Bathroom Layout

Papa Owl and I have started planning our bathroom layout.  We'd had a few rough sketches of how we thought things would go, but hadn't actually measured the room to see if it would fit.  The room is currently two room, which we will return to one.  The current three doors will be reduced to two, one to enter the bathroom from the house, one to enter the garden from the bathroom!

I did a bit of searching on the internet and came across a bathroom planner on bathstore.com.  It was a bit clunky but very quickly gave me a scaled layout and the ability to add baths, showers etc.  It soon became apparent that the only way we were going to fit in a toilet, sink, shower and bath was if the bath was to sit in the middle of the room.  We thought a free standing bath would be a luxury that we couldn't justify, but the extra door in the bathroom means we just haven't got the wall space to fit it all in otherwise!

I'm quite excited by this!  We currently have a shower over the bath so it will be fantastic to have a separate shower.  Having a toilet in the bathroom will make it so much easier with Little Owl.

While I was busy clicking away at the laptop, Papa Owl had dug out some square paper, a ruler and a pencil and had been busy creating a scaled diagram.

Papa Owl hasn't included the chimney on his diagram as we are planning on taking it out.  While it took a little longer to set up, Papa Owl's diagram is much more tactile and easier to change than the online diagram.  It took a bit of work looking up different sizes of baths and showers but it gave us a lot more flexibility.  Going for a central bath has also given us the wall space to have a large shower.  Another luxury but does mean it will be possible to take a shower with Little Owl.

I've been quite drawn by this style of shower which I have been told is an "off set quad".  It gives us the space inside the shower, but by softening the corner, allows more room outside to walk through what might be a pinch point between the shower and the bath.  

We are still very unsure of the style of bathroom we want.  Do we go with a Victorian bathroom which will keep in style with the house but limit us on some choices, or do we go with contemporary which allows us to add sunken spots lights bringing much needed light to a very dark room?

Our Bathroom

We're at the very beginning stages of planning for a new bathroom.  We've owned our house for just over 3 years and are slowly renovating it room by room.  So far we have completed our bedroom, Little Owl's room and our living room.  Our dining room is a work in progress, with an aimed completion date of Christmas 2015.  We are also hoping that our bathroom might be completed by then too.  To be honest its a bit of a dream, I don't dare to believe it could happen.

We started by sketching out the bathroom with all the details on like the window, doors (plural), alcoves etc so we could measure and record them.  This is by no way to scale!

So our bathroom is currently two rooms, our current bathroom has a bath and a sink and not enough room to swing a cat, not even little Bonnie.  Originally it would have been one room, I suspect the maid's room.  

Have you spotted the unique feature?  Yes, we have a door to the garden from our first floor bathroom!  What's more, you still have to go up steps to reach it!

The plan is to open this back up to one room, and probably remove the chimney breast to allow us more room for storage, and some wall space for radiators.

We hope to fit in a bath, separate shower, toilet, sink, and off course a shoe rack for our garden clogs!