Would you buy a house with a toilet in an open-plan room?

We are mid reconfiguring our 200 year old cottage that was last renovated in 1965. It had the old two doors between kitchen and toilet set up plus a utility, so three small spaces (lobby, toilet, utility) off a long thin galley kitchen.

We've opened up the space, leaving a small lootility and swapped the kitchen with the former living room so the kitchen is now elsewhere and the lootility opens off the 'snug'. Imo, it still doesn't work so we're planning to relocate the toilet and washing machine etc to part of the integral garage. Much better place for it imo!

So, no, for me a toilet slap bang in the middle of a large kitchen/kitchen diner doesn't work - but I think some of the suggestions above re making a larger lootility space, where the door opens into the utility end might.

It would be a no from me too. Someone poops inside there and the smell wafts out when they open the door while others are eating/cooking etc. No

Tucked away in the corner, or as pp suggested made part of a utility area I probably wouldn't rule it out completely. An enclosed toilet cubicle between the kitchen and dining room would be too odd for me to consider looking at.

Absolutely not. No privacy for the toilet user, no separation between the smells of the kitchen, a bathroom and the living room.... Deeply unpleasant and not attractive.

Would be worth looking to make the loo part of a utility room with a second door opening into kitchen area - that creates the privacy and storage / washing machine space but also allows for a larger open living area?

No I wouldn't view it i am afraid, it would be very odd.

Agree with everyone else

A standalone washroom in the middle of a kitchen diner - F NO!

Combined into a boot room/utility so you lose a bit of wall space but add privacy and useful storage- that would be a plus.

My friend has a downstairs toilet / shower room and it leads directly from the kitchen diner . It’s a recent extension too .

No you don't.

I think you need two doors between a kitchen and loo? It would be properly grim either way and I really wouldn’t.

First thing that came to mind was physically a stand alone toilet on the wall of an open planned room.
You mean shower room or washroom it’s a room with walls.
Fine if the design is well planned utility, washer/dryer, with outside venting.

That rule changed years ago.

Nope. Definitely looks a bit shit 😂.
A discreet lavatory would be much more desirable. This is like a stage for each time someone needs to perform.

I'm not as precious as some people are about toilets but I don't like that layout and would absolutely consider it as a negative if I was looking to buy. But if it was expanded to be a utility that blended in to the room better then I would consider it a positive.

No. Posting as someone with an open plan lounge/diner with stairs off (no toilet!), heating alone is a nightmare.

My cousin has something like this and it’s awful. Toilet right off the kitchen so everyone gets to listen to everyone and you walk past the dining table and pop into the toilet. Was like that when she bought the house and she hates it.

I am pretty sure that a toilet is not allowed to open into a kitchen. At least if you live in England that is. I would personally have major reservations as well.

could you run the toilet front wall (where the corridor was down the kitchen to form a utility/toilet/shower room at the back end of the kitchen so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. Don't know how big the rooms are, but would look more like it was intended, put the washing machine and dishwasher in there, there must be plumbing there already.

Make the toilet bigger with entry from the kitchen turning it into a utility/boot room plus toilet?

But ideally you’d move the toilet and utility to the bottom right corner (and still make it a utility/WC so that you have a proper clear rectangle to make an open plan diner with an island etc.

Yeah, I just went googling. 1992 that law changed! 🤣 Still feels a bit off putting though.

You don’t. That is no longer current legislation.

That’s really bizarre and I wouldn’t want that, sorry! I wouldn’t even view the house (and I say this as someone who had a downstairs bathroom off the kitchen in a Victorian Terrace).

I saw exactly this in a new build recently - a downstairs loo straight off a kitchen - and I thought it was weird. The builders must’ve done it for space saving purposes but tbh I just thought it wasn’t good from a hygiene point of view. Very off-putting.

I wouldn’t even view a house with that set up, let alone buy it.

How handy is a toilet if it’s going to be in an open plan kitchen diner? Who would ever use it in that set up?

I don't think that would pass building regs. A toilet can't be directly off a kitchen. You need 2 doors between the kitchen sink and the loo

No it would look silly in the middle of the room. You should try and think about making it longer into a mini hallway/door out the back/small utility with bathroom attached?