En suite and separate bathroom or combine?

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We have a smallish en-suite off our bedroom with a window, walk in shower, sink and toilet.
Directly next door to this (the rooms are side by side) off the landing right outside our bedroom door is our main bathroom. There is a bath, no shower with a sink and toilet.
For some reason DH has never used the en-suite at night, he’ll walk right past, out the bedroom and into the main bathroom. He washes and shaves in there, only using the en-suite to shower. Everyone showers in the en-suite but only I use the toilet and sink in there. Two late teens children use the main bathroom.
We are about to completely redo both these rooms. I would like to get rid of the walk in shower in the en-suite and have a shower over a small bath as the rolling glass doors on the shower cubicle are an absolute pain to clean and the thing is always grubby has a tendency to leak.
I have wondered about knocking both the rooms into one and make a large bathroom with full size bath with shower over, two sinks and toilet plus loads of built in storage. We’d need the two sinks for the morning rush before work etc.
Main question is would this be a stupid thing to do with regards to the house price? If we do it should we keep a door from our bedroom and a door from the landing? Like a jack and Jill bathroom?
Any ideas please as we want to get this right! Thanks

Even if you keep both doors, you will reduced the value of the house. Are you sure you'd even be able to fit in all the things on your list especially with both doors in the way?

Personally, with 4 adults in the house, I'd definitely keep both and make them more useable: add a shower for the kids and address your bug bears in the ensuite.

Yes I think it would be silly. We have 2 bathrooms and I'd not look at a house with only 1 bathroom as a family of 4.

Keep the two bathrooms. You can’t use the toilet and the shower at the same time. If you don’t use the baths have the walk in shower. We’re obsessed with keeping baths we don’t use. Friend got rid of those with teenagers all walk in showers. It works so much better for them.

Keep them both, can you put a shower over the bath in the revamped bathroom that the kids can use instead of yours. Is your hot water system up to running two showers at the same time or will it need upgrading as part of the works.

By combining into one mega bathroom you'd be devaluing your house and separate toilets are always useful.

Thanks all. I think you are all correct, we need to keep the separate rooms. I really want rid of the walk in shower though, it’s an absolute pain to clean. Maybe rather than the corner one we have with rolling doors I would consider one with a fixed glass panel.
The other thought I had was to remove the shower from the en-suite altogether and have just a toilet, sink and a lovely large linen cupboard in the space of the shower. We don’t have an airing cupboard and that would be really useful. I could put a shower in the main bathroom over the bath then. It’s very rare that we all need to shower at the same time (we’ve managed 20 years with only one shower so far). We need to keep a bath as DD and DH often like a bath.
So, no shower at all in the en-suite but a large storage cupboard instead. Would that be silly?

Yes. If you are going to sell then en suite with shower would be better.

Will people want a shower when someone else is in the bath?

Personally I would see a shower over a bath as a step down from a walk in shower. I can’t see the point

With two older teens in the house it would be a mistake to only have one bathroom.

I love taking baths so a shower over a bath for me any day. However, if you’d rather have a walk in shower, maybe look at different solutions like fixed panels, wet rooms etc

Isn’t there a space for a linen cupboard elsewhere in the house? It would be a shame to lose a shower for a cupboard.

Could you have a wet room instead for the en suite? An en-suite without a shower seems a bit pointless and I also think would negatively impacts on resell value if you were selling in future.

To echo everyone else do not combine the rooms they should stay separate.

In your en-suite I would keep the toilet and sink with a wet room type shower.

I’m your main bathroom can you not fit in a separate bath and wet room style shower? I loathe showers in baths

Never reduce the number of toilets in your home, especially if it drops you to one.

Why not turn the bath into a shower stall. There should be some leftover space for a tall storage cabinet.

I've got two teens (though one is away at college most of the time).

There is no way I'd consider a house without an ensuite. We all use the shower in the ensuite of our current house but there are numerous times in the mornings when maybe ds is in the shower so I use the toilet and sink in the main bathroom.

Just to echo what others have said. Have a look at the Ideal Compact catalogue (just google it). It has layouts / floorplans of various options & quite good for visualising the spaces.

We have a small ensuite (long and thin) with shower, loo and sink, plus family bathroom with shower over bath, loo and sink. The shower in the ensuite is walls on 3 sides (so at the end of the room if you see what i mean) so just one opening glass door. Is this an option to make cleaning easier?

We dont often have 2 people showering at the same time but its good to know we can if we need to.

Have a look on pinterest and that catalogue i mention above for clever storage solutions. I wouldnt ever sacrifice a shower for a linen / airing cupboard.