Converting bathroom into 4th bedroom.... Madness?

GwylimT

Why are all your children sleeping in one bedroom when you have three bedrooms?

With one bathroom how can five people get showered/bathed in the morning without getting up at stupid o'clock.

JustAnotherSaver

We have 5 to one bathroom. At one point it was 6. Has been 3 kids & 2 adults before becoming 5 adults & then 6 adults.

Not everyone showers/bathes in a morning. Very rare do any of us ever do that. We have it at staggered times in the evening/night.
Only becomes an issue when someone is taking the mickey with their hair (sister!!) or you all need a #1 or #2 at the same time.

Though I do agree that the OP seems to be avoiding addressing the 3rd bedroom point.

I_have_spoken

You'll have to move when the eldest two get to 11 if different genders

Captain_Flack.

I_have_spoken wrote: »

You'll have to move when the eldest two get to 11 if different genders

No they won't.

There are 3 kids. Unless they have one of each

flyingmamma

Have a plumber coming out to give us a quote .... Will get a quote for downstairs shower too...

DaftyDuck

Captain_Flack. wrote: »

That may also put off buyers.

I imagine it would attract many more than it might repel... remember, an upstairs conversion of any kind can be reversed. Flexibility in design is key to an easy sale.... and OP is keen to stay a while at least!

Doozergirl

flyingmamma wrote: »

Have a plumber coming out to give us a quote .... Will get a quote for downstairs shower too...

You don't really need a plumber to take a bathroom out? One might turn up for a bit to cap things off, but it's more of a general building job.

JustAnotherSaver

I_have_spoken wrote: »

You'll have to move when the eldest two get to 11 if different genders

Why?

Will the modern day Britain police come & bang them up?

I was an only child until i was 7 when my sister came along & then my brother came along when i turned 9. There were 5 of us in a 2 bed house, so us 3 shared the same room.

It stayed that way until i was about 22 i think. Then my brother & sister shared the room.

We didn't get changed in front of each other. We'd do it in the room if we were alone, or in the bathroom after a shower.

Aside from the fact a bigger house would've been nice, none of us had a problem with it. It wasn't right but nor was it 'wrong'. Certainly not because the next man says it's 'wrong'. None of us have caught anything because of it. We've not sprouted extra arms/heads/legs.

JustAnotherSaver

Although the longer this goes on without an answer, the more i am curious as to why OP continuously decides not to answer the point about 3 bedrooms not being enough for 5 people.
As has been said:
master bedroom - parents
t'other bedroom - 2 youngest
box room - eldest.

Am intrigued as to why all this extra work is required.

flyingmamma

Currently officially 2 girls in one room and son in box room... My eldest is a light sleeper I would like them all to have their own space.... Hence the need to convert a room ... I thought i was perfectly clear JustAnotherSaver?