Toilet in the kitchen, just why?!

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This is a modern designed kitchen extension of a 1920s house. Why!? The toilet door opens onto their dining table!?

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I agree. It isn't ideal but it wouldn't put me off if I liked the rest of the house.

That is really weird OP although i can see why they’ve done it as others have said. If it were my renovation and the soil stack was unmovable I’d have compromised on the open-plan kitchen and split it into a smaller kitchen and then a really nice big utility / pantry that contains the toilet. So the soil stack can stay put, there’s still a downstairs toilet there which is handy, but without a toilet slap bang in the middle of the sitting area. I have drawn you a diagram!

Actually my diagram doesn’t quite work cos of the massive roof lights - you couldn’t put the wall quite there - but there might be some other means of boxing the toilet away from the living area in a similar way.

I keep seeing them in the corner of lounges!

Are you sure you aren't living in a prison?

Could you keep it but turn it in to storage instead of a loo?

I live in a Victorian terrace. My bathroom is next to the kitchen. You can bath the kids and cook the dinner at the same time, it's great 😂

That layout wouldn't bother me at all!!

So you get a nice view of the garden while you have your morning shit.

@DaffodillSky I'm convinced it's a London developer thing. It's rubbish

Is this a house in Balham? If not it must be a not uncommon thing as a relative's house has the same layout. I thought it was an odd design and I was told it was something to do with the plumbing 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes, downstairs bathrooms are a plus when you have small kids, both for bsthtime and coming in wet or muddy. Plus, if they get too splashy, there is less risk of water through the ceiling below!

@BigFatLiar no, it's not an old house & the downstairs loo definitely isn't a repurposed larder, as that side of the house is directly south facing. In winter we actually used to keep our cold drinks etc in the north facing front porch as we didn't see the point in using the radiator out there, it barely ever got above 10°c from October to March most years.

I wonder if they had to keep a support there to avoid an expensive long support beam? And decided in that case a loo as the best use of it?
If I'd been doing that work I'd have put the loo on the inner side of the kitchen and opening onto the corridor. Where there's already a cupboard which could have just been expanded. How odd.

Well we bid asking price (£1.125m) and it went for over £100k over asking, so we were never in the game 😔 no loo with a view with us

not Balham, but SW London of course.

Well it would have cost a helluva lot to fix OP. There are 1000s of those houses in SW London, you’d be better off with one without the design madness.

I am all over Rightmove at the moment because were ready to sell up and retire.

I CANNOT get my head around the number of houses that have 'open plan' bedroom / ensuite. Sometimes no door, sometimes not even a proper wall between them.

There is one that has an open plan bedroom - bathroom - sitting room in the attic, with the bathroom bit in the middle next to the stairs, which aren't door'd off at all from the first floor. A curry must really reverberate around that house.