Bigger 4th bedroom or 3rd bathroom?

yoshiyella

Depends on your situation. If you don't need a third bathroom then a bigger bedroom is best, if however like me you have 3 sisters aged 15 to 21 then having a 3rd bathroom would be a godsend! In fact, even an extra outdoor toilet would be great with three sisters!

getmore4less

A small ensuite/second could make that new larger room attractive to a couple.

you have the downstairs capacity to take an extra body.

Honeylife

If the room is to be rented a small ensuite would be useful and command more money. That said if it is stupidly small where you are touching the walls in the shower, its pointless! I would go back to the 70s things of just a sink discreetly in the corner.

However, honestly, your house has more than enough ablution facilities as it stands. A third bathroom will not add any value to the house.

I am all for a walk in wardrobe or a study/office/chill area.

9ja4life

4th bedroom and if possible, a jack and jill shower room with another room as you have lodgers so not necessarily increasing the number of bathrooms

Nsar

My two penneth as an owner of a student house is to invest in a bit of bling - such as downlighters and wall mounted screens in bedrooms, some ingenious storage on walls to maximise floorspace if limited and loads of extra plug sockets with USB sockets.

bramble007

getmore4less wrote: »

A small ensuite/second could make that new larger room attractive to a couple.

you have the downstairs capacity to take an extra body.

Downstairs is not big enough for 5 let alone 6 of us at the moment. When its extended it will be better but still we wouldn't take a couple, 3 lodgers is enough so thats not an option.

bramble007

Honeylife wrote: »

If the room is to be rented a small ensuite would be useful and command more money. That said if it is stupidly small where you are touching the walls in the shower, its pointless! I would go back to the 70s things of just a sink discreetly in the corner.

However, honestly, your house has more than enough ablution facilities as it stands. A third bathroom will not add any value to the house.

I am all for a walk in wardrobe or a study/office/chill area.

These are exactly our thoughts! Thank you for confirming them :beer:

Cakeguts

bramble007 wrote: »

It has been an HMO in the past, but we are moving in the direction of turning it into a family house now..

Are you registered as an HMO at the moment?

bramble007

Cakeguts wrote: »

Are you registered as an HMO at the moment?

Yes we have to be by law.

dirty_magic

kerri_gt wrote: »

and the toilet paper is all half damp too - eugh. Can't stand wet rooms myself.

I don't get the trend for virtually 1 bathroom per bedroom either. Granted we have gone from 2 toilets to 1 and would like a downstairs one, but I certainly don't miss cleaning the additional toilet. I'd go mad cleaning so many bathrooms.

I also cant stand the trend for open plan living. Fab if you have a kitchen big enough for some kind of family room as well as a separate area somewhere in the house as a more formal living room, but I cannot abide the idea of sitting in a living room looking at my washing up / having the washing matching going / smell of cooking etc. All these new homes seem to be open plan simply because the developers are trying to hide the fact there's no room for more walls, and it saves them a few quid on materials / labour to not build them.

I agree, the reason they're open plan is because the rooms would be miniscule with walls dividing them. Developers have realised people don't like the poky kitchens of many of the 60s houses and it's somehow become fashionable to do away with the dining room too and have one room for everything. Entire flats now can be about the same size as a living room in an older house.