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Master Bath Design – Three Times is a Charm

Posted April 3, 2009 05:10 by Robert

Tags: master bathrooms, kitchen views custom, bathroom design

I would be lying to you if I told you that everything comes out as planned when you build a house. Some rooms just look different when framed than they did on the plan and this is the time to fix it and get it right. Once we found the standing tub we wanted to use from Victoria & Albert , it became obvious that we didn’t have enough clearance from the wall across the way for getting to the shower and to the toilet. So we took a foot out of our vanity, pushed down the toilet closet door, switched the pocket door for a real door and made a 45 degree angle on the wall that was previously an open 90 degree corner. We also shrunk the shower width by a foot.

However, it still wasn’t quite right. Upon further review with Jessica, our new best friend and Kitchen Designer from Kitchen Views, we realized that having a swinging door in the bathroom was hurting our ability to put some storage cabinets on the right side wall. So once again, we went back to Denis (who loves my change orders) and his crew and asked them to move the wall about 10 inches to the right into my closet and change up the swinging door for a pocket door. Because we have another door to our suite and a toilet closet door, this door probably doesn’t need to be closed too often which is a good use case for a pocket door. The after drawing still shows a regular door, but we have since changed that.

So for a few hundred dollars in framing changes, we have a much more open bathroom flow and additional space for cabinets. Don’t be afraid to change things, but the sooner you do it, the better.

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