Advice for downstairs bathroom please

anndy25

We live in a two bedroom semi with a downstairs bathroom which we want to renovate. We have already added an en suite shower room to the larger bedroom and are now thinking of getting rid of the bath in the downstairs bathroom and just keeping the toilet and basin. The downstairs bathroom is very small and we never use the bath anyway. We are thinking of a more modern loo and a vanity unit with cupboards and shelves. But we are wondering if people will be put off buying our house because of no bath. Or should we do what suits us. We are a recently retired couple with no plans to move at the moment.

We would appreciate other peoples views.

wallbash

with no plans to move at the moment.

Answered your own question , dump the bath.

If you had a 3 bed house suitable for a family and were refurbishing to sell, the advice would be Completely different.

PasturesNew

So the only way to shower/bath would be in your en-suite?

I'd just think carefully about the layout and whether it would be easy to change the door to it at some future point so it's accessible from the top hallway (so no longer an en-suite). If you decided to change it in the future you'd then know where the 'new' doorway would be and that there's no cables/pipes in the way... also think about where the lightswitch would be for the same purpose/reason.

Hoploz

I think a buyer would want a bath somewhere.

You're not selling now but you might one day.

Could you fit one into the ensuite somehow?

abankerbutnotafatcat

What if you have guests?

anndy25

Thank you for the replies. We cannot access the en suite from the landing or fit a bath into it. When we have guests at the moment they have been family and prefer to use the en suite shower as it's bigger than the downstairs one. It has not been a problem and since we fitted the en suite now have two toilets as well. We are now thinking of looking at keeping the bath and making better use of the space that we have. Possibly a corner toilet and smaller hand wash basin. Has anyone fitted a corner toilet? The new ones look quite good and that would give us more room.

Hoploz

I'm looking at bathroom furniture at the moment. Some of the fitted units look pretty good use of space, with wc and basin next to each other with worktop over.

I have also seen a toilet with a basin built in to the top! Fantastic space-saving idea!

AVERAGEJOE_2

Go for it remove the bath.. 80% of people now prefer a shower i.e its cleaner, uses less water, and if elderly can use a seat and use far easier than a bath.
And if you ever moved i wouldnt not buy a house due to not having bath id just fit one.
there are some gorgeous units out here built in basins and wc units in loads of colours.

Tigsteroonie

AVERAGEJOE wrote: »

Go for it remove the bath.. 80% of people now prefer a shower

And your evidence?

AVERAGEJOE_2

My own evidence of running a heating bathroom business for 20 years and maybe this just a south thing but most people now ripping out bathrooms fitting shower enclosures or wetrooms.

tired_dad

Agree, showers win over bath if space is limited. Personally I would not remove your bath without replacing with shower. Having 2 showers would be good and your downstairs set up will feel spacious with loss of bath.