To dislike ensuite bathrooms?

[UnnecessaryFennel]

Currently house-hunting and getting fed up with en-suite bathrooms being carved out of bedroom space and then being sold as some sort of plus point.

Plus, there is nothing cools my ardour like the sound of dp doing his ablutions first thing (and I'm sure he feels the same about me).

Am I alone in preferring my bedroom to be entirely separate from my bathroom? Why have they become such A Thing?

I don't like them either!

Having a shit near where you sleep is gross.

I know of someone who said that it is disgusting and unhygenic to shit near where you did your cooking, i.e. in the same building, i.e. having an indoor toilet instead of an outhouse at the bottom of the garden. I think he and people who think like you are are coming from a similar place in your aversion to the modern world. (Though in the case of en-suites, I'm willing to accept they might sometimes be crap/manky if they are a conversion rather than purpose-built. I have literally never seen a conversion.)

Im a cleaner and hate being trapped in the poky, musty smelling things while cleaning them

There is no general reason why an en-suite would be any smaller or mustier than any other bathroom. I think you (and most others complaining) must be talking about some subset of en-suites I've never encountered, bad conversions in old houses that weren't designed for them.

It’s so much easier dealing with periods and mooncups in an en-suite than in the family bathroom!

Many en suites in new build houses are little more than a walk in cupboard, and don't even have windows.

Although it sounds like some referred to on here are bigger than our main (and only!) bathroom. How on earth do we cope?

The bathroom sensory experience (particularly the umm... aromas and backing track) should be kept well away from ones boudoir. Especially when ones DP has bowels which are actually weapons of mass destruction.

YANBU at all.

There is no general reason why an en-suite would be any smaller or mustier than any other bathroom.

^Most en suites I have seen don’t have external windows. They are small and musty

I'm with you Op. We have two proper bathrooms, neither en-suite. Much better.

Some of these comments are ridiculous..
it’s not a toilet IN your bedroom, it’s a separate room NEXT to your bedroom .. like any other door .
Unless you like having a crap with the door open it shouldn’t be an issue.

Ours is through the clothes room, I love having it there. I do know what you mean though, some just take up too much bedroom space and are too close to the bed.

En suites have really had their day and really date a property. They just put normal bathrooms in new builds these days.

Ours also has a window, I've never seen an ensuite without one!

YANBU I dislike them. I looked at a new build the other day and every bedroom had one! As PP said ours has the best shower so it's a thoroughfare of wet feet, towels dumped on my bed and discarded clothes!

If someone is in the bedroom I always use the bathroom to go to the loo.

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I never understood why the biggest bedroom has the smallest bathroom. I’m not a fan at all.

I’d rather use the main bathroom and leave an en-suite for a spare room (if only I had that much spare space)

Our en-suite is over the stairwell - so not carved out of the bedroom but is accessed through the bedroom. It has a window so we turned the fan off and just open the window when we've had a shower or DH has opened his bowels We have recently reconfigured another bathroom (we've got 2 others) and toyed with the idea of making it en-suite but decided against it in the end as we wouldn't have been able to put a window in and it would have been very small. We have gone for a bigger bathroom accessible from the landing - as is the other bathroom. Still love our en-suite though.

There are some new-builds at the end of our road where the design on the bigger 4 beds has the ensuite taking a corner off the main bedroom so that bedroom is no longer square/rectangular. Seems an odd design to me.

I live outside UK in the EU and my neighbours are bemused by what they see as a very British obsession for en-suites. I couldn't understand until my Brit friends did up their very ordinary farmhouse with toilets and showers to every bedroom. Why oh why, I couldn't fathom it. Waste of materials if you ask me.

I have a lovely two bed flat with an en suite.. who needs an en-suite in a two bed flat OGS.. i use it as additional storage space!

Oh the joy of the nighttime wee...I can get to my en-suite without turning on a light or even opening my eyes. No way would I be without it!

I quite like them as long as there is a window.

Gives me a sense of privacy.

I don't have one at home though!

Mine is 10 ft by 8ft. Has a full free standing copper bath, underfloor heating, sofa I love it.

It is a Victorian house and i goes it was the smaller male bedroom off the main.