Bath or Shower in En-Suite?

[MummytoMog]

Can't quite decide what to do with the ensuite in the new loft conversion. This will be our room, about 36m3 when it's done including the ensuite. In the rest of the house there will eventually be a big family bathroom with a ginormous iron bath tub (currently in our garage where it's been since we left our last house), a small shower room next door to that bathroom, a guest room/bedroom with a small ensuite with a teeny shower and a downstairs cloakroom. Estate agent said we should put a bath in the upstairs en suite for resale value. Architect has shown a bath on the plans. DH doesn't want a bath and builder says we'd lose a lot of space by fitting a bath in. I'm torn because I know we will only really use it to shower, but I do like to have an evening bath from time to time. And I prefer the way a bathroom looks with a bath in. But then I hate shower baths. And those stupid shower curtains that hang from the ceiling.

I don't have to choose until we put in the stud walls, but I'd welcome any thoughts on this. We will sell this house, probably in the next five to ten years, so resale value is important. Does a house need more than one bath in it?

Shower.

You can have a "nice relaxing bath" in the main bathroom.

Just because you have an ensuite doesn't mean you're not allowed to use the other bathrooms.

But in the mornings when you want to wash yourself and get on with things, a shower is what you need.

If you are doing the work for re-sale value purposes, which it sounds like you ultimately are, then id go with the bath with shower over it. If you go with a shower though, maybe at least make the bathroom big enough that a bath could be put in at a later date, so next owners had the option to install one if they wanted. And in the mean time, have a lovely big shower put in that you will enjoy while you live there.