to want to move house so i can have another toilet!

[bekkaboo]

i want to move house as this one only has one loo! i think 2 is required! and i want a utility room. DH thinks no reason to move but god he always seems to be in bathroom when im crippling with stomach ache and in need of the loo!

but bekaboo, home improvements dont always have to be about adding value to your property. if its what you need, then an extra bathroom would be worth it, surely? we have 3 loos and they all get used. i have to have somewhere to banish dh. cant have him stinking out the main bathroom!

"Can you get one in under the stairs. Thats what we did. Its great. I send DH to the downstairs loo for his daily morning you know what. I dont want to smell it whilst I brush my teeth! "

For the above reasons no way I am having a loo downstairs... I do not want to smell IT while watching telly or, even worse, cooking a lovely meal [gagging emoticon]. I am worries about having an ensuite next month tbh!

BTW how can a three bed terraced be more sought after than a four bed one?

Trouble is these days we are all guilty of having far too many material possesions. We moved from a small 3 bed house to a big 4 bed housewith 2 extra full bathrooms, a study, utility room, playroom and a garage, and we have comfortably filled it with the furniture/belongings etc we had in the old place. We have 900sq ft more space yet filled it easily. It is no surprise we struggled to keep the old place neat.

they say a four bed semi arent sought like 3 beds as anyone who wants 4 beds would buy detached not a semi which i tend to agree with

Hmm I see the point.
normally there's quite a difference in price for a terraced with for beds (normally one is a converted loft) and a detached, at least here in london.
I was asking because we are converting our 3bed semi into a 4 and thought everyone'd be happy with it. (not that we want to sell - we've just moved in).

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round here you get a lot more for 4 beds. the closest detached houses are in suburbia, so discounted !

I have to have 2 loo's, I suffer from IBS and once DH is downstairs he doesn't go back up till bedtime so he needs a loo downstairs. TBH I have never been bothered by loo smells in the kitchen. You wouldn't have a loo opening direct into a kitchen (against regs) and they do have doors to keep closed and we all have ways of keeping the room fresh smelling. In fact its a boon for one other reason, we keep the cat litter tray in there. It's a moppable area, with somewhere handy to deposit the poo's and the smell is contolled by the same devices that you use for humans. I can't understand people who keep the cat litter tray in the kitchen. Yuck!

I always wanted a utility room. Sadly we're on our 3rd house and my needs are always way down on the list after DH's requests

We do have a cloakroom and an ensuite though, so it's not all bad. I don't have to fight for the bathroom every morning.

I would hate to only have one loo. Have always had a house with more than one in past ten years.

when our landlords come back, we are considering leaving the country to have a decent house with two flipping loos and space to move past each other without turning sideways.

So bekkaboo, is buying a 4 bed detached anywhere in your plans for the next ten years? Are you going to be moving house in the next few years for school or work or something? Or is the location just fine for years to come but you just want more space? If that is the case then why not build the extension? What it adds to the value of your house only counts for anything when you actually come to sell. Also if the alternative is moving, you should factor in the cost of stamp duty, estate agent & solicitor fees, and removal costs.

yeah we are going to move to new estate at the back of us, the builders done us good deal as we already sold them land to proceed with the development so effectively we will be living in back garden but only in new four bed det, we wouldnt move area as schools etc are good here and everything we want is around us.