How many bedrooms/bathrooms?

[BimbleWimble]

Looking at extending/remodelling, which is better: 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms (one en suite) or 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms (one en suite)? Plus downstairs WC in both cases. 5th bedroom would be a box/cot room, or could be used as a small study.

Thanks :-)

We have a similar dilemma. 4 upstairs bedrooms, two bathrooms and a box room. Dh wants to make the box room into an en-suite for guests. I like having the space for junk! We wouldn’t want two general-use upstairs bathrooms I think, for some reason that feels weird.

I think it depends on your household size. We will fill our 4 bedrooms so the extra room could be used by a dc when grandparents came to stay. An extra en-suite would be nice but could cause arguments between siblings.

5&2. Especially as it will be more like 5/2.5 with the downstairs loo.

I guess it depends upon which works suit you and your family best. We're just finishing an extension/remodel and we kept a box room as an office because we used to sometimes work from home (and now we always do). I expect separate spaces to work will be an important selling point in the future. WFH is here to stay.

Keep the room as office I would say. When we were house hunting I prefer houses with dedicated office space which the box room is perfect for. I think more people will have similar thinking now with WFH trend.

I have a 5 bed house we have a main bathroom & en suite upstairs and a downstairs wc. Works well for my family.

As you have a downstairs loo I'd go for five bed two bath. We have 5 beds, of which one is small, a main bathroom and two ensuite shower rooms plus along a downstairs loo. It's a lot of toilets to clean but the house design has worked well for us as a family of five.

I don't know what's 'better' but we have 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (plus downstairs WC). Works fine for us. We do have one bedroom as a study but it's not a box room, it's a large double room with 2 desks, a sofa etc.

5 + 2. Unless you have plenty of help, cleaning 2 bathrooms plus downstairs loo is quite enough. And the extra room will always be useful for a study/sewing/ironing/whatever.

We’ve often had guests staying, plus the 4 of us, and 2 bathrooms (both with shower over the bath) have always been enough.

We have 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms + down stairs loo. Though at some point will make into 4 bedrooms as bedroom threes is ridiculously large so will spit into two doubles and maybe pinch a bit of the bathroom.

For some reason we have 6 sinks and 2 bidets 😂

For me personally 5+2, too many bathrooms actually puts me off a house as it's too much to clean. Family bathroom, en-suite and downstairs toilet is sufficient for most families and well balanced in a 5 bed house.

We've actually just picked a 4 bed + 2 bathroom over a 5 bed + 4 bathroom house (latter is a three storey not actually much bigger, downstairs space the same) because the number of bathrooms put me off, we have no use for 2 en suites. Would rather better sized bedrooms.

We have the 4 bed, 3 bathroom set up currently. But we rarely use one of the bathrooms (it just sits there getting dusty!) I think we would get more use out of an extra bedroom. But people have commented that we would be mad to get rid of the 3rd bathroom and that it would be better for selling in the future to have 4+3 rather than 5+2.

@BimbleWimble I would speak to an estate agent, but I would suspect a 5th bedroom would add more value (or saleability at least) than a 3rd bathroom. 3 bathrooms to 4 bedrooms is quite excessive unless you have a house of adults, whereas few people would complain about a 5th bedroom being too many.

I've got loads of bathrooms and I love it that way

I do like the fact that we have an extra bathroom for guests. But that only gets used a handful of times a year. Our girls are too young to need their own bathrooms. An extra bedroom would be useful everyday.