We are looking at buying a house that needs lots of work, and one of the considerations right now is where we’d put a new half-bath that we’d want to add on the first floor. There is an article in the first issue of this magazine on this, but wondered about some other things that weren’t mentioned:
– Is it bad to have the entrance in the kitchen?
– Is it bad to have the entrance in the dinning room?
– Is it bad to have the entrance straight ahead when you come in the back door/porch?
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I think the article in IH mentioned that those locations are not preferred, for privacy reasons, but on the other hand, you need to locate it where you CAN locate it, after you've considered all possibilities. Can you put it under a staircase anywhere? Got a closet you can convert anywhere?
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I read that artical too. We added a half bath, off the kitchen in the laundry room. No one ever knows it's there, so the theory that it is near the kitchen went out the window or mural, take your pick.
Reality check.....30 days is up.
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You really need to post some photos so I can get an idea of the look and feel of these rooms.
For instance.....my kitchen has a hallway I created with a closet in it....that will become my powder room...was a simple hallway I built and creates spaces that may not have ever existed had I not needed a powder room (half bath)...its created several spaces for me in a small area I might not have thought of before.
Theres always a way in "all" rooms as long as you can be creative and open minded.
Kinda hard just using words here and no photos.
Its NEVER cut and dry no matter what anyone or any rag says.
The fun in creating spaces is using my expression, "one thing leads to another". Thats how I've done all my projects....using that expression.
Some of my work can be seen in my website......WWW.CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Anyway...pictures are worth a a thousand words or as John Bowles once said, "a bowl of kief in the morning, is worth a thousand camels in the coutyard". Don't ask.
Be well
andy
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The last choice is the best choice. Bathrooms should not open directly into a kitchen or dinning area for obvious reasons. Opening into a hallway across from the backdoor would work, however I'd try to locate the toilet so that it is not in direct view through the open door. However, if that is the only choice you have, it's better than the other choices you offered. Is there anyway to carve out space from the kitchen or dinning room, per the suggestions in the first issue of IH?