Would like more experienced advice.

Because of aesthetic, ventilation, and useablity reasons, I would like to remove one of two doors leading to the master bathroom. Attached image below shows the offending doorway in pink.



So far discussion with spouse we've considered the following ideas:

- to hide the door from bedroom side with false wall ("hidden door" concept) while removing the doorknob from bathroom side.

- to remove the door itself and convert the doorway into a shallow shelf/cabinet (cabinet might get mildew problem?)

- to completely brick up the doorway (from my understanding this is most expensive, because need to find matching bathroom tiles/redo tiles and waterproofing, also don't know if management will allow from safety perspective)

Which idea is best?

how about a rack in the toilet with your own liking wall..
Wall paper, curtain is fine too

as for outer wall, another rack?

This post has been edited by taitianhin: Dec 20 2022, 04:44 PM

Close it up with gypsum board on both sides. On the room side you can paint it so it matches your wall.. so it just looks like a flush wall.

On the bathroom side you can make it a shelf or something. Don’t know how it looks like but assume typical tile half the wall. Don’t make sense spending so much to tile it or build a brick wall.

Can easily revert if needed.

If you want to avoid the wet work, then just maintain the current door. To hide the door, put the string curtain above the door. The string curtain will be able to camouflage the door appearance.

Put big mirrors on both side of doors. It is like the door become the frame for the mirror.

A frosted glass panel with backlit

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Dec 20 2022, 08:06 PM

I believe this shouldn't be an issue as there's no hacking involved, but best to check with management on this. I know in a 2+1 unit plan for Sunway Velocity Two, there was a diagram for the studio unit where the door accessing it near the foyer can be bricked up and you can hack a section of the wall in the middle which connects it to the rest of the unit. The latter part is highlighted as a 'block wall' which means that you can only hack that section, not simply anywhere.

So many ways to do it (as many suggested above) depending on ur budget and how estatically u want it to be.
But i'd suggest to avoid putting mirror as its directly beside the bed, u might get shocked seeing ur image in mirror when u woke up at night.

Btw the bathroom got another door from outside master bedroom? So its considered shared bathroom?

Yes, technically shared with living room, but will block off from living room with a partition+door to make it a private bath with walk in closet/dressing room outside.

There is a second smaller bathroom near the entrance+kitchen area, so that'll be the "guest use" bathroom.

All the walls of this unit are RC, no hackable brick wall listed like seem in SV2 and other projects, so I don't think there's any part that allows hacking 😅 Adding bricks will make it tougher to resell in future since it's a "permanent" alteration, which I want to avoid.

If you do it well, bricking up and tiling the bathroom side shouldn't affect the selling of the unit.

So you want to block the door entrance from the bedroom or the alternative entrance from the living area?

Is this a feng shui thing?

The former, and to an extent yes, but mostly just personally dislike the visual of being next to a door while sleeping, and I'm a light sleeper. Imagine having to deal with noise of door swinging just a couple of feet from your head if your SO goes to toilet middle of night.

Interesting I would have thought an en-suite is a prized thing with out having to go to common area. Not sure how large your room is but I would build out a wardrobe to semi block that entrance rather than get rid of it completely.

I am having the same situation, last time i covered with a big curtain wall, now got money already, i covered with a full height walldrobe. toilet side i dont bother at all.

Ah, I still will have my en-suite, sort of

The small hallway leading to the second door + master bedroom + 2nd bedroom will be partitioned off from the common area with a new wall+door, so the 2nd bedroom can be turned into a walk-in wardrobe. Which is why we are puzzling over the doorway that's next to the bed, since the partition makes that door redundant.

Oh cool. I was asking about that before. Combining rooms to make a mega size one. I think it’s worth it for own stay particularly a couple. Yea I’d seal off that wall then or make it some sort of feature art. Have that entrance from the side and not facing your bed.

This post has been edited by Cavatzu: Dec 27 2022, 03:08 PM