A Guest Bathroom Off Of The Kitchen? (Is That Strange?)

When you’re the kind of one who doesn’t like enjoying round with flooring plans and contemplating all (and I do imply aaaalllllllllll) of the chances, these subsequent few weeks might drive you completely loopy. You could wish to try for some time and verify again in a couple of weeks to see if I’m previous this part and have moved on to truly implementing a plan.

As a result of proper now, all I can do is consider the chances. My mind is not going to cease. I get up within the morning desirous about prospects. I take into account all of them day as I’m working. My mother and I talked about them at lunch yesterday. I talked about them with mates final evening. I am going to mattress at evening desirous about them.

I get so enthusiastic about making an attempt out totally different layouts and desirous about the totally different recommendations that folks give me. And y’all gave me a complete lot to consider on Monday’s post. And there was one suggestion particularly that caught my consideration, and I haven’t been in a position to get it out of my thoughts. The suggestion was to maneuver the visitor toilet into the pantry space.

I’m certain in some unspecified time in the future, another person in all probability instructed this, and I dismissed it instantly as a result of, once more, that flooring is a concrete slab basis. So doing something in there that requires plumbing might be value extra, take longer, and be a giant disruption to our lives. So it’s very attainable that somebody talked about it earlier than, and I wrote it off with none thought. I can’t even clarify why I’ll write off a suggestion again and again, after which it takes that one final time of somebody suggesting it, and I determine to contemplate it. Nobody can clarify how my thoughts works, least of all me. 😀

However after I learn this suggestion, I made a decision to strive it out. I wasn’t even certain what issues (if any) that change would resolve, however the concept intrigued me, so I gave it a go. I made a decision instantly that it must be a full toilet. If somebody ever wanted to stick with Matt, I might have a sleeper couch within the TV room, however I’d hate for them to have to make use of our toilet. So this visitor toilet would want to have a bathe.

Additionally, it could have to be accessible by way of the kitchen as a result of I don’t need so many doorways within the TV room. I want at the very least one strong, uninterrupted wall. Plus, it’s simply bizarre for friends to have to make use of a rest room that’s accessible by means of a door proper there within the space the place individuals are gathered. You normally need it to be faraway from the primary room somewhat bit, at the very least. That’s why they’re normally off of a hallway.

So if I did this, it could look one thing like this. Don’t pay an excessive amount of attentino to the association of the particular toilet. I didn’t give that a lot thought but. However the basic placement of the lavatory would appear like this.

So my query is that this. How bizarre is it to have a visitor toilet off of the kitchen? I do know I’ve seen it earlier than, however they’re primarily powder loos. And even at that, I don’t understand how widespread that’s. So that you inform me. Is it unusual to have a rest room off of a kitchen?

I’ve simply by no means lived in a house with a rest room off of the kitchen, so I’m unsure how I really feel about that. What I do love about that concept is that it will get all the “public” areas of the home over on one facet. It is sensible to have the visitor toilet nearer to the TV room, the eating room, and the kitchen. And I additionally love that with the lavatory moved, I’d have these areas freed as much as organize how I want them to be organized.

The areas I’m making an attempt to work into this flooring plan are (1) visitor toilet, (2) laundry room, (3) a lot of closet area, (4) a exercise space. And what I really like concerning the concept of transferring the visitor toilet out of its present location and transferring it nearer to the opposite “public” areas of the home is that it could principally make all of this space in pink the main bedroom. None of this might be “public” anymore. This whole finish of the home could be main bedroom for me to rearrange in the way in which that most accurately fits us. That would depart the laundry room, a lot of closet area, and a exercise space that I’d want to suit into these areas.

And if it helps, I might even probably take the wall down between the present hallway and hallway toilet to make a extra open space in the main bedroom entrance.

I’m simply brainstorming right here, so I don’t know if that’s attainable. I’d should rise up into the attic and see if that’s a load-bearing wall. I type of suppose it’s, so I don’t know what must be accomplished to be able to open that up utterly. Nevertheless it certain would make a pleasant exercise space. And it could make sense to have it there as a part of the main bedroom.

However my principal query for in the present day is concerning the placement of the visitor toilet off of the kitchen. Once more, I do know I’ve seen powder baths off of kitchens earlier than. Do you suppose that’s unusual? Have you ever had a home with that association earlier than? Inform me your ideas on that.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.