To ensuite or walk-in wardrobe?

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Hello Mumsnetters,

Please help me decide between the 3 options below.

So our 3 bedroom house currently only has a bathroom on the ground floor so we're planning an extension to include on the first floor; a family bathroom plus an en- suite and/or a walk-in wardrobe to the master bedroom. The options are:

Option 1:
Ground floor; shower room
First floor; large family bathroom with shower and separate bathtub plus walk-in wardrobe to master bedroom, NO en-suite

Option 2:
Ground floor; shower room
First floor; medium family bathroom with baththub and overhead shower plus walk-in wardrobe AND shower en-suite to master bedroom

Option 3:
Ground floor; shower room
First floor; medium family bathroom with baththub and overhead shower plus shower en-suite to master bedroom, NO walk-in wardrobe

Ideally I'd say Option 2 but I think 3 bathrooms in a 3 bedroom house is excessive ....we are 3 in total and DS is only 1yr old. Hence I'm leaning towards Option 1 but I'm wandering whether an ensuite would add more value compared to a walk-in wardrobe?

Thank you for any feedback.

You don't need a huge bathroom. I would go for 2. People are divided over having an en-suite - some hate them and some wouldn't be without but everyone appreciates decent storage so definitely not 3.

Personally, I love a walk-in wardrobe and think they are far more useful than a cramped en-suite. Given you have a small family it doesn't sound like you need the en-suite.

I'd say, go with what will bring you the most joy out of your home, not what might add value. You have to live there, so, make it as pleasant and enjoyable for yourself as possible.

Two bathrooms is plenty for a 3 bed house.

Option 1 makes sense.

There's no reason to choose a 3rd bathroom over storage space.

Option 2.

It depends on the design. I hate small ensuites that are right up alongside the bedroom wall so someone could literally be shitting a few feet from whoever's in bed, and the smell wafts in as soon as the door is opened. If there's a bit more separation AND you can get a decent sized ensuite that doesn't feel like a massive downgrade from the family bathroom, that would be OK.

Although as you say, 2 bathrooms is plenty.

Option 1. Hate en suites

Sell your 3 bedroom house and use the money for extension to buy a bigger 4 bedroom house. More comfortable, bigger footprint, more storage space etc

Whichever option you choose, I’d lose the shower room on the ground floor. Your house doesn’t need theee bathrooms. Keep a
toilet downstairs but otherwise the space would be better used, possibly as a ultiliy.

I love my en suite but I do have 3 dds who are now all tween/teens and so the main bathroom gets busy. I have a lot of storage in my en suite so all my make up and toiletries are in there and it is where I get ready. My bedroom.just has wardrobes and a bed. I would turn you downstairs shower room into a toilet and utility room.

Personally, 3 - but I'm not a big clothes person.
Probably 2, therefore.

Would the house benifit from converting the shower room downstairs into a utility and wc?

assuming your house has decent sq footage (like 1800) I'd go for option 2

This was also my first thought.

Have 2 bathrooms upstairs and utility/toilet downstairs.

walk in wardrobe if space allows but it wouldn’t be my priority. 2 upstairs bathrooms would though.

Option 1. You don't need a third bathroom. A walk-in wardrobe doesn't just have to be for clothes, it's versatile storage.

Option 1 is fine

Thank you @Doris86, @Itsgettingwierd , @DingDongBell . There is already a separate utility downstairs. We thought perhaps convert family bathroom to shower room with toilet as this will be our forever home so in case of mobility issues when we get older we don't need to move again. We are both already early 40s.
@chukwe there is an extra bedroom downstairs and the extension also includes another bedroom upstairs hence technically we will have 4 bedrooms in the end. The ground floor bedroom will now function as an office as we work from home and then when we are older with mobility issues we move downstairs so we don't have to move houses. @Lafufufu It will be almost 2000sq ft with the extension.

I love en-suites and I kills me I don't have the space in my place to get one. I had one when I lived abroad and it's so nice and convenient. I would chose one at a heart beat

With the update I'd def keep the downstairs shower room...

Reasons

1. you have a sort of guest suite downstairs which is handy for keeping visitors self contained
2. should your child boomerang It give them something more grown up/ independent
3. You'll want it yourself so you may as well get all the pipework etc done now