Smallish bathroom layout / top tips advice - hate cleaning!!

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Our current bathroom is beyond repair so we are having to bite the bullet and pay up to have a new bathroom installed.

House is 1930’s semi, we have two teens who come September will both be at Uni so just DH and myself most of the time. So just thinking shower (man in showroom has suggested quadrant with single door not sure how easy they are to clean), backboards in shower which look a bit industrial with a small piece above the sink which I am unsure about) comfort height toilet, wall hung cabinet and wall hung sink. Wondered whether to
go green furniture or opt for more traditional more widely used grey, bleached something or other flooring and white speckled backboard.

I absolutely hate cleaning, DH spills water everywhere when he has a shower as do teens when they are home and all have steaming hot showers and never open a window so walls are dripping etc.

Please could you comment on plans below (drawn by a local bathroom supplier) and offer any advice (our window is smaller than in photo), tips or things to think about we may have forgotten re the space, suppliers etc. We are in north of England and cost so far is estimated to
be a fraction under 7K including fitting but fitter has still to visit to confirm. The outside walls are the one with the window and the one with the shower on.

Will attach some photos below.

We have our shower/bath next to a window-it’s fine. Properly tiled and sealed and we use a squeegee each time to dry it. No mould. I’d never have a quadrant shower. We had a rented house with one and it gave me the ick-all yucky stuff used to collect where the rollers were. I won’t even stay in a holiday home with one. And why would you get water everywhere with a walk in shower? You have the shower head away from the entrance. If you don’t ensure you firmly close those doors, water would be everywhere in a quadrant. I would have the walk in shower on the wall where the window is. Then I’d move the loo to the other wall and the sink next to the loo. You could get the door to open out of the bathroom rather than in-will give you a lot of room. Here’s our newly done one so you get the idea-and it’s smaller than yours.

@LikeAPie yes the Soilsack is by the loo and would be visible from patio.

I am going off the quadrant after DH and everyone else talked me into it.

My DH would absolutely love you 😂. We currently have this arrangement with a 900 by 1100 shower with three walls of tatty panel boarding. DH asked for a wall to be built to house the shower but the wall juts out into the room a little beyond the shower and wasn’t done very well a few years ago (it isn’t tiled). I decided the wall should go. Cleaning the doors is a nightmare and i don’t do it often enough so it looks a mess.

The shower tray is raised quite high so it looks ugly, the fitter tried to hide this by putting UPVC skirting on only where the shower tray is and now its leaked so its an unsightly mess. DH had suggested taking back the wall a little in one of his designs and doing away with the gigantic room dominating really useful but now a bit tatty corner cupboard which he asked the last installer to put up.

Your bathroom looks really nice a@MrsRachelDanvers classy and simple but our bathroom and fan can’t cope with two teenagers that don’t open the windows after having very long steamy showers so those pictures would only last about 5 minutes in our house.

Could you do a Scandi style wet room?

And make people use it respectfully, obv...

Send anyone leaving it in a state straight back to clean up whatever mess they have made.

Ha, how funny this is more or less what you currently have!

Products do improve though. We replaced a 20 year old shower with a low profile tray and a screen which came treated with an anti streak coating. Plus we paid an excellent tiler who did a top notch job and sorted out all the bodges the old installer had made with the wonky walls and gaps.

So it's basically the same but looks and works so much better.

@LikeAPie he would love you. I have been moaning about that wall for ages and struggling to decide what to do for ages
as well.

Do you have a photo of your bathroom or just shower please?

Corner toilet. Perfect for smaller spaces. Much more room for your legs when you're sitting on them without taking up any more space.

https://www.plumbworld.co.uk/corner-toilets-348-0000

The gap between the toilet may be a nightmare to clean. I have one and it is really difficult to clean the dust (and god knows) what else out!

Yes I think a corner toilet would be too difficult to clean.

I think my choices are

A) Leave everything as it is hope the shower tray can be lowered/slimmed down, knock back the wall a little and find an easy to clean shower door (of whatever configuration @LikeAPie what would work best and tile the dreaded wall).

B) suck up the cleaning of an expensive dated looking offset quadrant shower that I don’t particularly want but have been forced into.

C) Loose the storage cupboard space in the corner completely so virtually no storage space and have the walk in shower I want along the longest wall without the toilet, hope water doesn’t go everywhere or I’ll never hear the end of it from DH etc.

D) do nothing because I can’t make a decision and wait until it fails completely

You can get combination dehumidifiers/ heaters in bathrooms. You often see them in hotel room en-suites. I think they are much better than a regular extraction fan for getting rid of water vapour.

https://www.bigonelectricals.co.uk/products/meaco-dd8l-8-litre-desiccant-dehumidifier#gallery-2

something like this can be plumbed in to give continuous drainage and set to come on automatically when humidity levels are high. Personally I’d combine it with an infra red heater ( mirrored ones work well for bathrooms) this works by heating surfaces like walls / ceiling rather than the air and will help stop condensation from forming whilst the dehumidifier does it’s job.

Why can't you just have a rectangular shower on the same floorspace rather than a quadrant?

If you take out the cupboard and have a walk in shower, you’ll have to trade off less storage space sure. But you’ll have a much nicer shower to use and if you have the shower head away from the entrance, why would water go everywhere? Also if your priority is easy to clean, having a clean line of built in shower along one wall is much easier than having bitty furniture and having to clean in all the nooks and crannies in between. Also, if you change the bathroom door so it opens outwards rather than inwards, you’ll free up space to maybe put a slimline wall mounted bathroom cupboard there.
The bathroom guy who did mine also said that leaving a window open is the key to not getting condensation and mould in a bathroom-even with a powerful extractor. And having a squeegee!

I second the squeegee. I hate cleaning but a 5 second squeegee on my shower screen every day really does make a difference.

You need either a gap or a door 700mm wide to access the shower. I'd go for the longest walk-in shower you can fit along the external wall without the window. I have a frameless screen 1000mm wide plus an entrance gap of 700wide at the non shower-head end. Shallow low profile tray 30mm high which falls to the drain at the shower end. I get no splashing on the floor out of the entrance gap.

Bookend your shower with a dreaded false wall and fill that corner with custom built storage.