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?

Saw on Grand Designs recently too - the huge bedroom with no door and the bathroom/loo just behind a bit of wall but completely open. Not only to the bedroom, but to the hall/rest of the house. Bizarre.

Apparently, everyone wants an en-suite if new builds are anything to go by. It won't be long before sitting rooms have a row of toilets so the family can watch the telly whilst having a shit.

Assuming the plumbing works and there are no permanently lingering odours, I don't understand the problem with en suites. It's no less private/distanced to use it during the night than when one of us uses the other toilet during the day while the other person is just one wall/door away in the living room.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, of course!

I have an en suite and I love it as always need to wee in the night but this isn't even behind a low wall, nothing. Just open space between the toilet and the bed that it's facing

I don't like the new trend for baths in bedrooms - it's rank. Toilet in a bedroom? Double-rank. Yuck. I would not buy the house unless the room can be separated and that being the case I'd reduce my offer to make up for the need for more substantial remedial work.

Perhaps they like to chat....a lot?
Or keep an eye out for the postman?
Or maybe a kinky fetish that has by-passed the rest of us?

I'm also not worried about people pooing in the next room to me. Normal bodily function and all that.

The function is normal. The execution of it within earshot and nose-shot of other people is disgusting.

Vetiver if they use the toilet there are odours. Pee and poo smell bad. The smell lingers in toilets for a while. Doors contain it.

Covid isolation lock up?

@Ifailed

Apparently, everyone wants an en-suite if new builds are anything to go by. It won't be long before sitting rooms have a row of toilets so the family can watch the telly whilst having a shit.

Saw on Grand Designs recently too - the huge bedroom with no door and the bathroom/loo just behind a bit of wall but completely open. Not only to the bedroom, but to the hall/rest of the house. Bizarre

My SIL has this in her house. It doesn't seem that weird in real life I have to say.

Totally different kettle of fish to just having a bog in the corner of a bedroom though, eeeeeek!

if they use the toilet there are odours. Pee and poo smell bad. The smell lingers in toilets for a while. Doors contain it.

Well, yes, but I was assuming most proper en suites have a door. Ours does. (Actually, there's a door to the shower/sink area, then an other door to the tiny room with just the toilet.) I'd want a door between me and the rest of the world any time I used a toilet.

The part about permanently lingering odours was more in reference to a pp who mentioned someone who had plumbing problems in their en suite, which caused it to always smell. Most en suites don't have that problem.

I once helped with a survey of a very famous person's house that had no proper walls anywhere. All structural walls were glass bricks. All toilets, bathrooms, everything - completely open.

I already cannot stand loos in bathrooms, so it's beyond me why anyone would do that!

I think a desire for privacy is considered a very old fashioned notion these days in many areas of life, not just toilets.

That’s just weird. I don’t like an en suite normally either - although my parents’ one is ok because of how the bedroom is designed, sort of has a little corridor down to the bathroom.

I see the 'bath in the bedroom' thing in hotels. What is the appeal? Soggy carpets, steam.

Mr DePlume and I have been married since sabre toothed tigers roamed the earth and I am sure that part of the secret is total bathroom privacy.

Having a toilet in the bedroom would bring me out in a rash!

When I was at uni, in my friends student house, the only thing separating the toilet which backed straight onto the kitchen was a curtain!

I think that's actually illegal but no one seemed to care at the time!

Not only do i hate en suites i also detest "open plan living" I realise that makes me a loser and kirsty alsop would smack me :)

@Iknowwhatudidlastsummer

I already cannot stand loos in bathrooms, so it's beyond me why anyone would do that!

Where is it meant to be? In a cupboard?

No it's rank. Is there carpet under it?

@FreyaFromTheFens

I have an en suite and I love it as always need to wee in the night but this isn't even behind a low wall, nothing. Just open space between the toilet and the bed that it's facing

Noooooo

I've nothing against en suites, I mean they have doors. But this? I have never heard of such a horror. It's a trend?!

pencreed lots of houses have the loo separate to the bathroom. Usually in a room though not the corner of a bedroom

Lower priced hotels in France often had wash basin and bidets in bedrooms and one loo on each floor for residents.
Friend in London still has a separate loo but bathroom and hand washing several paces away.
Grim! Those door handles!

See I always think those separate toilets with no sink are also gross. You have to touch two handles after wiping yourself but before washing your hands