tell me what's wrong with having to walk through en-suite to get to brdrokm

[VeuveLilies]

I need to reconfigure ensuite as it's too small.
There's only me so I'd never been situation of using the loo and someone coming through.
I'm not moving anytime soon

Builders and friends/family don't think it's s good idea, but can't say why

But how would you move furniture from your bedroom - should you need to?

With strong removal men who could lift things over the sink!
But would only get a small sink anyway.

I would hate to have to go through a bathroom to get to my bedroom

As a buyer it would put me right off.

But why Mop?

I think it looks lovely how it is, OP! I've lived with similar size bathrooms as my only bathroom in at least 3 of my previous rentals though and found it fine - it's fitted well.

You have a perfectly good, new looking shower room!

What about swapping the basin for a tiny basin, and having a new basin with top and big mirror put inside your bedroom for doing make up etc?

Have the bathroom door replaced with a sliding door? To avoid blocking bathroom or corridor. Or a door with opaque glass, to offset claustrophobia?

In the end it's your house, and you live there. A walk through bathroom will seem like a dreadful bodge up, but it's your bodge up, your choice.

Because a bathroom is cold and wet and have an aura of unhygienic-ness in the mind (even posh, clean only-used-by-one person ones).

They are not public rooms, and you might on occasion want someone else to join you in your bedrooom.

It underlines the proximity to the bog when you have to walk past it several times per day.

I think your access to your bedroom would also feel a bit like an obstacle course and the feng shui, man, all wrong

The ambience and finish you want in a bedroom is so different to that in a bathroom - hard smooth surfaces

But I generally don't much care for ensuites, don't see the point in a family home. I see the point of having own separate bathroom but would prefer your existing set up by a mile.

I think if it were at least semi-partitioned down the middle so, when partitioned, you were just walking through a bathroom-feeling corridor with a sink and a radiator in, honestly I'd be okay with that. What's wrong with walking through a tiled corridor with a sink in,? Unless you'd be shimmying past a sink that was getting right in your way... would the basin fit with a comfortable space for getting past? What width would the through-space be?

I think you should check with planning / building regs, because even though it is only you, it might not be acceptable to have a layout where someone could lock the door between bathroom and bedroom and then run out in a fire without unlocking it, or something.

And I think you do have to have a door between a toilet and other room, but may be wrong.

My PIL had this. you went through a bathroom, then a sort of dressing area and then the bedroom. It was fairly odd to be honest but they were fine with it. I think it will affect resale though.

If you were starting from scratch and you had no ensuite, where would you put it? Where would the ideal location be? As that's you're answer.

I'd go for turning your current ensuite into wardrobes and then putting the ensuite in the top left of your bedroom, as per PPs. ,otherwise you're just tinkering around the edges.

There wouldn't be a lock.
I'd have a sliding door into the bedroom.

It is newish.
But the ventilation is definitely a problem
The paint is all peeling away on the ceiling and mouldy.
And the other side is all mirrors, which is awful.
Epoxy- I think you can envision this.
The radiator would be close to the wall and a narrow sink.

In principle it wouldn't be something I'd have a problem with; I might even like it in an odd way! ...with one big IF.... IF by moving the sink to the other side you weren't creating an obstacle to dodge on your way through to the bedroom. We've just redone our bathroom as I was driven nuts squeezing between a bath and a jutty-out sink to get to the loo at the end of the room! My word, I'm glad it's gone.

If you couldn't walk from door in to door out in a straight line past the sink, that would probably be a deal breaker for me.

You're right Epoxy
I think if I can't put sink in hallway I'll have to find a smaller sink, move it along a bit toward the toilet, maybe get a corner toilet and fit a bigger shower.
Even by knocking down that first wall and putting up screen or thin tiles wall I'd gain at least 10cm because it currently holds the sliding door so it's bigger than it needs to be.

Two things that put me right off; a bathroom you can see from the bedroom (too 'budget motel-like') and a closet that you walk through the bathroom to get to (this is oddly common these days where I live).

Either of these would stop me buying an otherwise 'perfect' home. If this is your 'forever' home and you plan to live there until you die, fine. But if you think you'll ever want to move, I'd think twice about your plans.

Oh I would HATE a sliding door into my bedroom too, what an enormous pain.

This would be the door from bedroom to current corridor
I think it would stay open most of the time

It depends on how long you intend staying put. I'd do whatever suited me, why not as long as you can afford it?

Live for the day OP, it's your bedroom. Anyone it doesn't affect gets no say.

I like the door.

You quite clearly want to do it OP so just do it. If it's to your taste and you're not planning on moving then it's not really anyone else's place to say !
The number of people saying they wouldn't like it if they were potential buyers should give you pause for thought if you're ever going to sell but since you say that's not a consideration then I don't really know why you're asking us
Btw why do you have condensation problems when there's a window in the bathroom ? Could you not just open it a bit more often ?

because if the shower door is open you can't get in the bathroom, or stand at the sink
So it's closed most of the time
Since I've realised it's a problem I try to open both window and shower door as I leave, but it's a pain, and I think the damage is done.

W.E.T..R.O.O.M.

I can't have a wet room with current layout.
The water would come out of the door. And get everything else wet. Builder can't guarantee he can do wet until he rips out this bathroom and sees what's underneath.
I could if i moved the current sliding door further along

I think if you have no plans to sell in the next 10 years and you can afford it then do it. I don't like the idea but it's not my house.

I think it will make a huge difference if the bathroom isn't too bathroomy. I'm not a fan of tiles myself, and judging from the door you intend using, you're not going for the clinical look.

It could really work, especially if there's no man mucking it up.