Cloakroom sink in main bathroom?

[Doobydoodah]

We have the smallest bathroom I've ever seen. Trying to reconfigure and wondering if we can have a cloakroom size sink in the main bathroom. We don't really use it for anything other than brushing teeth.

Does anyone have a tiny sink in their main bathroom? Any problems I haven't thought of? Anything I should consider?

And by tiny, I mean really tiny, like 40cm wide and 25cm deep!

Do you have a bathtub?
In that case you would have somewhere to hand wash clothes, fill buckets, rinse off wellies etc. and a small hand basin would be fine.

I installed a smaller hand basin in our second bathroom and the only problem I had was making sure the wall-mounted swivel tap stayed within the radius of the basin. We just changed the swan-neck to a shorter one.

I think we would want one that's big enough to wash face or hair in, rinse off a face mask etc.

We have small sink in family bathroom. It's fine... we only use it for washing hands and brushing teeth.

Can you have a sink taps coming out of the wall that would give you a greater useful sink area

Sinks come in a wide variety of sizes, try not to go too small for your main bathroom: we briefly rented a house with an en-suite where the sink was so small you could barely get your hand under the tap. I hated it for everyday use. Our current everyday sink is not full-size but not small either. Perfectly adequate. I'm sure you can find one to suit you and your space.

I put one in, and had to replace. If anyone needs to shave, a tiny basin is impossible. For small children who don’t need a bath but do need a wash a larger basin is more practical

I have measured ours: inner bowl diameter/width 43 cm outer width 50cm and you can barely tell the difference to a full size one. And yes I do occasionally wash my smalls in it too, no problems at all.

Toothbrushing needs at least a medium size sink, for spitting safely. How about a corner sink, or a cistern sink?
www.amazon.co.uk/Cistern-with-an-integrated-sink/dp/B00PW9RAV6/?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Thanks all. We do have a utility room with a separate sink for dirty things. Utility is twice as big as the bathroom

You haven't said anything to scare me off so we might go for it. I think it would be big enough to shave and we'd have the tap coming over at the side so full use of space and mirror above.

That is all I had growing up, and we didn't have a shower. It was fine.

I did in our old house! Had a smallcorner sink with toilet and a L shaped bath and shower. It worked really well in a small place.