I cannot forget a really cool house an architect once walked me through. But I have no drawings, and I cannot remember the details. There were some really unique things going on, at least for me with my limited experience.
One of them was the master suite arrangement, and I am now trying to recreate the design, but cannot get it right, or right enough. We are trying to come up with this for possible upcoming project.
The early riser half of the couple can exit the bedroom and go into the bathroom for shower, cleanup, and get-ready, then exit the bath into a quite large dressing closet (this is high end) in order to get dressed, then go out to the service hall from the closet. No return to the bedroom to awake the sleeping spouse.
Here is a first cut at it, but it needs a lotta work. That closet has about 40 lf of tall wardrobe cabs, equivalent to two a pair of his-n-her walkins, each 5×10.
Please critique. Thanks.
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Gene, us mere mortals get dressed in the bedroom. What the heck do we know about something like that, other than we would have to completely upgrade our personal habits?
You may want to consider a door from bedroom directly to dressing closet, otherwise they will have to go thru the bathroom every time just to get a coat or something.
Ummmm... I don't see a sink in the bathroom? And the plumbing is going to be complicated, spread out all over the place. I'm now at the age where I want something to sit on to dry off and get dressed, so I suggest adding some form of seating particularly in the dressing area.
How about moving the laundry into the closet, putting it on the wall that backs to the bathroom, with the lavatory on the opposite side of the wall.
The "box" feature seen in the pic, adjacent the 2-person shower, is a 21" deep vanity top x 72" wide, a twin-sinker.
You are right about the plumbing spread out, but this is how I remember it. We cannot have any plumbing in outside walls here, except for vent stacks, so we need to be cognizant of this in design.
If I broaden the tub deck a little, it can provide seating.
That space between tub and almost-to-the-floor window was intentional, and a pretty dramatic feature in what I saw. This bath, at ground level, looked through that window to a private garden outside.
Great idea, and design! I do agree however that if you're going to have such a big fancy closet with a "dressing area" then some sort of a seat incorperated into the design might be in order. Perhaps a bench on one end of the double dressers?" If I were a carpenter"
Eliminate the door directly from sleeping area to bathroom and make the pass through the dressing room first. That will leave more wall space in the bdrm and prevent noise passing thru the door.
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Don't know if this is useful or not, but in a remodel we sort of flip-flopped your closet / bathroom locations. We had a bathroom entrance from the walk-in closet attached to the master bedroom as well as the hallway. The other seldom used bathroom in the same hall could use this bath rather than one that was on the other end of the house. The master bedroom was isolated from the bath by the walk in closet so it made it a little quieter for the sleeping spouse while the exhaust fan was running for the morning shower.
I always wanted a door from garage to bathroom then out the othe side to bedroom, that way I can come in dirty goto shower then out, by passing house.