How wide is enough? My linen closet is only 24" wide. It's enough. I have a hamper on the bottom, two towels in the middle for towels, and a shelf on top for extra blankets. I would like to have more space, but this is enough. My favorite thing: The hamper is hidden away. Now, as for style, I love your picture. It's so much prettier than my plain door. I do have a couple thoughts: - Since you have 10' ceilngs, I'd go with a solid door at the top. This'd allow you to hide blankets, pillows, whatever. - I do like the opaque glass. I'm not always neat. - I don't think you need drywall on the side . . . in fact, why does your picture show a FULL WALL between the vanity and the cabinet? Why couldn't they save space by simply putting the cabinet against the sink? Those are questions for the cabinet maker. This post was edited by MrsPete on Mon, Nov 17, 14 at 20:21

Good suggestions all, and I'll discuss them with the GC and my husband. The bathroom is a shared space (although since there's just the two of us and we rarely have overnight guests it's sort of a moot point). I know it sounds crazy to not have a "master" bathroom connected to the master bedroom, but, as you can see, the bedroom (labeled Bedroom 2) had to give up a lot of space for the bathroom and I didn't want to make our bedroom any smaller than it already is. Also, I prefer to have our bedroom on the south side of the house so I didn't want to switch to the other bedroom. Nanny is right, you can see that originally the architect drew a linen closet outside the bathroom. We eliminated it because it took up too much of the area open to down below, which is one of our favorite features of the house. Here's what the existing "hallway" looks like now. This would be looking from the bathroom area. Of course the dormer area you are looking at will be gone (we're raising the roof) so there will be additional height there. After the reno there will a wall there, which is the backside of the walk-in closet. This is a tiny bit of the view into the living room from the upstairs hallway. You can probably understand why we didn't want to lose that open feel. I was planning on putting a wall-mounted towel warmer on the wall next to the window (between the window and the toilet), although since multiple people have mentioned it, perhaps I should be considering moving that to where the linen area is (although that's a long way to reach for a towel when coming out of the shower). Thanks again for your advice and opinions. I realize it's difficult to picture these things, especially when you're only seeing plans for the half of the house that's being renovated. This is the existing house (looking at the south/front of the house): And here are the south and east elevations for the renovation. Believe it or not this whole project started with having to remove those dormers because of a bad roof design. Hopefully this gives you a better big-picture view of what's happening. As always, your opinions are appreciated.

Weedy I know you constantly renovate properties and the idea of redoing a bathroom now, and then having to redo it again in 20 years doesn't seem like a big deal but I don't think it's very sound advice to say not to worry about it now because you are going to want to do it over later anyway. (And that's probably not really what you mean anyway) There's a big difference between updating a bathroom cosmetically and having to redo it for functional or accessibility purposes. There's nothing wrong with getting an accessible door (32'-36" wide), an accessible shower (Even if not technically fully handicap accessible) and a layout that it at least fully adaptable NOW, and not having to think about it again. It would be very easy to get the shower right and use a wall hung toilet, and with the vanity and linen cabinet toward the lower right corner at least get the Plumbing right for a wall hung or accessible sink with finished floor and wall around it. Then you could install a more conventional vanity and a linen cabinet for now and if you Need it to be accessible in the future take out the conventional cabinetry and put in the wall hung sink

As someone who's been down this road recently: assume it's impossible. Figure it out when you move in. I recently just bought a house and during the showing, I took measurements and was sure I'd be able to steal some space from a redundant hallway and turn 1.5 baths into 2. Once I actually got into the house, I took careful measurements and plugged them in to a fairly straightforward, free floor planning software called Sweethome 3D. It lets you draw out your walls, fixtures, etc. and walk through them virtually to get a sense of what the space will feel like. In the end , it would have been possible to get 2 full baths but the shape would have been awkward and cramped. I ended up combining the 1.5 baths to a more functional, spacious single bath. Even rearranging the plumbing for that proved to be a challenge-- I can't imagine what a pain it would have been to make everything work with two baths. Modern cookie-cutter houses are not really modular-- they're hyper-designed to maximize space and utility down to the fraction of the inch, and as a result there's usually little tolerance for alterations. So, once you get in there, if it will work, great, if not, well, your expectations were managed going in.