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?

We rent a small 2 bed house that weo4sly has 3 toilets in it. A downstairs, one in the family bathroom and one on our ensuite. There are only me DH and DD4 here 😁

Weirdly not weo4sly

We currently have a 2 bed house with one bathroom, so just the one toilet. There's only myself, DP and 9mo DD at the moment so it's fine, never been an issue except when we had a party. We have just bought a house that has three bathrooms though and I can't wait. More because I'm lazy and hate having to go upstairs and to the end of the hall to have a wee

I grew up in a house with 2 bathrooms + downstairs loo. DP's family just had the one bathroom. Both from 2 adult 2 kid families and he did say having just one bathroom got annoying at times. All depends how many people live there to be honest.

I lived in a house share of 5 people (and guests/boyfriends at the weekend). One toilet. In the bathroom. It mysteriously worked. Having said that I would love another now even though there's only two of us as DH is a total bathroom blocker and I have IBD

2 adults one child. One toilet here. I'd hate having more. More bog roll, bleach, cleaning...

3 kids, 1 adult, 1 bathroom - we manage!

Most new build 2 bed flats seem to have two bathrooms these days. An ensuite and a family bathroom. I can’t see the point. In a 2 bed flat I would rather have extra living space than an extra bathroom.

I've never lived anywhere with anything other than one room, containing toilet, sink and bath. That's with up to five people living permanently there, and occasionally up to nine people with guests. Seriously, it will be fine.

I have 4 kids and we only have one toilet. In the shower room upstairs. It's not a big issue

"one room" meaning the bathroom, obviously. Our residences have had other rooms in them, just in case anyone was picturing the five of us all eating, sleeping etc. in the bathroom a la Monty Python.

When you open a thread and realise MN is a parallel universe in which having only one toilet is an absolutely not situation and a horror of horrors
Meanwhile, in the real world.....

Have none of you ever lived in shared accommodation/halls at uni?

Well yes - either 6 or 8 sharing facilities. But there would be two toilet cubicles and two showers between those people - that's the same ratio as a house of 3/4 with only one, but functionally completely different.

In fourth year we had a five-person one-toilet house share and it was worlds more difficult. I honestly don't know how the others coped when I had a horrendous stomach bug, because I could swear I lived in the bathroom that week.

I've read too many accounts on here of husbands and children coming in to have a shit while the poster is in the bath to risk one toilet. I want to be left in peace in the bathroom.

Have none of you ever lived in shared accommodation/halls at uni?

The halls had en-suite rooms

"almost like a savage."

That made me laugh out loud

OP: one toilet, in the bathroom, upstairs, will be FINE,

Unless you are a family of 7 and intending to take lodgers in the front room.

We had a 3 bed 3 tioet(one ensuite,),we don't need 3 so we kept ensuite and family bathroom and I have liberated space in myini kitchen by removing downstairs toilet and putting in washing machine,dryer,boiler and shelving out a long walk.The toilet outlet is capped of so it can be reinstated in future but it is fabulous.
The compulsory downstairs toilet is in modern house and does impinge greatly on floorplans.If I become imobile I will move as the bedrooms are upstairs anyway.

Only 1 in ours.

2 adults and 2 kids in this house with 1 loo. No ones died as a result

Is it in the house and upstairs? Possibly in the bathroom? Just want to check because that'd be quite an unusual set up...

One toilet 8 people and 5 girls when growing up. You just have to learn to cross your legs

My 2 bed house has 2 on suites, one downstairs toilet and another toilet for guests.
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*en suites.
At least get my spelling right if I'm trying to be smart.

DH and I live in a 2 bed flat, top half of a semi detached Victorian house and have 2 loos.

We could live with just one, wouldn't be the end of the world, but it's much more convenient having two. Now that we're used to having two loos, just one would put me off if house hunting and there was no room to put an extra loo in.

Two of us in a 3 bed house with one bathroom. Never really an issue, hubby just makes sure to ask me before he disappears for 20 into the bathroom lol!

My mum has three toilets, two downstairs, one en suite upstairs !