I like having a medicine cabinet. We built our house in 1993 and have a huge plate mirror in master bathroom (no longer fashionable, but we both love it). We opted to put a medicine cabinet on the side wall perpendicular to mirror - it’s adjacent to vanity/sinks, between the mirror and the door. It is full, and husband also has more meds in a basket in the cabinet below sink.
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We completely redid the primary bath in our last house and partially did one in our current house.
Some thoughts:
- get what YOU want/need will use. I personally Hate the rainfall shower heads (they are popular now) so I did not get them. We put a bathtub in our primary remodel because I love to soak in a tub. In the partial remodel we replaced a bath/shower combo with a walk in shower because we have 2 other bathtubs. Said no to a comfort height toilet as they actually are not as good for elimination (my pelvic health PT explained that one
). Yes to a heated towel bar as well as a heated floor (in a colder climate). - You might want to consider things such as grab bars and a shower seat.
- Expect a bath remodel to cost a lot. The prices have really risen after the pandemic.
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We put a huge plate mirror in our primary bath and I love it.
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Looking up what a “plate mirror “ is…. ! 
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I’m not one for a warm towel, but where to hang towels is actually an issue we will have to address. Because of the location of our shower, the only place to hang towels is on the back of the bathroom door or the back of the closet door. The only wall space is under the window at the end of the bathroom (the shower is immediately to your right when you walk in.
One of the things I like about our slider glass doors is the rack for one of our bath towels. The nearby space on the wall is only big enough for one towel. (Over by the whirlpool tub, which we rarely use, is another towel rack. It allows me to store our other 3 bathtowels, folded in thirds with accent color towel in the middle).
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I dispise rain shower heads too. I hate water in my eyes and there’s pretty much no way to avoid it with them.
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I’m not a fan of them, either. I basically want an aestetically pleasing firehouse.
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That would be me! It is impossible to take a quick shower without getting the hair wet, plastic bonnet or not! 
Thank goodness we have a regular shower head in addition to the rain one in our shower! 
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We had that problem too. In our primary, I had a narrow strip of wall where I was able to place a hook right outside the shower door.
For our upstairs bathroom, the shower is really long so we had the towel bar installed in the shower opposite the shower head, similar to what you sometimes see in hotel baths.
For the basement bath, we installed a shower door that had a towel bar.
Toto makes one…MIL has it. Bonus…it has a heated seat which is loved in cold climates.
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We have converted our master bath toilet in our CA home as well our NYC condo with the Toto toilet with built in bidet seat. Our remote controls are mounted on the wall. Our toilets have heated as well as auto close/open seats.
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This may not be possible for you, but we have a sliding glass shower door. On the “permanent” part we use 2 of the little hanger things you might put over a regular door to hang our towels from. We have to turn them upside down to get them to fit, but they work fine.
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A good friend redid his master bath with a glass shower stall. On one side, there is a rod on the outside where a towel can be hung. He also has two hooks on the wall..towels or robes. It looks very slick. And the towels hanging there look great. They are on a fixed panel, not a door. That’s what we will do when/if we do our bathroom. But we are looking at a walk in shower with NO door or curtain. An opening at the opposite end of where the shower head is. Floor will be raked to where the drain is.
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If you go with a big shower, think about placement of knobs or whatever for water. My friend was building a new home, and normal construction would have meant she had to walk under the shower head to turn on the water (thus having cold water sprayed on her every time). She had them moved to near the entrance to shower.
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Our controls will be near the “entrance” to our shower.
We also have very sufficient wall space for towel bars someplace else in the room. But easier if they can be reached from the shower, not elsewhere.
A designer will help with towel placement options…so you don’t need to hang something from a shower door or whatever. I personally would only do that if I had zero other options.
Forgive me for trying to give someone an idea of something that worked for us with space issues…
I agree that if space is a problem, all options should be considered.
+1 to being able to turn on the shower without being under it, whether it is a small shower or big shower. Next level planning is an electric plug in a drawer where a plugged in hairdryer can be stored. That was a suggestion we were given.
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I have been in a few hotels where the shower door is just a glass wall half the width of the shower. No moving parts makes it much easier to clean. I would do that if I were doing a bath today.
We redid 2 baths in our old house. In both, we put a mirror from the edge of the counter to the ceiling on the wall of the vanity. I loved it - lots of light and made the room bigger.
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