Tiny cloakrooms - give me your dimensions.

[SoozleQ]

We're having a small extension built on the back of our kitchen and as part of the work we're having a small downstairs loo put in. The dimensions of the proposed cloakroom haven't been set yet but given that it will be carved out of the kitchen space I would like it to be as small as possible without being hideously claustrophobic.

Approximately, we have factored in a space about 1m wide and 1.4m long. The door will open outwards on one of the 1m walls with presumably the loo on the opposite end wall. Do we then look to put a sink next to the loo so the length of the room can be reduced below 1.4m and, if so, what is the narrowest we can make the cloakroom? Or, do we go for a small sink that sits close to the wall and put it on one of the side walls so that it's not next to the loo and closing you in at the side. If we do that presumably the room could be narrower but would need to be longer.

My concern about the width of the room is that you would enter the kitchen along one of the sides of the cloakroom (the doors to the two rooms being next to each other) and so the wider the cloakroom the narrower the initial part of the kitchen as you enter it and the more the partition wall will jut out from the kitchen units that will then go along the same wall as the cloakroom. I am worried that the partition wall will just look too intrusive on the rest of the kitchen and so the narrower the better.

How small are your little loos and what do you think I should do? Someone come and design my downstairs bog for me!

i have a 50 cm worktop with a glass basin on and a back to the wall toilet in front of that BUT off set to one side iyswim

soooooo although your knees are practically against the closed door when you are seated, you do not have to shimmy past the pathetically small basin to get yourself comfy! I have a thing about cloakroom basins and the really small ones freak me out.

I think our previous one was 75cm x 1.5m with a spacesaving wc and basin, that was a bit tight for the six-footers in the house tbh! (about the size of a public toilet cubicle).

Now we have 1m x 1.55m with a diagonal door across one corner, that feels a lot better. There is plenty of room for a small basin on the side wall as long as the door opens outward.

Will measure ours tomorrow if i remember. In the meantime dont forget a radiator. A chilly loo is.not good!

Some of the sinks designed for small places are really splashy so try and get one that you have seen in action otherwise be prepared for a continually wet floor.......I speak from experience.
Also, consider a corner loo or, if you have high ceilings and an older house a 'victorian' style loo with a high tank as it gives the impression of a bigger space. I wouldn't have a radiator in such a small room but I guess it depends how cold your house is.

Ours is under the stairs so is about 77cm wide and then about 1.4m before the head height begins to slope off iyswim. It feels very narrow and I certainly wouldn't recommend going that narrow if you had the choice. Even another 10-15cm would make all the difference. The door opens into the hall, the toilet has its back on the narrow wall and there is a little basin offset to the right.

Tiredness - there is a link to that loo on a MN thread, thats where I saw it!

We are waiting for planning permission for our extension, which includes blocking off the downstairs hallway to create a loo 80cm wide by 170cm long. We'll take the door off the understair cupboard so hopefully that will make it feel a bit bigger, but basically door at one end with loo facing it, and annoyingly small basin between the 2.

Although we're now looking at putting one of these across the end of the room - it will fit if we tuck the end of the sink slightly into the understair area, I don't think it will make it awkward for hand washing, but will give us a more useful size sink than in the layout I suggested above. Although it will put the loo closer to the wall than I would otherwise - anyone think that will be a problem?

Have you looked at the Ideal Standard Space wc - you can angle the seat on it to give enough room when it's close to a wall. Will probably confuse the hell out of any guest trying to use it though.

here this price is only for the seat though.

Our space is about 1m x 1.4m

We have the loo and basin side by side on one short side. The door is at the far end of a long side - iyswim?!

The arrangement is similar to yorkie's but done diy with a concealed cistern behind matchboarding with a solid oak shelf covering the top. The sink is fixed to the boarding and the loo backs on to that too. The sink is quite shallow and i would prefer it deeper but it is fine. Putting the fittings side by side makes the space feel bigger than it actually is.