Downstairs Bathroom.

Jackinbox99

Its all down to personal preference really. A lot of houses around my way have downstairs loos, and my mates who have houses like that are fine with them.

Personally i couldnt have just a downstairs loo!

Wickedkitten

I couldn't have one either and it's nothing to do with needing to get up and down stairs in the night. I just really wouldn't want a bathroom that close to the kitchen.

mlz1413

I kept my downstairs bathroom so I could keep the 3 bedrooms. But I did add under flooring heating to kitchen & bathroom tiles so that the early morning bathroom trips aren't a feet freezing experience!

There are pro's & con's
PRO's:
in the day time you don't have to charge up and down the stairs just use the loo.
The bathroom is a lot nearer when your out in the garden.
When I'm in the garden in winter / wet weather I don't have to remove boots as back door to bathroom is all tiles.
If you have small kids you can see the bathroom from the kitchen so no need to stop what you are doing to watch over them.


CON's:
getting up in the night bathroom is further point

As you can see I'm a fan of the down stairs bathroom.

Also to KME91's point I either wear my dressing gown or take clothes with me to change into and leave dressing gown on back of bathroom door.

SandC

I have a downstairs bathroom, it doesn't bother me. I live in an area where there are thousands of what used to be your basic two-up, two-down terraces. Bathrooms were typically built onto the back of the downstairs. If you are in the market for a two bed terrace in my area then I would say 80% of them have a downstairs bathroom, perhaps even more than that. So it's no big deal where I live.

The arrangement is usually the kitchen, then a porch area housing the back door and in my case where the boiler used to be plus coat hooks etc. then the bathroom, so there are two doors and a porch between kitchen and bathroom.

In an ideal world I would prefer it upstairs but I probably viewed 25 houses and I only recall 3 of those having upstairs rooms and none were that great that they would persuade me to buy them (oh yeah, one of them the only bathroom was upstairs but through the second bedroom, hardly ideal). Had the figures been the other way around I perhaps wouldn't have even viewed the ones with downstairs facilities.

I can understand why it's a no-no for so many but there are many areas in industrial cities/towns where it's no problem because it's the exception rather than the rule to have upstairs.

Frank_Cannon

In a terraced house they also tend to take a sizeable chunk out of the garden.
Our old house was a 2bed Edwardian terrace with nice cosy bathroom upstairs. Our neighbour had 3 beds upstairs and a nasty bathroom extension tacked on the back.
When we decided to sell, his house had been on the market for three months (in October '06).
Having a chat , he was very dismissive of our agents setting our asking price at thesame level of his.
I can still remember his face when our property sold three days later for £10k more!
What did the buyers especially like?
The bathroom!

crusty_toenail

the smell from a dump travels around the ground floor and wafts at you when you open the front door!

we keep a potty in the bedroom, nice

TBeckett100

i feel like I am the odd one out. I can go the night without needing the loo.

dannymccann

Use our solution - weve got a 3 bed terrace on 3 floors, bathroom on each floor

I hated our downstairs bathroom in the rented place we had, usual chucked on the back off the kitchen job. It was always freezing cold, even in the summer you would shiver coming out of the shower, terrible

clutton_2

when i first bought an early victorian semi.. the toilet was literally in the kitchen... the toilet door opening straight onto the cooker.... and the bath and toilet were in a separate room downstairs....

the first winter was so cold the water in the tank, and the water in the pan, froze.... had to get a hairdrier out before doing any ablutions...

an aged aunt in Wakefield years ago had a council house with no bathroom.. the council converted coal sheds into toilets and put a bath in the kitchen.. with a pull-down hinged lid on top.. so a chopping board in the day and a bath at night.. trouble was everyone who came in through the back door (and front doors were waaaay too posh to use) could see exactly who was in the bath !!

thank goodness for modern conveniences !!

Luckyred

We have a downstairs bathroom. When we bought the house I didn't think it would bother me but it did especially having to go downstairs during the night so we had an en-suite installed upstairs.
My mother thinks a downstairs bathroom is a good thing because.... "You will be glad the bathrooms downstairs when you get older and cant get upstairs" :eek: I suppose she has a point. It hadn't even occurred to me to think that.