A full-service bathroom has as many as four services: toilet, sink, and one or two bathing facilities (shower, bathtub, shower/tub combo, or shower and tub). Thus, a half-bath has half as many of these services. Some people call it a powder room or guest bathroom, but as long as it has no bathing services, it is a half-bathroom. Half-bathrooms are a blessing in disguise. Because there are no bathing facilities to deal with, your remodel job is cut in half: no shower, no bathtub, no extensive counters, and the floor space is postage-stamp-sized.
Remodeling Considerations
Remodeling your half-bath will not impact your life as much because you are not decommissioning any bathing facilities. This allows you more freedom of time to finish the work; however, this also means that guests will have to use your main bathroom while the half-bath is being remodeled. Half bathrooms are small, but this allows you to hone your bathroom design skills before proceeding to bigger remodeling jobs like the primary bathroom.
Read more about our Diversity and Inclusion Pledge to make The Spruce a site where all feel welcome. There are good reasons for this: First, any window-less room feels oppressive. Second, it is not a great idea to position a bathroom within a larger living area where people are cooking, reading, watching TV, and so on. If you cannot move the half-bathroom to the house perimeter, you will learn to live with it; it’s just not the preferred arrangement.
