Spaced Out
Making sense of a spacious master bedroom & bathroom that made no sense.
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Before - Vanity, Doors, Tub Collide
After - Electric Mirrors, Free Standing Tub, Wide Vanity Access
Before - Bed to Bath Door, Scrunched Vanity, Closet Door Behind Bathroom Door, Carpet
After - Glass Shower, Compartment Toilet Door, Storage Cabinet
Before - Small Windows, Bathroom Door too Close to Bed Wall
After - Master Bed & Enlarged Window
Before - Bedroom Entry from Angled Passage
After - Bedroom Door Relocation, Bigger Window, Barn Door to Closet
Before - Door into Laundry, Toilet Door
Before - Convoluted Doorways, Unnecessary Door to Outside
After - Reworked Spaces, Door Relocations
Spaced Out
Penny pinching could explain why the original designer of this home over-sized the master bedroom and closet, undersized the bathroom, used skimpy finishes, undersized doors & windows, and built tight passages. Sadly, the MO came off as just plain weird.
A door from the master bedroom to bathroom gave someone with their head on a pillow a view of someone else taking a shower. The enormous closet was entered through a wall that cut the vanity area into a squeeze-by if someone else was brushing their teeth. A deck mounted Jacuzzi tub with swoopy sides was angled into a corner, the shower was molded fiberglass. The toilet was around a corner, down a corridor, past a door that opened into a laundry room. Blue carpet tied it all together…
Project Profile
The existing plumbing and windows were not to be moved.
Vanity area expanded by removing and reconstructing doorways and closet walls.
Dated Jacuzzi replaced with a free-standing tub.
A new shower was framed with glass walls; the full wall behind the shower and tub were tiled, as were floors.
New sinks, fixtures, and vanity cabinets with a matching storage chest were installed and topped with quartz.
LED electric-lit mirrors over the vanity, recessed lighting put in elsewhere.
The doorway to the laundry room was removed. To appear more connected to the bathroom, the toilet compartment door was moved forward three feet & changed to obscured glass.
The sight line from bed into the bathroom was eliminated by relocating the bathroom entry door.
The closet was resized, re-framed. The entry door was relocated to the bedroom, enclosed with a barn door. The entry door to the bedroom was moved.