Corner cabinet and tall side cabinets (where we used spice rack shelving!)
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@abasket Hereās a photo of the shower/glass door I described above. I had the idea and took a drawing into the glass place and the ownerās wife loved it. She persuaded him to do it.
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@jym626 Thatās pretty much what Iām thinking, except ours will need to be one long counter and wonāt have space for the side cabinets.
Now THAT is the level of cabinets I want, @momofboiler1! Previous owners put in a 60" double vanity, but there is room to make it 72" when we tear out the small shower and replace it with the linen cabinet. That would be enough room to add the tall countertop cabinets on the corners, I think. If I can add a chute in that cabinet that drops into the laundry room, I think H would be just fine with it. The townhouse we rented when we first moved to DC had a chute and H thought it was the greatest.
Now that I use the kidsā old bathroom, I am reluctant to share one again! That one has a tub, which is not going away because of resale issues. We really do need a shower I can walk into thatās upstairs at the bedroom level, and that need is NOW because of all my ortho issues since my knee replacement.
If we have to spend $$ to get the bathroom redone for sale eventually anyway, we might as well do it now and enjoy it instead of spending $$ for something a buyer would want to rip out anyway.
Am so tired of the manspread (LOL @gatormom) on the vanity. I do the dividing line, too, not just in that bathroom, but in our office (which used to be mostly mine) where he now works from home most days. OMG, he never recycles anything. Papers everywhere. At least heās consistent (?!?). His office at work looks the same way.
Very cool! I see how it works!
I LOVE that!!
Funny how a bath seems to be a love it or dislike it thing. I dislike. Iād MUCH rather take a long, long, hot shower and have the physical sensation of the hot water hitting me than being stationary in a tub.
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Agree itās a personal thing. Hard to read a book in the shower 
I wonder which one uses more water?
Depends how long the shower is! Iām a short shower person most daysā¦but if I had the time and I just came in from the cold a 20 minute shower sounds like heaven!
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Every so often, I like to just soak in a tub. What I really donāt like is cleaning it afterwardā¦and even harder in those big jacuzzi type tubs.
I love taking a nice shower, and agree with someone upstream who said the shower head is a key ingredient!
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We have a jetted shower. Itās heaven. But I also so appreciate a good long bath in the soaker tub.
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The soaker tub at my sās house seems just as tough to clean as our big jetted tub. But, true confessions, itās cleaned by the cleaning ladies, not me (though I do was bubble bath scum off when we use the tub). And we love a bubble bath. Super easy to keep or get more bubbles with the jets.
For those with jetted tubs, I found that this cleaner works miracles to remove the biofilm that inevitably forms inside the jet system.
https://www.amazon.com/Oh-Yuk-Jetted-System-Cleaner/dp/B008VGMWCO/
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We have two soaker tubs. In the nine years weāve lived in this house, Iāve been in one of them maybe two or three times when my hip was painful, and I was hoping a hot soak would help. It didnāt, so I havenāt been in a tub since. We have a marvelous shower, but I donāt spend a lot of time in there. I just like a roomy space with the right spray to get the job done pleasantly and quickly. In our previous house, we took the glass door off the shower entirely as the overspray didnāt reach beyond the shower perimeter. There is a new model in our community where the master bath is so large there is no surround at all. The room is entirely tiled with a shower head at one end and a fancy tub at the other. The crazy long dual-sink vanity is so far on the opposite side, there is no chance of overspray. I just love that.
Something along these lines, but no glass:
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Our house came with a double Jacuzzi, which is very nice. But (1) it takes most of the hot water tank to fill, (2) itās a major pain to clean; you have to climb inside, (3) husband isnāt interested, and (4) we have a hot tub just outside the bedroom (where I just spent the last hour). So Iāve only used the Jacuzzi a few times in nine years.
Someday Iād like to take it out, enlarge the shower next to it, and move the washer/dryer down from a small room next to the kitchen. Then Iād like to totally redo the kitchen to incorporate that room. This is highly unlikely to happen unless Iām the only one living here; husband not interested. Not to mention it would all probably end up costing a couple hundred thousand dollars.
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I have a corner jetted tub that I use a lot. I iften think Iād love to have a hottub so I could sit outside when Iām soaking, which I would LOVE, but practically speaking, Iām too lazy and too cheap to maintain it. Plus, there is so much less of the āeee-eeewwwā factor to think about with a tub that gets drained after every use.
I donāt often use the jets but am thankful I have them after a long day of gardening or standing on my feet in the kitchen every day. The long hot soak though? When Iām cold, or stressed, or have a migraine, I canāt get in that tub fast enough. In fact, Iām pretty sure that tub kept me from killing my kids a few times. 
My current tub only has jets along the sides. When we remodel the bath, we will upgrade to a tub with jets that will blast my lower back and hopefully my shoulders. Iāve only had a lower back problem once and all I could think about was that I needed good drugs AND a jacuzzi āmassageā.
An issue Iāve been pondering is about how to deal with ānoiseā coming from the toilet room when it shares a wall with a bedroom. The toilet in our master bath shares a wall with a bedroom. The kid who lived in that bedroom always complained about hearing way too many sounds of that toilet being used. Now that weāre empty nesters and weāre renovating, Iām finally contemplating whether thereās a reasonable way to address that. That bedroom is going to become a guest room now so much less use. So I donāt want to go crazy tearing the wall apart but does anyone have advice to share? Would putting wall tiles on the toilet side of the wall help?
@Corinthian insulate that wall very well. Our builder suggested we do that, and we didnāt. But there was some solid insulation that also was a noise barrier. If you are renovating down to the studs, ask about that.
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My feeling is when you have that MONEY (meaning fabulous) backyard, donāt worry about the bathroom inside! 
Beautiful backyard
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