Would you want an en suite WITHOUT a door

warby68

A door

I probably shouldn't admit this but having a poo and then realising the toilet is in a public place like a store or office with people all round is a recurring bad dream of mine - not sure what insecurities it reveals!

We stayed in a holiday lodge recently that had frosted glass swing doors of not quite full height into the ensuite - they were bad enough

Some things only look good in magazines when untroubled by real people and their smells and sounds

TBagpuss

I'd definitely want a door, and that applies whether I'm sharing the room with anyone else or not.

Without door, you're effectively putting a WC into your bedroom. Which is not at all appealing fr so many reasons.

Snakey

I stayed in a hotel once which had a glass wall between the bathroom and the bedroom. So everything was separate for smell/steam/sound, but it still gave the room that "open" feel that you are keen on.

There was a half-height opaque wall within the bathroom, screening off the side of the loo. Of course you also need to give privacy to the front of the loo, which suits the typical hotel-room floor plan nicely - the non-transparent door and wall being opposite the hallway/wardrobe area. May not be feasible in your room, depending on size/shape.

[Edit: actually, just remembered - it was set up so that if you wanted to you could pull the shower curtain round both sides of the shower area, effectively covering the whole of the glass wall. So if you were doing something truly spectacular in there - loo-related or otherwise - you could screen the whole lot off, although it would be super-obvious that you'd done so.]

PinkGladioli

Might look nice but I wouldn't have one without a door, wouldn't want to hear the fan going or see my partner go to the loo let alone smell it!

peachyprice

For me, if there's a toilet in there it has to have a door. I wouldn't mind no door if it was just a shower/wash room.

Don't forget, a lot of these images you are seeing will be mock-ups of rooms or show rooms using tricks to make the space look bigger.

phoebe1989seb

Voice of dissent here, lol

Our last house was an unmortgageable, non-listed Georgian thatched wreck when we bought it. For a 2000 sq ft (2500 by the time we'd extended it ) house it had only one tiny first floor bathroom, serving five bedrooms across two upper floors - although there was also an annex bathroom on the ground floor - and we therefore decided to convert a bedroom into an additional bathroom.

Not everyone would agree it was a good idea as we lost a bedroom, but it worked for us.

Anyway, there was already a blocked off narrow opening between the master and the adjoining bedroom. We decided to turn this adjoining room - about 14' x 12' - into an ensuite to the master and not only did we retain the original bedroom door onto the landing (which we always kept locked when guests were staying over!), but we didn't hang a door on the opening between bedroom and bathroom. The loo was around the corner, out of sight of the bedroom/doorway and as the bedroom was fairly large there was never any issues with bathroom *sounds * or smells

The idea of retaining the original door from former bedroom onto landing was in case a future buyer wished to close the other opening off and use it as a family bathroom.......