Would this devalue the house/make it harder to resell?

[YellowEllis]

Four bed house - one family bathroom, one en-suite, one WC.

We want to swap out the bath shower combo in the family bathroom and put a more luxurious fancier free standing bath in. It won't have an overhead shower or screen

There is a nice rainfall shower in the en-suite. We only have young kids and rare guests so we have no issues with guests just using the en-suite if they need a shower it'll only be our closest family but would it affect resale value?

We've had money from parents as a gift for the luxury bath, £1200 of it! I'm worried about offending if we now don't go for it.. what could bath/shower combo could I get that would be nice enough to use most this budget? We'd want a rainfall shower and a normal shower head like we have in en-suite as we love that. I feel like a plonker as dh wanted a shower bath and I've gone about this one so much he now doesn't want anything else and my parents have even sent me the money for it!

Reckon for the £1200 we would of spent on the freestanding, we could get a built in slight L shaped bath, with a tiled panel matching the bathroom, concealed outlets and a rainfall shower head? That's fancy enough that I hopefully wouldn't look cheeky to my parents like I'm downgrading their gift but also more practical perhaps?

On costs so much depends on what brand you go for, eg shower screens can cost anything from £60 to £400... But £1200 is quite a lot and should go a long way.

I wouldn’t get a L shape if you want to tile it though, it will be hard to make it look neat. I’d go for a straight sided bath with one end vertical (called a single ended bath) and buy a separate screen.

[quote Honeyhoops]@Mummyoflittledragon

To fit an enclosure in and not have it look awful I think we'd have to go for a corner one like the one I've linked. I prefer the look of a low profile tray with just a side screen but do think we'd end up with water everywhere.

Do corner showers look dated? I can't make a decision and keep going back to thinking we'll just not add a shower but it would be more practical to put one in. [/quote]
That cubicle is lovely. You are losing a little space though as the door is squared off so if your only option is 80 x 80, I would go for a rounded one. Our main bathroom is about 2.8 metres wide and a bit more than 2 metres long. I moved the door to the centre to accommodate both a bath and shower. Corner shower on one side of the door and bath on the other. Shower 10 cm longer than wide. Sink and loo on the window wall with the loo on the shower side. If you want a waterfall shower, get the one with a second head. Very useful if you’re not washing your hair.

As a rule, always prioritise functionality over looks in a bathroom. You'll regret it later if you don't.

Is this what you're looking for?

Not my photos stolen off the internet, but I like both of these ideas for a bath/shower. Which looks nicer? The L shaped one we probably would get tiled, I've seen a few photos of them tiled online and it looks good enough for me

I prefer the rounded one.

OP. You’re planning on being there ten years? Buy the bath you want.

@PickAChew

And I detest rainfall showers. We have one that we've never used. I want control. Over whether water continually lands on my head or not.

Same here. I want to be able to direct the shower head to specific areas, not just my head. And I hate washing my hair under a rainfall shower as I get shampoo in my eyes.

The rainfall shower in our current and new house have a regular shower head available too. We both prefer rainfall so will opt for both options

We have a P shaped bath and really like it

I really wouldn't advise having no shower in the main bathroom. It would def turn off most buyers with the prospect of having to change it....

We have a rain shower coming out of the ceiling over it and there's enough room in the bath to move around to get it to fall where u want. You can also adjust its tilt

We did the opposite and took out the bath in the main bathroom. You need to make the house work for you, not some mythical buyer in the future. And I hate to say it, but if your bathroom is contemporary it will look dated in ten years time, and potential buyers will probably be looking at changing it anyway.

I’m with AmazingBouncingFerret. Buy the bath you want, you will spend 10 years enjoying it.
In 10 years your house won’t be new any more and the bathroom may need some upgrading anyway.

By all means prioritise your own requirements. Even ten years is a lot of times to hate the layout of the bathroom you use every day.

Do make sure that you have considered the practicalities if cleaning and where the water will go for a shower. A shower that you can't use without flooding the bathroom is not a great choice.

It wouldn't be a deal breaker for me either way if I loved the rest of the house, but I'd miss a shower in the bathroom (as well as en-suite), our house got a big tick for having it which set it apart from others. I can't imagine it having a huge impact on value either way?

We won't be living here when they are teenagers and they can shower in our room anytime they wish beforehand

This sounds like a good idea, but when you need a shower, or something from your ensuite, or want to get changed in your room, and there’s a preteen locked in there having a stupidly long shit/shower/pissing about with potions, it’s a PITA.

That and when you want to go for a shower you need to pick up kids dropped towels, shower gels, hair masks....our en suite has so many bloody bottles of stuff, and I always find myself being the one who uses the last dregs and bins the empty while everyone else used the new one.

We just had a family bath. Nobody used it. And then the whole room seemed to drop out of everyone’s consciousness, so they all went automatically to the ensuite, and the family bath was only used for the toilet if the ensuite was already occupied.

Fortunately we had room for a separate bath and shower. The teens have moved out of the ensuite and taken up residence in there. The relief to get my space back, to be able to use the ensuite whenever I want, go get a hairbrush or brush my teeth, it’s worth every penny.

Get an overhead shower.

I’m looking to move at the moment and I would actively prefer a bathroom with no shower. I hate the bath/shower combo thing.

@Musmerian

I’m looking to move at the moment and I would actively prefer a bathroom with no shower. I hate the bath/shower combo thing.

That’s really quite unusual, so she would be limiting her pool of buyers. The majority of people wish a shower, and a bath, obvs in the main bathroom.

For us, it would need to be a fairly immediate job to reinstate it. The thing is the future is unpredictable. Saying you plan to live there for ten years is fine, but sometimes reality can have different plans.

However I get the ops issue, because I faced the same thing, except I wished to remove the bath totally,, but my family felt people would expect a bath in a family home, as did the bathroom designer, so we are putting one in.

We also have friends to stay, not just family, and wouldn't want them traipsing through our bedroom to shower. And I'm sure they wouldn't feel comfortable doing this either.

I'm no expert but I think it would.

It wouldn't put me off but I'd be wanting to know if I could fit a shower in the main bathroom.

I will never understand the mentality of people deciding against buying a 500k house because it doesn't have a shower over the bath. That is ridiculous.

"Darling, the house is just the right size, in the school catchment we want, a bedroom for each child and off road parking. It's in good decorative order and the garden is perfect. Plus it's the right price. What do you think?"

"Sweetheart, did you not notice? There was NO SHOWER over the bath. Obviously that is impossible to rectify. It's got to be a no. Such a shame the kids won't be able to attend that school up the road now, but hey, a shower is non negotiable".

"Yes of course, you're right darling. Let's rule this one out".

Of the two you posted OP, I’d go with the L shape not the P shape, because I really dislike plastic bath panels so the ability to tile the L shape makes it win for me. But that’s personal taste.