Small / narrow ensuite ideas?

[mandy214]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for companies / design ideas for a small, narrow ensuite? Just in the planning stages but likely to be a longish thinnish room (technical terms !) so space saving ideas and ways to make a small space look bigger required!

Many thanks

Bathrooms direct did great job for us!

We did it ourselves with improvements made bu the builders.. ours is 80cm wide with a loo at one end, world's smallest sink in the middle and a rectangular shower at the other end. This sticks a bit further into the room but not much and makes a huge difference to the size of the shower. Good but quiet fan and sound proof plaster board are good too

Hotels are great at squeezing ensuites in. The room can be the width of the shower cubicle like golemmings said. Give attention to really good bright lighting, ventilation and is there "drying off space"? Door will probably be best to hinge outwards.

Does it matter how big it looks? You'll be in there for 10 minutes a day and nobody else will ever see it.

You could do a pocket door. We have a tiny cloakroom and pocket door is what we've opted for.

Thank you. That's really useful. I am thinking about 1m wide.

One other related point - we are looking at squeezing it in between 2 bedrooms - and it won't have any walls that are outside walls if you see what I mean (although it will be very close to the existing bathroom). Would this still work?

Off to do more googling. Thank you!

Don't get a bifold door! If the door opens outwards it should be fine.

Drying off space is important or the carpet (if you have one) will get manky in the bedroom with damp feet constantly on it.

I would suggest the shower is as far away from the toilet as possible in terms of drying off - nothing worse than towel hitting toilet (this is a feature of many hotel bathrooms and need to dry in bedroom which isn't great!).

Use of mirrors will increase the feeling of space. Have you looked on houzz for tiny bathroom ideas. They usually have great ideas or look at tiny kitchens too and see what you can nick.

We put an ensuite in what used to be a corridor, exactly as golemmings suggests. The shower tray at one side of the door with an infolding bifold door, a very narrow vanity unit in the middle opposite the door with a large mirror and halogen lights over, next to a tall towel rack radiator, then the (macerator) loo. Flooring is porcelain "wooden planks". No window, just an extractor. White hexagonal subway tiles in the shower only.

We put one in the DSSs' room in our old house. Was made out of boiler and storage cupboard previously accessed on the landing. Can't remember dimensions but it was tiny. Sliding door in the middle and on one side utilising one whole end of the rectangle was a wall to wall shower with sliding door. This was width of room and on other corner basin and corner toilet from Ideal Standard space range.

Re being between two rooms, this was good as no radiator needed as was heated by rooms either side. Drainage could have been a problem but it was next to a family bathroom. We had no window but had a very good extractor and the boys tended to leave the door open all the time anyway- they never spent more than 2 minutes in the shower.

The space range is very small. Suited DSSs as they didn't live here permanently. Are you planning that it will be in permanent use?

Does it have to be a straight corridor? Could you do an L?

We have a short narrow space for loo & small basin, with 800mm square shower cubicle in an L arrangement opposite the basin. With a bifold door on the shower there is enough drying space when it's open. (Shower room door is a narrow one & opens out into bedroom)

We had an en suite that was about 1m wide.
Door opened out and was part glazed for light.
Twyfords did a small basin and narrow cisterned loo. The basin was wall mounted so no pedestal taking up floor space.
Shower across 1 end with glass door.

It doesn't need to be a straight corridor but probably works best that way (I think!) because it is going in between (hopefully) 2 square / rectangular rooms so keeping the walls straight would be easier I think for furniture placement in those 2 rooms.

Notlikeanyother - it will be permanent use (at bed time / early morning, we have a family bathroom and a downstairs loo) in that it will be off the main bedroom which H and I will have. I am more of a bath person so won't use the shower too much, but he will. We currently have 3 children - 2 of whom are not far off being teenagers and this is our house for the next 15 years at least so there will come a time when there will be 5 adults / teenagers (in soon to be 4 bed house) using the family bathroom.

Ours is a narrow room, the door is in the center of the long wall, shower one end toilet the other and sink right opposite the opening to the door. We picked a sink that is squared, it's wider on the wall doesn't stick out far. We also took out a wall and reconstructed it allowing for a pocket door that sides away inside.

Have never heard of a pocket door but am off to research. Thank you.

Pocket door is just a sliding door really. I would also ensure that your basin and toilet are both wall mounted to maximise floor space.

We made ours 1m wide, and have as others have said, toilet at one end, small basin in the middle and shower at the end. The shower tray is 1200x1000 mm and the door is hinged about a quarter of the way across the opening and opens into the shower. That sounds clumsy but because the shower goes back 1200mm it doesn't feel at all tight for space - quite the opposite actually.

High gloss floor tiles (even though they're black) and shower tiles reflect the light and make it feel lots more spacious than it is.

I would recommend drawing out the shape to a scale, getting some sizes of smaller basins and toilets and drawing those in to scale, and just seeing what stuff looks like on paper.

Ours looks like this one it cost a couple hundred £ or so, but is a great idea we had one in our first home (rental) many years ago.
www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk/products/sliding_door_hardware/pocket_door_systems/285005/eclisse_pocket_door_frames_for_single_doors_100mm_finished_wall_thickness/533414?vat=1&gclid=CNnd0OSK08QCFcmWtAodBCIAeQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

This is really helpful. Thank you everyone.