Toilets, toilets everywhere...am I odd in thinking you can have too many

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Was looking at the details of a new build house that we might just be able at a stretch to afford today.

Is 3 bed, 1 reception and has 3 toilets!!! Downstairs loo, bathroom upstairs and ensuite in the master bedroom.

Now this is by no stretch of the imagination a big house. Am I alone in thinking that the downstairs loo and the ensuite would have been way more useful as extra room space or big cupboards?

Where is the need for this many toilets? Really?

Thats about normal isn't it? Who wants to share a bathroom with the kids?

Friends of ours moved out of a 3-bed Victorian terrace (like ours) into a modern brand-new 3 bed terrace. They have a larger sitting room (just) but only one kitchen-diner in place of a large dining room and moderate kitchen. 3 tiny bedrooms. BUT they have a huge downstairs toilet,a family bathroom and an en-suite for the big bedroom. Quite crazy - half the bl**dy house is bathroom and toilet space.

I think you can have too many.

erm - actualy nearlyfourbob I designed it - with the help of an interior design company, and it's about to be feautured in Kitchens, Bathrooms and Bedrooms. Every person who has seen it has swooned over it. The open plan was essential to ensure I could watch the bedroom Tv from the bath as well, and so that the floor spots and infinity mirrors can be used in the bedroom lighting scheme. But my towel rail does have an aromatherapy burner integrated into it, so only nice smells emanate form the bathroom

I have 4

After DP comes in at night I go upstairs, jump in the shower in the en-suite where I watch eastenders or corrie with the subtitles on whilst showering (only way I can get to watch it in peace). How sad am I?

quite, 12yrgap. ensuite bathrooms, yuck!

er...are towel rails with integrated aromatherapy burners very common, or is yours unique, prufrock?

Found this thread quite useful as we are planning to extend this year (if all goes Ok!!)

Our DD is disabled and having a downstairs loo would be just sooo fab!! We are past the toilet training stage, but going up and down the stairs with her is a nightmare. So in our plans we are obviously including a downstairs loo.

Upstairs we have a tiny bathroom and a seperate toilet. We are planning on knocking through to the extension from the old bathroom and having a large family bathroon in the new part.....this would leave a little toilet all on it's own at the top of the stairs. Knocking it down seems pointless-all we would have would be this big hallway, but leaving it would give us only 1 bathroom with 3 toilets and 4 bedrooms!!! Saying that the little upstairs toilet would still have great acess from the 3 current bedrooms!!!

Hmmmm

It's not unique nightynight - there are 2 of them currently installed in the UK. It's /link{http://www.dough-heat.com/portfolio-aroma.asp/this} one

We've got four loos. One downstairs loo with small sink. One in main bathroom along with bath and shower cubicle. One in en-suite to our big bedroom, along with bath and shower cubicle. One in DS's room, along with shower cubicle and tiny sink.

So that's - 4 loos, 4 sinks, 3 shower cubicles and 2 baths.

It is nice for DS (smelly teenager) to have his own little bathroom for all his bottles of Lynx and Clearasil products

we have downstairs loo, upstairs loo and 2 ensuites! couldn't manage without them! meant no fighting over the bathroom in the morning!

I can top that, in a backhanded kind of way, as the house we are about to buy still has an outside loo. It has an inside one, too (just about, and only the one) but still. Dh is worried that the outdoor privy is listed for historical interest (still has a proper high-level cistern and pull-chain -- we need to accessorise with squares of newspaper hung from a nail on the wall for the full 1940s ambience). He's worried the planning officers will scotch our lovely fantasty of an open-plan kitchen blah blah with a nice toasty indoor downstairs loo.

One of the first comments I ever read on here was about a house with multiple bathrooms and the retort "I only have one arse". I'm sorry for not attributing it but if the author would like to take a bow...

we have four loos. The one that I would not be without is the downstairs loo. It stops visitors tramping through your upstairs and your main bathroom when they need to go.
The downside of too many are that My ds is totally random as to where he dumps his daily turd and never flushes. So I have to track it down each day!

I have four, its always handy to have one close by.

frogs - we used to have an outside toilet too! there were 6 little cottages in the terrace and a row of privies at right angles to the house with virginia creeper growing all over them. Unused I have to add but useful as a storage shed.

frogs -we had an outside loo adjoined to other outbuildings until recently but it actually went in our favour when it came to building our extension.

The fact that there was a building (the outside loo and brick built coalshed) already there and on the boundary with the neighbours meant that we could build up to that point. This is in a conservation area too (although our house isn't a listed building or anything).

So hopefully you shouldn't be forced to keep your outside privvy for the locals to visit as a place of historical interest!

This house is the 1st one I've lived in without a privy/outside loo,& I miss it.

I was 7 before we got sewers/inside bathrooms & our old privy ended up being photographed for a book on the subject.

I wonder what our relatives from 1900 odd would think of us with our 3+ inside toilets?

I think en-suites are no more yuck than having your bedroom next to the bathroom, there is a door between it.

I remember whilst at uni I was in some student digs and my friend had a loo and a sink in her bedroom. It was plumbed in in the middle of one wall, no screen or anything and the floor was shagpile carpet thing, utterly gross.

Until a couple of months ago I could have topped this list with 7. One for every day of the week! But we removed the outdoor one because (a) it was never used (b) there was no washbasin and (c) the cistern split in a harsh frost and started to flood.

I have no idea why our house has so many loos - two are within a couple of feet of each other separated by a wall. The house was renovated in the 70s and perhaps that was a particularly anxious era.

5 loos here
3 people
I blame the designer - me
In defence - house usually full of kids at an age that just can't wait
and there was nothing else I could have put in room with the only excessive loo (how far up my own - one - arse - do I sound!)

we have four loos, 6 sinks and three baths in a 4 bed (american) house I hate cleaning all the damn things - i ban the children from using the downstairs one so i wont have to clean it

number of toilets - status symbol

jesus h. just read the thread