How to hide a bathroom in a kitchen

Hide it in the oven.

If you can send a floorplan, I'd be happy to take a look.

geisner@builtinstudio.com

Why does it have to be hidden?

Sorry, but I don't quite understand: Does the bathroom not have a door? Seriously, though - is it the bathroom DOOR that you want to hide? If so, you could always disguise it with a blow-up poster of a refrigerator door glued onto it. Way cheaper than a Sub Zero!

In any event, I see no reason for hiding it, unless the issue is that it's too close for comfort.

Any flatulent sounds & odors emanating from it while cooking in the new kitchen will simply merge, & before long no one will even notice!

For all anybody knows,the door to the kitchen bathroom could be a broom closet.
You're going to have a studio apt-sized kitchen but only a studio apt.- sized bedroom?
Is it going to be half/ bedroom and half/living room?
And you are worried about hiding that second bathroom in the kitchen?

builtin has it right. there is no way to tell without a floorplan. there are a number of different options, think about having the door to the bathroom open outside the kitchen if there is a hallway. It can always just look like a pantry door, really. It's not common in the city but in a lot of places there is a room in or near the kitchen that serves as a pantry. Nobody needs to know it is a bathroom unless you share.

I can understand if OP wants sound privacy between the kitchen and bathroom. A walk-through pantry, with the bathroom at the end and a door at both ends, would do the trick. Shelving left and right ... similar to the closets on the way to the bathroom in many a postwar L-studio.

>builtin has it right. there is no way to tell without a floorplan.

So complicated you are aboutready. Just put the bathroom into the oven which we know you don't use anyway, and that's that.

yeah, smartypants troll ... then where do they put the sweaters?

Some people!

Here is the floorplan

http://www.houzz.com/discussions/194976/NYC-Prewar-apartment-Need-Help---kitchen

Real Estate agents have said it will be hard to sell with a bathroom in the kitchen.

What's wrong with K-2? I prefer open kitchen/LR/DR unlike most people on this forum - I would turn the kitchen between the living room and bedroom into the main kitchen, open to both LR and DR. Shouldn't be a problem with wet over dry as your wet would stay in the same location. Turn the kitchen with eat-in into a bedroom. And incidentally gets rid of your bathroom in kitchen issue.

Hmmmm. Teeny, you aren't getting rid of the other bathroom, right? I think what the agent meant was that it would be tough to sell if the SOLE bathroom of the unit were located in/by/off of the kitchen. After all, who'd want the party guests to have to walk through the busy kitchen, every time somebody has to go?

If the main bath is elsewhere, by contrast, the placement of the extra bath isn't going to matter quite as much. In fact, many of those multi-million-$ units have service bathrooms tucked inside the kitchen area.

Also, to piggy back on to what Truth said, I think it would be far tougher to sell if a unit has a giant kitchen without a full living area... It's hard to tell from the floorplans you posted.

nyc10023
K2 gave us almost no space to eat. I also like an open floorplan. The building doesnt have wet over dry rules.

Are you saying put the kitchen where it is now but keep it open?

I updated another drawing which has the bedroom in the studio on the right. The more I think about it the more I think it is the way to go.
http://www.houzz.com/discussions/194976/NYC-Prewar-apartment-Need-Help---kitchen

nyc212 - thanks I am not getting rid of any bahrooms. I also feel we are making a very expensive kitchen since we are using a studio apartment but not getting much back in return. I am not going to get a big kitchen (I actually really like to cook) just an odd space.

I was not able to download your drawing. What I meant was to expand the current kitchen and have it open, flanked on one side by LR and the other by DR. Add pocket doors to close off, if desired. Studio will be new master, and old bedroom will stay a bedroom with bath. You now have a bathroom off the new DR as well.

Bravo nyc10023!!!! You must be an architect, and a good one at that.

The studio has 2 windows, if you don't need a large master suite, consider making a small den/office/nursery + bedroom out of the studio.

Teeny,
Don't devalue the the joy of a big open kitchen. Visually,the kitchen will be unharmed by a door that could lead anywhere. In practice, no one ever uses that bathroom, that's why they always get the fancy towels. Go for size and space. Screw resale, make it open and livable. In manhattan re, hallways are the enemy.

Thanks everyone - The more I look at this space the less I see it as the kitchen. The more I see it as a study or master bedroom.

falcogold1 - In manhattan re, hallways are the enemy. I love that!!

nyc10023 - when I walk into that space it seems so small but I think I have no vision and the shape puts me off!

Teeny: how do I download your floorplan from houzz?

nyc10023 -- right click on image and "save image", or other option. Like "copy URL": http://st.houzz.com/simgs/1af266d200a26ab3_7-1431/home-design.jpg

nyc 10023 -I think you can right click and save. This board has made my boyfirend and I rethink doing the kitchen in the studio. I dont think we will get the bang for our buck or will be happy with the result.

nyc 10023 - I updated Houzz with a floor plan of someone else in our building is this more along the lines you were talking about? http://www.houzz.com/discussions/194976/NYC-Prewar-apartment-Need-Help---kitchen

Close but not quite. Right-click-save no longer works for me, but dragging into downloads window works. I will post on Houzz in a few.

Look for the last comment on Houzz. I like your neighbor's plan as well.

Long press?

NYC 10023 your input is always appreciated. You are really talented. I have felt that we weren't making the most out of our space. Since we are an older couple who have always been on our own having a space for each of us is great

One solution is to simply place the commode in the kitchen itself, where it can serve double duty as a garbage disposal. Problem solved!

Aw, come on now...a little E-Coli never hurt anybody!

NYC 10023 - See my houzz update there is a bearing wall that I have higlighted in your design. I think the studio will be a master.

Happy Thanksgiving to all

nyc10023 - I drew in the bearing walls and heating units. Thanks for your help! Hoping to get a working PC on Wednesday!!!

excellent give and take