XP - floor plan help

[FoxInFiji]

We had a similar layout in our old master bedroom. Small closet on one side and small bathroom on the other with short hallway like space leading to the master bedroom which was a long skinny rectangle. We are just finishing a major remodel of the whole space where we expanding the bathroom and closet. Here is the before floorplan with what we changed:


And the after floorplan:


We stole 5' of space from the living room and took out a non-working fireplace. The bathroom wall we kept in the same spot but extended all the way to the exterior wall. We expanded the both the main and master bathroom with that move. We love the space now! The bedroom isn't big but it doesn't need to be with a big walk-in closet (only DH has a dresser in the bedroom now because I'll have a built-in closet system for my clothes).

[FoxInFiji]

So looking at your floorplan which way does the bathroom expand? Toward the stairs? Do you know which way the floor joists run? The toilet drain is your biggest pipe that needs to run in that space and if you can move the bathroom so that the drains all stay within the floor joist cavities you'll have a lot more flexibility and keep from having to built sofits in the ceiling below.

Is your drawing to scale?  I would try fitting the bed between the two windows on the left, expand the closet to be closer to the door (that looks like wasted space right there), and expand the bathroom to just before the window on the right.  Or if you could switch the closet and bathroom that would work too depending on how your drains and vents are currently run. 

[downtoearth]

If you need both bathroom and closet space, I'd just turn the entrance to your room into a short "hall" and make the closet bigger on the right and then the bathroom - with an added closet area, expanded on the left. Then your sleeping part of you room would be a rectangle again.