ᐅ Bathroom layout 11 m² – Looking for more design ideas

Hello everyone,

I am currently renovating my house (built in 1980), and the bathroom is part of the project.

My wife and I have roughly planned the layout of the room, but we are not sure if a different arrangement might be possible.

I quickly designed the bathroom using Sweet Home 3D, where you can see the room dimensions and the currently planned positions for the shower, bathtub, and toilet. The room has been stripped back to the shell.

The exterior walls (north side and the 1-meter (3.3 feet) wide section behind the toilet) are only 24 cm (9.5 inches) thick, while the other interior walls are just 12 cm (4.7 inches) thick. Therefore, I have already added some stud walls since the plumbing will be renewed.

Current water supply and drainage:
- Supply line between toilet and washbasin
- Toilet waste pipe
- Supply and drain: right wall, upper corner near the shower

The window is only about 140 cm (55 inches) high. I couldn’t disable proportional scaling in the software, but the width is accurate.

If you have any other ideas or suggestions, we would be very happy to hear them.

Best regards

How about this orientation? You can sit on the bathtub while brushing your teeth. A towel warmer or a towel cabinet, etc., could be mounted on the back wall of the shower.

The sinks right outside the door are extremely inconvenient. It’s hard to get into the bathroom, and you already feel cramped before you’re even inside.
Just to clarify: the toilet is pretty much fixed in place, but you can still move the water supply and drainage for the other fixtures?

Good morning everyone,

the sink placement is actually a bit inconvenient.
However, since there are two adults and a 3-year-old daughter, the need for a second sink will come over time.

The drain for the toilet goes through the wall (directly behind the toilet) into the floor and then into the shaft.
The second drain/shaft is located at the top right, where the shower is currently planned, on the right wall (I will upload a picture again and roughly mark it).

At the moment, the entire screed has been removed, and underfloor heating will be reinstalled. The pipes can/should also be renewed.

I also like the idea from allstar83, although the problem with the sink remains.

In the attached drawing, I have marked both shafts in red.

Left “WC” shaft is in the room below the bathroom.

Unfortunately, I don’t currently have a picture of the right shaft directly under the bathroom; this picture is from the basement but shows the same shaft (between the bathroom and this room there is a guest toilet).

I actually don’t think your plan is that bad. It might be better to have the door swing the other way so you don’t walk straight into the sinks but instead enter the free (albeit small) space. How many centimeters (inches) is it between the sinks and the corner of the wall? It looks really tight. Are two sinks necessary? Maybe just one could work, possibly with rounded edges? Just the thought of bumping into that corner in the middle of the night already hurts my hip.

Edit: Posts crossed. Two sinks seem to be a "must."

Somewhat good news—I had marked the wrong depth for the washbasins.
I just double-checked with my wife.

Visually, it now looks like this, and the distance to the corner is 69cm (27 inches).
The door swing was also incorrectly drawn; that was an error on my part—many thanks for the hint!