Wwyd - ensuite vs cloakroom

[Curioustiger]

Quick question for all you property addicts out there. We live in a three bed house with one upstairs bathroom. The bathroom is a good size with both a shower and bath but of course two loos (at a minimum) would be better. Setting aside cost, would you rather:

• have an ensuite shower room upstairs (with a

Wc and basin as well) that takes away a little space from an otherwise good sized bedroom (taking it from a medium to small double room, iyswim)

• have a cloakroom (loo and basin) downstairs which for layout reasons will have to be sited between the kitchen and living room and therefore take away some space from the kitchen (taking it from a medium / large kitchen to a medium sized one). It would not open into the kitchen or the living room but instead into a little hallway of its own (difficult to explain but looks ok, they have this layout next door).

There is theoretically the option to have both but finances probably wouldn't allow it.

As an FYI there are two adults and two children in the house but as we are likely to move in the next ten years I am trying to canvas opinion from a wide range of people. What do you think?

We've got this dilemma too. previous owners created the hole and put some plumbing in for an en suite. But we still need to do 95% of the work.

We could also put a downstairs loo in. If the owners hadn't started, I would put the loo in downstairs. But DH is really keen to have an en suite. so it looks like I'll be waiting for my downstairs loo!

Downstairs loo every single time. And ours is tiny - it is literally the understairs cupboard. I think everyone has covered the reasons above but for me, it means the upstairs is private and we don't need to tidy it up when we have guests / family round. I think 99% of families looking for family houses would much prefer a downstairs loo to an ensuite. At the end of the day, its only the couple that benefit from an ensuite, the whole family plus guests etc benefit from a downstairs loo.