Would you buy a house with a toilet in an open-plan room?

[lostinspace00]

Hope to find some sensible opinions here before I (possibly) waste loads of money (and so sorry i just posted this on an existing thread by mistake).

My house has a separate dining room and kitchen with a hallway between the two leading to a toilet. I want to knock the walls down to create one large room but keep the toilet as it’s very useful. To cover all bases:
1 no I can’t afford to put the toilet anywhere else it would make the job too expensive

1. I want to keep the toilet (it’s a shower too) rather than get rid of it as it’s useful.

would you buy a house with a toilet in the middle of a big open plan room?

I’ve created some excellent architectural designs to show you what I mean (by excellent I mean a bit shit)

Thank you to anyone who can be bothered to respond

[image removed by MNHQ at OP's request]

No I wouldn't.

It's perfectly legal.

This is no longer true !

No, that’s really offputting.

Me too. And was thinking that any prospective buyers would be wondering about your level of kink.

Agree with everyone else - make it in to some kind of utility room along the back so a) it doesn’t look as weird b) makes it look a bit more thought out! You will essentially still save room because whilst you will lose the edge of one of the rooms you will be moving the washing machine etc in there therefore saving space by not having this all in the new open plan area.

When we were viewing flats in London with houses all split on 2 there were heaps of upstairs flats that had the bathroom off the kitchen - I found it really off putting and I never met anyone who actually bought one to live in - think landlords mostly buy them and rent them out

It used to be against building regs 34 years ago, but it's very normal now.

In scotland you wouldn't be able to remove a downstairs toilet if it was built like that.
You can move it elsewhere however it would then need to be made bigger for wheelchair access.
A neighbour tried to remove her downstairs loo which was beside the front door to make a bigger hall when she extended. Building control at the council told her she couldn't unless she put a new one as part of the extension.
New one is massive, and door had to open out.

No longer the case as long as there's a hand wash basin in the WC

Only that it has to have a sink.

You can’t have a toilet going directly from a kitchen so you may not be able to get anyone to do what you want.
If you can though, maybe will need two doors between - if someone buys your house in the future, they can just take it out. Not a deal breaker for me I don’t think.

I thought this too.

That’s so funny 🤣

I wonder why the regs changed ? (Just read that it’s acceptable now, sorry)

Sorry @lostinspace00

It would appear what I meant was:

Oh my goodness OP, haven't you left this rather late in the process to consult on the vast array of alternative options which may have been available to you?

One might conceptually interact with a (free) assortment of professionals for ideas on what could be achieved with the space prior to committing to the booking with the builder to knock down walls.

I hope that is better manners?

Looking at your floor plan, I suspect the reality is that the loo is much deeper than you show (ie the door is closer to the hallway than shown to accommodate a shower as well as loo & basin). If that is the case, the isolated room would be even less suitable in an otherwise open plan area. I would recommend taking a tape measure & some sidewalk chalk to a car park & drawing out a full sized mock up, including your dining table & chairs, what kitchen units you plan to refit etc, to see how much of the room the remaining walls would take up.

Suspect others are right that you can't remove the only downstairs loo entirely. Would mKe more sense to move lootility into a corner, but seems you don't have the budget.

I accept take some people struggle to visualise things from floor plans, but you could take your accurate measurements to a kitchen designer & they would render it for you so you can see how it would actually look. I fear it won't be quite as open plan as you hope, but better to check that now before the walls come out & you can't backtrack.

Good luck whatever you end up doing!

Old toilets may not have had a basin or any ventilation. Toilets need a window or extractor fan with overrun.

I have a recurring dream in which I’m looking for a toilet, then the one I find is in a large room and there are other people there. So, no thank you.

The only regulation is that they need a basin and a fan for ventilation.

I'm amazed anyone would even consider this! Awful.

This is what I thought too

And yet lots of us manage to live in these awful homes everyday...

We bought a house with a loo in the corner of the lounge (the previous owners had taken the wall between the lounge and hallway down, loo was at the end of the original hallway). The very first thing we did was put that wall back and get rid of the loo. So while it didn't put us off buying, it was not an arrangement we were prepared to live with. Sorry OP.

Cancel the cheque

Eh? Let me get this right, you're saying, imagine you had a toilet and people behaved around it.... as if it were a toilet?
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