Would this put you off a property? Toilet in separate room no sink

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Going to see a property that has a downstairs toilet but upstairs, the bathroom has a shower, bath and sink but the toilet is in a separate room next door with no sink. I have no idea why they have it this way but would it put you off? I hate the idea of people touching the door handle after being to the toilet before washing their hands 🤢 it makes no sense imo but am I being too dramatic?

My second house was like this, 1970's build
Didn't put me off at all and while several neighbours kept the separate rooms, one of the first things we (my Ddad and myself) did was to remove the wall and block up one of the doors.
Made a lovely spacious bathroom.😁

Yes I much prefer the old style layout too. Who wants a smelly, germy toilet in the same room they bathe and brush their teeth? It also reduces queues for the bathroom if they are separate.

I would want to install a sink.
I can imagine it being a bit of a nuisance if you go to the toilet and when you come out another family member has gone into the shower so you have to go downstairs to wash your hands.
There's an advantage to having the toilet separate because if you need to go you don't have to wait for others to finish showering or whatever.

Yeah, just work out how you can put a sink in, the toilet cistern sinks linked to by others could be a good idea or a really small sink on the wall next to the bathroom.

I've never heard that before! 😆

Same in our house when we moved in so we just took out the dividing wall. Made a much bigger bathroom and we could fit a separate shower cubicle in too. The house you are going to view already has a shower so you'd just have a much bigger bathroom.

That's what I'd been told a long time ago and it's why the British were a bit squeamish and embarrassed by the idea. Wiki says they were originally put in bedrooms when people still used chamber pots but also mentions the sex thing.
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My parents had it.

they added a tiny sink to the loo room and squeezed a small toilet into the bathroom. Helps massively when both me and my sibling stay (with partners)

but parents had an en suite anyway for themselves.

You have options.

Instal a toilet with sink combined.
Add a sink (bathroom next door so pipework should be accessible.)
Knock through making one big room.
Add sink to toilet room and perhaps if room add a toilet to bathroom as well if you reconfigure room.
Depending on were bedrooms are, Take a bit of the bathroom and make toilet room into an en-suite shower room.

my cousins house has this. I open the door with loo paper, then chuck that in and flush. Bathroom door is always open already. I reckon that's why!

Our house has a separate toilet and I LOVE it. I much prefer to relegate the stinkier bodily functions to their own room so the bathroom can be used for brushing teeth, showering, etc. For us, this was was a huge plus when we viewed our house.

You should be able to put in a little sink....even a slim one ...enough to wash hands..we recently put one in our downstairs loo.

I would only go for it if I could knock through and have it in the bathroom.

Friend has a loo with an integral sink. Its ingenious!

That's how our home is and, no it's not what we'd choose if we could, but it's OK. Admittedly, as we are just a couple with a toddler, we tend to leave the door ajar when we use the toilet anyway, so no touching handles. But I have thought about for guests, and pop a hand sanitiser in there so they can use that before touching the handle. It isn't a deal-breaker when it comes to house buying!

How many people will be living in the house?

Our house was built in the 1920s and had the separate loo arrangement, as well as a downstairs one with no sink (it started as an outside loo that got incorporated into the house). When four of us lived here it was easier to have the upstairs loo separate to avoid even more queueing for the bathroom in the mornings, so I was glad of it. It would definitely not be a dealbreaker if I liked a house with that set up again.

We have recently knocked through as there's just the two of us here now. It looks good, and we moved the loo so it's not right next to a bedroom as it was before (a bit grim for whoever was sleeping in there), but even with a second loo available there can be smell issues, and I worry a bit about toothbrushes being in there. We have replaced the downstairs loo with one that has a cistern sink, as that one was more of a problem because you had to come out of the loo and through another room to get to the kitchen to wash your hands. If there were dishes or something in the sink it was a pain, too.

I'd quite like it - I have two teenagers and one bathroom, I can see the benefit of having the toilet freed up if the shower is in use. When I lived in Australia it was the norm in the houses I lived in.

Fairly standard 1920s - 60s layout.

Wouldn't put me off in the slightest.

Used to be very common, I grew up in a house like that, caused no issue, my mum is fastidious. They’ve since knocked down the wall and have a massive bathroom, which is amazing.

Would totally put me off, I like to sit on the loo, lid down of course, to dry my feet after a shower!

Its very common, my first flat had this, built in the 60s, my grandparents maisonette had this and that was built in the 30s. Ive seen houses like this also

You can just reconfigure the toilet room to put a sink in, or have one of those toilets where you have a sink on the cistern.

As long as it would be possible to put in a sink, I would regard it as an absolute asset in a house! I don't understand the appeal of toilets in the same room as the bath and close to the place where you brush your teeth.

Our house is like this, we just go immediately into the bathroom next door and wash hands.

When people worry about this sort of thing, a lot of it is around what we are used to. I hate it when I go away anywhere and the toilet is next to the washbasin with people’s toothbrushes on. Yeah, I know you should keep the lid down but a lot of people don’t bother, and it makes me feel a bit queasy looking into toilet bowl while cleaning teeth, washing hands etc.

I do get your point around door handles, but there is an awareness that the inside handle of the toilet is always touched directly after using, hence regular cleaning and immediate washing hands in another room. It’s just the same as touching the taps though, unless you always operate them with your elbow.