To buy a house with one toilet

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Is this a bad idea?

The only toilet is in the bathroom. It's a two bed house. Would this get annoying?

Dh is one of six children and they only had one bathroom with everything in the one room ie no separate toilet. The killings between his sisters are legendary lol! We are also a six child family and had a separate toilet and room with bath and shower and there were never fights. We moved house when only three of us were left at home to a house with three bathrooms. We didn't know ourselves choosing different toilets haha

So it’s a two bed house with an upstairs bathroom.

A perfectly normal house then. Unless you or your family have mobility problems I fail to see the issue.

I've gotten used to having two. You could absolutely manage with one but there have been times where having two has really come in handy. We are a family of 4 and will be toilet training dd soon so having two will be handy then also.

Most two bed houses only have one toilet in my experience?

4 of us live in a 3 floor, 4 bed with only 1 toilet. I can see it getting annoying when the DCs are older.
DM used to live in a 3 bed new build with 4 toilets. 4! There was only 2 of them living there.

Never lived anywhere with more than one in the main bathroom. Grew up as one of 4, now have 3 at home, 5 when big two are back from uni. Never been a massive issue

I think it depends how many people in the house and what you're used to.

I would never buy a house without at least one downstairs and one upstairs loo, but I haven't lived anywhere with fewer than 2 loos since I was a child.

Is there anywhere you could put an extra one in downstairs?

We only have one loo, downstairs, and with four of us in the house it's a bit annoying at times.

That said, given that much of the world has to cope without any loo at all (and it often isn't safe for women to go out to the fields or wherever at night), I thank my lucky stars that we even have that.

It's less cleaning, too.

Perfectly normal, my three bed 30s semi has one toilet in the bathroom, it's never been a problem, no one spends hours in there, no rota needed.

If you can afford not to then I wouldn't.

OP - HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVING THERE????

If three/four or fewer then what's the problem?

Less cleaning

How many of you will be living there?

I have a 2 bed with one bathroom. One toilet in the bathroom. It's fine now my husband had left. It was a fu king nightmare when we were still together as he had a 1.5 to 2 hr bath every night. It's just me a baby and toddler now and the only annoying thing is having to take us all upstairs when the toddler needs to go.

I’d not want it these days as I struggle with the stairs. Dh and I didn’t have a downstairs loo for a number of years. Could you install one?

Pretty normal, especially for a two bed house. We only have one, and our bathroom is in an extension of an extension down (steep) stairs (2up2down Victorian terrace; first extension is the kitchen, second the bathroom), so it's a bitch to get to at night, but it's not a huge deal. In my teens, we were a family of 5, including 2 small children, in a 3 bed semi with only one toilet (again, downstairs bathroom...) We all coped, just about, though it's horrible when me, dp and DS go to stay -- 7 people and one bathroom does not work!

I think youll find yourself quickly adapting.it wont even be a thing after the first few months.
you also learn to be more mindful of other thinking of when someone else might need it if you going in there for a time or if someone need to be in work first.
is there an option later to build another if it does become impossible

I think the idea that everyone has more than one loo in their house and would never even consider looking at one without a downstairs loo is one of those MN distortions.

The majority of people I know only have one toilet (in their bathroom upstairs). I’ve just viewed loads of houses (all 3 beds+) and only one of them had more than one toilet. My old house had one toilet (and we had no problems selling it) and the one I’m now buying only has one toilet. I wasn’t the only one offering on it either.

The one I live in now has 4 toilets, and that’s frankly too many. I won’t miss having to clean them all.

In real life I don’t think people are as obsessed with downstairs loos as they are on MN.

I would hate it. Just about doable if the loo was separate from the bath, but not as an all-in-one.

OP beyond horrible.
One toilet would label you in a terrible way- almost like a savage.

In real life I don’t think people are as obsessed with downstairs loos as they are on MN

People on MN are people in real life too

I have never lived in a house with more than 1 toilet. Our current house has a separate toilet/bathroom but our previous one was combined 2 adults 5 kids we managed perfectly well.
Have none of you ever lived in shared accommodation/halls at uni.
A 2 bed house with one toilet will seem a luxury compared to that.

Until very recently we had 6 people living in our house and one loo. We’ve been here 16 years!

Oh AND it’s downstairs INSIDE the only bathroom!

This reminds me of the Not the Nine O'clock sketch where Rowan Atkinson was designing his house and kept adding toilets to every room...

People on MN are people in real life too

Yes, but what they post of MN doesn’t necessarily represent real life. As far as I can tell, MN has quite a distorting effect on pretty much any topic.