Over the vacations, something “non-urgent” bought 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 venture transferring (however don’t fear, you haven’t missed something since this put up). At this time I wish to stroll you thru just a few rest room concepts I’m VERY excited by, which might be extra fantasy than sensible. It’s a giant room, 12×16, so it’s going to be maybe an oddly giant rest room with vaulted ceilings…and a urinal. Simply having the fundamentals (rest room, sink, bathe) felt dinky and bizarre. So I’ve bought some enjoyable visitor cottage rest room 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 would like 600 sq. toes (3 partitions and ceiling). I’ve the imaginative and prescient of it clear in my head, however it’s onerous to clarify. It’s going to be rustic (however cohesive), with a aspect of “summer time camp” as a result of quantity of wooden, however with a cohesive colour palette and enjoyable tile and material. Extra to come back on the supplies.
Okay, so for the reason that room is large and has excessive ceilings, I wish to divide it up and do a “room inside the room”. And since I’ve promised Brian a urinal, I wish to put that and the bathroom in its personal room. There are, I’m positive, many ways in which I can do that, however I’ve two predominant concepts that I really like nearly equally.
Rest room Room Thought #1: The “Outhouse”
Okay, so image this – a small, roofed room contained in the paneled rest room. It might be nearly free-standing (grounded towards the again wall) with double doorways going into it. It may very well be formed like an outhouse (however stretched out extensive, 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 hold).
I used to be closely impressed by this rest room, beneath, 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 rest room.
One room is for the bathroom and one for the bathe. Now, whereas a tiled model of my “outhouse” could be unbelievable, I feel the tile finances is likely to be completely uncontrolled if we did this. However I feel it’s the perfect illustration of this out-of-the-box, fantastical concept. Effectively accomplished, Buchanan Studio! Once we first noticed it just a few 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 concept, executed so effectively.
Rest room 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 giant armoire (flat roof, not pitched), and then you definately open it, and it has a rest room and urinal. What a delight! The one caveat with that is that to ensure that the bathroom to suit with the correct clearances, it must be fairly deep, which, from the aspect, would give itself away (no armoire is that deep). Many of the ones that I’ve discovered on-line steal area from the adjoining room, which we don’t wish to do right here. So whereas this concept is a 12 on the enjoyable scale, I concern that the execution of it is more difficult. Not solely do I must both discover a huge, lovely armoire, OR make one, however I must construct it out to be not less than 4′ deep, and I feel it could stick to date out that it could look dumb.
Our First Renders…
My crew is having a lot enjoyable utilizing Spoak, so we created some elevations right here to point out you. Now it’s tough, however it 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 would not have the ability to bump the construction out from the aspect wall like this, however I like the way it seems with some respiratory room if the spacing works out. The sink would probably be classic (and presumably 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 fake cupboard).
Once I was within the area, I mocked up the depth of the outhouse to be much more, however now I’m realizing it may very well be rather a lot much less deep (bogs are about 30″ and entrance clearance must be 15″). However you must account for framing, so I feel we’re not less than at 60″ from the wall. There are a number of issues to troubleshoot (and construct), and this complete concept won’t work. However image this – you might be over in our yard at a giant outside social gathering, and you might be advised the toilet is thru “that door over there”. Then, if you stroll in, you see this quirky room that claims “restroom” or “rest room room” on impossibly cute stained glass doorways. You then open them and inside is your personal non-public rest room and urinal (may want to determine a privateness state of affairs for the stained glass doorways, lol…). Possibly it’s a tiled wall inside (or the OG paneling). Possibly slightly sconce, too. How cute does that sound???
And The place Does One Bathe?
Okay, we’ve bought our rest room/urinal and sink lined, so the place ought to the bathe go? And what does it seem like? Now this won’t be a closely used bathe (not less than not for a few years), so once more we may be extra artistic 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 methods to do a bathe with out having to do all the recent mop bathe pan waterproofing stuff (I used to be attempting 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 value a weblog put up). So I discovered these photographs on Pinterest, which present uncovered plumbing with bathe curtains all the best way 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 presumably go US rest room code or inspections? I don’t know, however I’d wager not? However that didn’t cease me from spending at least 5 hours planning out the toilet with this in thoughts. In the end, I made a decision that future-proofing the toilet by placing in a bath could be sensible, which might shift this floating round bathe into the nook, wherein case having it’s spherical made much less and fewer sense (I did discover some nook quarter-round showers that have been actually enjoyable, however began to really feel slightly too sophisticated).
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, an excellent cute hanging curtain (nearly like a restaurant curtain, however that goes from the ceiling to the highest of the horse wall), which provides me a possibility so as to add a enjoyable sample/print and texture/softness. Cloth and tile are two of my favourite design components, so I wish to add them in as a lot as attainable. I additionally love the thought of a column or some kind of ornamental (and seemingly load-bearing) put up 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 provides you a greater concept of the place every little thing goes to go. We would make the bathe a rectangle, and we would do a floor-mounted faucet for the bathtub, and so on (and fake the sink contained in the outhouse is a urinal). However I feel it’s tremendous useful to see the place we’re headed.
Right here’s the place we left off. Since then, the framed ground has been began in order that we will connect pipes to it for plumbing. However rather a lot left to think about:
- Flooring – If all of the partitions and ceiling are wooden paneling, then a tiled ground positive could be good, however at 12×16, that’s a giant ground, and tile is considerably dearer to put in than wooden flooring. And we’re planning on portray a sample on the wooden ground of the residing/kitchen, so I don’t wish to do the identical in right here, or will probably be a circus home. We additionally may must do under-floor heating in right here, as we aren’t placing a Quilt mini break 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 present paneling on it already (the wall the place the outhouse could be). To date, I haven’t discovered it. It doesn’t must be actual, and I don’t even thoughts if the width or profile is barely completely different – it will possibly look a bit hodgepodge, however I would like the tone of the wooden to be related.
- Home windows – I feel we’re eliminating the one on the far wall because it seems out to a fence and is frosted. I feel we’re going to put skylights in right here anyway. We’ll hold the massive image window.
- Framing – We now have to border the ground to be larger, so I’ll must troubleshoot elevating the door and creating some kind of step-up on the surface.
It’s fairly thrilling, and now that my head is totally again on straight (dude, that vacation break killed me this yr), I’m extraordinarily excited to maintain transferring. Simply must get the plumber to reply to me 🙂
*Pictures by Kailtin Inexperienced
