to not understand whats wrong with a bathroom downstairs?

[notveryinventive]

Just been watching Homes Under The Hammer and they often do get houses with bathrooms downstairs and seem to think its a bad thing. Ours is downstairs and even though its a bit odd I kind of like it. Its much easier to bath the kids and dress them in the front room. Also if I fancy a bath on a night or when I get up before everyone for a shower I am less likely to disturb anyone sleeping.

So whats wrong with your bathroom being downstairs?

Yes of course it may reduce the number of potential buyers, as does many factors, but if you sell at a reduced price because of a downstairs bathroom then you presumably also buy at a reduced price for a downstairs bathroom. These things just have to be kept in perspective.

I love having a bathroom downstairs, it makes it so much easier when I come back wet and muddy from dog walking or from the stables and can just hop in the shower without trailing mud up the stairs, only thing with ours is that it is always freezing despite having 2 radiators in there [hmmm]

I think it helps that it our house their is a utility area and the back door between the kitchen and the bathroom, so smells, noises etc not really an issue as it feels quite seperate.

Our bathroom/loo is downstairs at the back of the house off the kitchen. Most of the houses around here are Victorian and had outside loo's and when modernided the loo was just added to the back of the house. Houses seem to shift pretty quickly round here so I guess many people aren't that bothered.

I guess you have to go a bit further in the night if the loo's downstairs but it's not that much futher. It's not like you're travelling from the East wing to the West wing of a mansion.

In my case - it meant downstairs kitchen was teeny tiny, and as I had a box room upstairs that was perfect for a bathroom, it made sense to move it.

The space I gained gave me a proper kitchen-diner where I'd only had a kitchen before. I love pointing to the rather oddly-located window in my kitchen and telling people 'that used to be the bathroom window!'

I totally got used to using it while the bathroom was still downstairs. It used to force me out of bed on Saturday mornings when I wanted to lie in, as I'd need to have a wee, but then used to make a cup of tea and wallow in the bath listening to Adam and Joe on the radio happy days. :)

Most of my neighbours who have the same house layout as me have kept the downstairs bathroom but think some of them have slightly larger square footage so if they have a bigger kitchen it's probably manageable. Mine was just too small and badly laid out to work for me. Losing a 3rd bedroom has probably cost me something in the value of the house but hopefully the larger downstairs space offsets that.

you don't need a bathroom upstairs just a loo upstairs, which takes up much less space

When the dc were potty training I was very envious of friends who had downstairs loos.
I don't really see the problem with them nor do I dream of a bloody ensuite.

Our house has a 2nd floor and a cellar, so we're constantly tramping up and downstairs. We sometimes joke that from washing machine in the cellar to clothes airer in the attic is actually further than walking to the shops, but mostly we just get on with it.

Oh - and I meant to add, on traditional Victorian terrace layouts where the bathroom is beyond the kitchen in a ground floor extension, it does mean the best possible view of the garden from the house is lost - if you like the idea of being able to sit in your kitchen and see the garden, a downstairs bathroom probably means you miss out on that.

My brother lived in a house like that and said going downstairs to the loo in the middle of the night in the dark/cold was a real chore, as it felt like the bathroom was such a long way from the rest of the house - they had a really long extension stretching into the garden. They moved the bathroom upstairs too.

I had a house with a downstairs bathroom that had been added onto the back of the house when indoor plumbing arrived - I hated it! It was freezing cold and miles from my bedroom (well, not that many miles, given it was a two-up two-down, but I like hopping out of the shower and into a nice warm bedroom to dress!).

Now I have an upstairs shower room, but no bath, so I have to bath my baby in a baby bath in the living room (it's the warmest room) sigh

YANBU we had a downstairs bathroom for years and it was fine.

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