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To think it's fine to have 2 bathrooms & a downstairs loo in a 4 bed house?

146 replies

ilikeyoursleeves · 16/09/2010 22:57

We currently live in a 3 bedroom house that has one bathroom. We are in the process of extending the house & we will get a new ensuite bathroom plus a downstairs loo. So we will have 3 loos in total. I think it's normal to have an ensuite for a master bedroom and a downstairs loo seems the usual thing these days too, but my dh thinks otherwise & keeps saying why do we need 3 loos?! He thinks we should ditch the loo & ensuite & have bigger /more bedrooms instead.

Aibu?

OP posts:
Appletrees · 17/09/2010 09:29

thanks for clarifying balloon i am gripped Grin Grin

how do people survive without an ensuite?!

heh heh

no I don't really have toddlers or OAPs visiting but a toddler could be taken upstairs (oh god the stress, not) and the grandparents could go upstairs and maybe if we had a very infirm regular relative visiting we might, might consider it

but we never have, we don't, and won't soon, so for me that's like buying a vomit coloured carpet on the very rare off chance someone vomits on it

i don't want to listen to people's poo splashes when i'm watching the tv or in my kitchen

Appletrees · 17/09/2010 09:32

i'm sorry

i just think this is very funny

Appletrees · 17/09/2010 09:33

darcy I love your "I manage in a 300 year old house with two ensuites thank you very much

I love that

TrillianAstra · 17/09/2010 09:36

Don't want to hear poo splashes while watching TV? What height are you pooing from? When I lived in a flat, the only bathroom was closer to the living room and kitchen than a downstairs loo would be in many houses, and I never heard poo splashes while watching TV.

Do you have a special poo-splash spidey-sense?

IAPJJLPJ · 17/09/2010 09:40

just to add agreement - we have a four bed. one ensuite, one family bathroom and a downstairs loo

ApplesandBananas · 17/09/2010 09:40

I agree with CMOT, you don't need loads of space in an ensuite but a walk-in wardrobe/dressing room next to it or leading through from it would be lovely.

The other advantage of an ensuite/dresing room is it means you can keep all your makeup, hairdryer etc out of the main room so it doesn't look so cluttered and 'used'.

My parents had ensuite, large bedroom, dressing room and my mother swore by it when we were teenagers, gace her somewhere nice to go for some peace as the rest of the house was quite open-plan.

Appletrees · 17/09/2010 09:42

not specially, perhaps I have a special poo splash wee noise hatred

it would be in my hallway three feet from the living room and four feet from the kitchen

normal sitting height, depends on size of poo and sitting position I guess

all downstairs loos i am familiar with are in the hallway and the other doors off are to the living room and the kitchen

perhaps i ought to live in a detached new build?

no -- still wouldn't like a downstairs loo. really not.

Appletrees · 17/09/2010 09:45

I would rather have an outside at the bottom of the garden

Fel1x · 17/09/2010 09:52

I've got a 4 bed house with main bathroom, en suite plus downstairs loo. Any less would be wrong for size of house I think.
Do you actually need 5 bedrooms instead of the extra bathroom? Howany kids have you got?

thespindoctor · 17/09/2010 10:01

Our previous house was a 4 bed, 3 bathroom place (1 family bathroom, plus full size en-suite and a small en-sure with just a shower, loo and basin) It would have been perfect for a family with teenagers but to be quite honest, we didn't need 3 loos and it just made more cleaning work. I am a domestic slattern though Grin

Our current place has a family bathroom and an ensuite loo, and that suits DH,me and the toddler, who is still in nappies just fine at the moment.

YellowDaffodil · 17/09/2010 10:05

I think Estate Agents say you should have a minimum of 1 bathroom per 3 bedrooms.

So for a 4 bed house you need 2 bathrooms. Is there anyway you can fit a large family bathroom and your bedroom in the extension? I'm not sure about the ensuite obsession but 2 bathrooms is a must in a 4 bed house.

I would never buy a house without a downstairs loo or the potential to put one in.

thespindoctor · 17/09/2010 10:06

Oooh the memories are flooding back appletrees, a loo at the bottom of the garden. My grandparents had a loo in the garden. The spiders were HUGE, it always smelt of parafin from the lamp that was in there and they always bought that tracing paper style loo roll that you need a hundredweight of to get your bum clean (sorry TMI!). What was that called again? Izal?

MisterW · 17/09/2010 10:07

5 bedrooms and one bathroom? Barking!

Have a look at 5 bed houses on RightMove and see how many bathrooms and toilets they have.

Appletrees · 17/09/2010 10:07

I went to a SCHOOL with outside toilets

SummerRain · 17/09/2010 10:07

we live in a 3 bed and have an en-suite, a family bathroom and a downstairs loo.

My parents are also 3 bed and have 2 en-suites, and upstairs bathroom and a large downstairs toilet with a shower!

Appletrees · 17/09/2010 10:08

i'm waiting for an email and am paralysed at pute till it arrives

more hyacinth stories on life sans en suite to distract me please

notsomumsie · 17/09/2010 10:09

3 bogs, 4 beds in our house. We've extended, even when it was 3 beds we had 3 bogs. Can't have enough toilets in a house with children..

NordicPrincess · 17/09/2010 10:10

it would sell better to have more bathrooms, however its more to clean. i hate cleaning

TrillianAstra · 17/09/2010 10:28

I went to a school with outside toilets. In the 80s and 90s. You don't have to be a gimmer for that.

midori1999 · 17/09/2010 10:33

I don't think I could live without an en-suite now, and we have a bathroom, en suite and downstairs loo in our 4 bed.

You can have too many loos though. Our last house was a 4 bed with two ensuites as well as a main bathroom and downstairs loo and it was an absolute pain having to clean an extra en suite, not least as the kids insisted on using it, so unless I cleaned it every day, usually the loo in there a couple of times a day, there was always unflushed and stinky wee int he toilet! Yuck!

minibmw2010 · 17/09/2010 10:37

Please go for the ensuite, please please ... but don't put ceramic tiles on the floor as that emphasises sounds. We have a three storey with a shower room on the top floor, a main bathroom and ensuite on the middle and a cloakroom on the ground floor, so yep 4 toilets ... we just buy more bleach ...

anonymousbird · 17/09/2010 10:38

Ensuite and loo, deffo.

oldraver · 17/09/2010 10:38

We have four beds, with a family DS1'S bathroom and two ensuites plus downstairs loo. It is a Godsend having a downstairs shower room especialyl when B/F gets up very early. I dont get disturbed until he brings my coffee Grin

octopusinabox · 17/09/2010 10:54

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Appletrees · 17/09/2010 12:50

oh Trillian I've upset you

I'm really sorry your aunt can't come over.