ᐅ Bathroom Layout Planning Is Challenging – Any Ideas?

Created on: 20 Mar 2015 19:35
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Skaddler
Hey,

I have a question/request. We are currently finalizing the bathroom design and have received a visualization. However, we’re not completely satisfied and have run out of ideas (but unfortunately, it seems we’re not the only ones...). Below you’ll find a top view and the floor plan for the upper floor, but please focus only on the bathroom, as the rest fits our needs perfectly. The door to the laundry room is now slightly larger, and there is only a wall up to about 1 meter (3 feet 3 inches) between the toilet and the shower; above that, glass is planned to allow natural light into the shower. Do you have any ideas on how to improve the bathroom? A small idea would be to add a row of white tiles in the shower – but that doesn’t solve the entire problem.

Our requirements are:
-- the two doors
-- the window in this position
-- the shower of this size
-- the large washbasin for two people
-- the standard-sized bathtub
-- no T-layout

I’m looking forward to your ideas and am open to suggestions 🙂 Thanks in advance for your help!

3D-Badezimmer-Layout von oben mit Badewanne, Waschbecken und Toilette

2D-Grundriss Obergeschoss mit Arbeiten, Kind, Eltern, Bad, Ankleide, Waschen, Empore.
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ypg
20 Mar 2015 20:44
Shower in an L-shape, with the bathtub positioned in the middle of the room, parallel and at the same height as the washbasin...?
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kbt09
20 Mar 2015 21:44
Here is an idea for an L-shaped bathroom, where the shorter section is mainly used as a passage to the laundry/drying room.

The shower is fully walk-in and should work without a door. Natural light comes through the window.

Isometric 3D bathroom floor plan with bathtub, sink, and toilet in an apartment.

3D bathroom with bathtub and double sinks in the floor plan

2D floor plan of a bathroom and laundry room with dimensions


Tile colors, etc., are only used to highlight projections and recesses.
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Legurit
20 Mar 2015 21:47
I don’t find the bathroom as shown in the plan too problematic – it’s just the laundry room that I imagine could be inconvenient if someone is sorting socks and another person urgently needs to use it...
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kbt09
20 Mar 2015 21:55
I was thinking about something like that as well 😉 ... so, for now, it's basically the passage area to the laundry room 😉
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ypg
20 Mar 2015 22:15
off topic: Have we ever discussed the house (Jette-Haus)? Are you building with V., or is the upper floor layout just very similar? 😉
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Skaddler
20 Mar 2015 22:55
Thanks for your comments – since the three of us hardly ever lock the bathroom doors, that wouldn’t be an issue. We also have a toilet on the ground floor and don’t mind if someone is in the adjacent room, no matter where that door is located. Usually, my wife does the laundry together with our daughter while I’m still in the home office (she works from home). By the way, we know this layout from my family; someone there built like this and would choose the same design again (with the laundry room behind the bathroom). If it’s brought up – when we have guests, we typically don’t do laundry, so running into each other in the bathroom is unlikely ;-)

Yes, it’s a Viebrockhaus, but only related in external dimensions to the Joophaus (aside from the features commonly included in all Viebrockhaus designs). The floor plan on the upper floor is based on that house, but with modifications (no children’s bathroom, a usable walk-in closet, no steps in the hallway, for example). The floor plan itself hasn’t been discussed here yet, as I haven’t posted it so far.

Thanks already for the proposed idea and your time – let’s see what my wife thinks. I find it quite original. I suspect, however, that she (having grown up in a huge house with bathrooms twice this size) might find the bathroom a bit cramped. I’m curious!