Bad Planning - Ideas for a 10 sqm Master Bathroom

Hello,
our planned master bathroom on the upper floor is relatively small. Our priorities simply lie with other rooms and we are super happy with the rest. The bathroom will be located in a dormer. The roof shape of the gable will be an attached gable roof and I think we will design the bathroom with wooden beams in the full height. A really great and airy room, almost too beautiful to be a bathroom :)

Now the exciting question about the bathroom furnishings/planning. Due to the limited space, this is a challenge, the room itself cannot be designed larger than 3.27 x 3.26m due to other dependencies, meaning 10.20 sqm. The entrance door and also the chimney can be moved a bit. The standard shower/toilet T-solution would clutter the room quite a bit. The passage to the window would then be narrow and everything would feel cramped. We have considered a freestanding bathtub under the window or placing the shower in the upper left or right corner. We are still not really happy or satisfied. To answer the question, there will be another bathroom with a shower on the ground floor. Two bathrooms are enough for us in the house, the rest will have to manage. A little more about our habits, in the current apartment the toilet and bathroom are separated, but usually the bathroom door (not the toilet) is completely open. This would also be suitable here with the beautiful light coming in, even with the bathroom. A nice view into the room without immediately seeing the toilet would be really great.

Best regards
Steffen

I would start in a classic way (half-height walls are light blue):



I don't think completely hiding the toilet is that crucial. In my opinion, it's enough if you don't see it immediately when you open the door. Yvonne once said fittingly: "it shouldn't present itself." If that's not enough for you, here is the somewhat bolder variant:



I hope imagination is sufficient here. The shower and toilet disappear more or less completely behind glass, only the lower wall sections are built. The design of the glass doors can of course look different as well. I chose folding doors here. Maybe a sliding door is better. The important thing is that they are transparent. :)

There is not only the T solution but also L.

Thank you very much. I looked at the idea and played around with it a bit.

How long does the wall of a walk-in shower need to be so that no splash water sprays out of the area? I have now calculated with a 1.00m wall and an 80cm opening, so a total of 1.80m. Is that enough?

We are considering installing a kind of 1.00 to 1.20m wide built-in laundry cabinet in the hallway upstairs. Many years ago, I had a similar setup, just without a really good door for the built-in niche. It didn’t bother me back then. Is this idea completely outlandish and too noisy, or is the ceiling structure (regarding vibrations) from the washing machine a big issue? The bathroom upstairs is actually too small for a washing machine. Dirty clothes usually accumulate in the upstairs rooms. Therefore, washing upstairs wouldn’t be a bad idea. Dirty laundry, washing, drying (huge balcony), folding, and wardrobe on one level. The distance to the drain pipe would then be 3.50m, which should still be feasible.

Steffen

Our shower wall is 1.55 m long and that is not enough, some water still splashes out. Not much, but at 1 m a whole lot of water ends up outside the shower.

If you put the toilet at the back on the left wall you can make the shower wall longer. Or you can even make the entrance to the shower from the toilet side, so completely close off the side wall to the shower (glass wall).

Thank you very much. Then I have to go back to the start and think again. 1.60m is very likely too much and I wanted to avoid a door to the shower. The wall to the toilet should also only be between 1.20 and 1.50m high, meaning a door is not possible then. Much more than a 1.40m wall plus an 80cm passage to the shower is not possible, because then a maximum width of 1m would be available for the toilet. I think that is the minimum size. I also wanted to avoid a glass wall to the shower; I would prefer a solid wall. I have to reflect on how I can solve this better.