to think the designers were having a sneaky laugh at this one?

[booyhoo]

i mean the ones that designed my house and all the others in this cul-de-sac. they put the downstairs loo at the front of the house so that i either have to sit in the dark or turn the light on and let all my neighbours know I'm doing a poo. i have a blind but i know from seeing my neighbours silhouettes that it is still easy to see that i am sitting on the loo. if i go upstairs it wakes the dcs. thanks for that lovely designer person.

PMSL @ squirt tossing!

Poor design, indeed. I doubt I'd worry about it, myself, but I'm oblivious to house layout things. I do remember feeling weird when I'd be having a bath the same time the neighbor was in our old terrace house (the bathrooms shared a thin wall, presumably it was an extension). Thankfully the walls weren't thin enough to hear toileting noises.

My bathroom's under the stairs... do I win a prize for the most stupid place? The bath is LITERALLY under the stairs - climb over the taps and duck down under the stairs themselves to get in.

OK someone get the location and we'll all go down and time the poo frequency.

I have just seen a floorplan of a house where the toilet is located half way up the stairs. And the bathroom is located next to the toilet, with entrance from the top of the landing. That is pretty stupid!

And another houseplan shows the main bathroom and toilet sandwiched between the utility room and the kitchen. No bathroom/toilet on the first floor.... That is also a little stupid. You have a loo with a fab garden view. And a kitchen with NO view.

I actually want to buy that house. I mean, the one with the toilet half way up the stairs. I will knock the wall down between the two rooms, and remove the toilet door, and put a sunken bathtub into the space where the toilet WAS. Much better solution.

Yeah we've got no upstairs bathroom at all here and it's a pain in the arse doing the moonlight streak to the bog!

Well, technically at the moment we have two houses - new house has an upstairs bathroom, old house has the comedy bog.

"Of course when I got in DP and DD were both watching the TV and no one was actually in the bathrooms."

DD leaves the light on in the downstairs loo all the time. If the OP lived opposite what would she make of that?

and while I'm here. do you know what else i hate about my loo. i hate the fact that whn you've done a smelly poo and you need to open the window. the neighbours will see you at that aswell and know you're smelly. if i left the window open all the time then most likely the moment i sit down to poo someone would hear me. if the loo was at the back then there'd be no problem.

My downstairs loo is right by the front door too. I have a big bush growing outside the window though, if I were bothered about being seen! We brush our teeth in there and the kids wash their hands in the low sink so the light's on and off all the time.
One summer's day I rushed in, left the front door and the bathroom door open and leapt on the loo to have a wee. While I was sitting there the postman tossed my mail through the open front door on to the hall floor :o

Could change the lightbulb to red and have some real amusement with your sillouette outside!

I quite like where ours is at the moment - you can watch the telly if you leave the door open while having a movement!

My cousin has just moved into her first house and she has a downstair, by the front door loo. She made me stand in the street outside to see how much of her head I could see from the outside and whether people would be able to tell what she's doing. I refrained from pointing out that if the neighbours see the outline of a head through the frosted glass that's there for more than 7 seconds, then they'll know she's having a tom tit.

oh yes, that's one positive. i can watch the telly with the door open.