Why would anyone want/ need sixteen bathrooms in a nine bed house?

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That’s it really. Why would you need so many? Feels like the house would be bathroom heavy.

Are the bedrooms big enough for a double bed? So one bathroom each? Does seem a lot!

Depends on house layout but....

1-9: 9 bedrooms with en suite
10: Shower room attached to boot room
11-12: One family bathroom upstairs so if a couple stayed one could use the en suite and one somewhere else. I guess you could stretch to two ok this logic esp if house has large footplan or at least 3 floors.
13-14: Two single guest toilets down stairs. The shower room is a shower room.
15: Single toilet off play room
16: single toilet off study / library

We have separate bathrooms. So possibly the first 5 bedrooms = 10 en-suite.
Next 4=4 en suites
2 cloakrooms
?
Or if it has a gym/tennis pavilion/pool with changing rooms, there’d usually be a loo and shower I guess?

I love the idea of his-n-hers ensuites off the master bedroom, and possibly off the best guest bedroom too. If there's nine bedrooms you definitely need 2 or 3 downstairs loos. So long as I could pay for staff to clean them all though! It's bad enough sharing responsibility for the cleanliness of 2 loos!

Are the bedrooms big enough for a double bed? So one bathroom each? Does seem a lot!

Hmmm I cant decide if MN would love or hate this. Most seem to disapprove of anyone including their DH having any sort of bodily functions and the idea of them going for a poo in the same house is quite horrendous.
ensuites are akin to having a poo on ones pillow and should be avoided at all costs.

But if their their DH didnt have to share a bathroom...?

Back to the original question i often think it's weird when there are more bathrooms than bedrooms!

One for outdoor staff, another for indoor staff who don't live in - or two, if there are men and women staff.

Americans say bathroom when they mean toilet, don't they, so some of them could be just a loo with a handbasin.

@Mumblechum0

We have separate bathrooms. So possibly the first 5 bedrooms = 10 en-suite. Next 4=4 en suites 2 cloakrooms ? Or if it has a gym/tennis pavilion/pool with changing rooms, there’d usually be a loo and shower I guess?

I think the gym / pool / pavilion is a sensible accounting of bathrooms. I'd put my hypothetical ones near the playroom which speaks volumes.

But re two lots of en suite, I can see that in your master and maybe the guest master but most of the bedrooms would surely be used by single kids?

I'm going
1-11 en suites
12-13 guest toilets
14: shower room by boot room
15: loo/large sink near playroom
16: gym/pool

Imagine if all the loos were flushed at the same time

@macaronirabbit thanks that has given me a much needed giggle!!

One for each bedroom 1-9
One near each main communal space
Living room /kitchen area
Rec room /tv area
Exercise /pool area
Etc

Maybe a toilet block for when you have parties with individual cubicles with sinks.

Has this come from the property board (although not 16!)? The answer seemed to be swingers!

Who knows.

AirBNB?

Crazy cat lady?

@Rollercoaster1920

I suspect from H&M not the property board

But yeah easy answer:

9 ensuite bathrooms, obviously. Downstairs bathrooms for guests near the parlours or equivalents for when you have big parties. Staff toilets. Toilets near the playroom/schoolroom. I'm thinking some of the 'bathrooms' are just toilets, no baths/showers. Definitely one for coming inside muddy or from swimming that you can walk into without crossing any other room or carpets. Maybe two of those in case you are having a pool party.

If I was a millionaire building a house I would have at least one toilet for every other room. Maybe two, one for me and one for anyone else.

The real question is how does anyone survive with just one family bathroom???

I was raised in a 7 bed, ten bathroom house. Each bedroom had a bathroom, there were two on the main floor, one by the pool, one in the basement.

Yes H&M. I never thought about Americans calling toilets bathrooms. That makes it easier to understand. Even so it’s a lot - especially if you’re doing the cleaning.

We had a house which technically had four bathrooms (4 bed, with sinks in 2 bedrooms but not ensuites)
Downstairs toilet
Upstairs toilet
Upstairs bath
Upstairs shower. (So bath, toilet and shower were all in separate rooms).
It was rather strange.

I would say
Master bedroom - 2 bath rooms ensuite - his and hers
Guest bedroom - 2 bathrooms same as above
other 7 bedrooms - ensuite bathrooms x 7
pool house - probably 2 bathrooms
at least a couple of downstairs toilets plus probaly some for staff to use so they arent using the same as H&M