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To dislike ensuite bathrooms?

281 replies

UnnecessaryFennel · 01/09/2018 22:35

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?

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TeddyIsaHe · 01/09/2018 23:23

I love mine! Although I live in a victorian terrace with the main bathroom downstairs off of the kitchen, and usually the third bedroom is off the master, the people I bought the house off turned it into a en suite and its fab! Absolutely huge, windows etc. Although dd uses it more than me because it has the bath in and the shower is downstairs. So its basically her bathroom.

MrsSnootyPants2018 · 01/09/2018 23:23

I love ours! It means we can keep all of our toiletries in their away from our DD and all her bath toys etc can stay out the way in the other one.

It also means we don't have to go past her room and wake her!

StatisticallyChallenged · 01/09/2018 23:24

Like this one - they've given the bedroom dimensions as 14'6 x 14'4, which would have been a fairly nice bedroom. Not enormous but good and square, plenty of room for a big bed plus storage. Except they've carved the en suite out meaning most of the room is probably about 9ft wide. Oh and it's not really 14' long either since they've measured inside the wardrobes and cupboards.

That room is not big enough to take an en suite.

To dislike ensuite bathrooms?
sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 01/09/2018 23:24

I fucking miss my ensuite. Absolutely miss it like a bastard. It was bigger than my current family bathroom, it was beautiful, it was perfectly ventilated, and I loved being able to roll straight out of bed into the shower that was fucking massive.

It wasn't a little boxroom, or a corner carved out of other space - it was a really good use of space, and I miss it It was also another loo when you don't want to use one where you might be... um. overheard

mrbob · 01/09/2018 23:25

Oh and a huge window so no damp

LaLaLamp · 01/09/2018 23:26

I'd NEVER have one, unless I lived on my own YANBU

catinboots9 · 01/09/2018 23:27

Totes agree OP. All you end up with is a smaller, damper bedroom - that smells of your DH's shit. All for the sake of a windowless shower room. When did a 5ft walk to the bog become so insurmountable?

MrsChollySawcutt · 01/09/2018 23:32

This thread is bonkers, another only on MN opinion you u would never see in real life. It's made me laugh though and remember the Blackadder episode where he is stony broke and trying to sell the house:

Mrs. Pants: But what about the privies?
Blackadder: Um, well, what we are talking about in privy terms is the latest in front wall fresh air orifices combined with a wide capacity gutter installation below.
Mrs. Pants: You mean you crap out the window?
Blackadder: Yes.
Mrs. Pants: Well in that case we'll definitely take it. I can't stand those dirty indoor things.

StripeyDeckchair · 01/09/2018 23:33

We have a large bathroom & walk in wardrobe off our bed room, you enter into a short corridor- bathroom, then wardrobe to the left and bedroom ahead. All have windows so no damp problem and the wardrobe acts as sound insulation.

Atthebottomofthesea · 01/09/2018 23:33

We have moved from a house with an ensuite to one without. I don't miss it that much though going for a night wee is a lot harder.

We have a bathroom upstairs with tub and separate shower and a large shower room downstairs. We viewed a new build that had an internal ensuite, which just looked awful. The main bathroom didn't have a window either. This was a 4 bed detached.

Menarefrommarsitwouldseem · 01/09/2018 23:34

YABU

I have 2 en suites, along with the bathroom.
They're not tiny shower rooms. The one in my room has a bath and a shower. My bedroom is still large.
The second en Suite is not as large but houses a double shower.

The family bathroom is used by youngest dc and her the eldest has the second en Suite. It's been fantastic for the teen years.
My one is my little sanctuary.

Only thing that pisses me off is the cleaning!

Needsleepneedsleep · 01/09/2018 23:36

I LOVE having two ensuites and a main bathroom and a downstairs wc

Crunchymum · 01/09/2018 23:38

Get a chamber pot and be done with it?

Honeyroar · 01/09/2018 23:38

I totally agree re the shaved off the bedroom, size of a wardrobe type ensuites with plasterboard walls. However if we ever finish renovating our house, our future bedroom will be huge with a massive en suite - big enough for a double shower, large free standing bath , loo, double sink and fireplace. It will also have a fitted double wardrobe to house our sheets and towels, plus two laundry bins that make a seat. At the minute it's a small double/large single bedroom, but we don't need that many bedrooms. It will have thick stone walls between it and the bedroom, be larger than the existing family bathroom and have a row of mullion windows in front of the bath with breath taking views up the valley.

Santaclarita · 01/09/2018 23:38

I wouldn't have one, but I like our new build we rent as we have two bathrooms. So we each have our own bathroom technically. But would want both bathrooms to have windows as they don't since we are in a terrace. But it's renting not owning and renting around here is tricky as properties go quickly so I didn't care at the time as long as we got it.

TheFaerieQueene · 01/09/2018 23:40

Without an ensuite I would have to go down one staircase across the house and up another staircase to the bathroom.

TheDishRanAwayWithTheSpoon · 01/09/2018 23:43

See if you have a big house, with plenty of storage space etc then I can see the point of an ensuite. But not a cramped shower cupboard off a cramped bedroom

I am also impressed everyone can control their DPs toiletting arrangements, if I said no shitting in the ensuite DP I can guarantee within 5 minutes (or the mysterious half an hour it takes him) he would have shat in it.

DPs parents have 4 bed house with 4 showers and 5 toilets and only 2 of them? I mean what's the point? Why so many bathrooms? I can see 2 showers and a downstairs loo but 5 bathrooms? And the bedrooms are all quite small and you think this could be a really lovely 3 bed 2 bathroom house but instead it's a cramped 4 bed 4 bathroom house.

picklepost · 01/09/2018 23:44

All the posters saying they'd prefer a walk in wardrobe, why does it have to be either/or? Surely you'd just have both?

nokidshere · 01/09/2018 23:45

Love our en suite. It large and airy with windows and ventilation. Bedroom is also huge so no problems there and teenagers have their own which is fine by me

Why is it like poohing in your bedroom? Ours is a proper room with a proper door, just like the main bathroom down the hall

waterandlemonjuice · 01/09/2018 23:46

Love my en suite

It's a decent sized bathroom though

And we have several others so it's fine

ilovepixie · 01/09/2018 23:47

I love my en suite handy for midnight pees and it has a window which is always open so no smells or damp.

Skyejuly · 01/09/2018 23:49

Yabu. Is a necessity with teenagers!

catinboots9 · 01/09/2018 23:55

Everybody seems to be missing the point on this thread. Well I think so.

En suites are a delightful accessory when a house is big enough, airy, and space is no object.

What me (and other PPs) are saying (I think) is it's rubbish to squish an extra bathroom into a 2up 2down semi in Basingstoke when it's really not necessary

LeighaJ · 01/09/2018 23:58

They're exceedingly common in the US, they aren't carved out of bedroom space unless the house was renovated specifically to have one. Otherwise it's just another room.

LeighaJ · 02/09/2018 00:00

If they are lying about the dimensions of the bedroom then that's a while other issue.