Bathroom layout help needed please!

2 years ago

Evening everyone! I'm looking for some help with the bathroom layout in my house renovation please. This is our first house and so we'd like as much advice as we can get.
Our space is 1900×2500 mm and our builder said we should try to fit both a freestanding bath and separate shower in. My husband thinks we'd need a curved shower enclosure with sliding doors to maximise space (ideally I'd have liked a frameless rectangle shape with a hinged door). We think we may have found the best placement for everything but can't decide where to fit a heated towel rail.
Please help if you have any better ideas for layout.
Many thanks in advance for any input!

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Richard L
2 years ago
Is the separate shower a must have?

Certainly fills up the room.
Becci C
2 years ago
It feels a little cramped to me as your access to the bath is so restricted.
I’ve just put this layout together that might be worth a try. (it would require a slightly smaller bath)

if you can, get some boxes in there to represent furniture and move around it before committing to anything.

Also, are you planning a freestanding bath and tap?? this might look squashed in and therefore make the room feel smaller (also really hard to keep it clean round the back) I would consider a back to wall bath with the space you have.

re towel rail, bit stumped on that too, could it go behind the door??
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Dannielle
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2 years ago
Thank you so much for your suggestions! I really appreciate it! We'll have a good think now and try the box idea to visualise the space better. Thank you!
titiankim
2 years ago
Our bathroom is similar layout except the loo and shower are the opposite way round. I hate it. It's a nightmare cleaning around the freestanding bath (basically impossible). It feels crowded and the shower is too small. If we had the budget to refit it, I would (a) install a pocket sliding door and (b) have an L/P shaped bath with shower over it. I think as long as there are no mobility issues with climbing into a bath to use the shower, that's the best way forward in a small bathroom
lspendl 828
2 years ago
Our planned new bathroom had the same layout as your proposed scheme. Our room is the same length as yours but a little wider (2500 x 2200). We would’ve loved a separate shower but having mocked it all up with cardboard boxes it all felt way too cramped. We even tried the alternative layout suggested by Becci but in the end, we decided to stick with an over bath shower - not what we longed for but it just worked better given the room dimensions and the position of the door. Good luck making the decision.

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