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Would it BU to plan to install a glass-walled shower cubicle in the corner of a bedroom

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Fadingmemory · 10/12/2014 17:28

Just that. Any thoughts from Piglet John or other experts of the plumbing fraternity or MNers who have such a thing would be very welcome.

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carlywurly · 10/12/2014 21:12

We once failed to buy a house for this reason, amongst a few others. Massively off putting. Glad you're rethinking.

Malabrigo · 10/12/2014 22:03

I have also walked away from an otherwise appealing house because of a weird shower in bedroom arrangement.
What's the problem you're trying to solve? Is it that you want another bathroom and have no space?

Jamrollypolly · 10/12/2014 22:06

We saw this in a house viewing it looked really weird. Don't do it!

bigbluestars · 10/12/2014 22:07

It is no big deal to remove a shower from a bedroom. I bought a house - a victorian villa flat with a shower cubicle in the bedroom. It did look weird but easy to remove and was not very costly.

It wouldn't put me off buying a house that I otherwise liked- it's no big deal.

Girlwhowearsglasses · 10/12/2014 22:08

Same here - smacks of bedsit land with brown swirly mouldy carpet.

There is a world where as sexy and cool wall in shower and bath is 'part' of a bedroom. But I think we are talking wet room behind a wall and tiled in marble with chrome taps and a claw foot bath.

ElvesCantTwerk · 10/12/2014 22:13

This house often comes up in my searches, I'm sure this used to have 3 bedrooms with the shower and now there are fewer pics. Is this the kind of thing you mean op? HERE

TheHappinessTrap · 10/12/2014 22:14

If you share a bedroom then I think it's inconvenient. The one that can sleep in can't and the one that needs to get up and shower feels restricted.

MissPenelopeLumawoo2 · 10/12/2014 22:17

We have one and it is fine, no damp, no real privacy issues (we have actually seen each other naked before!) We have a tiny bathroom with no room for a shower so this works well. It did not put us off buying our house, in fact we both saw it as a plus point!

shouldnthavesaid · 10/12/2014 22:26

My friend had this years ago, she was about thirteen at the time, her parents thought it would be like an en suite. It wasn't - it was a raised patch of tiling in the corner of her (admittedly massive) bedroom with a toilet, sink and shower. There was a shower cover but no such thing for the toilet and I always felt it would be like sleeping in your bathroom. If you have a stinky shit, a steamy shower, you're stuck with it for hours..

A shower might be OK, but you'd need a good fan I think, very good ventilation or your bed would get a bit damp and manky..

bigbluestars · 10/12/2014 22:28

I don't understand the privacy issues-in fact I think a shower in the bedroom could enhance intimacy. I wouldn't like the toilet though.

FamiliesShareGerms · 10/12/2014 22:31

I loathe houses where a shower cubicle has been stuffed in the corner of a bedroom, sorry

bigbluestars · 10/12/2014 22:34

You hate a whole house because of one small easily removed feature? Seems a bit drastic. If I otherwise loved a house it wouldn't be a problem- they are easy to remove. I think yo are being a little short sighted.

whois · 10/12/2014 23:39

Wouldn't put me off buying a house if there was already enough bathrooms to bedrooms and decent showers. Like you say, easily removed.

It would put me off if it was obviously the only way to have enough shower for the house!

nocoolnamesleft · 11/12/2014 00:38

When I was househunting, one of the houses had one of these...put me off, as I was worried about the damp problems....

EatShitDerek · 11/12/2014 00:43

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FamiliesShareGerms · 11/12/2014 01:02

Probably is drastic, bigbluestars, but I think it's more how it makes the whole place feel. I associate them with old fashioned decor and mobility aids (google "shower cubicle bedroom" and you get pages of links to easy living sites). If it was my dream home otherwise, of course I'd be willing to make changes, but it would have to be really special to overcome this. But then it's not my home, and if the OP doesn't intend to sell then the impact on potential buyers is more or less irrelevant

bigbluestars · 11/12/2014 06:49

nocool- why should a shower in a bedroom cause damp problems anymore than a shower in an en suite? If the work and extraction is good then why should it cause damp.
Do you have damp problems in your bathroom?

bigbluestars · 11/12/2014 06:57

families I don't know about making the whole house feel that way.

I have bought two properties with showers in the bedroom. THe first was a 1890s Georgian city centre property, all original features, marble firepalces, rooms 32 ft square, original walnout shutters, huge bay windows, all plasterwork intact. Stunning and elegant. It did have a bad shower cubicle in the master bedroom, but was so easily rremoved and certainly didn't put me off the property.

The second was a place I bought this summer. A very modern house, with a lot of fabulous interior features, again huge, light, amazing lighting, very modern bathroom and kitchen fittings.

Also happened to have a shower in one of the bedrooms - but works really well. I am keeping the shower this time, it gives us another shower in the houee, it is contemporary and my DD loves it. Again it doesn't make the house feel old fashioned at all.

It is such a small feature I don't get why it would stop someone buying a house.

Izzy24 · 11/12/2014 07:01

I wish I could live in Lincoln,....

Jill2015 · 11/12/2014 07:05

We viewed a house that had done a loft conversion. in the bedroom they had a free standing bath (Ok) and a toilet (behind a wall the same height as the back of the loo). So as you lay in bed.you could see the top half of your partner on the loo. We didnt buy for this reason.

Oh I wouldn't like that either, the toilet bit especially.

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Fadingmemory · 11/12/2014 07:11

OP here. The bedroom concerned (first floor, large, high ceiling, bay window) already has a solid-walled en suite shower room (with loo) in the corner. I would like to update it, hence thinking of glass walls but definitely NOT clear glass.

There is a "main" bathroom with both bath and shower on the ground floor of the house. The current arrangement did not put me off and it's just me living in the house most of the time.

Glad to have so many points of view!

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dexter73 · 11/12/2014 07:12

I would have thought that the problem with a shower with a good extraction system would be the noise. My dh gets up at 5.45 so if he was showering in the bedroom next to me with an extractor fan on it would wake me up.

YonicSleighdriver · 11/12/2014 07:19

Oh, if it's a actual room and you are just changing the walls, that sounds better!

bigbluestars · 11/12/2014 07:39

dexter- depends on the extractor. The one in my DDs shower is almost silent.

I think some here have some very old fashioned ideas about showers/fans.

dexter73 · 11/12/2014 07:55

Maybe I'm just used to clunky old extractors. Tbh the singing would be worse than the extractor noise!

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