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Only one bathroom - and it's downstairs with no bath!
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I bought it without an upstairs bathroom because it was 3k less than same houses with upstairs bathrooms on the same street, it had been on the market for months. £3k was a lot on a 21k house in the early 80s plus you had to get in quick to get one of the houses with an upstairs bathroom as they sold very quickly. We moved bathroom upstairs for a couple of hundred pounds as we used the same suite!How do you know? Had you tried selling it previously without the upstairs bathroom?
I didn't like the long trek to the loo in the middle of the night as I slept in front bedroom and it was a long trek downstairs, through kitchen, lobby to bathroom and I wasn't peeing in a bucket!
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We had a similar set up (loft conversion was our room) hated having to go all the way down and past the kitchen to go for a wee in the night! Wouldn't do it again. Could you price up an extension over the kitchen? Depending on layout you could make this into a bedroom, then reduce the size of one of the other rooms and put the bathroom there?0
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i WOULD NOT VIEW...jesus its 2012 not 1921..It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.0 -
OK, thanks for all your views.
It's actually come as a bit of a surprise to me that so many people feel so vehemently about a downstairs bathroom, it's never bothered us at all.
When we come to sell, which hopefully won't be for years yet, we'll get some quotes for locating the bathroom elsewhere and price accordingly.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »OK, thanks for all your views.
It's actually come as a bit of a surprise to me that so many people feel so vehemently about a downstairs bathroom, it's never bothered us at all.
When we come to sell, which hopefully won't be for years yet, we'll get some quotes for locating the bathroom elsewhere and price accordingly.
You'll find that 99% of the population will want an upstairs bathroom. I viewed a house years ago with just a downstairs bedroom and it put me off tremendously. Not just due to the fact we'd have to go downstairs in the middle of the night if we needed the loo, but the awkwardness of wanting a shower or bath, maybe in the late afternoon getting ready for a night out, or a Sunday afternoon pampering soak, mid-morning shower, early evening shower etc - knowing there could be people watching TV in the lounge or eating dinner while I had to walk past in my bathrobe and then go into the bathroom for however long...........
It's also uncomfortable having a poo (which may be smelly if you've eaten spices or are unwell - diarrhoea, say...) and have to the business with people sat outside the bathroom door eating their tea!0
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