Would a downstairs loo/bathroom put you off buying a house?

Mrs_Z

Well, as per the title really. I'm in guardrum... we've been looking for a house to buy and saw a perfect, refurbished cottage at the weekend. Perfect, except that the toilet and bahthroom were downstairs - meaning that if you want to use the toilet during the night, you'd have to go down the stairs, through the kitchen... etc.I think this would really annoy us in the long term.I guess it would be possible to move the bathroom upstairs by sacrificing the 3rd bedroom - but that would mean additional expense and the property is already priced at a premium having undergone refurbishment - and would end up with a 2bed instead of 3 bed property.... Not a problem for us but it might be if we had to sell again.So far have turned it down but don't seem to get it the property off my mind...

Dan-Dan

yes , for us at this stage in life , personally we want all bedrooms and bathroom on the same floor , but we have very young kids,.....others may not mind....we had a downstairs loo when kids in a big old council house but for us now , its a no thanks!

paulineb_2

My mums house has a bathroom downstairs, she brought up 2 of us there, was never a problem.

newbian

It would put me off, yes. My grandfather broke his hip when he fell down the stairs trying to get to a downstairs toilet in the middle of the night.

DRP

not hugely, but given the choice - upstairs every time

martinsurrey

A down stairs bathroom is okay, as long as there is an upstairs toilet (IMO).

Rather than sacrifice a whole upstairs room for a bathroom, could you not partition a bit of a larger room off, and just put an upstairs WC in?

redfragglebiker

I grew up in a house with a downstairs loo so it probably wouldn't bother me.
Our current loo is upstairs which I prefer tbh but it certainly wouldn't be a deal breaker if we liked the rest of the house!

boo2410

Wouldn't bother me tbh,I lived in a house with a downstairs bathroom and toilet for 20 years, it was an old 1890's cottage and we were used to it, even with kids!!! I wouldn't let it be a deal breaker if you like the house.

sirmosh

Personally I wouldn't buy a house with a downstairs bathroom. Most town centre houses around here are like it though since their mostly mid-Victorian and the majority of people haven't done two-storey extensions to put a bathroom upstairs. Plenty of people seem happy to live in them.

SpottyWellies

Both my parents and my husbands parents have always had bathrooms downstairs but as a recent FTB, it was one of the things on my definite NO list, based on my experience of living in a house with a downstairs bathroom I can say it would put me off no matter how lovely the rest of the house.

Angelicdevil

Could you imagine the chaos if one or all occupants got norovirus :eek: