2 toilets in a bathroom - is this a thing?

[Magnoliainbloom]

Came across this pic whilst on a property search. I’ve never seen this before in my life. Is there an explanation for it?

The accommodations for journalists at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 were mostly unfinished or otherwise terrible. I remember one journalist tweeting that the hotel reception had no floor, but he did have two toilets in his single room.

Same here!!

Agree 👍

How about this? Facing each other so easier to talk?

It is probably two types of toilet. Maybe one is composting?

I watched a vid of someone who lives on a remote island in the arctic circle, they had two different types of toilet.

To put it delicately, one for number 1 and the other for number 2.

'No toilets in bathrooms' was a thing when I was a child. The toilets had a room each, so that people could use them in privacy. It seems very uncivilised to me to have toilets in bathrooms.

It definitely is a childminder house.

Will be absolutely nothing to do with privacy, and everything to do with the fact toilets were outside until mid 1900s and a lot of houses were 'converted' to move the toilet inside so they would often be basically I'm/just off the kitchen where the main drain was.

Then the trend to put toilets upstairs came in ...and then someone must have had the idea of putting them in the same room, no doubt lots of knocking through happened.

Now it's usual to have 2+ loos in the house.

More trends towards downstairs shower and toilet as well, as people shower way.more than ever.

At that same time, my childhood, many families still had outdoor toilets. But, the houses that I knew, built from the 1930s onwards (ie before I was born) had toilets separate from bathrooms. I should imagine that as well as plumbing issues, people would have been concerned about hygiene. Whatever the motivation of architects and builders, the effect for families was privacy.

The worst thing is they are both OFF THE KITCHEN!

ok now this is ridiculous, who would want this 😂

I don't see how privacy comes into it, surely you just lock the bathroom door. I grew up with a separate toilet (at one time an outdoor toilet) but you had to come out of the toilet to wash your hands (touching door handles) then you might find someone in the bathroom having a bath and not be able to. If I bought a house with separate loo the first thing I would do is knock through. A downstairs loo with basin is essential though and I think all new builds have this now.