[carsonsig]

Hey everyone, I have a galley bathroom, 115" deep 91" wide,



Walk in double vanity to your left, shower over tub, then toilet to your right.


I am gutting it and need to redo the cabinets.


I am just getting mind F'd trying to figure out best combo for cabinets for the 115" space.


Best I can come up with is 2 30" sink bases, with 18" door/drawer bases on each end and in the middle...


Using kitchen cabs, as wife wants the look, and we are all tall anyway, so the extra couple inches is nice...


Love any ideas/comments/critique.

 

[Nealtw]

How much room do you have between tub and vanity now. kitchen cupboards are deeper by a couple inches.

 

[Calson]

I have a similar size master bathroom and I designed a custom vanity to maximize storage space. It is continuous from countertop to the floor instead of having legs. It has two sinks but the space underneath has both an access area to the plumbing and also a row of drawers. I even designed in a 14" wide pull out drawer for laundry. I could have the drawer depths different and so not have too little depth or wasted space.

I installed two large inset medicine cabinets to add even more storage room. Many items are much better kept on the shelves of a medicine cabinet than stuck in a drawer.

I installed a Geberit carrier inside the framing to provide for a wall mounted toilet bowl. I saved some space but it also makes for a cleaner look and it is much easier to clean around it.

I put in a 42x48 inch triple pane window to let more light into the room and very glad that I did. First few months I would pass the doorway and think that a light had been left on.

The 48" long Kohler tub is deeper than a standard bathtub and functions as a soaking tub while taking less space and so I had the 60 inches I needed for the walk in curbless shower.

A pocket door made the shower trickier to tile but it helped to provide easier access in and out of the bathroom without the door being in the way.

The towel bar by the bathtub is a special one that supports a 300 lb load and it is screwed into wood backing that was added to the bare studs. The toilet paper holder also has an extra bar that supports a weight of 250 lbs and it too is attached to the wood in the new half wall.

Important to provide for later attachment of grab bars with blocking added before new drywall is attached to the studs. With the blocking dividing the stud bays into smaller sections I went with two-part spray foam insulation that has double to R-value of fiberglass batts for the walls of this room.

Check the master bath remodel pictures in my Album.

 

[carsonsig]

The Current vanity, is 23" deep from the wall to the edge of the tile.
From finished edge to tub is like 37"

 

[carsonsig]

We are keeping the tub in place, not replacing. should have mentioned that.


Does anyone sell vanity sized base cabinets?

 

[Nealtw]

The Current vanity, is 23" deep from the wall to the edge of the tile.
From finished edge to tub is like 37"

That sound like you have lots of room. When i did up the suite I live in we bought used cupboards for the kitchen and was left with a 30" cupboard that went in the bathroom. :wink2: I dressed it up with a spindle on the front corners.

 

[carsonsig]

yes, the only dimension I really have to watch is depth in relation to the door frame at the entrance end...

 

[Nealtw]

You could modify them to fit. What have you got between wall and door trim?

 

[carsonsig]

this is one of my main thoughts... Especially if I go to an RTA cabinet, is just rip down an inch or two in Depth, just keeping an eye on drawer length.


I have like 28" from wall to door trim

 

[Nealtw]

this is one of my main thoughts... Especially if I go to an RTA cabinet, is just rip down an inch or two in Depth, just keeping an eye on drawer length.


I have like 28" from wall to door trim

You have inches to spare

 

[carsonsig]

thats what she said!

 

[Calson]

This provides cubic inches of space but it will only be good for towels and extra rolls of toilet paper. Mirrors in place of medicine cabinets only compounds the problems with this design. Plan on putting laundry in the bathtub or leaving it on the floor?

You have inches to spare

 

[carsonsig]

that looks cool, but with three kids using it, we need counter space.

 

[Chris616]

The cabinet layout that you’ve suggested is what we did in our master bath reno and it works well. The outside cabinets space the sinks away from the wall. My wife and I each have two cabinets to ourselves and we share the one in the middle for things that we both use. The total width of cabinets was 87” in a space 90” wide, which allowed a nice sized trim piece that matches the cabinets doors between each cabinet and the wall. You’ll only have ½” on each side, so you’d need to think how to transition from cabinets to wall.

If storage space isn’t critical for you then a hanging vanity is nice. My wife was keen on this and I agree after the fact that it looks nice. It also allowed more floor space for our underfloor heating. We used IKEA 30” high kitchen cabinets cut down to 20” high. We were able to put the counter top at the height that worked best for us.

Chris

 

[Nealtw]

There is lots you can do with that space. And yes dirty laundry is a consideration too.

 

[carsonsig]

Yeah. Ideally I would have an inch on each end. I have been on 45 sites trying to find combos that give me that... argh. I will likely be forced to flush mount one end, probably the door, and do the trim piece at far end where your eye lands. The current cabs are basically flush at each wall, with like a piece of 3/4" stock trim.... ikea closing has F'd my plans utterly.

 

[3onthetree]

The look you want in your bathroom should dictate your cabinets, i.e. nothing says they have to go wall-to-wall. You can also have a separated "his & hers." You can also have a makeup station. You can also put a stick-built linen on the far end or behind the door swing (no drawing layout given so speaking in generalities). If you are not re-doing plumbing, then that may dictate how far away sinks are or where drawers are. Your HVAC if in the floor could be a variable too.

So you asked for critique, here's mine. Not a fan of just sticking a ready-made kitchen cabinet in a bathroom. They are too deep. Vanity sinks are smaller and shallow, so it might look disproportionate to see extra space on the counter either in front of or behind the sink. If you choose exposed ends, they are not finished and protrude on face frames, so you'd have to add some millwork. You can get prefab counters, with/without sinks, for common size vanities which eliminates cu$$tom. The drawer size or count are sometimes better suited to hygiene stuff - a shallower top one or in combination with smaller doors in the same cabinet, rather than requiring a separate drawer base. Some vanities are made to 'look' furniture grade and/or freestanding if you go that route. You can get vanities in 36" 'comfort height' as well. But if you're married to a specific kitchen cabinet style and are going to cut it up to be nearer the size of a vanity, hopefully your skills are good enough, and you've pre-planned enough, where when someone sees it they don't think "hey thats a kitchen cabinet."