A few weeks ago, I shared how I organized our boys' bedroom closet with sloping ceilings and maximized their storage space, despite having lots of awkward nooks and crannies.
These crazy sloped ceilings are part of EVERY room upstairs - including our bathroom - so we've managed to work WITH them and use them to our advantage whenever possible.
Another example of this is in the children's bathroom...When we bought the house there was a huge amount of wasted space next to a very small shower stall.
We maximized space by installing an extra-wide, extra-deep bath with built-in shower storage and a built-in “false wall” so we had a place to put a chair (for adults giving baths), hang towels, or possibly butt a counter up.
This tub has worked wonders for our family for the past 4+ years - always with 2 or 3 kids bathing every night.
However, now that Nora and Simon are both taking a shower (previously in our downstairs bathroom), we decided it was time to hang a shower curtain by their tub so they could then get away from it all. shower upstairs.
Over the years I've had SOOOOOOOO many questions about how we could possibly hang a shower curtain in this bathroom - a lot of people were amazed we'd choose such a weird tub/shower arrangement, and some were "certain that we would regret our decision" .??
Oh, you of little faith...
Don't you know that Dave and I still have a method for our madness!? Nothing fancy, nothing fancy - just a normal tension rod hanging slightly lower than "normal" with a regular shower curtain cut to s adapt to our space.It took me about 10 minutes to remove the curtain from the packaging, hang it on the rod, install the rod, then cut the bottom 18 inches of the curtain.
It's still more than enough cover for the kids, and no water gushing out of the top - I promise!
When we use this area for the tub ONLY, we drape the curtain over the rod so it won't get in our way (we do baths first, then showers - so the curtain doesn't get wet when we drapes it).
Also, it's probably worth noting that when we're done taking baths and showers for the night, we hang our bathroom rug on a towel rod on the back of the door to dry (it's always very humid at the end of the night!)
This arrangement should work for our family for a few years...and whenever the kids are bigger than the cane, we'll probably be done with the baths by then, so we have another plan for a "more high", no more permanent privacy curtain at that time!
Do you have any oddly sloped showers or interesting bathroom layouts?
I would like to know what solutions you have proposed and/or how you optimize your space!
