Shower or bath

Alchemilla

You can't easily shower a baby who is too big for the sink. It would put me off. Keep the bath!

fairy_lights

I rarely have baths but like having the option there, and a bath tub is useful for so may other things: washing pets, dying clothes, filling with ice to store drinks in at raucous house parties...
I've also never heard of any one being put off buying a house because it did have a bath and they preferred showers.

Anouchka

Def. leave the bath. I am currently living in a house where the bath was removed and a walk in shower put in its place. The shower's great for getting clean but I hate, hate, hate not having a bath to relax in. Were the house mine, the first thing I would do would be to replace the bath.

phoebe1989seb

I'd leave the bath - but would change it to something other than a corner one

Our last (three storey) house had two bathrooms when we bought it, one in a downstairs annex and one on the first floor. The house was a total gut job requiring major building work anyway, but the upstairs bathroom was just too tiny for a modern family requiring a four/five bed house, so we opted to remove the bath and replace with large shower. This suited the space so much better. We did the same in the annex bathroom, although we actually relocated this room to a different part of the ground floor.

However, we knew that a) I can't survive without a daily bath and b) when/if we sold, our target market would most likely be families and they would expect a bath in a house of that size/spec.

So we took the risky step of sacrificing a bedroom (no. six) and turning it into a bathroom with free-standing bath.....

Our buyers had three kids - but all aged 8-14 - and whilst the kids loved the shower rooms, the mum was over the moon with *her* new bath in which to relax with a glass of wine after a stressful day

Joanthebone

Another vote for a bath in a family house, 'P' ones are good. You can't put toddlers in shower, how can they play with their ducks! ?


Corner baths are horrible, they are a bu99er to clean too, so difficult to clean the far side without being in it!

Hoploz

Another vote to keep the bath - is it unanimous?!

I had a 'keyhole' shape bath with shower over it in my last house. Look in Homebase, they still do the same bath. It was excellent. Same footprint as a standard bath but a little extra round space at the shower end.

As already said, a bath is a must for babies, also useful for dogs, filling buckets, cleaning the oven racks, all sorts!

A separate shower is good though, as you can walk in easier. So if you have room get both - a shower cubicle plus a straight bath

[Deleted User]

Get rid of the corner bath but put a normal bath in its place.., you can get a shorter than normal bath if necessary.

I took a corner bath out of our bathroom and put in a shorter than normal bath (think its 160 in length) against the back wall. This made a small bathroom seem much bigger (previously, if you were using the loo, your feet pressed against the ginormous creaky corner bath) and should allow you to fit in a shower cubicle if you want to, but with a shower downstairs, you could just have a shower in bath. I find this very useful for dog washing lol. Now our bathroom doesn't seem small at all.

Hedgehog99

I'm another one voting for getting rid of the corner bath (uses too much water) and replacing it with a normal bath or a bath with shower over.
Although I rarely have a bath, I was very glad to have the bath for handwashing clothes while waiting for my washing machine to be fixed. It meant I could hang the dripping washing over the bath straight away.
Also useful as a reservoir if the water company need to turn you off for a few hours - a family house will need to flush the loo!

kerri_gt

I wouldn't buy a house with no bath, I sometimes take a bath when feeling unwell (more relaxing than a shower), also use the shower attachment and lean over to just wash my hair, and took baths when I injured my finger and had to keep it dry.

Mojisola

We took out our bath because we never used it and are happy with our big shower - but we plan on staying in the house for years. By the time we leave, the bathroom will probably need another makeover.

A family house without a bath will either reduce the number of potential buyers or will have them reducing the price of the house to allow for the alteration.