Advice on tiny odd-shape shower room, please
Any and all advice sought please! Is there a more functional way to layout this space and get a slightly bigger and less dated shower?
We have a most irregular shaped en-suite shower room tacked haphazardly onto our single-story home, decades ago. The overall room dimensions (if it were square, which it isn't) are 195cm by 220cm. But the wall with the basin and window were bizarrely angled to avoid relocating a drain. See plan below.
We got estimates for demolition and extending which would be amazing. But the cost is disproportionately high for the added benefit and we have other renovation priorities. So it's staying. The main bugbear is the quadrant shower which is 76cm x 76cm with a radius of 86cm. It feels cramped, is a pain to squeegee and it looks like a Starship Enterprise teleportation device.
Below the view from the doorway - there pretty much isn't another angle!
This is the current floor plan, with a heated towel rail between the door and the shower, opposite the basin and window, and a cabinet to the left of the basin.
This is for context, showing the additional door swing challenge. I am thinking that D20 into the bedroom could become a sliding door. D06 is to the garden. I don't think D21 can become a sliding door as there is a radiator between it and D06 and no obvious place to which it could be moved.
I'd go for a wetroom as it is on concrete but I am suspicious that there might be a good reason why this wasn't done last time it was renovated by previous owners. The shower drains slowly yet it is already raised.
Thanks so much for any suggestions Houzzers may have.
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7 years ago- 7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago
How about a 110x75cm shower tray? https://www.duravit.co.uk/products/all_series/d-code.com-en.html?product=681234
With a shallow vanity:
With two long shelves and a (wall type) bowl:
Or an offset pentagon:
Just some ideas :) - 7 years ago
Thank you both so much for your excellent suggestions. I am so heartened you think there are better configurations.
Jonathan - I see that I should have given the measurement for the short wall in the corner, which is 900mm. Even though I cannot get to 1000mm x 1200mm,I think a 900mm x 1200mm shower would be a major improvement. Yes, I'd normally want to avoid opening a door straight onto a view of the loo, but I'd not rule it out to make the room better.
Rinq - I've attached a plan to show the shower in more context. It really is the ultimate "add-on"! Sadly, there is no space for anything in the corridor but we do have an airing cupboard elsewhere. The shower room extension is partly below ground (with a French drain) so all the green areas below are banks sloping up from the house. This, and moving the drain outside the bedroom door, is probably why extending would cost so much.
You've given me some more great ideas so I will start checking out the cost of moving the soil stack versus relocating the basin.
7 years agoWe are renovating at the moment,
Had an 800x800 square shower..I hear you ! We knocked a wall down into the hall and grabbed some space. Put a 1200x900 in..oh my gosh. It's a Tardis!!
So nice.
This was the ensuite...we then had room to add a 900x400 vanity where this powder room size basin was.
Not a double vanity but better than this tiny thing.If you can get a 900/1000/1200 shower...you will rejoice.
PRO7 years agohow about to change the door opening, since you are changing the other door to sliding door.. and use a very thin shower tray or create a walk-in shower with hinged doors which be kept against the wall when the shower is not in use. ikea has a nice narrow bathroom sink 620mmx270mmx140mm. its quite deep and comfortable to use https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lillangen-single-wash-basin-white-80206653/
Jonathan