To really dislike downstairs loos?

[ThomasRichard]

Especially if they open onto the living room! I don't want anyone hearing me wee/ sort out pads/ pass wind etc. Asking to use the upstairs bathroom is basically announcing to everyone that you're going to do a poo. Argh!

I toilet trained DD without a downstairs loo, what a pain. We bought our current house mainly because of a "poo loo" as we call it (and a utility and ensuite, but that's another story). The back garden is tiny though.

The building regs had changed in at least 2012, it is now only commercial kitchens that require two doors between the loo and the kitchen. I only know from throwing a complete hissy fit when we viewed the house next door (new build estate), the loo opened straight out into the kitchen! I wouldn't view the rest of it. At the same time though I wouldn't be without our downstairs loo, it came in it's own after my husband's cancer as well as making it a lot easier for the kids with potty training. I believe the new regulations are that there must be at least one cloakroom on every floor to allow for disabled access.

I'm going to extend my downstairs loo to add a shower cubicle too. It's so, so useful with kids and disabled guests.

My apartment has the main bathroom opposite the living room door but nobody seems to mind. My friends ask to use the en suite sometimes and that's fine

Never seen - or known of - a downstairs loo opening into a lounge.

Would love to see a map of a house with this actual phenomenon.

And no I have no issue with downstairs toilets.

I think its great. No need for guests, workmen etc to go upstairs and potentially snoop around. Great for toilet training and for when someone has D&V.

I thought you had to have two doors between a loo and a living area if it was the ONLY loo in the house. Otherwise one door will do.

Ours is off the utility room - absolutely fine. I did live in a house (new build) where the downstairs loo was off the kitchen - definitely a no pooing rule there.

God no I love our downstairs loo. We lived without one for 15 years until we moved here, and I'd never be without one again!

I have a friend who doesn't let the family use the downstairs loo so that she can be sure it's always guest ready. She thinks this is normal

YABU. Who wants guests traipsing through their upstairs!?

I agree. I live our downstairs loo for the kids, or for when my husbands in the shower. But I always direct guests upstairs where they can have a bit more privacy.

When I was 15 and visiting a boyfriend's house I was suddenly taken by a massive bout of the squits - the noisiest, smelliest squits imaginable. I had to go to their downstairs loo, right next to the living room and when I came out his gran, aunty and parents were sat, po faced (possibly poo faced I smelled vile) as they had come to meet the new girlfriend.

I'm STILL traumatised nearly thirty years later!

However in my house I like the downstairs loo (which has a window thank fuck) so yeah you are being a bit unreasonable.

But placement in living rooms or indeed THROUGH kitchens is awful.

I was never a fan. My MILs was opposite the (never closed) living room door and it felt too close and I'd always nip upstairs. Now I've got my own I don't really use it. The kids do though and it was the "best thing ever" when I broke my leg last year. Wouldn't have a house without one now.

I like our downstairs loo for the convenience of getting DD there in time, but I do take the point about it being obvious you need a poo if you go upstairs. Not so much in our house, it usually means I want a sneaky minute on my e-cig, but certainly at my parents' I only go upstairs for a poo.

What I really hate is the en suite. It's like a litter tray in the corner of the bedroom. I do not want to smell the contents of DH's bowels, or hear them being evacuated, when I'm just waking up and want to drink coffee quick before DD wakes up.

Again, does anyone have a floorplan/picture of this phenomenon that is a toilet that comes straight out into a lounge/living room? Never seen one or heard of one in my life.

The one I saw was a 1970s detached house with a large living room but no hall. Stairs went up from the living room and loo was under the stairs Raven

I've only got a downstairs loo :(

We have a downstairs toilet - its not he ground flood and just opens onto the hallway. It isn't opposite any other room. Further down the corridor there are other doors leading to the utility room and the kitchen/dining. But it isn't really visible from inside any of them.
Guests use that one or the one in the bathroom upstairs (2nd floor) - living room is on middle floor.

We have an ensuite too and never have any issues with noise/smell.

We've just moved house and having a downstairs loo is one of the best bits of our new house!

You don't have to climb up the stairs every time you need a wee and don't need to tidy upstairs if you have guests.

It doesn't open into the living room though, never heard of that.

Our downstairs loo is off the utility room.

We only have a downstairs bathroom as the back of the house through the kitchen.

Nobody would ever be able to come to my house then as I only have a loo downstairs as my bathroom is on the ground floor!

I live in a Victorian two bed terrace and the bathroom was built onto the back of the house, off the kitchen (well with a little hallway between them so that there are technically two doorways between the rooms, one from kitchen to hall and the bathroom door, although there isn't an actual door on the kitchen) and there's just the two bedrooms upstairs ... but then as a terrace you can hear alsorts from the neighbours anywhere in the house so I just tune noise out anyway

My parents only have a downstairs loo - no ensuites or anything upstairs. I can't say I've ever thought about it! The only time it ever bothered me was when I had to pee in the night and I had to run all the way back up to bed to stop the monsters getting me