Over the vacations, something “non-urgent” received moved to the again burner (or simply put within the freezer, out of sight/thoughts). So, exterior of partnership deadlines and well timed finish of yr admin, I let myself take pleasure in my household and completely forgot that I had this adorably run-down home that wanted my consideration. However I’m again and so excited to maintain this mission shifting (however don’t fear, you haven’t missed something since this publish). At present I need to stroll you thru a number of toilet concepts I’m VERY excited by, which can be extra fantasy than sensible. It’s a giant room, 12×16, so it’s going to be maybe an oddly massive toilet with vaulted ceilings…and a urinal. Simply having the fundamentals (rest room, sink, bathe) felt dinky and peculiar. So I’ve received some enjoyable visitor cottage toilet concepts, and I needed to share them…
Hoping to maintain the paneling on one wall and discover reclaimed wooden to go round the remainder of the room. I want 600 sq. toes (3 partitions and ceiling). I’ve the imaginative and prescient of it clear in my head, but it surely’s exhausting to elucidate. It’s going to be rustic (however cohesive), with a facet of “summer season camp” as a result of quantity of wooden, however with a cohesive coloration palette and enjoyable tile and material. Extra to come back on the supplies.
Okay, so for the reason that room is massive and has excessive ceilings, I need to divide it up and do a “room throughout the room”. And since I’ve promised Brian a urinal, I need to put that and the bathroom in its personal room. There are, I’m certain, many ways in which I can do that, however I’ve two important concepts that I really like virtually equally.
Bathroom Room Thought #1: The “Outhouse”
Okay, so image this – a small, roofed room contained in the paneled toilet. It might be virtually free-standing (grounded in opposition to the again wall) with double doorways going into it. It may very well be formed like an outhouse (however stretched out large, for double doorways and to suit the urinal). I can 100% image it, and I’ve zero doubts about this, as odd as the thought sounds. It may very well be paneled and painted so it matches in the identical world however pops off the wooden partitions (which we hope to match and preserve).
I used to be closely impressed by this toilet, under, with the tiled rest room room and bathe.
What a completely pleasant (and ballsy) design. This designer put two tiled rooms (with glass blocks, no much less!) inside what appears to be extra of an old-world toilet.
One room is for the bathroom and one for the bathe. Now, whereas a tiled model of my “outhouse” could be unimaginable, I believe the tile price range is likely to be completely uncontrolled if we did this. However I believe it’s one of the best illustration of this out-of-the-box, fantastical thought. Nicely finished, Buchanan Studio! After we first noticed it a number of years in the past, our “Watercooler” Slack channel was a-BUZZ. I do know it’s controversial, however all of us thought it was only a completely fascinating thought, executed so effectively.
Bathroom Room Thought #2 – The “Via A Secret Armoire”
I imply, I’ve at all times needed to do that (who hasn’t). You stroll in, and it’s simply an unsuspectingly massive armoire (flat roof, not pitched), and you then open it, and it has a bathroom and urinal. What a delight! The one caveat with that is that to ensure that the bathroom to suit with the best clearances, it must be fairly deep, which, from the facet, would give itself away (no armoire is that deep). Many of the ones that I’ve discovered on-line steal house from the adjoining room, which we don’t need to do right here. So whereas this concept is a 12 on the enjoyable scale, I worry that the execution of it is more difficult. Not solely do I have to both discover a huge, lovely armoire, OR make one, however I have to construct it out to be at the least 4′ deep, and I believe it will stick to date out that it will look dumb.
Our First Renders…
My staff is having a lot enjoyable utilizing Spoak, so we created some elevations right here to point out you. Now it’s tough, but it surely hopefully demonstrates what I’m speaking about sufficient to visualise it and both agree with me or not. Relying on the scale of the fixtures we go together with (rest room, urinal, sink), we’d not be capable to bump the construction out from the facet wall like this, however I like the way it seems to be with some respiration room if the spacing works out. The sink would probably be classic (and probably wall hung), and the water heater location continues to be TBD (and must be small), however we needed to account for it (it’d probably be hidden inside a pretend cupboard).
After I was within the house, I mocked up the depth of the outhouse to be much more, however now I’m realizing it may very well be lots much less deep (bathrooms are about 30″ and entrance clearance must be 15″). However it’s important to account for framing, so I believe we’re at the least at 60″ from the wall. There are quite a lot of issues to troubleshoot (and construct), and this complete thought may not work. However image this – you’re over in our yard at a giant out of doors celebration, and you’re instructed the lavatory is thru “that door over there”. Then, whenever you stroll in, you see this quirky room that claims “restroom” or “rest room room” on impossibly cute stained glass doorways. Then you definitely open them and inside is your individual personal rest room and urinal (may want to determine a privateness scenario for the stained glass doorways, lol…). Perhaps it’s a tiled wall inside (or the OG paneling). Perhaps just a little sconce, too. How cute does that sound???
And The place Does One Bathe?
Okay, we’ve received our rest room/urinal and sink lined, so the place ought to the bathe go? And what does it appear to be? Now this may not be a closely used bathe (at the least not for a few years), so once more we will be extra inventive with it. I had two concepts bouncing round…
The “Floating” Round Bathe Pan
How enjoyable is that this?? I discovered this as I used to be researching the right way to do a bathe with out having to do all the new mop bathe pan waterproofing stuff (I used to be making an attempt to keep away from hiring out for that). What’s the least quantity of “work” to get a bathe with out utilizing a plastic insert (which I completely thought of BTW and is likely to be price a weblog publish). So I discovered these pictures on Pinterest, which present uncovered plumbing with bathe curtains all the way in which round (no tile, no waterproofing partitions) and what appears to be only a marble spherical bathe pan on the ground (there are additionally forged iron claw foot variations). Now, would this probably cross US toilet code or inspections? I do not know, however I’d guess not? However that didn’t cease me from spending at least 5 hours planning out the lavatory with this in thoughts. In the end, I made a decision that future-proofing the lavatory by placing in a bathtub could be sensible, which might shift this floating round bathe into the nook, by which case having or not it’s spherical made much less and fewer sense (I did discover some nook quarter-round showers that had been actually enjoyable, however began to really feel just a little too difficult).
Nook Bathe With Chest Peak Pony Wall
Okay then, I pivoted to doing a sq. or rectangular bathe within the nook, however making it look extra analog with a chest-height pony wall for privateness (and since I like the thought of a better wall). After which above the wall, a brilliant cute hanging curtain (virtually like a restaurant curtain, however that goes from the ceiling to the highest of the horse wall), which supplies me a possibility so as to add a enjoyable sample/print and texture/softness. Cloth and tile are two of my favourite design parts, so I need to add them in as a lot as potential. I additionally love the thought of a column or some form of ornamental (and seemingly load-bearing) publish or newel so as to add some architectural grounding (and for the paneling to butt into).
Right here’s the birdseye view, which isn’t essentially correct but however offers you a greater thought of the place all the pieces goes to go. We’d make the bathe a rectangle, and we’d do a floor-mounted faucet for the bathtub, and so forth (and fake the sink contained in the outhouse is a urinal). However I believe it’s tremendous useful to see the place we’re headed.
Right here’s the place we left off. Since then, the framed flooring has been began in order that we are able to connect pipes to it for plumbing. However lots left to contemplate:
- Flooring – If all of the partitions and ceiling are wooden paneling, then a tiled flooring certain could be good, however at 12×16, that’s a giant flooring, and tile is considerably costlier to put in than wooden flooring. And we’re planning on portray a sample on the wooden flooring of the dwelling/kitchen, so I don’t need to do the identical in right here, or it is going to be a circus home. We additionally may have to do under-floor heating in right here, as we aren’t placing a Quilt mini cut up on this room. Extra to come back.
- Partitions – So my objective is to seek out reclaimed wooden that matches the tone of the wall that has lovely current paneling on it already (the wall the place the outhouse could be). Thus far, I haven’t discovered it. It doesn’t have to be actual, and I don’t even thoughts if the width or profile is barely completely different – it might probably look a bit hodgepodge, however I would like the tone of the wooden to be comparable.
- Home windows – I believe we’re eliminating the one on the far wall because it seems to be out to a fence and is frosted. I believe we’re going to put skylights in right here anyway. We’ll preserve the massive image window.
- Framing – We now have to border the ground to be larger, so I’ll have to troubleshoot elevating the door and creating some form of step-up on the skin.
It’s fairly thrilling, and now that my head is absolutely again on straight (dude, that vacation break killed me this yr), I’m extraordinarily excited to maintain shifting. Simply have to get the plumber to answer me 🙂
*Images by Kailtin Inexperienced
