How would you have this door open?

[DreamboatDaddy]

Hello all,

Late stages of complete house rebuild. Bungalow will now have 2 bedrooms upstairs plus family bathroom.

Bathroom is height restricted so the door shown in the image has had to be cut at an angle to fit. If it opens in the way shown it can open fully. However, it's currently set to open outwards but the other way (and the light switch is in place on the left of the doorframe) but only opens to about 80 degrees or so - will need a door stopper if we retain this direction.

It can't open inwards towards the sink unit. It could open partially inwards towards the toilet (again only about 80 degrees) but that would make an awkward entrance.

So would you have it as shown where it can fully open and relocate the light switch? Or would you put it the other way so it could only open to about 80 degrees (but is perhaps less likely to hit someone on the landing!).

We're going for quite a high spec and I really need to confirm my decision for tomorrow.

Thoughts and advice much appreciated...

I would have it as shown.

I grew up in a country where (nearly) all doors open outwards and never remember anyone getting accidentally hit by a door in 20 years of living there.

you could have it open towards the WC on the grounds that no-one will open the door while it is being used.

When you change back to a single basin it can go that way.

Why have you got a gap between the WC and the bath, and the wall?

It's unusual to have the taps and waste of the bath away from the end at the wall.

Thanks All,

I'm told by higher management that the double basin is not open to compromise.

Problem with opening it towards the WC is that it will only open about 75-80 degrees. The opening between the door and the sink unit would be narrow as the doorframe is 280 from the wall whereas the double sink will stick out about 480.

One option may be to open the door inwards onto the sink unit but to have some sort of mechanism to stop the door from hitting the sink. I don't know if we could have some sort of metal bracket above the door to limit the movement? The good thing about this approach would be that the door would look better from the landing side - all 3 doors would sit at the back of the frames with the hinges on the inside.

I will continue to try and tempt higher management with an 800mm single sink unit (rather than the 1200 double) which would allow the door to open inwards perfectly.

Wish me luck...

Forgot to mention. Bath and toilet are away from the wall as we're building out and tiling a shelf in the lowest head-height space. It's less than 1m at the end.

The taps aren't really at the end of the bath like that - it's just the best generic bath image I could find on the planning software. The bath is freestanding and we'll have a freestanding tap unit between the end of the bath and the right-hand wall as you look at the image.

Couldn't you have one of those doors that slides into the wall? Pocket door I think they are called.

There's not enough space to the left of the door as it's only a 280mm gap. To the right the height declines so the door couldn't fit into that either.

What size is your shower cube?

Unless your drawing isn't all to scale, I would have the door opening inward left to right (so 'hitting' the toilet).

However, your shower looks very small, i'd be putting in a bigger shower and a smaller basin if it were me.

Good luck.

Our bathroom door opens outwards into the landing and we have had no issues at all. In fact it makes the bathroom so much more spacious. Added bonus is that the door is usually left shut too!

Same as chipping, I would have it opening so hitting the toilet with one sink and a larger shower, two sinks is a complete waste of space (I have two in my ensuite and in 6 years have never used both at the same time) and two side by side like that looks a bit odd, I have toilet between my two so two users wouldn't stand shoulder to shoulder and we still don't use them together.