These bathroom components—toilet, sink, shower, and bathtub—produce the four main bathroom types: full bathroom, three-quarter bathroom, half bathroom, and quarter bathroom.
In general, you'll have three types to choose from—master, guest and half—but the choices for how you configure and design these are just about infinite.
A half-bath, also known as a powder room or guest bath, has only two of the four main bathroom components—typically a toilet and sink.
These types of bathrooms do exist, and they are referred to as quarter-bathrooms. These quarter-bathrooms are quite rare simply due to the fact that they contain only one of the 4 main elements of a bathroom. The most commonly seen are those that contain a shower and are typically found at beaches or pools.
Named after the children in the famous nursery rhyme, a Jack and Jill bathroom is a full-sized bathroom that is sandwiched between two bedrooms and is accessible by both bedrooms. This type of bathroom has at least two doors, like an ensuite bathroom but for two bedrooms rather than just one.
What is a quarter bath? These are most commonly found in older, smaller homes, usually in the basement, especially an unfinished, and consist of just a toilet or shower stall. Sometimes, they aren't even partitioned off into their own separate room.
The traditional method of disposing human waste from trains is to deposit the waste onto the tracks or, more often, onto nearby ground, using what is known as a hopper toilet. This ranges from a hole in the floor to a full-flush system (possibly with sterilization).
What is a Hollywood bathroom? A Hollywood bathroom may sound fancier than a Jack and Jill bathroom but it's just the name given to a design with a separate sink and mirror outside. Like a Jack and Jill bathroom, the space can be accessed from more than one entry point and from either side.
Three-Quarter Bath
A three-quarter bathroom will have three of the four key components. Most commonly, these rooms will include a toilet, sink, and a shower stall without a bathtub (or in some cases, a bathtub without a shower).
An en suite bathroom is a bathroom that is connected to a bedroom and can only be accessed through that bedroom and no other space in the home, therefore making it fully private. The term "en suite" is borrowed from French and means to make a suite, to connect or attach two spaces.
Modern farmhouse bathrooms feature decor and finishes such as farmhouse-style sinks, freestanding bathtubs, shiplap walls, vintage-style sconces and pendant lighting, simple window treatments such as half curtains or painted shutters, aged brass finishes, and wood sink vanities and accents.
With Jack and Jill bathroom suites, space is shared, or at least that's the idea behind it. A Jack and Jill Bathroom is a bathroom that has two doors and is usually accessible from two bedrooms.
A four-piece bathroom suite contains a sink, a bathtub, a shower and a toilet. Usually, the tub and the shower are placed close to each other on the other side of the room as the door, with the vanity in the middle.
A three way bathroom creates three separate, easily accessible areas for the shower, the toilet, and the vanity. This means that three people could simultaneously shower, clean their teeth, and use the toilet without having to share the space.
A powder room is also known as a half bath or guest bath. It only has two of the four main components that a bathroom should have, typically a toilet and a sink.
The Texas walk-in bath is a most generous walk in bath suited perfectly to the bather of larger stature. The bath offers a wide entry door, large internal space and an outward opening door. The Texas bath has a contoured back support for assured comfort and a slip-resistant seat and base for safety.
We're talking about a full-sized bathroom located between two bedrooms that's accessible by both – meaning the bathroom has at least two doors. Think of it as an ensuite for two bedrooms instead of one!
Common Jack and Jill bathroom layouts include a single sink and vanity, a dual sink and vanity and two separate sinks and vanities, often separated by the shower, bathtub and toilet area.
A twelve inch diameter circle identified a girls' or women's restroom, and a twelve inch equilateral triangle identified a boys' or men's restroom. A triangle placed on a circle was used to identify a single user restroom available to either sex.
A shower niche is an open storage space, similar to a cubbyhole that can be installed in the wall of your bathroom, in the shower, tub, or vanity area.
Toilets usually rock because they are not resting flush against the floor. Underneath the toilet base is a round toilet flange that connects the toilet to the drain pipe. If the flange is a little higher than the surrounding flooring, the toilet becomes raised slightly in the center, allowing it to rock to either side.
Also known as a curbless shower, barrier-free shower, walk-in shower, or zero threshold shower, it's a shower that has no curb or surrounding edge to it, making it flush with the bathroom floor.
A 2.5 bath would mean two full bathrooms, and one half bathroom.
A whirlpool bath is essentially a self-contained jetted tub in which whirlpool jets – usually 6 to 8, but some whirlpool baths even have 24 or more – are fitted on the sides of the bath shell at various points. Controls placed on the bath deck or mounted remotely close to the bath operate the jets.