How To Add A Shower To A Half Bath

Adding a shower is nearly all it takes to catechumen a modest powder room into a fully functional bath suitable for overnight guests. If your bath already has a claustrophobic shower stall, replacing it with a larger 1 can make the bathroom much more pleasant to use. The challenge, of course, is finding the square footage to make these kinds of upgrades.

Not to worry. There are enough of means to clasp a new — or ameliorate — shower into a modest bathroom, but it takes some ingenuity and a willingness to rethink the infinite y'all've got (while paying attention to code-required clearances). Below, you'll discover a few examples from Fine Homebuildingauthors.

A new or enlarged shower is, of course, just one of many possible bathroom upgrades. New flooring, cabinetry, and lighting all offer functional as well as artful improvements — and a good time to consider those changes is when the room is being renovated for a shower. Small-scale changes can become a long way in a small space.

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Shower Solution #one: Finding infinite under the stairs

This bathroom started out as a cupboard underneath the switchback stairs of builder Steve Wilmot'south Craftsman-style habitation. Measuring virtually 3 ft. by eight ft., the space contained a toilet but no sink. Turning it into a fully functioning bath not only meant squeezing the fixtures into a tiny footprint, but likewise meeting lawmaking requirements for a minimum of 80 in. over fixtures when the ceiling height ranged from 78 ½ in. at 1 end to 108 in. at the other. Snatching some space from a closet and moving a door made it all possible.

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Shower Solution #2: Steal from your closets

Yes, nosotros all need more cupboard space. Merely like these homeowners, I, too, could be convinced to surrender a linen closet if it meant a more comfortable shower. That was exactly what Austin architect Paul DeGroot prescribed for this master-bathroom makeover. In this example, appropriating 5 sq. ft. from 2 closets allowed the toilet and the vanity to be relocated, and the shower to be expanded.

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Shower Solution #three: Angling for accessibility

To create an accessible bath for her aging parents, Lubov Mazur decided to bandy a soaking tub for a curbless shower with fold-away doors. Heavy-duty double-swivel rollers support the weight of the doors without requiring whatsoever curb or rail on the flooring. Retracted against the wall, the 20-in. wide doors protrude a mere three in. This, along with an angled cabinet, keeps the flooring open up.

More on small bathroom design:

Minor Bath Ideas — A slide show offering ideas on how small spaces can however have a big impact.

Beautiful Small Bath — A await at five bathrooms where smart layout, innovative storage ideas, and careful option of fixtures and materials all show that good things indeed come up in modest packages.

Space-Saving Shower-Door Arrangement — Modern rolling hardware provides a practical solution for minor bathrooms.

Sink Choices for Small Bathrooms — Stand up-alone sinks are often a skilful choice for a small bathroom. Choices include pedestal, console, and wall-mounted models.

Designing Showers for Small Bathroom — Greatcoat Code bath designer Bridget Cahill offers some tips on updating a shower in an older bathroom to make it more appealing and more applied.

Shower Solution #one: A shower stall and small sink turned this space under the stairs into a full-service bath.

The toilet fits neatly in the space where the ceiling is lower.

Shower Solution #ii: Stealing from adjacent closets resulted in a more spacious, modern shower.

Shower Solution #3: Replacing an under-used soaking tub with a fold-away shower fabricated this bath comfortable and accessible.

Pulled back, the disappearing shower leaves enough of room to manuever.

The original bath was acceptable, just tight. With 5 sq. ft. stolen from 2 adjacent hall closets, the toilet and the vanity were relocated and the shower expanded.

The original bathroom was little more than than a closet equipped with a toilet (but no sink) with a door opening directly in forepart of the commode.

Moving the door to the middle of the long side of the room created enough room to put the toilet on the side where the ceiling was lower, and a new shower on side where the ceiling was college.

Before: A soaking tub took up a lot of real estate in the original bath.

After: Folded back, the frosted glass doors from Wilson Glass Visitor in Berkeley, Calif. Brand the near of the 6-ft. by vii-ft. bath.

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Source: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2015/06/17/fitting-a-shower-in-a-small-bath-floorplan

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