Downstairs bathrooms

[Nofoolfornoone]

Do you have one? Does it become the norm? Would you view a house with a downstairs bathroom or be put off?

Context - I am viewing a Victorian cottage with a downstairs bathroom. From the floor plan I think an eventually 2 storey extension could give an upstairs bathroom but no guarantees. Trying to decide if that is a big issue

My first house had one downstairs and it was fine. I now live in a big house with three bathrooms and a loo but to ease morning congestion have taken to using the downstairs shower.
I think if you have young kids it can be a pain but where I live many smaller houses have the bathroom off the kitchen in an extension (as originally there would have been an outhouse).

I've had a downstairs bathroom as well as one upstairs. If you think you can add one upstairs then yes go for it. Best to view the house to see what will work.

I would.prefer downstairs! Been up since 7am and been up to loo 3 times already!

I have one and I love it. It was on my must not haves when I bought a house though. Mine is in the middle of the house not at the back though which I think makes a difference.

When people come round they don't need to go upstairs.

With children I find it easier - I just had a potty in bedroom for night time.

When children are bit older I can do other stuff downstairs but still listen out for them.

I don’t have one but have lived in houses with them in the past. I’ve got no problem with them, and there are advantages- namely not having to go upstairs every time you need the loo. You surely spend more time downstairs than upstairs.

I don't like them. I prefer an upstairs bathroom next to the bedrooms. But there had to be a small loo downstairs too.

I rented a house a few years ago which had a downstairs one and I absolutely hated it. It was a pain in the arse having to go downstairs in the middle of the right freezing to go to the toilet. Wasn't a positive thing about it, never again. The house I'm buying has a downstairs toilet but a bathroom upstairs and an en suite which is perfect.

If the houses were all the same in the neighbourhood I might view but generally if I had a choice, no. It is a total pain in the backside and most people need bathrooms near bedrooms. Even if it’s the outhouse that’s converted I would be thinking that could be a nicer and larger kitchen!

So it wouldn’t be for me. A downstairs cloakroom with at least two bathrooms upstairs is what I would want - funds permitting. Downstairs bathrooms are for bungalows!

We had one in a Victorian cottage, it was out the back off the back entrance separated from the kitchen by a small porch. It never got warm and was like an ice box. On the plus side we saved lots of water as it cost us a fortune to heat it.

I almost ruled out our current house before viewing because of the downstairs bathroom but there was nothing else on the market. The previous owners converted the airing cupboard into an upstairs toilet so we don’t have that problem and the bath and shower being downstairs has never bothered us.

Don't have one but have lived (when in uni) where there has been one. If the master had an en-suite I could cope with bathing downstairs but I'm up so often in the middle of the night I'd get fed up of having to walk downstairs. Plus we have a house alarm so that would go off every time someone went to the loo in the middle of the night and I don't feel safe without one.

I don't think anyone else's opinion is worth having unless you're a developer.

Personally no, I wouldn't view a property that only had a downstairs bathroom.

However, who will be living there? You alone, you and a partner? a family? Are you looking for a long term home or thinking to move on in the shorter term?

These factors are the most important. How practical is this house for your own needs if you couldn't get permission to extend upstairs?

Having worked for an estate agent I can say it does put viewers off, especially people with small children. But for some people it's the only way of having a third bedroom in their budget. Remember heat rises so a downstairs bathroom will be colder than an upstairs one, especially in the middle of the night!

We have a downstairs one and an upstairs one but DP still uses the downstairs shower every day as the water pressure is better.

I would expect it in a Victorian cottage tbh, round here they mostly have a downstairs bathroom until the owners convert the loft, then turn one of the 1st floor bedrooms into a bathroom.

How many bedrooms do you have at the moment?

If its tacked onto the back as an afterthought it'll forever be cold and damp. I personally wouldn't buy a house with one.

It’s a two bed - traditional two up two down Victorian cottage which has had a single story rear extension for the kitchen and bathroom.
I live alone but I am hoping to have a child in the next couple of years.
I think it’s possible to put a bathroom Upstairs’s if knock down the extension and rebuild as a two storey extension. But I might invite an architect along to a second viewing to give me their view.
I think I’m the short term a downstairs bathroom wouldn’t bother me but I don’t want to buy something that’s very difficult to sell

It won't be difficult to sell, because it will suit some people's purposes to have an extra bedroom. It will put some buyers off which is what you asked.

I wouldn't buy with a downstairs bathroom unless I had to... check boat and layout for extension a builder should be sufficient unless you know architect ..