What is it with a "family bathroom"?

Bogof_Babe

I keep noticing on the home makeover TV progs that the presenters sneer at a small bathroom in a "family home". It happened again this morning on Homes Under the Hammer.

I can't get my head around this. Surely however big your family, you don't want to share your bathroom experiences with anyone else. I'd have thought two small bathrooms would outweigh the benefits of one large one any day.

While I'm on my soapbox, why are these shows always harping on about people putting their own mark on a property, while rubbishing any bathroom suite that isn't white, sneering at artex, and always dissing the kitchen, however acceptable the units and tiles look?

I think all this gives potential buyers the wrong impression. Not everyone wants to live in a identikit home, so why don't they allow for personal taste?

lynzpower

Dont get me started.

I have a huge problem with "family bathroom" I mean its very rare that more than one of us share the bathroom at any given time, and thats usually when Im trying to wash the dog LOL

The thing that winds me up the most is places like relaction , but to a greater extent A place in the sun - BOLTHOLE . !!!!!! is a sodding bolthole when its at home!!! . Whats wrong with calling a spade a spade these days - or do we need to glamourise everything in this seedy world of property !!!!!!?

Bogof_Babe

Lol Lynz, let's hope we get a few more on board, then we can start a campaign.

Real homes for real people?

Bogof_Babe

As far as I'm concerned, it's the number of loos that matters. I mean you can wait your turn for a bath or a shower, but if you gotta go, you gotta go. And you presumably won't want to go when there is someone else in the room.

Goodness knows how they managed in the old days, when several families shared a loo half way down the road. I can only assume they all had a pot under the bed. Maybe we are spoilt now, but I think one loo per two/three people in the household is absolute minimum.

And each loo should of course have a hand wash basin, however tiny, in the same room, so that germs don't get on to door handles.

Queenie

I've only got one bathroom and that has the loo in it. Does that make me a lesser being?

Actually, aside from my childhood home ... all the properties I've lived in has only had one bathroom with toilet within.

At one point, my dh, myself, 5 children and 2 students all had to share this one bathroom/toilet Can't all have two loo's!!

Montymoo_2

Totally agree

an estate agent tried to bully us into a property as it had a 'family bathroom'...for gods sake theres only me and my partner and we have no plans to expand our family for a longlong time

daleyd

Think I read somewhere (prob on a post on here somewhere!) that people who have bought property and sold it on without doing anything to it are just as likely to make as much money on it as those that do the whole makeover thing.

Just goes to show that if you like a house, you will buy it _ i'd like to think that most people in the market for a house are intelligent enough to recognise when a place has potential, rather than just being swept away on a magic carpet of white suites and "Neutral" colours.

Ours had bathroom from 1980's (Still got it in fact), artex ceilings and awful carpets, but we liked it!

Vive la difference!

lynzpower

Montymoo wrote: »

Totally agree

an estate agent tried to bully us into a property as it had a 'family bathroom'...for gods sake theres only me and my partner and we have no plans to expand our family for a longlong time

:rotfl: EAs eh, some of them have funny ideas :rolleyes:

Can someone tell me what on earth is the difference between a normal bathroom (as we have here, contains, bath with shower over, loo , washbasin and shelving unit for towels & smellies)

and a FAMILY BATHROOM - whats the difference?

Kez100

They have to make a programme - it's just entertainment. We all know, in the main, money is being made because the values have risen. I am looking forward to what they replace these programmes with when the market crashes.

They'll be filming FTBs in the rented flats counting how much money they have made each day not buying! And what could be better...that saving is tax free. LOL.

nelly_2

I remember Billy Conoly saying him and his misses both had the squirts he was on the bog and she was so desperate she was squating in the bath:rotfl:

So maybe its something pleasant like that

daleyd

nelly wrote: »

I remember Billy Conoly saying him and his misses both had the squirts he was on the bog and she was so desperate she was squating in the bath:rotfl:

So maybe its something pleasant like that

That must have been really runny to make it down the plughole!!:eek: