Powder Room Renovation - Becomes Full Bath With Hidden Storage

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We turned our very small 6 x 6 ft powder room into a full bathroom by moving a window and some plumbing. Here is how we did it.
We wanted to create a guest room and guest bath downstairs for when my parents visit. They don't do stairs very well anymore, especially my Dad. Both my husband, Frank and I are from Denmark, but we now live over here, in Orange County, California. My parents visit us from Denmark from time to time and usually stay 3 weeks.
For this purpose, we also turned the downstairs powder room into a full bath for our guests.
The bathroom before.
This is what the bathroom looked like before. It had a vanity and a toilet.


I really wanted to keep the powder room feel. That's a thing, right? I wanted someone to be able to come in and think: "Oh great - there is a shower, but my swan soaps are still going to look amazing in here". You know, for the swan soap owning crowd. (need to pick up some swan soaps)
This is the new floor plan we came up with: Move the window over, add plumbing for a new vanity where the window was, move the toilet over slightly, then add plumbing for the shower where the old vanity was located. Sounds so easy in a short sentence like that, doesn't it. Well, well.


We used IKEA cabinets for the vanity. I wanted the vanity to be a focal point and look as big as possible. That's the reason I chose dark cabinets and extended them all across the wall. To the right of the sink, we made the vanity 5.5 inches deep.


Here is the after shot of the hidden storage.
The toilet roll holder is really a door knob too and you can open the shallow cabinet behind it and there is just enough room to store a bunch of toilet rolls out of sight.


Click below to see the finished space.
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