HELP with small bathroom, would like bath and shower

[AliceRR]

We recently moved into a new house. There is only one bathroom, which is actually two separate rooms: one room has the toilet in it and the next room has a shower and sink.

We plan to knock trough and the measurements would be something like 2m x 2.5m

I’ll add pictured if I can.

We’re trying to work out the best configuration as we really want a bath but we also want a shower and we don’t really want a shower over the bath with need for a screen or shower curtain.

We’re thinking of putting the bath in on the shorter wall where the shower is now but, annoyingly, the length is 169cm and so we may or may not be able to get a 1700 bath in (builder thinks he might be able to chip into wall slightly to fit it). The reason wall is shower is due to airing cupboard which we won’t be moving. Sink and toilet would be more or less where they are now. Shower would go in the left corner where the door to the toilet currently is (we’d keep the door to the current shower room)

I had initially wanted a free standing bath but don’t really see the point now as it will be v close the walls anyway.

I’d consider something different like a wet room or Japanese soak tub 🤷🏻‍♀️

We haven’t even chosen tiles yet but that’s another issue.

Builder is due to start work on Monday. He has some plastering and things to do for us first but we had thought we’d have ordered the bathroom suite and chosen tiles by now.

TIA 🙈

(Pics are from Rightmove so curtains etc are all previous owners’!)

Pics have uploaded in the opposite order to what I had intended. If it helps go visualise, if you’re looking into the rooms from the hallway, toilet is on the left and shower room is on the right.

Yesterday we were toying with the idea of putting Bath across the back wall into the right hand corner with shower where it is now, wet room style, then toilet and sink in the area where toilet is now, along that wall.

I want the bathroom to be functional obviously but not feel tiny and have something different or luxurious about it.

Think we’d like light colours as it’s a small bathroom but would consider a feature wall or similar.

I’ve been struggling to decide on colours as white can seem clinical and boring (in my head anyway), cream can look dated, we had grey before, anything too dark will make the space look smaller... but found this on Pinterest today and really like the colours.

I really like the wood look floor tiles but DH isn’t keen

Where will the door be? When we had a minute bathroom the thing that transformed it was an offset corner bath, these can be shorter on every edge as it were. Ours was 150 cm odd long.
Example
www.bathshop321.com/premier-pilot-offset-corner-bath/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwxMjnBRCtARIsAGwWnBN-A7U6Btci9fmq36NjU8X0N6Zm3k6KJv_rUKAIGFO3vG97W0J5px0aAuOQEALw_wcB

It'd help to see the room dimensions from above on a bit of paper, with window, door marked on.

I’ll take a pic of the plan I did with the dimensions (if it’s legible)!

The door would probably be where the door to the shower room is currently, so pretty much in the middle of the wall as you walk in.

Personally I’d never fit anything but white. It’s not clinical if you inject colour in other ways - tiles, flooring, etc. I’m a big fan of blue in bathrooms.

When referring to white I was meaning maybe white tiles. It’s a given (for me) that the bathroom suite would be white

I showed DH the pic from Pinterest but he said he thinks marble is “tacky”. Is it? I think it’s really nice

Sorry, I misunderstood. It’s all so personal, isn’t it? I don’t like marble. But then I love metro tiles which most of MN find tacky. And I hate beige in bathrooms but almost every newly refurbished bathroom you see has beige tiles. If we bought a house with those I’d have to replace them, even if they were only put up last week!

We’ve just done a bathroom which is just under 2m in each dimension, but as part of quite a large, high spec house, so needed to make it feel luxurious even though space was tight. There was absolutely no way we’d have fitted in a separate bath and shower, so I looked instead for a shower bath with a freestanding ‘look’ - found the Waters Ebb bath which is 1660mm and fits in to a corner with a screen, but is deep, spacious and looks like a stone bath even though it’s (nice) acrylic - no odd joins etc. Also picked short projection toilet and slim sink unit. We are at the absolute bare minimum for comfortable floor space, and it functions well as a bathroom, but given that you’re looking at only 0.5m more, I really think that you’ll struggle to squeeze it all in and for it to feel usable. Only thing I can think of is if the layout could somehow be configured like one of the pictures attached? If it’s any consolation, because the bath is so spacious inside, and we went for a separate rainforest shower head and ‘normal’ one too, it’s really no drama having it over the bath.

Oh, and it’s large marble porcelain tiles too! Looks great.. I’ll try take a pic later if you’re interested.

It’s all so personal, isn’t it?

No need to apologise but yes it is and DH and I seem to have different tastes.

Also he seems incapable of having any vision or imagining what something might look like or what will go together unless he actually sees it all put together

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I mean he needs to see it put together in a picture. For example I brought some tile samples home from Topps Tiles. He didn’t like any of them but then he was picking looks from their brochure and both tiles he likes were the same as the ones I brought home.

I’m not keen on beige either but I know a lot of people like it. I’m leaning towards white now.

He Waters Ebb Bath looks like it could be ideal. I don’t like shower curtains or some of the baths with the screen attached but this one is nice. A bit more pricey than I wanted to pay for a bath but then I suppose I’m saving on money for a shower tray and cubicle 🤷🏻‍♀️

it’s large marble porcelain tiles too! Looks great.. I’ll try take a pic later if you’re interested.

Yes please

@NuffingChora I like the first pic. We have thought about putting the bath there and then the wall to the left would be probably about 800 to the left so toilet and sink could go there

I don’t really want toilet next to bath 🛁🚽 but I think that goes back to when DH lives alone and toilet wasn’t clean so could smell urine from the bath 🤮

The sink and toilet in our bathroom(s) now are quite large. I think we’d easily get a smaller sink and toilet.

If your builders is starting Monday you are going to be VERY restricted by the fittings you can have. You will need to get the ones that are 'take away' and they may not be what you want.

Our bathroom is the same size and has separate shower. Bath under window, opposite door. Loo next to bath with sink opposite, shower next to loo in corner.

What about a P-shaped bath that's short? Do bear in mind thickness of tiles if using every mm of space - getting a 1500 bath into a 1500 room can be interesting...

I would recommend a shelf over the cistern and cupboards on each side of the toilet - hidden storage makes the room seem larger.

This page has helped me to visualise what would fit in my small bathroom, worth a look.

www.houseplanshelper.com/small-bathroom-floor-plans.html

Heritage Perth rolltop bath is 1650mm long

Heritage Perth rolltop bath is 1650mm long

Thank you. A bath of 1650-1690 would be ideal but I think if may as well be one that is fitted. I think having a freestanding bath that almost touches the walls anyway might not look that great and it’s be awkward to clean around.

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What about a P-shaped bath that's short? Do bear in mind thickness of tiles if using every mm of space - getting a 1500 bath into a 1500 room can be interesting...

Yes that might be ok. We were thinking the bath would go in before tiles but I realise the area will need to be waterproofed

@allmycats The builder is also a friend of ours. He has plastering etc to do while he’s here which will take at least a week and he is a bit slow so I expect there may be some flexibility but I imagine even a week isn’t v long for an online order

But then even once he’s done his week of plaster etc he has to knock the wall down etc

I have a Japanese style bath with shower in a tiny bathroom. I'm actually the only person who uses the bath and i love it

Omg that bathroom looks amazing. Ours is tiny and a mess so I’m going to keep that picture in mind! Bet it cost a fortune though.

This is a rough scale plan of the bathroom. There are currently two doors and we plan to get rid of the one to the left and keep the one in the centre of the wall (next to cupboard) but actually the door could be anywhere in that wall. There are two windows on the opposite wall but they shouldn’t affect anything except we wouldn’t have a shower there.

Thinking bath will either need to fit in the 1690 space or across the back wall. I love free standing baths but don’t think it will work if it’s basically touching the walls anywhere. I’d consider a curved front bath as a compromise but think it would have to go agains the back wall.

Struggling with whether to put bath in the small 1690 space or on the back wall and also whether it’s worth having a separate shower cubicle. We don’t want to bother if it’s tiny.

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