House extension- wwd?

[Mississippilessly]

We are looking to get our kitchen extended next year. We are going to do a bit of rejigging at the same time and we cant decide what to do. Thoughts please!

At the moment:
Ground floor - one bathroom with bath, shower over bath, loo and basin

First floor- 2 bedrooms, one with ensuite (bath,shower over bath, toilet, basin). Bathroom with shower, toilet, basin

2nd floor - 2 bedrooms, bathroom with toilet and basin, ridiculously large airing cupboard.

So we plan on dividing the ground floor bathroom into 2 rooms and have one as a utility room and one with a toilet and sink.

2 questions:.
Would you have a shower in the ground floor toilet if there was room? Or go for a larger utility?

If we rip out the bath downstairs it means the only bath in the house is the en suite. We think we could turn the airing cupboard into a bathroom with a bath. Would you?

All thoughts welcome! Thank you!

We are having our extension and adding in a bath and toilet on ground floor as we have no intention of moving and think it would be an advantage later in life.

Just a thought and only our opinion.

These days most people prefer showers so I think one bath in the house is fine.

Also I wouldn't have a shower downstairs. We used to have one and rarely used it because psychologically it seems such a hassle to go downstairs for a shower. Although bourbon does make a good point about ageing.

Hm the long term thinking is a good point! I cant see us still being here though - it's not a retirement house.

So keep the airing cupboard and just have one bath yes?

I would not have a shower on the ground floor. You have enough bathrooms to beds ratio. However I would either put a bath in the airing cupboard space on the top floor (kids do like baths and this floor says kids floor to me) and/or perhaps have the utility room up there (makes sense to have the laundry where the beds are). Then you could have what you were thinking for utility downstairs as a walk in larder. What I really hate is washing machines in the kitchen, so a separate utility is a must no matter what floor it’s on.

I'd have the utility room downstairs, I'd rather carry dry laundry up and downstairs to the washing line than have to carry heavy damp loads down every time. You can also use the utility for storage of extra/spare kitchen things and if it has a back door you can use it for taking off muddy boots etc.

I would also have have the bath in the airing cupboard rather than the ensuite, then everyone can use it without going through your bedroom. Although I love my airing cupboard and would miss it if I didn't have it.

I would not have a shower downstairs as you have 3 others , and I would extend the second floor bathroom into the airing cupboard (if next to each other?) and put a bath up there. For guests and what have you I'd find it weird them using my ensuite for a bath.

Well we would have 2 showers.
Ok so concencus is only WC and basin downstairs.
Live the idea if a walk in larder.

I need an architect to see what we could do with the top floor. The rooms are next to each other but I'm not sure if it is a supporting wall it would make an L shaped bathroom. I wonder if we could make the bit that juts out the airing cupboard
The other thing we could do is have the bedroom with the en suite as a guest bedroom...

Hm. Thanks all.maybe we just move...!