AIBU to think it's weird to have a toilet in your bedroom?

[FreyaFromTheFens]

My neighbours have put their house on the market recently so I had a nosey online and saw that they have a toilet in the bedroom . A bath, sink and loo but no screening or bifold doors for privacy.
Even if there wasn't anyone in the room while you used it it's bloody odd isn't it?
I don't get it. Have seen it quite often on escape to the country/grand designs etc...
If you have one why?

Why are en suites grim? Don't you clean them?

We once went to look at an attic flat where in the sitting room there was a wooden construction, about the size of a tardis. It had four wooden walls that reached up to the ceiling, with a door on one side. When we asked the estate agent what it was, he explained it was a loo.
And sure enough when we opened the door, there was a loo. He explained that this interesting "feature" had to be there because of the plumbing. He really tried his best to make it sound like this arrangement was a bonus and added to the flat.

I don’t really have an opinion on en suites but I do understand why people like them. What I find odd is on a house buying program when a couple with no children at home want an en suite. If the house is mainly empty then does it really matter if you have to open two door rather than one?

One in germany had sliding door which either covered the loo or the shower but not both at the same time.

I stayed somewhere like that. Didn’t bother me at all.
There wasn’t a bathroom as such, just a shower, sink and toilet all next to each other. One door slid across to close which over one needed closing.
Having been married to dh for a number of years seeing him in the shower wasn’t an issue.

The furthest I would accept with that is a bath, and only in a very big bedroom. Even that is pushing it to be honest. Definitely not a toilet.

When I worked in social housing, people would occasionally reconfigure the flats or houses without letting us know. One of the oddest I even encountered was a house that had 2 adjacent toilets in the bathroom. I'd mystified as to how and why ?

I once arrived at a hotel at midnight after long journey to discover the toilet was in a glass box in the room with you. The only screening was some narrow opaque lines at approximately eye level if you stood up, so if you sat on the toilet you had nothing to screen you. I had to drape a towel over the box and get DH to put music on loudly and banned him from looking in the direction of the box. I had no problem with the similar box for the shower (which was also open to the room, so at least the toilet box wasn’t open!) but the roof above it was starting to get mouldy so just seemed like a terrible design all round!

@FamilyOfAliens

We all go to the bathroom at different times. It’s worked ok for nearly 30 years

God we’d never get anything done if everyone needed to shower consecutively!

@Iknowwhatudidlastsummer

Bathrooms don't need to be "ensuite" at all. You can have as many bathrooms as you want, just no need to attach them to a bedroom if you don't want to

Of course, but you’d likely have to reconfigure most houses to accommodate that as it’s unusual.

I’ve rarely seen a house with more than two full bathrooms which weren’t ensuite. Whereas I’ve seen plenty where at least 4 out of 5 bedrooms had an ensuite.

We've got an ensuite that I want to convert to a second family bathroom. You'd just need to move a door a little and it would be off the hallway

[quote PegasusReturns]@FamilyOfAliens

We all go to the bathroom at different times. It’s worked ok for nearly 30 years

God we’d never get anything done if everyone needed to shower consecutively![/quote]
We don’t shower consecutively! We shower at different times.

And we’re five-minute shower people. None of this “my bathroom is my sanctuary” nonsense.

Eeek no, that's odd. I remember looking round a house once and we opened a door in the bedroom, expecting a wardrobe, and there was just a toilet there. Nothing else, as it was tiny. Just a toilet, effectively in a cupboard. We didn't buy the place

@StanfordPines I stayed in a similar hotel also in Germany. It was very conscious of its own artiness.

The bathroom had all glass walls and the windows to the outside world had an electric blind rather than curtains for which I couldnt find the control. I was terrified that the following morning I was going to wake up being stared at by the people in the office block opposite.

Worse still would have been looking up and realising I could be seen sat on the toilet having a big think!

Fortunately one of the staff came to offer to turn down my bed. I refused that service but asked for help with the blind. Turned out the control was hidden behind the headboard!

I live alone but still wouldn’t want a toilet in my bedroom! Wouldn’t mind an en suite though. I had an en suite room for three years at university and it was lovely not to have to share or be vaguely presentable to go to the loo.

We once stayed in this bonkers house in the South of France. It had a toilet so small that you had to back in (couldn't turn around), and you couldn't close the door, as it hit off your knees. It was right under the eaves, and I was there with mates. Luckily, mine was the only bedroom on the same floor, so very little chance of anyone wandering by!

I hope the bedroom isn't carpeted.. Gross

@SnuggyBuggy

Given that I personally dislike en suites because I don't like the idea of shitting so close to where you sleep this would not appeal at all.

How do you cope in hotels?

Sounds grim!! Ideally I would like soundproofed 2 ensuites, one each

I'd do it with a wall or screen - just like a hotel room with a bathroom in the corner, and our bedroom wall backs on to the bathroom anyway so no toilet sound is unheard if you are in bed which is pretty grim.
In a terrace or semi if your bathroom wall is the wall the next door they can hear the lot which is a lot worse.

I stayed in an Air BnB once that had the (glass-walled) shower stall just plonked right in the bedroom with the loo in a little cupboard in the corner.

It was very odd. Definitely not something I'd want in my house.

I have had two houses with en suites. They like every en suite bathroom I have ever seen, were entirely separate bathrooms with windows, sink, toilet and shower and/or bath tube that opened off of the main bedrooms, I am struggling to understand why people have a problem with them. Obviously you would not leave the door open while using the toilet in any sort of bathroom.

Maybe they have special sexual tastes that require a loo to be in close proximity?!...

Bath tub. Sorry autocorrect

@SnuggyBuggy

Given that I personally dislike en suites because I don't like the idea of shitting so close to where you sleep this would not appeal at all.

1) Use the house bathroom or downstairs loo only for poos 2) How many people actually have a poo last thing at night or in the middle of the night unless they are ill or have a bowel condition? 3) Keep them clean

It's not rocket science.

I am quite frankly amazed at the precious fastidiousness of some mumsnetters on here. I assume they have never dealt with a baby's dirty nappy or a cat litter tray. Yes, it doesn't smell pleasant, but they really need to get over themselves.

totally weird

Our en-suite is open to our bedroom but we have the toilet in a separate room.