-saving small & narrow sinks, many of which could be fitted above the loo cistern if that's what you want.

Depending on what kind of wall the loo-end backs into, you can save a good 20cm by hiding one of these inside the wall.

It always makes me laugh when people are negative about en-suites, have you never stayed in a hotel?

The least space taking is the one rectangle one with a shower at one end, toilet at the other and basin opposite the door in the middle.

We have this basin in our cloakroom.

yup, many times, and I HATE the sound of extractor fans at 3am and the smell of farts as I wake up.
a reason why I chose NOT to go en suite at home

i didnt actually ask opinions about ensuites, just for measurements of small ones!!!!

that toilet sink think is funny! very good idea.

ours is L-shaped

straight part is 165cm (to inner edge of door frame) x 97cm, with door one end, loo at far end, & small wall-mounted basin just inside the door

then there's an 80cm square shower trap opposite the basin, set back about 10cm. With a bifold shower door there is room to get dry when it's open

there is an opening window, between basin & loo. no extractor

it works well as long as people remember to

a) turn shower RIGHT OFF (otherwise it splashes & fllor gets soaked) &
b) open window

sorry, width is 87, not 97

& shower tray, not trap

Pip, that is great, but is that supposed to be the kind of thing where you stand and wee and wash your hands at the same time, just to save on space, time and continuum?

incidentally, for the anti en-suite brigade, we have nowhere to put a loo downstairs, but with 4 kids we really needed at least one more. The original bathroom was massive (12' x 10') so taking a chunk off that was the obvious solution, & the adjoining bedroom the obvious place for the door.

it's a Victorian terrace, with both bathroom & shower room in an original rear extension, formerly a bedroom

The en-suite shower & loo are always used thoughtfully

ROFL at mental image of MIL peeing standing up while washing hands.

We're trying to find a way of shoehorning an extra bathroom into her small house as she is getting elderly and quite sensible wants to have toilets up and down stairs for when the time comes that she isn't as mobile as she is at the moment.

Maybe we'll go for a she-wee and a bucket?

Although my Great-grandmother had a commode in her bedroom...

can you fit one under her stairs, pip? there is space in a lot of houses - depends on the layout of course (& whether the electric meter is under the stairs - ours is, which meant the extra work made it ridiculously uneconomic)

also ours opens into the dining room which is a bit off-putting too

both my paternal grandparents had massive chamber pots under their beds (separate rooms) - mind you they only had an upstairs bathroom installed very late on, before that the outside loo was all there was

We've thought of the stairs - but they cut across the corner of the kitchen and the built-in oven lives under them. The bit that is in the hall is only 4ft tall.
I'm thinking of a corner of the dining room - the layout means that it could actually have a door into the area by the back door and not directly into the dining area.
MIL remains to be convinced.