I am interested in creating a bathroom out of a hall closet; it’s 41″ by 35″. I could enlarge it to 41# by 42″ if I moved a wall. I am hoping to squeeze in a toilet and a tiny corner sink. My question is, how small is too small on a bathroom footprint? Can it be done?
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I doubt it. A short round toilet will use 30-31" and you need 22" in front of the bowl. That means 52" long minimum, IF you find a way to work in a sink and door swing. Could use pocket door or swing out in some places.
Or just do it japanese styule and cut a 4x6 slot in the floor.
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Thanks for all the great ideas. I am especially enjoying the "prison toilet" section of the postings. I know in Mexico you can sit on the toilet and take a shower at the same time, the whole room is tiled and all water goes down the big floor drain. It seems like this is all possible with the right fixtures. Thanks for the help!
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I'm dealing with the same sort of thing. i have two closets in a rental that I am converting to a bath. it's 44x72, into which i am putting a 34x42 shower, toilet and pedestal sink. Toilets generally extend 29"ish into the room, and I think code requires 24" free space in front. i set up the toilet on the 44" wall 15" center from the side wall, and found that i could shoe-horn the sink in on the same wall. This leaves an open space from the toilet to the shower. the doorway is on the 72" wall.
Corner toilet along with the corner sink-maybe.
You could wash your hands b/4 you were done.
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for all that, they could just install a sink with a larger drain.
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What about using a wall hung toilet to save some space?
We know a family in a rural farming area that put a toilet in a closet. No sink though.
There were no bathrooms on the main floor and they had 6 or 7 kids last time I saw them.
It was kind of strange to come out of the toilet room right into a crowded room. And with no sink you felt dirty.
But you gotta do what ya gotta do.
I have a bathroom about that size off a bedroom. The sink is a tiny pottery bowl set into a tiny vanity. The toilet is round and small. The door opens out. The room is useable, barely. It was there when we bought the house, but we don't have a building code, so clearances don't matter. We hardly ever use it, but it is in what is now a guest bedroom, so it does get a bit of use from time to time.
We put our larger guests in another room:-)
If it can be done, a more workable solution is to put the toilet inside the bathroom and put the sink outside.
Maybe go to the airplane boneyard and swipe one out of an old airliner. I never measured but the space doesn't seem much bigger than what you have.
Might be tough to find the "blue liquid", however.
Or maybe talk to someone at a boatyard. I have been on sailboats where they fit an entire bathroom (o.k., head) including shower into what seems like a linen closet.
I don't know if the fittings are the same, maybe some creative plumbing could make it work.
There are travel trailers where the sink, shower, and toilet are all one piece.
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ive seen were the sink is on top of toilet lid ,reuses sink water to flush could that work?
It's possible. Pocket door or door opens to outside. Wall hung-Corner sink and toilet on opposite side of the room, facing forward (not facing sink). toilet is 24 and you usually need 30 inches. 22-24 from toilet to sink
There's new fixtures that can make this work better.
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Getting outside of the expected:
Like Piffin said. Go to a travel trailer supply place. You might get some ideas by actually looking at some travel trailers on their lot.
LOL, I didn't actually recommend that. I was being facetious. I don't think most of the suggestions here will pass codes. Square Peg had the best options to study tho
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Piffin. Sorry I misunderstood your post. Still it may be a solution to the problem as stated in the post.
By the very nature of the original post, I assumed that meeting code was a no- brainer. IRC, Section R307 "Toilet, bath and shower Spaces" pretty well rules out code compliance in the space as described in the post. Anything suggested, short of increasing the space, won't meet code. At least as I read it.
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Problem solved.
You gotta like stainless though.
Probably not if you have any local inspections.
You need a min of 21" in front of a fixture, the stool, under the IRC, I've looked for a small stool in the past, none of them are going to be small enough to fit in the space you have and provide anywhere near that amount of space.
I doubt you'd have enough space to make it comfortable to use the stool in any case. Any chance you can steal more room from another room?
Lose the sink and call it a half bath.
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Too grody without the sink. I could mount a gallon dispenser of Purell on the wall and call it good..... I am going to steal from the entryway to make the room bigger and then go with corner units. People with legs will be instructed to use the big bathroom on the second floor as legs will not fit into this bathroom. This town is chock full of houses with no toilet on the main floor; if I get this figured out there will be a parade...
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