We're completely renovating the two bathrooms in our new flat. They are opposite each other across a hall, each roughly 3.7m long but 1.2m wide. At present one has a bath and the other a walk-in shower. We can't for various reasons expand them. Internal, so no windows.
As everything needs to go, I've been trying to work out the best configuration and have been to a bathroom design company for ideas. But so far I can't solve the basic problem: the toilets. No matter how they're arranged, it means sitting on the loo about 1/3m away from the wall, staring at it.
I hate this! I work from home and I am a middle aged woman - I'm in there a lot, day and night. It feels so cramped and unpleasant. My husband and young son don't notice, as they're standing up to pee most of the time.
I was thinking, what if one bathroom had a bath with shower above and the other was just a spacious cloakroom with toilet and sink? Would that be weird, having a cloakroom when it's the same size as the other bathroom? I can't quite picture the layout - toilet at far end of the rectangle and sink/vanity along the wall? Is it daft not to have a proper shower,? My previous flat had just a shower over bath and it was absolutely fine.
We do often need the loo at the same time but rarely would all want to wash at the same time. And virtually never have overnight guests.