Why are downstairs bathrooms THAT bad?!?

clippy_girl

lol i have excatly the opposite...i WANT a downstairs bathroom and am not looking at any houses with them upstairs (unless there is also a full one downstairs as well).

i am looking to buy a terrace house and some have converted the third box room into a bathroom but you can only get to it through the second bedroom. not ideal when i want to rent out my second room. some have made a passage through the bedroom to get to the bathroom but then you loose a lot of space from the bedroom.

ideally i would love an en suite which some have but they are oit of my budget

chin up, someomne will come along who will not be too fussed!

Oldernotwiser

You go to the loo more often in the day but then you're up and about anyway. Most people don't want to stagger downstairs on a cold winter's night just to have a pee. Apart from anything else, it's a bit spooky!

Tigsteroonie

gbcasual wrote: »

You don't fancy buying a house in Maidenhead do you?

Only if you fancy buying a house in Argyll!

simone83

I have a downstairs bathroom too and find it much easier. Bathing the dog when she comes in from a long walk doesnt mean having to clean up mud from the whole house. Parties are easier because you dont have to explain where the bathroom is a million times and the kids dont 'pretend' to wash there hand becuase you catch them out!!!!

I would like an upstairs shower room at somepoint, but only because I am fussy and want something for the guest room. I owuld be happy to stay with this forever!

oh, and then with no water upstairs you dont need to worry about leeks!

princeofpounds

They are awful. The loo argument above is a good one, but the one I really dislike is walking in bare wet feet through a kitchen that STILL has toast crumbs and other debris on the floor despite mopping daily

that and the fact that you have to walk past any visitors or other family members dripping wet in a towel or dressin gown unless you take all your clothes into the bathroom each and every time.

it's not hard to figure out why they are so despised.

keith969

simone83 wrote: »

oh, and then with no water upstairs you dont need to worry about leeks!

I don't worry about leeks as they grow in the vegetable patch outside

ILW

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I never understood why people didn't like this arrangement either. I use the toilet far more in the daytime than I do overnight when I am asleep!

I don't think using the toilet when you are asleep is a good idea.

kelloggs36

I had a house with a downstairs bathroom for many years - I put up with it, but I longed for a loo upstairs, so that in the night I could stagger to it and go back to bed without having to fully wake up and traipse through the whole house. It was very inconvenient when I was pregnant as I was up and down lots of times in the night. I moved into my current house 12 years ago which has an upstairs bathroom, and now have had the loft converted to a bedroom and ensuite - I can't believe how much more convenient that is! It is purely convenience really, and comfort.

tizerbelle

I think it is actually an ingrained / inherited snobbery. Many, many years ago the houses that the poorer working classes lived in (assuming they actually had a house rather than just a room) didn't have bathrooms - it was tin bath in the kitchen and toilet down the back of the yard or in some cases one toilet at the end of the terrace that x number of houses used to share. So when bathrooms became more common, many houses were converted by building on the back of the kitchen or new houses were built with a bathroom next to the kitchen as it was easier and cheaper than putting it on the first floor and meant easier for plumbing as well not to mention if it was a rented house - the landlord wouldn't lose a room upstairs that generated income for a bathroom that in itself didn't generate any income.

So IMO many people don't like downstairs bathrooms because their sub-conscious mind tells them it's not good enough for them and that they are deserving of a middle/upper class bathroom that is upstairs.

I've lived in houses with upstairs bathrooms and ones with downstairs bathrooms - don't have a favourite - both have their positives and negatives. It doesn't bother me in the least and it meant when I was looking for a new place to buy I had a lot more possibilities to look at than someone who would automatically discount a house with a downstairs bathroom.

Soubrette

kelloggs36 wrote: »

I had a house with a downstairs bathroom for many years - I put up with it, but I longed for a loo upstairs, so that in the night I could stagger to it and go back to bed without having to fully wake up and traipse through the whole house. It was very inconvenient when I was pregnant as I was up and down lots of times in the night. I moved into my current house 12 years ago which has an upstairs bathroom, and now have had the loft converted to a bedroom and ensuite - I can't believe how much more convenient that is! It is purely convenience really, and comfort.

How I used to laugh at my friends with en suites and their hyperbolic love affair with them

Until I had one myself and now I don't - I really miss that quiet adult only haven

Sou