“Bathroom floor plans” - when I use this phrase does it conjure up images of finding the perfect source for bathroom floor plans that will somehow magically put your whole bathroom remodeling project all together? Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you but what the phrase “bathroom floor plans” should be providing you with is actually the starting point for your entire bathroom remodeling project.
The place to start your bathroom floor plans is to make a rough drawing of the bathroom you’re remodeling. Don’t worry if it’s not perfect - just capture the overall shape of your bathroom in a rough freehand drawing to start. The drawing should look like the shape of your bathroom floor plans when you’re finished.
Now you want to grab an assistant and a tape measure and take measurements of all of the walls in your bathroom. You want to be able to use these measurements to create what’s called a scaled drawing to actually use in your bathroom floor plans.
Next you can grab some graph paper and layout the drawing to scale. If your bathroom is basically a rectangle 10 ft wide by 8 ft deep, draw a rectangle on the graph paper that is sized to a scale. You could put this floor plan on an 8 ½” x 11″ sheet of graph paper by letting each inch on the drawing represent one foot in your actual floor plan.
Once you’re satisfied that you have the basic shape of the floor plan drawn to scale, you might want to make copies of this basic floor plan. You can sketch different fixtures onto one of the copied drawings and be able to erase the fixtures without erasing the bathroom floor plans.
Now you can start drawing in, to as close to scale as you can, the basic fixtures that your remodeled bathroom will have, The sink/vanity unit, the tub/shower, the toilet and any other fixtures you want. Mark the location of the main drain line just for reference sake.
You can cut out pieces of paper the size of your main fixtures if you want to try “playing around” with the arrangement of the fixtures.
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There is a very well written eBook called “Better Bath Design” written by a fellow named Don West that does an excellent job at covering how to design your remodeled bathroom floor plans. 
Your floor plan must be integrated with the fixtures you’re planning to use and Don does a very good job at covering all of the different modern fixtures that you’ll want to consider. In addition to that, he offers a very nice 3-D software application as a FREE bonus that you can use to make a 3-D design of your bathroom to really see exactly how the project is going to look. The 3-D software alone is worth the purchase because it will make your design process so much simpler. This eBook will make your bathroom remodeling task much easier, I guarantee it! |
You can also get a very nice selection of some basic bathroom floor plans at this website:
http://www.us.kohler.com/designkb/designservice/floorplan.jsp
You can use the look of these bathroom floor plans to stimulate you to create your own exact floor plan.
I hope this short article has shown you the importance of beginning your project with some time spent creating your basic bathroom floor plans.
