Making the most out of a small and large bathroom
Bathrooms come in all shapes and sizes and they can be a real selling point whether large or small.
I do think it’s a waste of space having a really large bathroom but on the other hand I know the impracticality of a small bathroom.
So I am going to give you some ideas of working with small and large bathrooms and making the most out of them.
With a small bathroom its always difficult to move things about but there are a couple options, the easiest is if you don’t mind not having a bath, fit a shower cubicle something like an 800mm x 800mm cubicle is quite a nice size or even a 1200 x 700mm shower cubicle is nice and it makes the bathroom appear a lot larger.
If you’re a real bath person or you have kids then you really want to keep a bath but there is still an option, in a property I lived in rather than have a 1700mm
long bath (standard size) we opted for a 1500mm bath, meaning we could put it on the far wall under the window and swap the toilet and sink around. Then with some really nice white tiles and mosaics it really opened the bathroom up and gave us some much needed floor space and this option you still get to have a nice bath, but really utilise the space and you’re only going to sacrifice a bit of laying out space and this is hardly noticeable.
On that same bathroom I was quite clever in utilising a cupboard that was beside the bathroom an unused airing cupboard one that is above the stair well so not full length but enough to get a basin in there at a good height off the floor. So what I did was pinch a bit of the cupboard and fit a free standing basin in that new alcove and it worked a treat. The bathroom had more than enough space for 
the family to be in and out at the same time and it made it a real feature of the property all the while not jeopardising any bedroom space.
Another tip is to do away with a big old shower curtain and install a nice looking over bath shower screen, they give the bathroom a real clean tidy appearance and open the room up visually. S with some good lighting and mirrors and bathroom will look twice the size.
Having said this sometimes there just really isn’t any scope to jig the bathroom around, I have a rental property where the bathroom is ground floor and the bath is under the slope of the stairs, a sink pretty much over hangs the bath and the toilet is beside the sink. With this type of layout of property I have really no other options but to build a small extension to take the depth of the bath. By doing this it will massively open the whole bathroom up. It’s not ideal but it’s the only way forward with this type of set up. I want to keep a bath as I would prefer a small family to rent this property.
Hopefully there is a few nuggets of advice here for you to help with your small bathroom set up.
Large Bathrooms
Large bathrooms really don’t have the same problem, but what they do is take away much needed space from the rest of the house. I have gone into property where the bathroom is bigger then some of the bedrooms, obviously if this is the case see if you can switch the rooms around if the pipework/waste pipes can do it.
If not what about split it into 2 different bathrooms, so would it work using a part of it and closing it off as an en suite if a bedroom is beside it, then the other half can be a family bathroom.
Or I have just priced a job recently where they have a large house/family so they want a bathroom for the adults and a shower room for the kids which can also work really well.
Another option to think about is can the bathroom be shrunk down completely and by doing that adding another bedroom/office?
If you have more ideas or want to discuss your bathroom problems please comment below.
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Thanks for reading,
Toby