I would have liked to have a larger bedroom. The bedroom is exactly the length of the bed. However many of the pictures of narrowboats show attractive bedrooms with wardrobes and sitting space in addition to the bed. I was also very attracted to the idea of a proper shower enclosure with a curved sliding door. After a great deal of agonizing over design options I came to the conclusion that the combination of the locations of the windows in the bathroom and rear kitchen mean that it was not practical to extend the bedroom into the bathroom area and move the bathroom into the kitchen area. So the bedroom and bathroom are staying where they are.
The bathroom already has a short bath 1200mm long and at first it looked like a shower might allow for a smaller bathroom and larger bedroom. But for a variety of reasons it was not that simple. The fore-mentioned bathroom window was the main obstacle. But to get a shower with a reasonable interior space would have used up most of the space of the bath. And the regular domestic shower enclosures are too tall for the limited headroom in a narrowboat. I did find a supplier of r
educed height enclosures that would be suitable - but at over £600 the idea will have to wait.Shortly after moving in I bought a glass shower screen for the side of the bath and, in practice that works very well. I will pull the bath out from the wall by about 150mm to give a little more space for showering. And the decision to stick with the bath allows room to accommodate that washing machine cupboard at the foot of the bath.
There is additional space above the tumble dryer which will become a storage area accessed from the kitchen - probably for storing plates, cups etc.
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