Frosted glass doors for bathroom and toilet?

[WingsofRain]

We have a very dark hallway with several rooms off it including our bathroom and separate toilet.
We are intending to move and I’m trying to upgrade things on a tight budget to hopefully get the best price we can.

All the doors are damaged and look awful so I think they need to be replaced. To increase the light in the hall I’d like to get doors with frosted glass panels but I don’t know if that is alright for the bathroom and loo.

Would you be put off by a bathroom or toilet with a glass panel in the door?

I’m finding it difficult to know what it’s best to spend money on and what will just be a waste that won’t help us sell.

I’d be very put off, would be bad enough upstairs never mind in a hallway.

We had these on a house we moved into and changed them
i want maximum privacy in a bathroom so a solid door
not a preference of mine to have any glass in a door

Thank you! I’ll get solid doors for those two rooms then.

Our house is a bungalow and at the moment all the doors are solid but one. When they are closed the hall is completely dark so I thought it would help to let some light in.

My hall was like that and I had a window put above the front door, there’s a special word for it which I’ve forgotten. Previously I think it was wood. Not sure if all houses have the ability to have one, guess if it’s brick above the door properly not.

A transom, that’s what it’s called.

also replaced the wooden door with a composite door with two frosted glass strips.

I'd worry about the safety of a glass door , the bathroom has a very high trip/slip risk .

Our downstairs loo is very dark (no windows) we painted it bright white silk and got the biggest mirror we could ( it's not a glass mirror it's perspex like they have in a gym so its lighter weight )

Massive no no! I would be put off or be factoring the cost of replacing them into my offer

Are the doors really that bad? Could they be re-painted instead? I wouldn't go spending morning on new internal doors if they all at least shut and the handles work.

My parents and my uncle both have chosen these relatively recently. So people do go for it. I think it’s a bizarre choice and I don’t like it! It probably wouldn’t stop me buying a house if everything else was good, but I’d be annoyed about it. And if there was a good alternative without this madness I’d go for that!

Transom window above the doors definitely worth thinking about but would be more expensive to install.
Frosted glass in the door to a small toilet is an absolute no. Frosted glass in a bathroom door might just be a possibility if the layout means that the bath/shower aren't immediately in front of it but round a corner.

They are very bad, over 30 years old and poor quality veneer that has cracked and broken, especially along the bottom where they have been hit by feet, furniture and wheelchair footplates.

We are also just about to have a central heating system put in and part of the requirements for that is that all the doors will be trimmed to allow ventilation. I want to get the new doors before this so that everything is compliant and we don’t get problems when we sell the house.

I would be put off straight away.

The front door is glass and at the other end of the house round a corner (the hall is L shaped) so doesn’t cast any light into the part of the hall where the bathroom and bedrooms are.

I definitely can’t afford to do anything structural to the inside of the house because I have very little money and I need to get some structural work done outside.

My house had a frosted glass door to the bathroom when I bought it, and pretty much the first thing I did was glue a sheet of plywood to each side and cover it in white gloss paint. Absolutely bananas design, it’s not even a dark hallway!

Is a light tunnel a possibility at all? We put one in our old bungalow and it worked brilliantly. Obviously only possible in limited circumstances

Reminds me of chewing fat sketch.
Guy knocks on door of a house.
Desperate for use of toilet.
Guy lets him in
He rushes to toilet looks up.
House holder has pulled up a chair to watch through a clear glass door.

Just a thank you to everyone who has commented, it’s been very helpful.

Interestingly, when I asked this question on social media, so basically just to people I know, every one of them said a door with a frosted panel on a bathroom wouldn’t bother them in the slightest and in fact several of them have frosted glass panels in bathroom doors.

It’s going to be tricky to get doors that match where some have a glass insert and some don’t, but I will try. Personally I hate the dark hall so want to let more light in, but I’m glad I asked here because if I had only asked my friends I might have made a mistake.

Can you just install motion sensored lights in the dark bit?

I personally would hate a bathroom with a glass door (no matter how frosted) but ultimately you're going to be living there and actually replacing doors isn't a huge cost or hassle so if your household is happy with a glass door then go for it and enjoy a bit of light in your hallway for the 5/10/20 years that you'll be living there.

We are wanting to move as soon as possible, we have been here a long time.

If I’d been able to do the alterations I wanted when we moved in I would have replaced the doors 25 years ago, but that’s a whole other story.

As things are we need to sell as soon as we can and get enough for the place to allow us to buy something similar elsewhere, so I’m trying to pick the things to fix that will have the most positive effect on how the place looks. I’m very short of money so I have to spend it wisely.

To add to the no vibe, but in a slightly different context, our neighbours have a frosted glass window in a bathroom. The silhouettes can be interesting.

we have a dark hallway and will be having frosted glass in all the rooms , bedrooms/ bathroom only done one up to now but it does help with light . We do have frosted/ patterned glass in the exterior door/ side panels that block a lot of light so will be changing to clear glass. That should make a big difference. You can’t see anything through the frosted glass.

Yours looks exactly like yours except ours is about three times as long - if the doors are all closed it’s completely dark.
The bedroom at the end already has a frosted glass door and it’s definitely helped.

If you need to replace your doors, get cheap white panelled ones, use mirrors in the hall and the doors way to maximise the flow of light. Paint the hall white.

We live in a bungalow with a dark hallway. If you just want it to appear lighter for viewings, the simplest thing is just keep all the doors open.

I don't think frosted glass provides enough privacy. I would have then in my own house, but not for selling.

How does that even work in bedrooms? Don’t people get disturbed by others putting lights on when they are in bed?!?