jack and jill bathroom

[goodwood]

If you've got a jack and jill bathroom which your children share, does it create any problems (eg with teenage girls)? I was thinking in terms of not only one of them hogging the bathroom (fights!) but whether noise in the night is an issue if each bedroom has a door to the bathroom and light/fan noise disturbs. Thanks!

We have one, with one door into the hallway and the other into my daughter's bedroom. My son's bedroom is along the landing and he shares the Jack and Jill bathroom with his sister. We have had to lock the door into my daughter's bedroom (so it is not used at all) as my son often couldn't get into the bathroom from the hallway (daughter had forgotten to unlock it when she had finished in there) and would go bursting through his sister's room to get to the bathroom. At other times he would go into the bathroom using the hallway door, forget to lock the door into his sister's bedroom and she would burst in on him. They are both early twenties.

Hope that helps!

We had one growing up, caused endless rows! My brother would never unlock the hallway door (cause he was lazy) but would then complain if anyone went through his room to get to the bathroom.

We'd then leave his door locked just to annoy him

Oh and about the noise, I've slept in his room as an adult and never been disturbed by the bathroom. But the door/wall is quite thick. There's no extractor fan but the toilet does have a macerator.

My brother and I shared one when we were in our late teens/early twenties. It didn't cause any problems and if one of us forgot to unlock the door we would just shout at each other to either open it or to ask permission to come through the others room.

They are quite common in the US, I believe. When I stay with my friend over there, her spare room shares a bathroom with her teenage daughter. I often find "my" door to the bathroom locked in the middle of the night, as she's obviously used it from her side and forgotten to unlock it. However, there is a key handy that can override the lock.

very helpful thanks and gives me a better idea of how it might work in our situation.

I have been thinking about adding 2 for my 4 kids (2 boys + 2 girls) my thoughts were that there should not be locks from the bedroom doors and that the toilet should be behind another locked door within the ensuite....with the shower behind a 3/4 wall for privacy.....I also thought that there should also be either 2 sinks in the J&J - or each have their own sink in their room - as this is the likely bottleneck rushed teeth washing - shaving etc in the mornings -- what do you think?

a separate toilet within and also the 2 sinks idea is a good one, as I'm sure you are right about the bottleneck with teeth, hair, shaving etc. Gives me more to mull over ...

To reduce noise - I was also thinking that access to the J&J from the kids bedrooms would be via walk in wardrobes.....

Should we out the sinks in the bedrooms - maybe somewhere in the walk in wardrobe? - or keep them in the J&J -- this would mean that theya re only shaing the toilet and shower space - worried about sharp elbows/punch ups at dawn!! - would have small hand washing basin in enclosed toilet....or are sinks in bedrooms yuck...?

Two of my teens share a Jack and Jill. There don't seem to be any problems with it. I know they both keep a coin handy to unlock their door if it's accidentally been left locked.

Deepest - we had sinks in our bedrooms in the house we lived in with our parents in our teens / early 20s. They were an absolute godsend. I don't understand why they are not a more popular feature - it's really rare to see them, and yet they are so useful in not bottlenecking the bathroom in busy times.

There is a sink in my room at my parents room (ok, I know it's not technically my room anymore, but you know what I mean). It was brilliant when I was growing up saved endless queuing for the bathroom at teeth brushing time. My friends were always really jealous about it too.