Downstairs cloakroom or shower room?

Vegeta

Just want to get some advice on what others would do.

The house has a double-storey side extension measuring 8ft wide. Shower room is 8ft wide and 5ft long. Currently there is a shower room downstairs going off the study like this:



There is a bathroom upstairs. I'm not sure whether to change it to just a cloakroom with toilet and basin only as the shower room does need a full refurbishment. There is no window, only extractor fan.

I am going to change the layout a little bit, putting the door to the shower/cloakroom under the stairs so the study only has one door.

Dunroamin

Might you ever need a downstairs bedroom with en suite for elderly or disabled friends or family?

Annisele

I think it depends how big the house is. If it's got six double bedrooms, you probably need a shower room as well as a bathroom. If it's got two bedrooms, you might not even need to bother with the cloakroom.

Strapped

I'd try to keep the shower if possible.

Vegeta

The house is 5 bedroom.

Mint1955

Keep the shower.

phill99

An additional shower room I always a bonus.

Keep it.

phoebe1989seb

I'd keep the shower room - you never know when it might come in handy. I'm a firm believer in never having enough loos and bathrooms in a house

We downsized from our family home that had 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms plus a further 2 loos and in our next house (5 beds) we ended up with 2 downstairs shower rooms (3 of the bedrooms were on the ground floor) as well as a bathroom upstairs. When we sold a couple of years back our buyers were glad of the extra bathing facilities as they had 2 teenage kids and elderly parents intending to make use of the downstairs bedrooms/shower rooms

Even though there's just the 2 of us we've decided to keep a shower room downstairs in our current house - we took a bathroom out of the annexe and hadn't intended to replace it, as we have a further 2 bath/shower rooms upstairs, but considering the configuration of the house and potential uses of the third reception room we thought a shower room adjacent to it would be ideal further down the line if we again sold to someone with a teenager or elderly relative.......

It can also be useful for showering off muddy dogs/kids (if you have them) without the need to go upstairs

witchy1066

definitely keep the downstairs shower room but would change the layout , I would not like anyone coming through my study/hobby room to use the loo

Soot2006

I'd keep the shower. Can the study double as a guestroom when you have visitors?

mummyroysof3

I would keep it as if you doing whole room anyway it won't cost much extra. For resale I would coincided leaving door invade to be usedas a down stairs bedroom. Could have 2 doors though maybe so don't need to come through study.