Bathroom layout

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Help- how would you change this bathroom to fit a bath in ?

looking to purchase but this is really holding me back as struggling to see workarounds , if any…

I hear it’s not good to move the toilet .. so if that’s the case I'm thinking the sink could be moved to where the shower is , move the door nearer the external wall and have the bath along the wall where the current sink is ?

would this be a costly job do you think ?

note - there are two windows in the room , because of the second smaller window I’m assuming it may have been previously split by a toilet in one and bath in another?

TIA

Most likely was two rooms. In that case the toilet has already been moved 90 deg. There should be evidence outside of this.
That’s a big window, maybe could be reduced in size?
Personally speaking, I haven’t had sat in a bath in 20 years.

Agree it looks like it was originally 2 rooms and the toilet has been turned 90°. If you want to put a bath back then your plan sounds like the easiest.

Do you mean something like that? You could have a shower above the bathtub. If it's not very long (170 cm), you could add a storage between its end and the window, the same height as the bathtub, with drawers (unless you can fit something taller, I don't know how high the window is). But will the wash basin fit next to the toilet, allowing the door to open?

No idea about the cost, but it's a full renovation because you will need to move pipes and doors and put new tiles.

Are you looking to have a shower over the bath, or a shower and a bath?

Id change the door to a sliding pocket door, and then that frees up space in the bathroom as you can utilise the space behind where the door swings. I'd then move the sink to behind where the door would have swung, and put it on a 50cm wall hung vanity. A shorter bath of 1.5m x 60cm next to that up to the big window. Keep the shower in the existing position but get an offset shower so there's a feeling of more space. And keep the loo where it is but get a wall hung shorter projection one.

Are the arrows pointing at the 2 windows? Are you wanting to keep the bath and shower separate, or would a shower within the bath be ok?

-Change the door to open outwards onto the hall, or change to a sliding door. This will save 1m2 within the bathroom.
-You could fill in the left side of the larger window and put the bath along the wall between the door and that window (depending on the width available next to the door)

How about a "barn" style sliding door so you don't need door opening space? You could wet room the bathroom. Also have the sink on top of the toilet tank.

Would this work? Not sure how much it would be to do

It’s not much more expensive to move pipes these days. It was when everything was soldered.

I’d put the bath under the window and move the toilet and sink on either wall.

you could have a bifold door to save more spaces

We moved our bathroom around to remove a shower cubicle and put in a bigger bath. Involved moving a small wall but that was a very small part of the cost (around £2K). We were quoted between £14K and £25K for the work as it involved moving pipes around etc.

Wow @CarterBeatsTheDevil that's so expensive! We've moved the plumbing (and walls) around in four bathrooms now, and have paid between £3k and £8k for the work (including tiling) depending on the size. One in London, three just outside. The last two done this year

I know - I was honestly a bit horrified! To be fair, we wanted a company who would just sort all of it and that must have jacked the costs up. I should have mentioned that as well.

@CarterBeatsTheDevil some companies do just cost more. Having done two full renovations, I'm staggered by the difference in quotes. One job recently one company quoted 6 times what we ended up getting it done for

Thank you everyone and great idea about the sliding door option , that would definitely save space .

I'm thinking shower over the bath as that would also save space and I’ve always had that to be fair so it’s fine with me.

re quotes , I think I would have to shop around in that case but thank you for advising.

@longtompot possibly, I do prefer to have a bath the full length of the room if possible just to give extra room

OP- To add to my earlier post about either getting a sliding door or have it opening into the hall, if you are having a shower within the bath, think about an L shaped one. We had a very small bathroom within a flat, but managed to fit this type of thing in. The extra space was really good for both showing and being in the bath.

@JC03745 Good shout - I’ll look into this . Many thanks