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Modern house designs and bathrooms
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It depends who is buying it. There are reasons for some people to want this.
e.g.
Planning to rent out a room to a lodger, en-suite's preferable to them.
Planning on having regular visitors to stay, an en-suite's a nice touch.
If you've somebody with a health issue they might wish their own en-suite for privacy (e.g. colostomy bag).
If there's space, toss them in .... there are more mixes of households these days than a simple "single family".0 -
What I do think is a good idea is the Japanese one of splitting toilets from bathrooms.
It's not really a Japanese idea - most unmodernised houses in the UK from the Edwardian period up to the post-war building boom had a separate loo, and to me that's perfectly normal: I could never see the attraction of wanting to sit in the bath staring at the loo, or wallow with my head at seat-level....
I always associated having the bog in the same room as the bath with council housing to be honest, but maybe I'm a snob.0 -
tomatoandcheese wrote: »We are currently attempting to buy a relatively new 2 bed flat. It has two bathrooms! Why I have no idea. We'd quite like to turn the one that is ensuite to the master bedroom into a walk in wardrobe or storage cupboard but were worried that people now expect more than one bathroom even in a small flat. Good to see there is still some sanity in the world!
I think a lot of new build flats are designed this way with an eye to rental. A flat with a bathroom for each bedroom is more attractive to sharers, and hence to landlords.0 -
And I can't stand bogs that feel like cupboards, with no window.
Mind you, someone shut me in a freezer room when I was a child!
No I'm with you on that, a family member is currently renting a massive modern 5 bed detached with 4 bathrooms, not a single one has a window! I have to wonder what on earth the architect was thinking there.0 -
ReadingTim wrote: »It's not really a Japanese idea - most unmodernised houses in the UK from the Edwardian period up to the post-war building boom had a separate loo, and to me that's perfectly normal: I could never see the attraction of wanting to sit in the bath staring at the loo, or wallow with my head at seat-level....
I always associated having the bog in the same room as the bath with council housing to be honest, but maybe I'm a snob.
Some don't have a sink in the same bit as the loo though, can't be doing with that!0 -
Red-Squirrel wrote: »Some don't have a sink in the same bit as the loo though, can't be doing with that!
Top tip: use your hands to help you pee in your toilet, rather than using your toilet to help you pee in your hands...0 -
ReadingTim wrote: »Top tip: use your hands to help you pee in your toilet, rather than using your toilet to help you pee in your hands...
I'm a woman, I need a sink near my toilet for a number of reasons!0 -
One bath/shower room per adult's bedroom seems a good idea, then it will suit working households where everyone's getting ready for work at the same time.
I've just moved and am so pleased to now have a downstairs cloakroom - saves traipsing upstairs and also means I don't have to let visitors upstairs.
The thing that does surprise me is "family bathrooms". Yes, you need somewhere suitable to bath the kids when they're too young to shower by themselves (and to have the occasional soak yourself), but why don't developers make these rooms multi-purpose by putting in an over-bath shower? The kids will only be little for so long and will then shower like everyone else until the age they leave home for good.
And I'd never buy anywhere without a loo there in the bathroom - I loathe separated ones, esp when the loo has no basin and people go into the kitchen to wash their hands there - yuk!0 -
But you still need to wash your hands! Otherwise you're just wiping penis over everything you touch.ReadingTim wrote: »Top tip: use your hands to help you pee in your toilet, rather than using your toilet to help you pee in your hands...0 -
Yes, 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms is wasted space in my opinion.
We went from 3 beds/3bath to 5 bed/3 bath which makes more sense to us.0
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