Which would you rather have - walk-in wardrobe or a second bathroom?

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Our flat (medium-sized two-bedroom) is seriously outdated.

It has a laundry in between the two bedrooms. There's room in the master bathroom to put a washer and dryer hidden in a cabinet so I think the laundry is really under-used space.

I am trying to work out whether we'd be better to put a second bathroom there and make the master bedroom ensuite, or to split the laundry space in half and put in just a loo on one half and a very small but beautifully organised walk-in wardrobe in the other.

If you were looking for a flat to rent, which would appeal to you more? It's a great city area and therefore likely to be rented to childless professional couples until the end of time.

For a two bed flat, provided there were two loos (this is a deal breaker for us) then, I'd prefer a walk in wardrobe.

can you have a second bathroom and keep the washer and dryer in there?

I would not want a w/d in my bedroom

No need for an en-suite in a two bed flat imho.

Unless there's really limited space for a wardrobe in the bedrooms, then a second bathroom would be more valuable (in my "professional" opinion)

However, on a personal level - I have always wanted a walk in wardrobe I watch too much MTV cribs

Loo and wardrobe sounds like the perfect solution!

Wardrobe extra bathrooms = extra cleaning.

Thanks for the replies. It does help to have a sounding-board.

The proportions are kind of odd - the (at the moment only) bathroom is very big relative to the rest of the flat so that seems like the logical place to put the washing machine.

I am not a 100-pairs-of-Manolos type of woman myself but I can very easily imagine that kind of person living here. I saw (and hated) the SATC movie and thought hmm, I wonder if a prospective tenant would see the shoe racks and handbag pigeonholes and insist to her DP that they absolutely must rent our flat. The bedrooms are on not poky, but nor are they huge - you wouldn't get big wardrobes in there.

If you're thinking of renting then definitely second bathroom as flat will have much more appeal to professional sharers who won't want to be queueing in the morning.

2nd bathroom.

Thanks everyone, very helpful!

2nd bathroom! My mate had a brand new 2 bed house with an en-suite shower room with toilet sink and shower and then a main bathroom with a bath in it.

He had a lodger for a while and therefore they had their own bathrooms.

bathroom

Is the room big enough to have a decent sized wardrobe anyway? Have to say bathroom appeals more but if for a childless couple then less of a need for a bathroom and toilet would be enough.

Cheers everyone.

Will get the tape measure out again and see if I can magic some more space out of thin air. I had a dream last night that I opened a cupboard and there was a whole extra room there that we hadn't known about.

Very sad to wake up from that one.

Definately a bathroom - if you have two roughly even sized double bedrooms, a bathroom in each would appeal to professional renters. They are probably the kind of people you would want to rent it out to.

Agree - I'd love a walk in wardrobe too - but a bathroom to myself would be much higher on my list.

HTH

In a smallish property the walk-in part of the wardrobe would be a waste of valuable floor space, wouldn't it? (I mean compared to an ordinary wardrobe where the floor in front of it is part of the living space)

Bathroom, definitely.

Bathroom. Unless you are hoping to rent to Carrie Bradshaw.

I hate ensuites, I completely fail to understand why anyone wants a toilet (smelly) or a shower room (steamy, smelly) so close to their sleeping space. Yuck, yuck, yuck.

A walk-in wardrobe I would love, though -- a place for all you shoe-fiends to store your treasures, a place to store everything. I grew up in a house with walk-in wardrobes, something I dearly miss, you don't know what you have until you don't have it.

I'm sure an estate agent would advise ensuite, too, though, sigh.