Bathroom Layout - Help! (with diagram)

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Help me Oh Designy Mumnsetters

With everything shut, my plan of getting a bathroom showroom place to plan my bathroom has fallen through, and I am having to buy things I can't touch or see online which I'm finding really stressful. But to keep on top of the build schedule, I need to confirm layout by Monday. Is anyone any good at this kind of stuff that would be kind enough to suggest the best layout? I need: A large shower (ideally 1800/90 if possible), a freestanding bath (around 1700) a loo and a decent sized sink area that allows for some surface with side of the basin - so either a basin on a countertop or a basin set in a countertop of vanity unit that has usable space either side. And somewhere - a duel fuel heated towel rail. It's not a massive bathroom and I can't seem to make it all fit.

REALLY rough not-to-scale drawing attached. Any suggestions gratefully received. Only caveat is I'd rather not open the door straight onto the loo if possible.

Completely wrong attachment - could have been worse I suppose. Hang on....

Ok - here is rough layout!

If I'm reading it right, it 2700 x 2700mm with a door in one corner and a window opposite and offset a bit...? Is there plumbing in there already? If there is, than that might influence your ideas, or add to the expense if you have to move it.

My bathroom is a similar size and shape, and it was tricky to get a proper bath and big shower in, but if you had a freestanding bath diagonally across the corner in front of the door, then you might be able to have the loo in the other corner, along from the window, the shower next to the door, and the basin halfway along the wall between the loo and the shower. Once you've sorted those things out, then see where there'd be enough wall space for the towel rail - if you get a tall narrow one they're easier to squeeze in somewhere. Hope that makes sense!

I can't quite work out if the measurements would fit, but I'd have the shower along the wall with the door in, the bath under the window. If you don't want the toilet directly in front of you, that will have to go between the shower and the bath, which leaves the vanity unit directly in front you as you walk in. Towel rail would go to the right of the vanity unit, tucked down the side of the free standing bath.

I would make a scaled down paper version of each thing you want and then you can move them around. Graph paper would be the easiest. The sizes of loos and baths etc are on the websites eg Victoria Plum under specifications. Loos vary in size a lot. We needed one that didn't come out forward very far as we needed to walk past it into the shower in a long thin room. Your toilet usually has to go on an outside wall I think. We didn't move ours as it is much cheaper to keep them where they were.

Thanks. Scaled down version of things is a good idea.

@abbey44 Everything is out so no existing plumbing to factor in.

Yes window is offset.

I am going to go home abs draw your suggestions. Thank you

We don’t have all loos on outside walls. As long as the plumbing connects under the floor or behind walls it works.

You don’t need to scale down that much. Your shower is way too big. Bigger floor are than the bath - which at 1700 is short. Allow 1800 for the bath and even 1200 x 1000 is spacious for a shower if it has a door. 1600 is fine if it’s an open ended glass panel. Allow 259/300 mm either side of your loo. The depth of loos vary. I prefer wall hung and wall hung basins too. You can then build in a shelf above both the loo and the basin if they are on the same wall. Electric/centrally heated rad can go anywhere but adjacent to the shower is best. Nice warm towel readily available! The basin doesn’t need to be enormous if you build in a shelf above it because it’s wall hung.

You are compromising on storage with wanting everything in the bathroom so do get a cupboard system. We have ones from Duravit, Laufen and Roper Rhodes. All are good. The sink you linked to has no storage and I would avoid that one. Lots of sinks have a flat “shelf” at the back of the sink too if they are wall hung.

I would scale down the sink and shower and see how it fits in.

This is the Laufen one. 600 mm basin with 2 drawer cupboard. Shelf is above the tap and not in the shot. It’s our down stairs loo and we’ve just refurbished.

@PresentingPercy Thanks so much. I really wanted a big shower but if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit.

I'm going to try again rescaling the shower and slightly lengthening the bath. The basin I linked to was nothing to do with anything - just a random thing I'd looked at that accidentally attached itself to this post. I deffo need storage!!

Thanks so much for being so helpful.

I've just realised just how big you want your shower to be, it's huge. When we did our ensuite in a loft conversion, we were asked at 7am how big we wanted our shower to be as they were building the wall that day (don't ask why we didn't have plans drawn up before they started!). I asked the 6'4 builder what size he'd just gone for in his new bathroom, and went one size bigger than that. It's 1200x800 with a sliding door, rainfall shower head etc. What do you want more space for?

I do have more space because I do not have a door to our en suite shower. Water spills out if it not around 1400 long. With a door 1200 x 1000 is generous.

We have 1400x80 with a fully closing glass sliding door and that feels a nice size. Had 1200x80 before and that felt ok as well.

I think that’s why it doesn’t fit, your shower is substantially bigger than the bath, and in a relatively small room for items that scale.

My bathroom has just been redone, the shower is 1200 x900 and feels quite large, I think it’s because thr shower tray is low profile so pretty much flat to thr floor with no raised edges. We also have a claw foot slipper bath and a long slim four door vanity unit with sink above it, and a long three door mirrored cupboard above it which is the same length as the vanity,, and then obvs the loo.

Any more and I think you’d struggle as it would look hugely cramped.

Sorry I should also say our towel rail is raised, it starts about a foot from the ceiling. Ans our bath is also diagonal.

This is all brilliantly helpful. Am doing things with graph paper as we speak!

@Bluntness100 what do you mean by diagonal? The bath is not parallel to a wall?

You can get corner baths but they take up quite a lot of space because you cannot use the corner. Our main bathroom has a bath with legs, Victorian style, and my younger DD loves it. She’s around 5ft6ins. Anyone over 6ft really won’t fit in them! The bath in our en suite is a much bigger freestanding one m and has true soaking potential. Generally you want 180 x 80 for space.

Why does the bath need to be freestanding? Much less space efficient when space is at a premium.

Yes, mine is not parallel to the wall, it looks really nice, it’s in the corner, but diagonally. So not flat against either wall and touching two walls, with a floor standing tap.

A standard bath that’s comfortable would fit in against one wall. I wouldn’t advocate free standing because they do take up more room, and I’m not a fan of corner baths. They take up a lot more floor space if they are 1800 long on the diagonal. More space is used for a floor mounted tap. Around 900mm is available for either the loo or the sink on the same wall if the bath is 1800 long. At least 1900 is available on the other wall, if the bath is 800 wide, for a shower, which is generous. This all needs positioning around the door and window and I would consider where the best place is for the loo due to plumbing.

OP have you heard of floorplaner.com? Will be a million times easier than hand drawing this.

I've tried using the software but it ends up being so fiddly to get the exact nuances of the walls and window that I end up starting over and over. It's annoying because I'm pretty good with photoshop and illustrator but can't seem to do these at all. So I've made a 'manual' diy version with a shower that has an adjustable size!!! I think it will have to be a bit smaller but this is helping me understand the scale a bit. Still open to suggestions and thank you!

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