Would you buy a house you loved it BUT only had one bathroom?

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And no possibility of extending to add another?

Have found a beautiful house that ticks most of my "want" boxes and is really reasonably priced. BUT only one bathroom in the whole house!

What if two people need a poo at the same time?! Would this put you off?

What sort of house is it? Surely there's some way you could add another loo?

No, I couldn't go back to one bathroom now. Would definitely put me off.

I didn't realise 1 loo was such a deal breaker!! We are a family of 4 with one bathroom and it's fine, children are primary school age, not sure if that makes a difference. We are house hunting now and it hadn't even occurred to me to only look at houses with more than one bathroom!

It wouldn’t even occur to me that we would need more than one bathroom or toilet tbh. If we had a family of 8 it might be an issue but for a normal size family, one bathroom is fine.

We have 4 people, 2 adults a teenager and a 10 year old, we have 1 bathroom and its downstairs we have never had an issue, sometimes you have to do the 'I need a wee dance in the kitchen while you wait for someone to finish but thats just life. I have never lived-in a house with more than one toilet.

36 and never lived in a house with more than one bathroom/toilet. Now reading this thread and wondering how on Earth I've managed this long.

First world problems.

Absolutely not.

Nope would not consider it

But I’d def think creatively about how you could add one before discounting

Not a chance. I recently declined on a property because there was only one bathroom. I've compromised in the passed and regretted it. Life is too short to be shitting in the same toilet as everyone else!

I lived in houses with just one growing up and honestly I'd want at least two loos (as in a bathroom and a toilet) in a house I was going to buy.

No. I would not consider it. When we are all home, there are 5 of us. But even if it was just dh and me, I'd want a second loo at the least.

I'm in my mid-fifties now and as a child, the houses I lived in had toilets that were separate to the bathrooms - only one, though.

As an adult, all our houses have had more than one toilet and it is handy although I probably didn't think it would be until we had the option.

Could you put one under the stairs? Cut into a bedroom to make an en suite? Etc?

Turn a small bedroom into a bathroom? Does it not have a garden to extend into? Take part of two bedrooms to add a small shower room with toilet?

Until about 20 years ago very few houses had more than 1 bathroom/toilet.
You'll manage fine.

Which isn't to say it's not nice to have more than one, but you'll be fine with one.

Definitely not. There are 2 of us and we have 3 bathrooms and toilets .

No I wouldn’t want one loo but surely you can add another somewhere?

We are 5, me DH, 3Dds 10-15 and one works okay for us, I'd like more but not a major issue ever!

No

Why does everyone now need 2 bathrooms, people have and continue to live with one bathroom for centuries.

Ooh thanks for all replies. Here is the floor plan. There is only one cupboard in the whole house so wouldn't want to sacrifice it to make a loo and there is nowhere else it could reasonably go. Bedrooms are small so would be tough to make an en-suite from one I think?

But I absolutely LOVE the house. I've driven past it for years and thought how lovely it is, and now it's on the market and it's gorgeous inside too.

I come from a family of six, and we managed with one bathroom most of the time we all lived together. Odd, I know.

Mind you, I did once pee on my sister's bun. To be fair, she'd left it on the stairs, so I'm not sure what else she could have expected, really.

You could eventually add a toilet in the pantry area or under the stairs?

Yes we did exactly that but there is only 2 of us. We got a better area for less money by buying an older house with 1 bathroom.

I don't think there's any logical way to extend our house to get an extra w/c. I'd then be worried about taking space from the garden.

My dh tells me when he's going to the toilet so I can go in first, otherwise I'd be waiting a long time for him to come back out again.