Gaaaah! I remember this house from a tv programme, the one with the loo next to the kitchen.....

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instead of french doors to the garden, and a breakfast area, they built a silly little utility room and a loo.

Do you remember it?

Would you want people to go through your kitchen and utility room to get to the toilet?
Or would you have put it under the stairs instead?

You have to go out of our kitchen to get to a back hallway, toilet/shower room and utility room, not ideal but they're all large and we make dh use that shower whilst we use the family bathrooms upstairs! You couldn't put the toilet under our stairs so we did what we could to maximise our space.

a friend used to have a house with a downstairs bathroom and you had to go through the kitchen to get to it.
my great-aunt's house was the same.

i never really thought about it tbh

Around here it's very common to have a utility room off the kitchen and the door to the toilet in there. tbh it works better than ours which is in the hall meaning when the front door is wide open in summer and the kids have pulled the door open on you it's a bit 'exposed'.

is it the only bathroom?

No, there is an upstairs one, too. It is this one. Is this a good layout?

here

yes, it makes good use of the space

I think it's quite a common arrangement in some older terrace type houses because the loo was originally outside, and when brought inside it was just tacked onto the back of the house, made plumbing in easier.

looks beautiful. i wouldn't have a problem at all with the layout, esp as there are other bathrooms

I love the look of it, and the location.

Layout looks fine.

I had this in my last house in London. Was slightly frustrating because you couldn't see out into the garden from the kitchen.

Otoh we did have a small utility room and downstairs loo, whereas in our new house (another Victorian terrace just larger) we don't have either. We do still have an outside loo, tacked on outside the kitchen, which I am strangely fond of.

I spend so much time in the kitchen, and I love having a kitchen with a view.
I had that in my last London house, and I would love our next one to have the same.

But, the price tag on houses in the area we want to be in is horrendous.

We HAVE to be by the river, we HAVE to be near Richmond park, we HAVE to live in a quiet street, and far from traffic, lol.