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 think downstairs lavatories are fairly essential for little ones, older relatives and friends, supper parties and fundraiser teas/coffee mornings, for passing hikers and cyclists and when using in garden. I wouldn't like the loos to be near the front door or opening onto other rooms though.

I have a downstairs one and one in the bathroom upstairs,
The downstairs one is attached to an outhouse whih leads off from the kitchen,its very handy when gardening,rather than having to take shoes off to go upstairs
I live in a housing association house and had a choice of keeping it and having it taken out,i chose to keep it

Sounds like the ones under the stairs that a couple of people have mentioned (that open into the lounge,) were put there as an add-on/addition. I can't imagine any house designer or housebuilder putting a loo in that opens into the lounge.

Ha! We have an outside loo. I use it most days.

In the house we are buying (renovated Victorian semi) they have converted the pantry into a downstairs loo so it's basically in the kitchen. The door is directly opposite the oven!
I'm not keen, hoping to convert the adjoining outbuildings and have a utility and then a loo so there's a 'buffer' between the kitchen and any toilet stuff...

Mine is like that midgwt. Space is at a premium in these old houses and I soon got used to it.

I lived in a house with a downstairs loo just off the sitting room. See attached diagram (hopefully!)

ExMIL had one that opened right into the kitchen. New build house. Foul.

I have a downstairs loo going off the hallway and one upstairs in the bathroom + one in the en suite

Second attempt.

Downstairs loos are now compulsory in new builds to future proof it for older people who can no longer get up the stairs.

A downstairs toilet is on my shopping list for my next house. I have an outdoor loo which is better than nothing but not as good as a downstairs one indoors!
It's great for preventing bathroom queues and my mum can't do stairs anymore so she has to use the outside one at the minute which isn't ideal.
Also I don't want guests going upstairs because it means I would have to keep upstairs as well as downstairs presentable and I'm a shit housewife.

And I too have been in newish houses where the downstairs toilet leads directly off an open plan living room.

I grew up in a 4 bedroomed , 4 storey house with 2 toilets and 4 children.

When we bought out house DM was very impressed that we had 3 loos over 2 floors (and at the time no children), because she had spent 15 years of her life running upstairs with a child needing a wee! (13 years from eldest to youngest child).

I have been in a Victorian era terrace where the loo was directly off the living room (obviously put in later, wouldn't have been there originally). It does happen.

YABVVVVU to dislike downstairs toilets, but YANBU to not want one going off the living room. Strikes me as yet another reason that open plan doesn't actually work in real peoples lives.

You can't hear anything in our downstairs bathroom, and it opens into the corridor, not into the family room. There's an exhaust fan you can turn on if you're really concerned, no one can hear anything over that. But then they know you turned on the exhaust fan. I don't know if that's better.

My personal downstairs loo dislike is when they are right by the front door so that the window is besides the front door.

Who wants a frosted toilet window on the front of their house? And who wants to use a toilet right next to where anyone coming in and out of the house is?

Mine is next to the front door. With a window placed in the porch.
Horrible place to put it.

A friend of mine has one that opens onto the dining room. Was enjoying coffee once after a lovely meal and was treated to the loud sound of her dad doing the longest, loudest wee ever.

I love my downstairs bathroom. It used to be outdoors but we got it knocked down and rebuilt and its off the kitchen (not directly there is a small hallway in between). My family are only allowed to poo downstairs because the flush upstairs is rubbish.

See.

We have a downstairs loo next to the front door. I would prefer it off the utility to the side of the house,but it is very useful for toilet training the toddler currently. Also have kept the stair gate on to deter visitors going upstairs. We had a phase of preschoolers wanting to go and play in my sons room and mess about upstairs. I found it very intrusive. My son doesn't even play in his room yet.

Ours is off the end of the hall but sound does travel to the lounge or dining room. :(

I tell guests they can use the cloakroom ' or upstairs if they prefer'. We have an en suite so the family bathroom is hardly used - it's more like a guest bathroom.

Years ago I visited my then boyfriend's friends- he hardly knew them (work colleague) and I'd never met them. I asked to use the loo - needed a poo- and they said 'It's just through there'- through some open French type doors separating the lounge from dining area. The doors were open. It was a very old listed house.

I went through the doors, loo on the left, and NO DOOR ON IT. Talk about horrified. I did a very quiet wee and had to hold on for hours till we got back to bf's house.

I have a loo that opens onto my lounge , we seem to own the only victorian house in the world where the side of the stairs is actually the lounge wall (can't do a diagram at the moment as I'm feeding DD), so there's no hallway for it to open onto iyswim. Positive side is that you can watch TV if you leave the door open