What do you do when you want to turn your two-bedroom, one-bath house into a two-bedroom, TWO-bath house, but you only have 850 square feet to work with?

You get creative!

Before the remodel, the bedroom/bath half of the client’s home consisted of two modestly-sized bedrooms, two narrow-but-deep closets, and one medium size bathroom with a tiny pedestal sink. Adequate, but not that functional:

The goal was to be able to have one space for folks to shower, and still have an available room for folks to use the toilet or wash their hands if the shower-space were occupied.

Since they were also remodeling their kitchen, the client figured out that their old pantry space could be accessed from the second bedroom to serve as a closet. That meant we could take away one of the two awkward closets, and make the other closet standard depth (24″). That reclaimed a lot of space we could use to create a full bath and adjoining powder room.

Then we put a tub shower combo, toilet, and generous vanity in the “big” half, and a small vanity and toilet in the little half. We separated the rooms with a pocket door to keep it feeling as open as possible and allow flow into the shower space from either bedroom. The rest of the story was just about choosing beautiful materials to finish off the space.

Here’s the new layout…

Here’s how the bathroom looked Before the remodel – a decent amount of space, but poorly used, and *no* counter space: