shower ground floor adds value?

tellme_why

Hello Forum,
My 3 bed 2 storey detached has a bathroom with toilet, shower and bath tub on first floor and a toilet on ground floor. The previous owner pulled down a 1 metre slice of wall and built a shower 1 x 1. The problem is on the adjacent room available space that is now reduced by the "shower box" made of bricks. This room used to be a kitchen, now is an utility room.
I'd like to pull down the shower box and make a toilet only - without shower. I would then have more space in the Utility room.
Question; would this reduce the value of my house?
Do buyers want to have a shower in the toilet ground floor?

Many thanks!

pinkshoes

Unless you have a huge family, then I can't see the point of downstairs showers. I would rather stay on bed and wait until the upstairs one was free!

davidmcn

I doubt it makes a real difference. Larger households might find it useful, but others, like you, would prefer to do something else with the floor space. Just do what suits you while you live there.

Davesnave

A large family might find the extra shower worthwhile, rather than havng the extra space, just as the previous owner did, but it won't make a gnat's nadgers of difference to the value of the house if you remove it.

If you make a decent job of it, no one will know there was a shower there in the first place.

glasgowdan

Agreed, this won't devalue the house.

MobileSaver

tellme_why wrote: »

Question; would this reduce the value of my house?

No, not in the slightest.

tellme_why wrote: »

Do buyers want to have a shower in the toilet ground floor?

I'm sure someone somewhere would have a use for a shower downstairs but 99.99% of potential buyers would have no interest or need for such a thing, especially if it's reducing the size of an adjacent room.

bouicca21

IMHO a ground floor shower is only relevant to value if there is a bedroom on the same level. Owners of dogs with a penchant for jumping into dirty water might also appreciate it, but I doubt they'd appreciate it sufficiently to pay more.

Kynthia

I think that people who do a dirty/grubby job appreciate a ground floor shower. People with large families might use it (older children rather than young chikdren) but they'd probably prefer it to be near bedrooms. However I doubt it adds value to them just makes a place more appealing, and most buyers would never use it. The downstairs wc is the important bit.

DRP

having a d/s toilet is much more of a 'must have' in a family home imo.

Clutterfree

The house we are buying has an upstairs bathroom, a downstairs bathroom and also a downstairs shower room.
We will be removing the downstairs bathroom to make a bigger eat in kitchen.

clint_S

I don't like downstairs showers when you have an upstairs, I've even walked away from a house because of it. I can understand the need for people with certain disabilities or age where getting up stairs can be difficult.


A larger kitchen\utility room will add more value than a downstairs shower in my opinion.