Better layout ideas for a cramped upstairs bathroom renovation?

[firsthomebuyerfirstreno]

We're redoing our upstairs main bathroom.(and planning a ground floor rear extension) and I can't be the only person who thinks this layout is awful.
The toilet is right up against the wall and it always feels a bit cramped. Bath is under the window, sink jammed in between and the whole thing just feels like it could work better.

We'll be ripping everything out anyway, so happy to move things around. I'd even consider making the window smaller if that opened up better options.

I want to keep a bath even though we dont use it lol and preferably have some storage rather than the current pedestal sink.

Has anyone had a similar room and found a layout that worked? Or am I stuck with this because of the size? DH thinks we should put washing machine up there in that cupboard by the stairs!

You could perhaps have a sink in front of the toilet if you rejig the direction / type of door - hard to tell from photo.
as it’s a bit of a squeeze and you don’t have a vanity-type sink, maybe adding one into the bedroom with large mirror for shaving etc might work for you (on the other side of the wall)?
if the bath really doesn’t get used, consider a really great large shower - will make the space feel less cramped too.
Definitely wouldn’t put washer upstairs. Would keep that as a really good towels / bedding / toiletries cupboard so your bathroom is mostly kept clear

What are the actual dimensions? I'd guess 6 foot wide? Which is probably too narrow to turn the loo 90 degrees and have it and the sink on the right hand wall as you go in.

I would move the shower and taps to the other end of the bath so it isn't over the window.

Removig the airing cupboard won't give you more width, which is what would make the room feel bigger.

I'd be tempted to take some space from the massive bedroom to make the bathroom less cramped.

Can the cupboard space be incorporated into the bathroom? If it can, I'd put the bath further back against the new wall in that space (and look at a slightly shorter bath perhaps - even just reducing by 20-30cm would give you a little more space. In the gap at the end of the bath, move the sink against the wall so that you can have a proper mirror on that wall. Leave the toilet where it is. That should just steal enough extra space to feel like you can at least move between the sink and toilet. In compensation for the lost cupboard, make sure you have some floor to ceiling fitted wardrobes in the large bedroom.

you might be able to rotate the bath 90 deg so it runs along the wall in front of the window. then have the loo in the space that is currently the foot of the bath, and the sink along the wall opposite. you could get a sink like this and have space to the side for storage etc.

www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/cove-light-grey-1050mm-large-vanity-unit

Actually I think you could move the sink to the right wall and the toilet central on its existing wall. If the sink unit is a shallow projection one with curved edges you could still pass, and the door is stepped back by the airing cupboard so would work.

https://www.bathroommountain.co.uk/corsica-midnight-green-wall-hung-short-projection-basin-drawer-vanity-600mm-c79797

if you don’t use the bath the remove it

I would incorporate the cupboard into the bathroom. Then move the bath, installed with tap end against the new wall of the cupboard. Then you can have an over the bath shower. Then the toilet and hand basin I would install a toilet which is clear of the floor with a run of fitments alone the window wall with a counter top from wall to
wall. Fully tile the bathroom and floor if you can run to that.

OP, you say you don’t use the bath, so is there room to put a bath under the window? If you don’t use it, it wouldn’t matter if you had to have a shorter one. Then you could put the loo one side and the sink with cupboard underneath on the door side opposite the loo.

This is a great idea actually, it gets you the width needed to put the toilet in the corner where your shower is (and I think your soil pipe?), but facing right. Opposite you can have a full sized sink with a wall above for a medicine cabinet. You'd have access to the window, space to get out of the shower and places for radiators.

The only downside is the loo is by your head when having a bath. But you can use it for a book or wine.

So the layout would be:
Bath with shower over - loo - Window (radiator underneath?)
Door - towel radiator - sink

We had a tiny bathroom like this, 1.87 x 2.2 m according to the old door plan.

We flipped the door so it opened outwards.

The bath (a 150cm one) went on the left with an overhead shower. Sink and loo woth storage on right.

Here's a link to it. It was approximately 8 years ago, so excuse the decor. I also preferred it dark, but the buyers did not!

We have an upstairs washing machine now. I bloody love it.

This and you could have bathroom door opening outwards which makes more space internally. Personally if I didn't use the bath I'd have a great walk in shower.

Could you rotate bath to go under the window? If you take out the cupboard then you would have room to put toilet against that wall and have a nice stretch of wall for a bigger cabinet with mirror.

If having the washing machine in the cupboard would be better than a more spacious bathroom, then you could maybe still fit bath along window wall and toilet and cabinet on each of the other walls?