Updated in the post today at 1:38PM with what we are doing.

So we are in the midst of a bathroom remodel. We wanted to anyway, but the shower leaking sealed that deal. We have taken out the tub and basically made the shower twice as big.

Trying to figure out this first area. My thought was, I was going to put like an upper and lower cabinet in this front little area and kinda like roll towels up and make it look nice on top of the countertop. The space is pretty deep and so I'm worried how it's going to look. I realize the easiest thing is probably a closet, but we really don't need a closet or any more space, as our primary closet is pretty darn big. I just think it might look weird if the cabinet basically only comes out to half of this space.

Other thoughts was like a make-up sitting area, but I would never use that. One thought I had this morning was I could put a cabinet there that would have a laundry basket underneath with kind of a hole in the countertop, because that would take it more space, but then again I don't need it as in the closet there is a cut out to the laundry room where we just shove our clothes through and it falls into a laundry basket.

The space is 40 inches deep by 30 inches wide. An upper cabinet is typically 12 inches in the bottom cabinet is typically 24 inches.

I told my husband, we could kind of build a fake wall to bring the counter and cabinet out, but he thought that that was a waste of space, which I don't disagree.

Anyone have any thoughts?

I can't think of anything to put there, except a closet, that wouldnt look weird and like you had extra space you didn't know what to do with. Maybe open shelves, but the depth of those would look awkward.

If you don't want a closet you'll never use, maybe consider framing in half the depth? Then you could have the shallower cabinets without them getting swallowed up by the nook's depth. You could have a half door to the closed off space as a place to store your Oompa Loompas m

Thanks! I had mentioned to my hubs this AM about putting in a fake wall to bring the cabinets closer to the front. He didn't like the idea of wasted space - but I think I would rather that than cabinets set far back

It looks like you have access to a drain and water. A stackable washer and dryer with a door would be really nice there. A little awkward with the door coming into the bathroom but very functionable.

I love Kona coffee and some clients that travel design coffee into their M.Baths b/c they are used to the pampering.

Thinking - for me - 40" long 12"deep coffee bar ala this idea
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1521337785/coffee-bar-coffee-bar-cabinet-coffee?gpla=1&gao=1&

Some towels rolled might find storage there are well?
Now to get cold half-half nearby .... mmmm

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I love Kona coffee and some clients that travel design coffee into their M.Baths b/c they are used to the pampering.

Thinking - for me - 40" long 12"deep coffee bar ala this idea
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1521337785/coffee-bar-coffee-bar-cabinet-coffee?gpla=1&gao=1&

Some towels rolled might find storage there are well?
Now to get cold half-half nearby .... mmmm

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I was going to suggest a coffee bar, but he took the words right out of my mouth.

Yall drink coffee in our bathroom?? This is making me giggle.


I think we're gonna basically build a fake wall and then still put our original cabinet idea in it just have it be closer to the shower wall and not like inset.

Our bedroom wall. The closet is the back wall.

What we ended up doing (as we had to decide quickly).

We are putting in like a 36-38" inch deep bottom cabinet (so it will go all the way back to the wall). But then we will build a faux upper wall to actually make it look like a normal counter and upper. So standard 22" countertop, and then the standard 12" deep upper cabinet that will go start from 36" off the floor up to the ceiling.

So essentially it will look like a normal upper/lower, but the lower will be a deep cabinet but look normal from the outside.

Omperlodge said:

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It looks like you have access to a drain and water. A stackable washer and dryer with a door would be really nice there. A little awkward with the door coming into the bathroom but very functionable.

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This is a good suggestion. Curious if your home is two story and you have a WD on a different level?

Oh... I guess decision has been made. Nm!

Single story. And only 3 people live here so didn't need but def not a bad idea.

You would have had to run 220v power, trench the concrete for a drain, cut through the outside wall to vent, and (probably) still build a closet around it so you wouldn't have a bizarre W/D in your bathroom. You made the better choice

JMac03 said:

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Our bedroom wall. The closet is the back wall.

What we ended up doing (as we had to decide quickly).

We are putting in like a 36-38" inch deep bottom cabinet (so it will go all the way back to the wall). But then we will build a faux upper wall to actually make it look like a normal counter and upper. So standard 22" countertop, and then the standard 12" deep upper cabinet that will go start from 36" off the floor up to the ceiling.

So essentially it will look like a normal upper/lower, but the lower will be a deep cabinet but look normal from the outside.

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I didnt see this in time but I would have considered a double cabinet with the front open and able to be opened on a hinge and the back just a built in bookshelf basically (not for actual books).