To wonder why MN hates en-suites?

[Greenbluestar]

Just curious 🤨

I love them! When they're done well, of course. I've seen some shockers on Rightmove.

@Chasingsquirrels

MN isn't a single consciousness.

I like mine.

Yeah - but certain themes tend to attract a strong uniformity of view (eg loo brushes, pooing in an en suite, rehoming a dog)

@3luckystars

I think they are fabulous. Your own bathroom in your own room. It’s wonderful!

My friends parents have an actual toilet in their bedroom, no walls around it, just there. I think they were planning to put walls around it and then just didn’t. Now that is a different story!!

that would be my nightmare!!

but hey, if it works for them..

I love mine.

My last proper boyfriend before current one - he had an en-suite in his swanky wharf apartment - it was great but was a shower en-suite with toilet. I did sometimes feel a bit if I used it in the night and woke him up, but there was a proper bathroom just outside the main bedroom too. It's handy if people come to stay, not that he really did because his spare room was an office - he had an air bed mattress though stored away for guests.

I think another factor for me is I don’t like open plan, I like cosiness; I hate our current sitting room as it’s a classic Victorian terrace with the front sitting room knocked through to the back one, so the sitting room end feels open and exposed.

And en suites create an extra door in the bedroom, which has the same “feel” to me – it’s not a cosy enclosed situation any more and there are poo monsters and toilet snakes on the other side of the door. The extra door feels like the room isn’t finished, like the top of the Shard.

@IDidntKnowItWasAParty

I love them! When they're done well, of course. I've seen some shockers on Rightmove.

@IDidntKnowItWasAParty - when they're done well they're great. Used to work with architects and interior designers and in smaller jobs they were constantly asked to fit a bathroom (en-suite) into a much too small space.

@stuntbubbles

I think another factor for me is I don’t like open plan, I like cosiness; I hate our current sitting room as it’s a classic Victorian terrace with the front sitting room knocked through to the back one, so the sitting room end feels open and exposed.

And en suites create an extra door in the bedroom, which has the same “feel” to me – it’s not a cosy enclosed situation any more and there are poo monsters and toilet snakes on the other side of the door. The extra door feels like the room isn’t finished, like the top of the Shard.

@stuntbubbles - can't you do what the original plan of the house was and just put connecting doors in?

in my DM's house they did similar - created a huge living/dining room and knocked the wall down (back in 60s) and DM couldn't be bothered putting it back. Lucky they have another separate front room area.

Hmm I don't like them lots-just as the walls tend to be thin and I don't like people listening to me wee (which I get is my oddness) but each to their own

I successfully persuaded an architect to remove the ensuites from a redevelopment.
He'd designed three small 2 bedroom flats with a family bathroom and an ensuite bathroom and the legal minimum of storage. Just wardrobe sized.
I got that changed to 2 bedrooms a family bathroom and a store room. which I think is far more useful. Naturally I was the only woman in the meeting.
I asked " where will they store their hoover, iron board, mop & bucket. And he pointed to a bedroom wardrobe!

@Gonnagetgoing Don’t have the cash! Would definitely save for it if we weren’t moving anyway. On the wish list for new house: a proper enclosed sitting room, and no en suites

I like having my en-suite. I got it redone a few years ago and it's really nice.

I saw a comment recently on another thread from someone who hates en-suites. She then went on to say that she has to close the bathroom door all the time after her partner because it doesn't occur to him to do so. No wonder she dislikes en-suites...

I love mine!

In loft bedroom which really doesn’t need to be any bigger. Not shoe horned at all and saves going up and down stairs at night.

It’s hardly “pissing and shitting in the bedroom” - it’s a separate room!

I asked " where will they store their hoover, iron board, mop & bucket. And he pointed to a bedroom wardrobe!

I'm with you on that - we don't have any downstairs storage (although we're fine upstairs) - and it's ridiculous. I'm actually going to box in a bit of the hallway just so I don't have to look at this stuff.

I hated it with my ex because he'd always poo with the door open without the extractor and fucking stink the bedroom out. It was absolutely vile (and he was on medication which made the situation even worse). Shutting the door and just turning on the extractor would have removed the issue entirely.

If I was with someone who wasn't a fucking selfish idiot, I'm sure it would be fine.

Those of you who have inconsiderate husbands who are unable to close the bathroom door after doing a shit should have a problem with your disgusting husbands, not en suites!

@RidingMyBike

I hate ours! We're temporarily renting whilst we find a house to buy and I'm viewing it as an experiment in what we'd like to have! So many houses seem to have a titchy en suite shoehorned into a too small bedroom when storage space would be better.

Reasons I hate ours are mainly it's set up:
It's the only bathroom on top floor of a townhouse so if DD needs loo in the night she trots in (complete with commentary). I'm not happy about her navigating the stairs then so it has to be the en suite = disturbed night.
Its light switch is outside the room so you have to turn light on before going in - this puts bright light over the bed = disturbed night for other person. We've turned off the extractor fan as it was SO LOUD!
It's yet another bathroom to clean.

I'd possibly feel differently if it was a large bedroom with en suite off the foot of the bed instead of right next to it. If light was switched on inside en suite and there was a soft/low light option.

You can get a stick up wall mounted USB rechargeable motion activated light relatively cheaply from Amazon, like £10. Means no switching the main light on and a calmer less bright light to not wake you up. We have them in the under-stairs cupboard also and that only needs charging once a month

I dont really like ensuites - and thats not because I am against ensuites.

Confusing I know!

I would absolutely love a huge ensuite attached to a room big enough to carry one IYSWIM - ie. one of those grand masters with a little lounge area before you get to the bed area.

What I absolutely hate are 99% of normal ensuites - ie. a tiny room with an ensuite shoe horned in.

So for simplicity I say I dont like them. Because only in my dreams could I ever afford a home with a grand Master

That thread is hilarious. The best comment was someone saying you’re basically pooing in your bedroom 🤣 (Even though there are walls and a door in the way). Feeling bad for people who stay in our guest room now with only a wall between the bed and our main bathroom. I’m practically pooing on their heads apparently 😉🤣🤣🤣

@Polyethyl

I successfully persuaded an architect to remove the ensuites from a redevelopment. He'd designed three small 2 bedroom flats with a family bathroom and an ensuite bathroom and the legal minimum of storage. Just wardrobe sized. I got that changed to 2 bedrooms a family bathroom and a store room. which I think is far more useful. Naturally I was the only woman in the meeting. I asked " where will they store their hoover, iron board, mop & bucket. And he pointed to a bedroom wardrobe!

Well done. I love an ensuite but not at the expense of a bare minimum of storage space.

I don't mind the loss of bedroom space, but I don't especially like ensuites because (a) I don't like having to listen to someone else peeing, especially in the middle of the night, and (b) It restricts the use of one bathroom to the occupant(s) of that bedroom. I'd rather have, say, two bathrooms for the whole household to use - much more practical, especially if you've got guests staying too.

I have those things you will have seen on amazon that dangle over the toilet bowl, which gives enough light to wee by, and when one of those ran out I also got a battery/movement sensor LED thing from the middle aisle at Amazon.

But husbands, well, I got rid of my appalling DP last year, but even he didn't poo in the ensuite with the door open!

My friend lives in a 2 bed flat where there's one shower room, which is ensuite to the main bedroom. There is another loo, but no other shower/bath, so if anyone stays they either have to wash in the tiny sink in the loo, or use the ensuite. I would 100% never buy a flat with that kind of set up. Terrible design.

I love mine. It isn't shoe horned in at all but our house is older. I do think a lot of newer builds have tiny bedrooms just so they can add an en suite and inflate the price, at least the ones we went to see were like that.

Our family bathroom feels like a trek in the middle of the night, its along a corridor and around a corner next to the other bedrooms so handy for the kids but not us. I wouldn't be without an en suite now.

Thinking of changing my name to IvanOnSweet