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Your most expensive room, and you're about to make it bigger.

Per square metre, the bathroom costs more than any other room. Making it larger spends that money in the one room where size does not sell. Here's where it should go instead. The guide, free.

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An ensuite in one of my own builds, kept to a considered size with clear glass and no bath

My own build · Wimbledon

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The number. 1500 by 3200.

A full ensuite, comfortably, shower, vanity and toilet. Anything past this is money that could have gone into the kitchen, where it does come back.

Measure your own main bathroom against it. If it's well past that, ask what the extra area is doing, then ask what it would have bought somewhere else.

“A buyer does not walk into a big bathroom and pay more. They walk into a good one.”Manraj Nijjar

That's one number. The screen height, why square is the wrong shape, and the room every guest judges you on alone, are in the guide.

Where should I send it?

That email does not look right.

Free. Three pages. Takes about three minutes to read.

What is in it

1
The three numbers that decide the size question
Ensuite footprint, screen height, and the shape that avoids the argument about where the shower goes.
2
Where the saved area actually goes
Not a smaller house. A better bedroom, or a room that didn't exist before.
3
The one room every guest judges you on alone
It's not the main bathroom, and most plans get it wrong for free.

I am Manraj Nijjar. I develop some of the most iconic homes in Melbourne, in the best streets, and my projects have been filmed for Dream Homes Revealed. Every one of these is from my own builds, not a showroom. This is the take you would get if you handed me your plan.