We currently have a 27 foot long kitchen/diner with a tiny utility on one side and on the other a dated loo and shower. The shower is never used. You'd have to traipse downstairs, through the living room and then through the kitchen to the far end to use the shower. It's not well separated from the rest of the room either, with a sliding door and is next to the french doors which are the only access to the garden.
We are losing the utility. That is unavoidable for various reasons which I'd rather not go into. So we initially thought we would rip the shower out and replace with washing machine, retaining the loo. This would mean one bathroom for a 4 bed house. The house is listed and quirky, which might make this slightly more forgiveable, and it is realistically more likely to suit childfree or older couples whose kids have left home with occasional house guests rather than young busy family.
Now I'm wondering whether we ought to keep the shower and put the washing machine in the kitchen. I still cannot really ever see anyone using it (if you had a muddy dog, say, or had been out walking, you would have to go down a gated alley and through two locked doors of an outhouse to the french doors at the back which someone would have had to open for you since they cannot be unlocked from outside). But when we sell the house, which is the plan, do people really think that through or do they just see that it has a downstairs shower room plus a bathroom upstairs and think that sounds good? There is no where else to easily put a shower in the house.
I'd love some opinions please.