Utility Room vs Second Toilet

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Help! Which would you prefer? We have space in our kitchen for a small toilet (just a toilet and sink, no shower etc) OR a utlity closet where we were thinking of putting a washing machine and tumble dryer (thereby freeing up space in the kitchen for actual kitchen things). We might be selling our house in 3 years time though, and wonder if one makes a house more "saleable" than the other. I am voting for the utlity room, but my dh thinks toilet is better.

I would go for toilet
is great for children and guests in general

For salebility as long as your kitchen is not too small to accomodate your utilities I would have said that teh extra loo will add more value.

What sort of area do you live in? If it is a 'family' area they would want the loo. If it was more of a families left home and beyond kind of area I would go for the utility.

I'd go for utility room.

toilet definitely but think there are building regs if adjacent to kitchen

It's a family area. It's true, it's a pain taking dd to the toilet, but it would be so nice to have a place to keep all of our crap.

loo'll add more value (so long as kitchen not disproportionately small to size of house)

lizs u are right you need to have two doors to a toilet ,eg, you cant enter the toilet thru a door directly from the kitchen

What if its an open plan kitchen diner, and the loo is really on the diner side? Anyone know?

is it under the stairs? you don't need 2 doors for that - it's only if it opens directly into kitchen

"but it would be so nice to have a place to keep all of our crap"

That'll be a toilet then

no you don't need two doors it can open directly from the kitchen

toilet

I have a sneaky suspiscion that the "2 doors" rule was done away with. I'm sure I saw them do one on one of those BBC programmes and made a point of saying this.

loo

haha FrenchLeave

My vote for utility room is based on my preference, not saleability.

Seriously though, where does everyone put their stuff like ironing boards, hoovers, mops, brooms etc?

we have a cleaning cupboard in the kitchen, full height - looks like a larder but isnt'

I'm with you surfermum, but it looks like we've been out voted. Personally, having a place to store our junk outweighs the pain of taking dd to the toilet.

Cupboard. Used to use the understairs cupboard in our old house.

My SIL keeps here ironing board and hoover in the downstairs loo - so no probs there.

You used to have to have 2 doors between kitchen and toilet but not any more.

my years of watching "homes under the hammer" have paid off

ooo re: rules, really margo i feel a sledge hammer moment coming on hurrah

I'd say second loo, lots of people look for that when househunting.

Oh and we made our "utility room" into a bathroom and our bathroom into a 3rd bedroom. Our house sold in 4 days