Modern house designs and bathrooms

glasgowdan

Is it really necessary for a 4-bed house to have 4 bathrooms/toilets? Is there anyone here who actually wants this sort of thing when buying a house?

4 bed house probably means 3-4 people. Why aren't 2 bathrooms enough? Surely they won't all be crapping or showering at once at any point in time!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-59706085.html

fairy_lights

You're not alone.
It's not so bad in the house you've linked to because that at least is large enough to accommodate so many bathrooms. But when smaller newbuilds have shoebox size bedrooms and a lack of storage space because they've squeezed so many bathrooms in, I spiral in to an excess-bog induced rage.

Typhoon2000

Nothing wrong with that and highly desirable. Its 3 bathrooms and a cloak. Downstairs bedroom with ensuite is good for elderly relatives who cant manage the stairs/guests who you want to keep on a separate floor. Masterbed with an ensuite is a given, wouldn't consider a house without one, and the third bathroom is the family bathroom.

glasgowdan

Typhoon2000 wrote: »

Nothing wrong with that and highly desirable. .

To you, perhaps. I can barely be bothered cleaning two toilets never mind 4

Typhoon2000

Doubt they all get used much so cant imagine total cleaning time will be any different than everyone use a single loo. Any way with that house I guess a cleaner/maid will responsible for keeping the bathrooms clean.

Mr.Generous

I'd say a 4 bed with a main bathroom, an ensuite and a downstairs loo would be fine. Any more and the space could be better used. Done a few houses with the old semi outhouse type downstairs loo, better with them than without IMO, some people have removed them leaving just one toilet.

gettingtheresometime

Went to see a show home about 20 years ago and even then there was 3 toilets and the house was only averaged sized.

The saleswoman was a bit miffed when we asked how many toilets did one house need.

comeandgo

Yup, I like all my bathrooms and en suites, we do have a lot of family staying over weekends so they all get used. Don't mind at all cleaning them, it doesn't take long. Nothing worse than staying in someone's house and you have to queue for the toilet.

Hermia

I rented a new-build house and it had three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The two spare bedrooms were barely big enough for a bed and there were no storage cupboards in the house. One of the bathrooms was en suite, but the main bedroom was pretty small so the door of the bathroom was right next to where the head of the bed was. The toilet was also just on the other side of the door so you could lie in bed listening to your partner crap right next to you. Lovely!

zagubov

Sorry this is just one of those mad fashions we're all expected to worship like the emperor's new clothes. Previously it was open-plan, now it's about sacrificing space to rooms we don't spend much time in.
Our four-bedroom house has a bathroom and a downstairs understairs cloakroom with toilet/shower.
OK if there's a cholera outbreak we'd need more but we don't design our houses to cope with unexpected plagues.

What I do think is a good idea is the Japanese one of splitting toilets from bathrooms.

We did live in a house with four toilets. Two were en-suite (1st and 2nd floor), one was a cloakroom (ground) and the fourth was a general one (2nd floor). As a three storey house in a crowded city where floor space is expensive, that still seemed like one bathroom too many.

phoebe1989seb

Typhoon2000 wrote: »

Nothing wrong with that and highly desirable. Its 3 bathrooms and a cloak. Downstairs bedroom with ensuite is good for elderly relatives who cant manage the stairs/guests who you want to keep on a separate floor. Masterbed with an ensuite is a given, wouldn't consider a house without one, and the third bathroom is the family bathroom.

We had similar at our last (three-storey) house - in our case two shower rooms, one bathroom and a cloakroom. One of the shower rooms (and the cloakroom) was on the ground floor and serviced a ground floor bedroom.

This was a 2500 sq ft house with six bedrooms plus two bathrooms, one of which was in a 1980s single-storey annex extension built by a previous owner.

When we bought it as a project, the first floor had just one tiny bathroom for three bedrooms while the two second floor bedrooms had no bathroom/toilet facilities whatsoever. In the course of restoring the property we reconfigured the space turning a bedroom into large ensuite bathroom and the existing bathroom into a shower room. The ground floor bathroom became a second shower room.

We rarely used the ground floor shower room - except for showering our dogs, lol - and despite not having the services of a cleaner we spent very little time bog-scrubbing!

Had we not sold in 2014 we would have added a bathroom on the second floor