Bathroom Remodeling

FIGHTING FOR AN INCH: At Seattle Kitchen Creations & Remodeling the process of designing a bathroom is an evolution from macro concepts to micro solutions. We focus on the client’s patterns of movement and other “lifestyle” inputs that determine the living spaces and occupant flow. Once we have settled on these larger issues, the real problem solving begins. Now we have to stuff the “can’t live without” walk in closet next to the “must have” makeup mirror and simultaneously try to accommodate the “wouldn’t it be nice to have” that Zen view window? Many times it becomes a fight for square footage and a struggle for inches.

For over 20+ experience working as a professional remodeling contractor in the Seattle area designing and building, jockeying space for bathrooms has occupied more time than all the other design problems combined. Whatever the reason, the bathroom never seems to have quite enough space. Over the years, I’ve developed some techniques and rules of thumb to design my way out of this quandary. Here are some of the designs that resulted.

The classic bathroom, found in many of houses built during the post World War II building boom of the 1950s, is 5 feet wide by 7 feet long. It’s 5 feet wide because that’s the length of the standard tub. It’s 7 feet long because when you add up the space required for a toilet, sink, tub, and the swing of a door, you arrive at 7 feet.

There are two versions of the minimum bath. Each takes up 35 or 40 square feet. In the first version, the tub, toilet, and wall hung sink are all in line. The door is on the end of the rectangle, but it can just as easily be put on the side. This plan offers plenty of room in front of the toilet and sink, but the sink itself is small and a cabinet surround just makes the room feel smaller. The rectangular shape of the room and the optional door location make this bath easy to fit into many floor plans.

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