Why are downstairs bathrooms THAT bad?!?

Hailstorm

diable wrote: »

The only downstairs bathrooms I saw when I was looking to buy a property you had to access via the kitchen.

I knew someone who had a bathroom coming off the kitchen.

Downstairs they had the lounge, kitchen, bathroom (off the kitchen) and for some reason an additional downstairs loo. Neither the lounge or kitchen were large enough to comfortably take a dining table. Upstairs were 2 good size bedrooms and one small single bedroom.

They converted the small third bedroom into a bathroom and knocked through into the old bathroom to extend the kitchen. This made it large enough to become a kitchen diner. I know they lost a bedroom but in my opinion the layout worked a lot better.

jonewer

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sunshinetours

gbcasual wrote: »

Thanks for all the interesting views.

Thinking about it, there is a small cupboard that could be accessed by anyone from a hallway meaning a toilet only upstairs. Is this a better option than an en-suite that is NOT on the master bedroom, and the en-suite being better than nothing upstairs at all?

We have a massive garden, over 170' long and about 25' wide, good open plan kitchen/diner, nice fireplace in the lounge, garage, off street parking for 2 cars, location is a popular area too.

Most EAs are openly saying that Maidenhead is a really weird market at present though. Some houses disappear in days whereas nigh on identical ones are there for ages.

As I said earlier - ask your agent, if adding a small cloakroom upstairs would help. May not cost that much to do providing there is easy access for water and soil drainage (is it on same side of house as the downstairs bathroom?). Either that or highlight the cupboard when showing people that it could make a toilet if that was wanted.

Sounds like you have plenty of other nice features

Good luck

paye

I prefer an upstairs bathroom to, like the other post after I'd had a shower I would like to go straight into the bedroom to get changed, saying that i'm in the process of buying a house which has a bathroom downstairs as the house is cheaper with a downstairs bathroom. oh well I'll get use to it.

BitterAndTwisted

gbcasual wrote: »

Thanks for all the interesting views.

Thinking about it, there is a small cupboard that could be accessed by anyone from a hallway meaning a toilet only upstairs. Is this a better option than an en-suite that is NOT on the master bedroom, and the en-suite being better than nothing upstairs at all?

An upstairs WC and wash-hand basin which can be accessed from the landing makes much more sense to me than an en-suite, whether it's via a master-bedroom or not. In fact an en-suite which has to be accessed via any bedroom makes absolutely no sense to me at all as it would only be useful to guests and most households don't have guests all that often: it's the convenience (pardon the pun) to the family which is paramount.

Mum_of_3_3

Soubrette wrote: »

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

We've got an en-suite and would rule out any house that didn't have one. It's very handy for the middle of the night and also when everyone's trying to get ready to go out and I can only imagine it will become even more valuable when my girls get into their teens.

diable wrote: »

Hmmmmm I can imagine someones other half doing a number two in the bathroom/toilet that is attached to the kitchen and then opening the door to let the smell waft in to the kitchen as the other half is knocking up a chilli con carne in the kitchen whilst sipping on a glass of wine with her friends.

This is exactly why I would rule out a downstairs bathroom.

gbcasual wrote: »

Thanks for all the interesting views.

Thinking about it, there is a small cupboard that could be accessed by anyone from a hallway meaning a toilet only upstairs. Is this a better option than an en-suite that is NOT on the master bedroom, and the en-suite being better than nothing upstairs at all?

We have a massive garden, over 170' long and about 25' wide, good open plan kitchen/diner, nice fireplace in the lounge, garage, off street parking for 2 cars, location is a popular area too.

An upstairs toilet would be a very good idea and may attract more people to your house. I think the toilet in the cupboard is a better idea than an en-suite in your case too.

Not knowing the layout of your house, is there any way you could draw up some floorplans to show how an extension would look? You could move the bathroom upstairs and maybe add an en-suite to the master and extend the downstairs to add a sunroom or something? I'm not suggesting you go the whole hog and get planning, but the floorplans may help people visualise how the house could be.

Are you sure it's the bathroom that is putting people off? Is the rest of the house in good decorative order? Is it tidy when people view? Are the photos in the brochure good enough to entice people to view? Is it priced correctly?

From the sounds of this thread, there are people who love downstairs bathrooms and the rest of the features sound really good, so fingers crossed your house sells soon.

M_o_3

gbcasual

Mum_of_3 wrote: »

Are you sure it's the bathroom that is putting people off? Is the rest of the house in good decorative order? Is it tidy when people view? Are the photos in the brochure good enough to entice people to view? Is it priced correctly?

From the sounds of this thread, there are people who love downstairs bathrooms and the rest of the features sound really good, so fingers crossed your house sells soon.

M_o_3

My Mrs wont let anyone in the house without it being spotless...I even mow the lawn before viewings! Just about all the walls are neutral colours and well finished. You wouldn't have to decorate anywhere immediately at all and only to put your own stamp on it.

Photo's are always subjective, but each one is bright and shows the room looking uncluttered and tidy in my opinion.

Here's the linky:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-29895689.html

All the EAs I have spoken to say it is priced right, the simplicity of mouseprice even suggests it's undervalued.

LittleMissAspie

It's bad enough getting from the bed to the shower on a cold winter's morning when the rooms are next to each other, having to go downstairs and through all the rooms is even worse. It's a shame because I like period houses but would not consider a bathroom that's off a kitchen for the above reason and also because of hygiene. I would consider a downstairs bathroom if it was right at the bottom of the stairs, I saw a thatched cottage like that.

Doesn't bother me where the loo is, I never need to go in the night.

vet8

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've always wanted my privacy and being able to instantly use "my loo/shower/sink" on demand (nothing worse than waiting in your own house) ... and this was reinforced when I had a friend in a houseshare and her housemates decided they hated her and went to the family bathroom, got her toothbrush and shoved it up their bums. I doubt they'd have gone into her en-suite to do that!

How did she find that out !:eek: Did they tell her, or was it obvious? Yuk yuk yuk.

poppysarah

vet8 wrote: »

My Gran's house had an outside toilet and that was in the 1990s. If you needed a pee in the night it meant going outside or just hanging on.

People with upstairs loos are obviously really posh!!

LOL 90s! Blinking heck!
My grandad was last in their village in the late 70s to have an indoor toilet.