Can a house be too big/make you feel lost?

Gavin83

theoretica said:

Gavin83 said:

Purbeck14 said:

I wouldn't say 3 bathrooms was an essential, but if one is downstairs and one upstairs it is very useful when /if your health changes.

Everyone is of course free to have whatever they wish in their house. For the two of us we really don’t have need for 3 bathrooms. I take the point about a downstairs bathroom but given we’re in our 30s I’m not really concerned about this yet. Given the layout and furniture when we moved in I got the impression the extra bathroom was designed with an elderly parent in mind.

Since moving in we’ve yet to have 3 working bathrooms though. The en-suite shower was broken when we moved in. We ripped both the en-suite and upstairs bathrooms out at the same time so we could have them plastered. The main bathroom is a few months from completion but once it’s finished I expect we won’t use the downstairs bathroom at all. I don’t like wasted space so it’s got to go.

You might want to check up on that before finalising your plans - building regulations now call for an accessible toilet and either a bathroom or space where one can easily be plumbed in.  I believe they both insist on this in new builds, and object to the removal in older properties - but maybe your plans meet the requirement for keeping the toilet and being easy to convert back to bath/shower.

Have you got a link for that? From what I've seen you have to include a downstairs toilet but it's only advisable you include space for a downstairs shower and isn't enforced. If what you say is the case then pretty much every house in the country would break the rule! Ours is the only multi story house I've ever been in with a downstairs bathroom and that includes our previous house which was built in 2018.

If this is actually a rule it shall be ignored. I'm not installing a shower that'll never be used for some imaginary disabled person that might wish to wash in my house.

dutchcloggie

I have a large 3 bedroom house. It is laid out over 2 floors with the 3rd bedroom + en suite in the attic. The good thing about that is that I use my house effectively s a 2 bedroom and the attic is just storage (and until last month a lodger). 
The attic room is supposed to be the master bedroom but I felt weird about walking past 2 unused rooms on the first floor on my way to the bedroom every night. It made me feel the house was too big for me and that I was wasting money. So I moved down a floor and basically never use the attic. The house is still the same size, but I use the space differently now. And so it feels just right for me.