How important is it for the kids to have their own bathroom?

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itzmee wrote: »

I really don't understand this fascination for an en-suite and wouldn't want one myself. There's no way I'd want DH using an en-suite and having his smells follow him back into the bedroom :eek::eek::eek:

The Mrs and I rented a flat with an en-suit before we bought our current house. The tinkling noise as she piddled before coming to bed (or plopping noises) was a huge turn off. There was no surprise we didn't conceive until after we had moved from there!

skintchick

suki1964 wrote: »

When I were a lass we all shared the one tin bath once a week in front of the fire in the kitchen.

The toilet was in the yard

The potty was under the bed

And that was central London in the late 60s ( 1960s before anyone gets smart)

My Nan didn;t have a bathroom until the late 1980s. I remember using the outside loo, having a chamber pot under the bed at night, and washing in the sink or the tin bath. And I'm only 36.

I have very fond memories of sitting on the draining board in the kitchen of their two up, two down, being scrubbed vigorously by my Nan.

sashadesade

Sharing a bathroom? Good lord. Speaking as someone who grew up with her own personal bathroom (staffed by flunkies who wiped my backside with sheets of raw silk, of course) I simply can't imagine how the poor dears cope with such hardship.

pigpen

Well I have thought of 2 ways round this..

1. Lock up the en suite and all 3 use the other bathroom

2. Put al 3 beastlets in the one bedroom with the en suite and the other one can truly be the 'guest' bathroom...

OP.. do you have your own bathroom too.. so you'd have a house with 3 bathrooms for 5 people?

I have 1 bathroom (and a separate wc) for 11 of us... showering is a challenge and teeth brushing before bed is a little.. cramped..

Rockporkchop

OP I don't blame your children for complaining. What disgusting conditions to have to live in. Using a guest bathroom? How inhumane.

At porkchop towers all three of my children have two bathrooms each - any less would be totally unacceptable.

tod123

Rockporkchop wrote: »

OP I don't blame your children for complaining. What disgusting conditions to have to live in. Using a guest bathroom? How inhumane.

At porkchop towers all three of my children have two bathrooms each - any less would be totally unacceptable.

1 bedroom has en-suite , the main bathroom is used by my partner and myself , and the other bathroom is the guest bathroom , which the younger ones share.

The problem is the younger ones fight over it all the time, and bar having another en-suite fitted, I cant find a solution.

tod123

How come everybody got thanked in this thread , like loads , and I didnt even get one

People who start threads are very important people.

mummyroysof3

we have one bathroom for 5 of us too share and have a downstairs toilet which was an outside one which we added an extension onto so its now inside

soccermom

Change their bedrooms into bathrooms and make them sleep in the bath.

It's all about compromise

squibbs25

I think ive found the solution!

How about child one keeps the en- suite, child 2 has the guest bathroom, child three has your bathroom and you and your hubby can wash in the kitchen sink but you'd have to install another toilet downstairs unless you already have one.
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