Do you have a compact shower room? Can you tell me about it please?

[FourTables]

Now that the dear, dear children are back at school after a blissful half-term of family time, with no fighting or whining, oh no, not at all, I can start to plan my new downstairs shower room. Huzzah!

It is going to be fashioned from what is currently our utility, but I do want to keep some utility space, so it will need to be compact. It will be rectangular, with the door in the middle of one of the long walls, facing the sink, and a loo at one end and a shower at the other. I intend the shower to be the width of the room, but what do you reckon the minimum dimensions I can get away with are? I was hoping for 5ft x 4ft? Is that unrealistic? I am quite tall, as is DH, so we don't want to be bashing our elbows on the walls all the time .

How big is your shower room, and is it big enough? What would you change if you were building one from scratch?

TIA muchly

Our ensuite is laid out like that, it is 8ft8 x 4ft 10. Gaps between shower, basin and loo are 2ft 9, so could be squeezed up a bit. Not sure I would want it any smaller. We changed to door to open outwards, makes a difference to the feel of space.

Choose your shower tray before you build your walls....else you will end up having to play silly buggers when you realise that you haven't got quite enough space and you have to rethink the shower tray and end up with a beautiful but fecking expensive German one as it is the only one that fits (bitter)

Lol at Fishfingers! I will make sure we do.
Hairytoes - it sounds like my space willl be too small then . Hmm.
I have wondered about a combined shower rom/utility...

I will measure tomorrow. sounds like our one actually. have a standard basin in it and a shower across one wall which is a fair size.

How big is the existing room, and when you say utility, what do you want to keep in it?

Look for an online bathroom planner to see whether your proposed layout is feasible.

A shower across the whole side of the room sounds pretty large, given how tight you are for space - maybe you could put the shower in a corner with the loo next to it? Or could you take an alcove out of the utility and put the shower in that, if you see why I mean.

Hi FourTables, just discovered your conversation regarding insalling a downstairs showeroom off a utility room. I've been thinking about doing the very same thing and as wondering if you've made any progress?

We did a loft conversion and only had room for a reasonably small shower room. The door opens into the room, behind the door is a large shower 90x120 which is pretty much the length of the room. It's tiled on three sides so we only have a sliding door to open into the space. There's a bit at the far end for the plumbing and a narrow wicker shelving unit. We keep the towels folded on top.

To the left is a small sized basin (the door opens a couple of centimetres to spare) with cupboard underneath and the toilet directly in front of the door was one that protrudes the least into the room. We have a towel-rail radiator so that maximised the usefulness of that space.

Once you close the door there seems plenty of room to move about. DH and I can just about move about and change places in the shower and neither of us are petite.

elfycat, if it's not too much bother can give me the length and width of your showeroom? Just to give me a guide. We've got just over 2m in length to play with but don't have a lot of space to waste depth wise. Ta.