A BCV privacy bathroom question

[Jillpie]

With our very first DVC trip coming up in April to the BCV's and having never seen them before, I have a question about the bathroom. I've done the "virtual" tour and it looks like as you come out of the toilet room, you can see directly into the shower. Now how does this make sense for the person taking a shower? Do you have to wait till the person using the bathroom comes out to take your shower or am I just seeing the whole set up wrong? Are the shower walls see through? It sure would be nice if you could shower at the same time as someone else is using the bathroom. thanks...p.s., as you can guess, I kinda like my privacy, so do my kids.

 

[eva]

From the floorplan it does show that you enter the commode room from the room with the shower. But all of the DVC resorts have the commode either right off the room with the shower or right in the room with the shower. At most of the resorts the commode is right in the room with the shower. I think only the GVs have the commode separate from the shower room in the master bedrooms. If I remember right, most of the showers are glass from about the waist area up and tile from the waist down. The door is of course glass.

 

[jel0511]

Yes, if someone is using the toilet, the shower is also basically in the same room regardless of the door. Now, there is another sink area, which is separate from the shower/toilet room, which can be used for getting ready, if that is your concern.

 

[Terry S]

At BCV there is a door that seperates the toilet from the shower/pedistal sink, but when you open that door you are in the room with the shower. The shower is clear glass from about half way up!

 

[Jillpie]

OK, thanks everyone. I guess I don't get why they didn't make the shower area more private, but no complaints here. I just can't wait to see what a one bedroom villa even looks like!!

 

[ncligs]

Originally posted by jel0511
Yes, if someone is using the toilet, the shower is also basically in the same room regardless of the door.

 

[Jillpie]

OMG ncligs, where DO you get these graphics...SO funny.

 

[erikthewise]

I seem to remember that it would be possible to close and lock the doors so that occupants of the living room would have access to the toilet and one sink, but not to the tub, shower, or master bedroom.

I may be wrong about this particular possibility, but the whole point of all those doors is to allow different configurations of locked doors with different levels of accessibility.

 

[CaptainMidnight]

I seem to remember that it would be possible to close and lock the doors so that occupants of the living room would have access to the toilet and one sink, but not to the tub, shower, or master bedroom.

Nope. Livingroom access to the toilet, one sink also has access to the shower. There is not separate access to the shower and toilet area. But it is nicer than having both the toilet and shower in one room. The separate toilet area is also a reasonable size.

 

[dcfromva]

Jillpie,

We had a 2 BR dedicated unit and I am not wild about the master bath layout. Yes, you have to go through the shower room/sink when you leave the toilet room.

The shower room has 3 doors (one to toilet room, one to LR/kitchen and one to the dressing area/jacuzzi). You have to remember to at least lock the LR door when you take a shower!

Then, if you move out of the shower room into the dressing area--if someone opens the door to the Master BR--folks in the entry way/LR area have a pretty good view of you (it is all open!). I feel like the master bath areas are too close to the communal living areas.

On the other hand, in the dedicated unit, the bath for the 2nd bedroom has a lot of privacy.

-DC

 

[Jillpie]

Gosh, it all sounds so complicated. I don't think I'll really appreciate what everyone is talking about until I see it...we'll be in a one bedroom, I can't WAIT to see it!

 

[jmminarik]

Sounds like you live in a multi-bath home jill.

we'll be in a one bedroom, I can't WAIT to see it!

And don't get too excited. It's only a bathroom.

-Joe
whose cubicle at work is bigger than his one (and only one) bathroom at home.

 

[cgcw]

The one thing that sticks out in my mind is that there at way too many doors in the one bathroom at BCV. If I could have taken then off their hinges, I would have been happier (maybe not, with the lack of privacy but it seems to me like there could have been a little better design here).

 

[danicaw]

This might not help at all now that I look at it more closely.

The door to the toilet if opposite the shower, you can see the reflection of that door in the mirror over the sink.

This really isn't helpful at all, is it?
Oh well. I tired.