Upstairs Bathroom Expanded into the Old Laundry

The upstairs bathroom was tight, roughly 7 by 9 feet, and the laundry sat right beside it behind a wall. Instead of working around that, we moved the laundry down to the basement and gave its footprint to the bathroom. Taking out the dividing wall took the room to about 7 by 12, so 63 square feet became 84. A third more floor, in a room where a third is the difference between awkward and comfortable.

With that extra space, the room could carry proper storage for the first time, and there was room for a real vanity. The homeowners had an antique dresser they wanted to use, so we converted it, which is the kind of thing that makes a bathroom feel like it belongs to somebody rather than to a catalogue.

Everything else in the room is new. A MAAX NexTile 60 by 30 by 81 quarter inch two-piece tub and shower with a left drain went in, along with a new toilet, sink, faucet and mirror. We put in a new window, new laminate flooring, and a fan sized for the room and ducted properly to the outside (a detail nobody sees and everybody would notice if we skipped it).

An Artisan K-brace knotty pine barn door slab, 37 by 84, closes the room off without a swing taking up floor space we had just fought to gain. Drywall, tape, mud, paint and trim finished it.