Would you put an ensuite in this room?

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Son's bedroom, not massive, but for various reasons (main one being, our other similar aged DC will have one, it's already there)would like to put an ensuite in there.

Would you bother?

I wouldn't. I don't think the room is big enough and I'm not a massive fan of ensuites.

I think the bonus of a toilet/shower room won't make up for the room becoming much smaller.

Prob not. The remaining bedroom space would be very small wouldn’t it.

Nope.

Will you have an en suite? Therefore making the main bathroom ‘his’?
Is it possible to steal a bit of the room next door instead?

Sometimes people squeeze an en-suite in somewhere not optimal in order tos ecumenical a second loo in a house that really needs one for its household. As you have other loos, I wouldn’t bother as the gain seems to be less than the downsides.

In most houses, all bedrooms aren’t the size or suitability for en-suite and it is just the case that with kids, some might have one and some won’t. It’s just how houses are.

Kids without the en-suite get priority or only access to family bathroom??

Personally I’d put in a built-in wardrobe! Share the main bathroom.

As one side of the room is less than double figures in feet, the bedroom space you will leave after putting it in will be tiny, so I'd suggest not to.

Thanks all.

Yes we have an ensuite, so the main bathroom would be 'his'. I was thinking of a really small ensuite with a combined toilet/sink and a small cubicle, but it would still take a chunk out of a not huge room.

It's causing problems with 'unfairness', and to be honest, I can see his point, eldest is DS too, so I can't use the well it's a DD and they need more privacy reasoning.

Not possible to steal more room as the family bathroom is next door. I was thinking of jack and jill door, but I'm not that keen on them.

Kids have to learn that houses don’t have all equally sized rooms and you can’t magic his to be bigger and fit an en-suite.

The person without the en-suite will probably end up with the bigger bathroom ...sell it as sole access to the family bathroom. If you need a further sell, offer a new set of towels or something to make the family bathroom feel like his.

It’s the same thing as someone always having to take the slightly or very much smaller bedroom isn’t it. It’s just a fact. I’d take a dim view of any kid making a big issue about the ‘unfairness’ of this personally, especially after you’ve investigated and looked into it.

I know, I'm kind of taking a semi dim view, but also know how annoyed I would have been if my sister had been given an ensuite and not me.

At the end of the day, he'll have to get over it, as enough people have said that an ensuite would take up too much room (which was kind of what I thought).

I can go with the making the family bathroom his (paint colours/towels etc).

Sounds good. Picking paint colours and towels will make it feel special and like it’s his, as will making sure the rest if the family know not to use that bathroom if they’re upstairs. It’s probably bigger than the en-suite too, so that’s a selling point. He can call it ‘his bathroom’ if it helps too.

Hey ho! When I think of growing up with our family having just the one loo and the times you’d spend ‘encouraging’ someone in there to get a move on because you were standing there with your legs crosssed, it makes me realise how things have moved on for lots of us!

Enjoy your bathrooms.

Thanks Wombat, I'll use a lot of your ideas. Yes things have moved on a lot! When I was a kid (a long time ago!) we had one loo between 6 of us, I remember the queues well!

I understand its not ideal and yes, life's not always fair, but if all the other rooms have an ensuite, can you just put a door in the wall between his room and the family bathroom so that room becomes his ensuite? Why do you need a family bathroom if every other family member has their own bathroom?

When you come to sell, just block up the door again and it becomes the family bathroom and separate bedroom again?

The Jack and Jill bathroom door sounds the best compromise if everyone else has their own bathroom. Just put a lock on the bathroom door that leads onto the landing so he has his own personal en-suite.

It looks too small. We have the same issue, 2 en-suites so dd1 has one but dd2 moans that she doesn't get a big bedroom and en-suite. She does have the main bathroom.

We just tell her that she has the main bathroom and have let her choose bits for it to 'personalise' it. We sympathise but there's nothing we can do about it and I refuse to be guilted when they're both lucky enough to not need to share a bedroom or bathroom. I've also told her it's all hers if dd1 moves out first but that's a long way off!

I couldn't be doing with swapping every few years, it's not practical in our house.

No, it's already a small room so it would be a waste of space.

No, it will ruin the room. I've seen so many examples of ensuites squeezed into unsuitable spaces, and have been put off houses by it.

There are 3 of you in the house and you already have 3 bathrooms?
No, definitely not. It would be pointless and make the room far too small.