downstairs bathroom

ReadingTim

I have a downstairs bathroom, which is quite handy as I tend to visit the loo more often during the day when I'm awake and downstairs, than when I'm asleep upstairs.

However, I can see that there are some who might find the trip downstairs in the middle of the night a bit of a pain, but I suppose they could always invest in one of these

andy.m_2

DRP wrote: »

Does anyone have any thoughts as to the smallest practical size for a conversion of a bathroom to a nursery/study+bathroom.

We have a 340cm x 218cm (11'2 x 7'2) bathroom which I would like to convert ... a small bathroom suite ought to fit into ~150x150cm leaving ~190x218 nursery (plus access corridor) .... is this ridiculous?

Would it add or decrease value? :money:

it would kill the value.
A sensible bath is 1700x750, you need 600mm next to that for access, then a 500 sink unit and a 500 toilet space.

phoebe1989seb

We'd never had a downstairs bathroom till we bought our last house and till then we had also been dead against the idea. It didn't help that we had just sold a house with four loos (two upstairs bathrooms, a separate loo and a downstairs cloakroom. It was a very strange layout being a much older house that had been dismantled and rebuilt with further additions on a new site in the 1930s and was now configured as seven rooms plus bathroom and shower room downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs.

The larger bedroom (24' x 10') had a pair of vast walk-in wardrobes in the eaves which lent themselves to conversion to a good-sized en suite - which is what we did. We then converted the downstairs bathroom (9' x 7') into a second shower room. As there are nw only two of us at home the lack of upstairs bedrooms and multitude of *reception* rooms suited us perfectly. When we sold last year our buyers were a family who intended to use three/four of the downstairs rooms as bedrooms, so the additional bath/shower rooms were ideal for their requirements

SailorSam

mildred1978 wrote: »

I'd find it odd having a downstairs bedroom more than a downstairs bathroom.

You soon get use to a room downstairs.
I've got both the bathroom and bedroom downstairs in my Bungalow.

spenceeyftb

I don't think it's a bad idea at all. We are going through the process of buying a house with the only bathroom downstairs.

Although in the master bedroom I believe It's got the space for an en suite.

But to be honest if I was to have a choice of either an upstairs or downstairs toilet knowing it was the only one. I'd pick downstairs every time.

When you have visitors I don't like the idea of people going upstairs to use the loo. Like wise your out in the garden and you have to go upstairs for the toilet. Or your potty training your children, do you really want to teach them to use stairs at the same time?!

seven-day-weekend

Lizling wrote: »

Of course, but it's another inconvenience and I prefer to be able to use a full length mirror that hasn't got all steamed up and maybe change my mind about what I'm going to wear, so I prefer to dress in the bedroom.

So go into the bathroom in your dressing gown

mildred1978

spenceeyftb wrote: »

When you have visitors I don't like the idea of people going upstairs to use the loo. Like wise your out in the garden and you have to go upstairs for the toilet. Or your potty training your children, do you really want to teach them to use stairs at the same time?!

Children master stairs quite early compared to potty training!

LEJC

mine were up the stairs well before the potty training started...and I dont remember any teaching involved...I just left the stair gate open by accident one day and found one 3 quarters of the way up the stairs at 8 months old!

JimmyTheWig

mildred1978 wrote: »

Children master stairs quite early compared to potty training!

But even so, the early days of potty training it's good to have a potty and toilet as close as possible.

SandC

I have a downstairs bathroom and although an upstairs one would be nice it doesn't bother me.

I live in a formally very industrial area so there are thousands of 2 up, 2 down terraced properties, the majority of which had bathrooms added on to the rear of the house, downstairs. Because of these 'family' homes only having 2 bedrooms you don't get them being converted to flats like in many big cities with their larger terraces so they are the norm rather than the other way around.