Not sure how you envision using the "Master Suite Sitting Room" but it doesn't seem to have easy access to a toilet either. And I can imagine a future owner deciding to use that space as a baby's room which would make easy access to the bathroom a necessity.

SO... have you considered splitting the two vanities so that one is directly across from the shower and than running a hallway between Sitting Room and Mbath with his/hers closets on either side of the hallway. That would certainly make it easy for one person to get up and leave quietly in the mornings.

It wouldn't shorten the distance from laundry room to closets but you could still reach them relatively easy by going thru the sitting room.

Something like this maybe...

And then, you could put double doors into the sitting room.

What about swapping the sitting area and the laundry? You would need to do some reconfiguration of the doors and such, but it would put the laundry where you need it.

What about switching the walk in closet and the laundry. Again, it would require some re-routing.

Bevangel, I LOVE that. Thank you! I seriously have been looking at this so long I couldn't see any solution.

The sitting room will be for when we want to watch different things, or I want to read, or visit with friends while the husbands watch the game. I also see it as a nice place for my daughters to have a little privacy with dates for movies and such, but the door stays open!!!! Because of that, I don't want to swap it with the laundry and have it situated so I can't glance in as I walk by (inconspicuously, of course!).

Thank you all for your thoughts!

Bevangel- That's a wonderful use of space :)

Bpath- Double doors would be nice!

You're welcome. I totally know the feeling of having looked at a design too long to see possibilities that are obvious to those looking at it with fresh eyes. Don't ya feel like smacking yourself in the forehead when someone points 'em out to you? LOL! Been there, done that.

BTW - don't forget to plan for places to put towel bars/hooks. I'd flip that bathroom door so that it swings inward toward the shower and put hooks on the back of the door for shower towels. Just use a good doorstop so the bath door can't swing back against the glass of the shower stall. With the door swinging inward, a person in the shower has a little extra privacy if someone else opens the bathroom door because they're hidden by the door from anyone standing in the room outside. (All the dorm bathrooms at my college tucked the shower behind the inswinging bathroom door for this reason.)

For tub users, towel bars can be hung beneath the shelves on the walls beside the tub or you could put hooks or a small bar on the side of the linen tower.

And, with that wide open doorway on the left of the Sitting Area, it probably would be a good idea to put a second set of doors in the "cased opening" to the bathroom. Wouldn't want someone in the tub accidentally exposed to the view of someone walking past the sitting room! Best bet, I think, would be a set of narrow double doors with stained glass or frosted glass inserts. Double doors could be probably be left standing open (EXCEPT when someone decides to take a tub bath) so they're not in the way of getting to/from the closets easily.

Re tub privacy: Or pocket doors on each end of the dressing area hall.

Yep. Pocket doors would work too. I just think double doors with stained glass inserts would be prettier. LOL!

Oooh, and I do love stained glass :)

I love Bev's new arrangement. I would put a full length mirror on the back of the door into the sitting room. What a great place to check your appearance after you dress. :)

Will other family members be accessing the laundry room while you are sleeping? Having had teenagers & home-from-college-kids that didn't sleep normal (my definition) hours, I would want some slight change in the configuration so the laundry entrance isn't right by the master bdr entrance. Perhaps you sleep with the door closed & sound insulation in the wall. That would take care of it.