Help with bathroom floor plan!

[FrozenYogurt]

Hi,

We're doing some work to our first floor, essentially converting our massive bathroom into a bedroom and splitting our good sized middle bedroom into a smaller bedroom and bathroom (this allows us to add a loft conversion.

We have a cupboard over the stairs currently accessed by another bedroom but we can use this space in the bathroom.

What do you think of this floor plan?
My worry is we're blocking in half the bath and it might prove difficult bathing the kids (5, 3, newborn). I've trawled Pinterest to find examples but come up with none - is this because it's a silly idea? The enclosed area would be a fully tiled shower area.

Thanks!

Is that your main family bathroom? I think it's too small if so. You wouldn't get you and 3 children in there! If child was in Bath and you were kneeling up at the bath, you'd be blocking the door. No one would be able to get in or out. There would be very little / no space for the baby / other child. I think perhaps it's a compromise too far. Sorry.

There is an online brochure that I've found useful by Ideal Standard - think it's called Concept bathrooms. That gives ideas for layouts in small spaces.

Thank you for replying!

Yes, I should have said - we'll have a shower room upstairs in our room that will be mine and DH's. This bathroom is intended to be the kid's bathroom really, unless we fancy a bath!

Good points about blocking the door, we could move it to the other side, opposite toilet. We are flexible on the size/width of the room so maybe a tad wider with not so much of the bath in the recessed area?

I think it's fine, I'd much sooner have bedroom space than bathroom space and you don't have to bathe all your children at the same time. By the age of five, mine were more than capable of doing it themselves.

Well that's still 5 years to have a v small bathroom for parents bathing children if the OP has a newborn.

Do you have to have the corner cut off? If you do I think I'd push the left hand wall further back and have the bath along that left hand wall.

I'm planning pretty much exactly that layout when we get our own bathroom done and I am sure it's going to be OK. The only difference being I was intending to have a corner sink. Let us know how you get on when it's done!

Personally I would move the left hand wall over and put the bath on the left so.that the whole side is exposed. Put the sink under the window and the tuck the loo in the recess

imperial that's the layout we have at the moment and it sucks. There's a real feeling of crampedness - I'm convinced that sticking half the bath into the recess where the loo currently is will help it feel bigger.

where is the soil pipe? In a modern house it will be in a vertical duct in a corner of the bathroom, in an older house it may be a 100mm plastic, or even cast iron, pipe fixed to the wall outside. Iron is more tiresome to alter.

the bath looks like my bath, its a great bath for an adult as theres space to stretch your legs out, but its not an easy bath to clean as it deep and the bit with the shower enclosure is hard to get to. i don't have kids yet but i don't imagine its a great bath for that purpose as i think it is difficult to reach into and also you've got the fairly pointy corner. If you haven't already go see it in a show room and see what you think. Being a large bath it also takes longer to fill and uses more water

Could you have the door opening outwards? We did that on our bathroom and it does make it feel more spacious.

Hi, thanks for all your input. We are creating this bathroom out of bedroom space so would run a new soil pipe out. The left hand wall could be pushed back - we've new playing about with CAD all evening trying to squeeze the bath there. The only issue is that every cm we add is being taken from the bedroom being created next door. I think as teens our children would prefer a bigger bedroom than bathroom, but do take on board that that's a while away and I do have a newborn to consider!

Thanks Rose for your feedback r.e the bath itself, we'll try and find one in real life before committing - the sides do look a little steep.

Fish I'll repost when we finalise our drawings, when are you redoing yours?

Rose that's useful for me too I'll remember it.

Frozen it will be a while as we need to do central heating, then sort out downstairs (which will include getting a downstairs WC&shower) and I want that finished before we start mucking about with the bathroom upstairs. So I am sure you will have lived with your new bathroom for some time and can give me tips by the time I am finalising my own designs!

I don't know if this helps, but we did pretty much exactly what you are - turned our bathroom into a bedroom and split the bedroom. What helped us to work out the layout was to actually mark out the full room layout (life size, obviously) on the floor in the larger room using masking tape (just on the carpet, came off no problem!). That enabled us to work out whether we'd actually be able to walk past the toilet, etc. It takes a bit of time, but worth a try?

I found a picture of a bath with side blocked which might help visualise:

Queen what are the dimensions of your bathroom? Did you recess the bath?

Dyne thanks, that does help picture it a little better.

Can you hang your door on the other side and have it opening outwards? (At least while the dc are small.)
Agree with others that it will seem very cramped in there for a few years. My eldest wanted to bath with his sibs 'til he was 9 going on 10 I think.
Don't think it's a bad layout, but it depends how long you're planning on staying there I think. When you're selling it families (assuming they're your market) will pull a face at how cramped it is.

I think if that was a fixed space to work with you've made the best use of the space but agree that hanging the door outwards would make it more usable.

Given that you've got flexibility in the space I think it may be worth making it larger as I agree with a previous poster that this may be a deal breaker when trying to sell. If you post the proposed layout of the floor we might be able to help you better to optimise the space in all rooms?

It was about 2m by 3m20 (we've moved since then). We made it just wide enough to have the bath sideways across the back wall (a bit like dynevoran's picture) and tiled it in. We had the door ias near to the corner as possible and put the shower cubicle next to the door. We got a pretty decent sized shower in there - 90cm x 120cm, I think (with sliding doors). The door opened towards the shower, so we could hang a towel radiator on the wall. The loo was directly in front of you (sideways on) as you walked in, then the basin was between the end of the shower and the bath.

It sounds really cramped, which is why we did the masking tape experiment! We were reassured that it would work, though, and it was absolutely fine. I wouldn't call it a family bathroom, but you could certainly get yourself dried after your bath or shower without banging your elbows on anything!

We could have the door outwards actually, that's a good point.

This is our forever home (at least until the kids move out, so 20ish years minimum I think). Since we'll have a downstairs cloakroom, swish shower room en suite on the second floor all we need is a kids bathroom really. What we don't want is a really poky fourth bedroom for the youngest, it's going to be small anyway at 2.95 x 2.30 at the moment, so anything we take to make the bathroom bigger will be coming from that room. I think as a teen I'd rather a bigger bedroom than bathroom.

You could put a folding door on thats what we're having in our loft conversion to save space.

Theres not really much you can do if you are limited to that small space and dont want to compromise bedroom space
as,long as you're prepared to find it a but tight go for it.

Polter I think that's what we might end up going for, having the door open outwards will give us a little more scope to put the bath on the left.

Thanks so much to everyone on this thread, it's been great to get advice and opinions that's I've not considered.