Please help, dressing room or fancy master bathroom

[FlourishingMrs]

Hi mumsnet, we just moved to a nice old house, the master suite has a bedroom, smallish bathroom with a bath, showe pr and loo squeezed in, no space for cabinet and a dressing room.

Wondering if it’s worth ripping out the dressing room to create a nice bath, reduce the amount of shoes&clothes. And replace with dressing room with a lovely bathroom? Which will leave us with a small room where the current bathroom is.

There is a separate reasonable sized family bathroom. The house has 5 bedrooms. One with its own loo but no shower. I love my many clothes and I have a bath every night and shower every morning please help.

Can you post a floorplan.

If you don't need the 5 bedrooms, a dedicated dressing room would be ideal. Mind you, I'm not a great fan of en suites so would rather have an en suite dressing room and bathroom completely separate.

I would much rather have a luxurious bathroom than a dressing room. Which is normally a tiny space for wardrobes unless you live in a mansion. I’d either have another bedroom as my dressing room or just a be a complete maverick and have a wardrobe in the bedroom

Please find the floor plan, master bedroom is 14’5 x 15’3 or 4.5x 4.4 meters bathroom is small with free standing bath and showe corner, quite a squeeze dressing room 15’11 x 5’3 or 4.24x2.24 in metres
The is a main door to the master suite area. Thank you for your time

The master area is on the left sorry is a bad photo. Will try again

Yes, I would do that, absolutely swap the bathroom and the dressing room - it's a much nicer way to have things.

And turn the once bathroom into a deep cupboard, lined with shelves/hanging rails/draws etc. rather than a dressing room as-such - the bedroom's big enough that you're not going to feel crowded wafting in to get dressed, especially since all your clothes can be in the massive cupboard your once bathroom now is.

Depending on possibilities/how claustrophobic it feels, I might be inclined to block off the door to the new dressing room, and add two pocket doors to the bathroom/bedroom so you can go through through it rather than having to go in and out of it - might just feel a bit more open that way.

That is exactly the layout of my Master bedroom.

We don't have a shower in the en suite, just a bath. In the mornings, I use the main bathroom for a shower.

It isn't ideal, but I love having a dressing room. I have a lot of clothes and shoes. I certainly wouldn't want to get rid of too much!.

I have a friend who has knocked the whole thing together. So she has a freestanding bath, and double withstand in her bedroom, with the loo and showered to one side behind a wall. She then has her dressing area, with very posh fitted wardrobes and a dressing table etc. She has a massive chest of drawers that kind of is the delineation between this and the bedroom.

It is amazing! I can't do that, as I have sloping eaves. However, I might one day knock the bathroom and dressing room together.

I am in a very late Victorian money put though, so it won't be for a couple of years!