Wet rooms

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We have found a house to buy that is almost perfect - - except that it has one 'bathroom', and that's a wet room. I find wet rooms really naff, I don't understand how you keep your towels and loo roll dry, and they seem like a massive slipping and cracking your head open risk.

Plus this particular wet room has no storage space / medicine cabinet, etc. Nowhere to keep your toiletries. No towel rail. Nothing. (Though the estate agents assure me it's a young expectant couple living in the house, I am 99.9% sure it's been done up by developers & nobody's ever had to live in it in its current state.) So this is not a liveable-with wet room except in the very short term.

How labour intensive / expensive do you think it would be to make it back into a bathroom, with a bath?

Any tips for living with a wet room in the interim?

My parents have a wet room and it is just fine. They do, however, have a cabinet, loo and towel rails including a heated towel rail. If there is room for a bath then fitting one shouldn't be tricky or expensive. It may be the planning department has insisted on a wet room, a family member has applied for planning permission for a new build and council have insisted there has to be a wet room.

I imagine wet rooms can work well when they're big enough for part of the room to stay dry, but in my recent house-hunting experience wet rooms are often the desperate last resort of London property developers to try to make a small bathroom look bigger and/or 'stylish'.

The house is Victorian so having a bath in it shouldn't be a planning issue and there should be enough room for one.

Yes have the same problem I have a wet room and want to change it back scared stiff I am going to have a leak from the drain.