Bathroom door hits toilet, how to change the layout?

Wei Jiang

6 years ago

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Calgary North Decorating, Benjamin Moore

6 years ago

Your least expensive option is to change the door, have it swing into the hallway rather than into the bathroom.

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Filipe Custom Woodwork
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
Move the door to the right a few inches. the vanity needs at the most 24" of wall to clear the cabinet and the counter overhang. You have 3' 1"...or you can do a pocket door.
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J Design Group - Interior Designers Miami - Modern
6 years ago
You can have it to the outside, "Pull Right hand"

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sarshouse14
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
I have a similar problem. Just finished an update on a small en suite bathroom only to discover that the new vanity drawers could not be opened if the bathroom door was open. Knew this would eventually lead to the vanity accidentally being dinged so needed to figure out how to change the door. Couldn't do a pocket door- not enough room on one side of the wall and the other side had electrical outlets and bathroom light switches. Have decided the best thing to do is to install a sliding "barn" door. Not an expensive fix and will add a fun component to the bedroom decor. It should solve the problem! Good luck with whatever you decide!
senab
6 years ago
Swap the toilet and closet space.
kudzu9
6 years ago
Open up the 3'-1" wall and install a pocket door. Some people aren't fans, but I have 4 bathrooms and every one of them has a pocket door. I love them for this type of application. If there is electrical in the wall, it shouldn't be too difficult to move it, particularly if you use a 24"-30" pocket door, which will leave space for the receptacle boxes. This may be much easier than trying to relocate a toilet.
Joan D
6 years ago
Changing the swing likely would be cheaper, but I had four doors opening to a small alcove and chose to put a pocket door on the bath to cut down on some of the door clutter. We used quality, metal hardware for the door track and quality hardware to open/close the door. We love it. In your case, I think a pocket door would make the bath feel bigger, too. Worth the cost of building the pocket and the hardware (you can reuse the door if it’s good quality. Easy for me to say, of course, as it’s not my cost! Good luck.
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Madden, Slick & Bontempo, Inc
5 years ago
My vote is for a pocket door. Move the doorway to the right and install a pocket door that opens to the left. I am assuming that the light switch is already over by the sink. so you may not have to deal with any electrical. While you are at it, I might also get rid of that bump out from the den closet around the toilet. That would give you room for 12" deep shelves on that wall in the bathroom. You could then do a built-in unit in the den.
Annette Holbrook(z7a)
5 years ago
You can make it an outswing into the hall. I have one outswing door on a bathroom in the cabin we recently bought. One thing I will say that you do tend to keep an outswing door closed because otherwise it is in the way, which is nice.

For fun I’m adding one of these,
Chris Valvo
5 years ago
depending on the room on the other side of the door. either put sliding barn door in bathroom or other side of wall in other room side of opening.
millworkman
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
I am sure the OP has figured out their dilema by now seeing as it was over a year ago.
felizlady
5 years ago
Install a 36” barn door/sliding door on barn door tracks so that it overlaps the bathroom door opening by 6” on both sides, and slides to the right side which is 3’1”. You may need to remove the door and base trim on that side of the hall to allow the barn door to be tight next to the bathroom door opening for privacy and noise control.
OR Keep the existing door and put a rubber bumper on the front of the toilet bowl.

Bathroom door hits toilet, how to change the layout?

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