Hello house building forum,
First of all: this concerns an apartment, not a house! Since I couldn’t find a condominium forum, I hope it’s okay to turn to you anyway!
I have the problem that I need to confirm this week how we want the bathroom. The shell construction is complete, and the interior walls are (mostly) still flexible.
Everything else is settled, only the bathroom is giving us headaches. We have two options, see attachments. It’s important that the length of 2.72 m (9 ft) and the width of 3 m (10 ft) are fixed. So for the design with the toilet corner, it’s walls A and B.
The tricky part is really the window: it is 1.51 m (5 ft) wide and has a mullion, meaning it can open in two ways (about 1.10 m (3 ft 7 in) and 40 cm (16 in)), with a sill height of 1.43 m (4 ft 8 in). I don’t have the window height at hand right now, but it should be about 60 cm (24 in). I’ll go there again this week to measure it properly.
We don’t want a bathtub, but a shower that is as large as possible and flush with the floor. Below (where the toilet is) is the guest bathroom. The shower in the main bathroom should not be too large either, meaning it shouldn’t take up unnecessary space.
Overall, we need a washbasin (width 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)), the toilet, the shower, and a cabinet for towels and small items.
Now the questions:
- In your experience, which floor plan is better/more practical?
- Does a shower of 1.80 m (6 ft) length and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) width make sense, or is that “too much”? The gray-shaded area is meant to show the shower measuring 1.80 x 1 m.
- What other ideas do you have for what could be implemented or improved?
Please don’t pay too much attention to incorrect details in the floor plans (such as washbasins shown rotated the wrong way), some things went wrong during the layout changes and I didn’t have the energy to fix everything again.
Many thanks in advance!!
First of all: this concerns an apartment, not a house! Since I couldn’t find a condominium forum, I hope it’s okay to turn to you anyway!
I have the problem that I need to confirm this week how we want the bathroom. The shell construction is complete, and the interior walls are (mostly) still flexible.
Everything else is settled, only the bathroom is giving us headaches. We have two options, see attachments. It’s important that the length of 2.72 m (9 ft) and the width of 3 m (10 ft) are fixed. So for the design with the toilet corner, it’s walls A and B.
The tricky part is really the window: it is 1.51 m (5 ft) wide and has a mullion, meaning it can open in two ways (about 1.10 m (3 ft 7 in) and 40 cm (16 in)), with a sill height of 1.43 m (4 ft 8 in). I don’t have the window height at hand right now, but it should be about 60 cm (24 in). I’ll go there again this week to measure it properly.
We don’t want a bathtub, but a shower that is as large as possible and flush with the floor. Below (where the toilet is) is the guest bathroom. The shower in the main bathroom should not be too large either, meaning it shouldn’t take up unnecessary space.
Overall, we need a washbasin (width 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)), the toilet, the shower, and a cabinet for towels and small items.
Now the questions:
- In your experience, which floor plan is better/more practical?
- Does a shower of 1.80 m (6 ft) length and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) width make sense, or is that “too much”? The gray-shaded area is meant to show the shower measuring 1.80 x 1 m.
- What other ideas do you have for what could be implemented or improved?
Please don’t pay too much attention to incorrect details in the floor plans (such as washbasins shown rotated the wrong way), some things went wrong during the layout changes and I didn’t have the energy to fix everything again.
Many thanks in advance!!
Hello,
here I am again!
The oversized bathroom cabinet with two sinks is really getting on my nerves, but my wife firmly believes that we will need them eventually. We have a 4-month-old daughter, and if it ever happens that all three of us (or hopefully four people someday) want to leave the house together, we are grateful for every sink.
I see it differently—we still have a guest bathroom, and with a bit of planning that shouldn’t be a problem.
I think we will go with layout 2, which includes the toilet niche. If the window weren’t so large, it wouldn’t be an issue, but as it is, we are forced to either install a 1.80m (6 feet) long shower along the wall by the window or move the shower elsewhere.
We definitely do not want a bathtub anymore; we are sure about that. We use the bathtub at most twice a year, and only when sick—if we want to relax, we go to the spa, not the home bathtub.
As much as we appreciate being involved in the floor plan design, sometimes I wish the construction company would just say, “This is how it’s done, take it or leave it.” :-(
here I am again!
The oversized bathroom cabinet with two sinks is really getting on my nerves, but my wife firmly believes that we will need them eventually. We have a 4-month-old daughter, and if it ever happens that all three of us (or hopefully four people someday) want to leave the house together, we are grateful for every sink.
I see it differently—we still have a guest bathroom, and with a bit of planning that shouldn’t be a problem.
I think we will go with layout 2, which includes the toilet niche. If the window weren’t so large, it wouldn’t be an issue, but as it is, we are forced to either install a 1.80m (6 feet) long shower along the wall by the window or move the shower elsewhere.
We definitely do not want a bathtub anymore; we are sure about that. We use the bathtub at most twice a year, and only when sick—if we want to relax, we go to the spa, not the home bathtub.
As much as we appreciate being involved in the floor plan design, sometimes I wish the construction company would just say, “This is how it’s done, take it or leave it.” :-(
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