Downstairs bathroom ?

Yorkie1

For 12 years I lived in a small Victorian terrace with a downstairs bathroom accessed through the kitchen (separated from it by a rear door / corridor).

The only times it bothered me were when I wasn't well in the night. Otherwise you soon got used to making the trip on autopilot without switching lights on!

elsien

From choice I would prefer an upstairs bathroom - that was one of the things that sold my victorian terrace to me. However it would also depend on what my other options were - if that was the price of getting a house I liked that I couldn't otherwise afford (I was on a very limited budget at the time) it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. Most of the houses in my price range had downstairs bathrooms. I also grew up with grandparents who had a downstairs bathroom (in fact although built as part of the house you had to go out the back door to access it until they knocked through) and it was perfectly manageable.
You find that in some areas the majority of the houses have downstairs bathrooms so buyers accept it as the norm. Plus if you've got a box room you can eventually convert that and have two loos in the place.

flossieflipflop

We live in a 3 storey victorian terrace with the main bathroom on the bottom floor (off the kitchen - though there is a porchy/hall type thing seperating them so two doors between them).
We do have a loo and sink upstairs off one of the bedrooms but it's never bothered us - as others have said you do kind of just get used to it. We have an 11 month old baby so not sure how it will work when he's being toilet trained but the upstairs loo is off his room. It means our house is 3 bedroom rather than 2 (but was the price of a 2 bedroom) which means we can stay here as the family grows if we need to (judging by gloomy forecasts for housing market this is probably a good thing!). We had a few months when the upstairs loo was broken and even though I was pregnant it still didn't really bother us but I do agree with the others - a little upstairs loo is useful. Ours was put in the space over the stairs so we didn't lose anything off the bedroom size either.

Callie22

I currently live in a house with a downstairs bathroom and I hate it - if I ever get to the point of buying, then it's something that would put me off a place (or at least, if it had a downstairs bathroom and no potential to move it upstairs).

It's a real pain having to traipse downstairs in the middle of the night, especially when you really need the loo and you've got steep stairs to negotiate! If we have overnight guests then I always worry that they're going to go flying ... Also, the bathroom is right off the kitchen and it's offputting, especially when you've got visitors. It's also always freezing in there = admittedly that's probably more to do with the construction of the house rather then the location of the bathroom, but it's something I've never noticed as much with upstairs bathrooms.

boo2410

I lived in my old house for 20 years with a bathroom and toilet downstairs (off the kitchen). have to say it never bothered me. Some of the houses in my road moved it upstairs but the downside was one of the two bedrooms was half the size so I opted for bigger bedrooms!!!

katejo

I live in a victorian terrace in east London. My house originally had a downstairs bathroom but it had been moved upstairs by a previous owner. This means that my 3rd bedroom is not really a bedroom. I use it as a small study/computer room to avoid a desk in the living room. My neighbour still has a downstairs bathroom through the kitchen but the kitchen is absolutely midget. My kitchen is a decent size. The next house along still has a downstairs bathroom but has had a loft conversion done with an ensuite bathroom/bedroom. That could be another way round it.
i do prefer to have a 1st floor bathroom and probably would not have bought my house if it had been like the one next door. However there are still quite a few houses like this in the area.

You could ask a local builder for the rough cost of doing a bathroom move to compare with the sale price difference.