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Two girls, how many bathrooms will we need?

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Feierabend · 16/02/2010 19:55

I am becoming a regular in this topic! So we've got two little girls, planning to move to a house for good - well the next 20 years or so. How many showers and baths and mirrors will we need with two teenage girls in the house? Will one bathroom with bath and separate shower do, or should we plan on having an additional shower room built in?

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MillyMollyMoo · 16/02/2010 20:28

Well funny you should mention that but DH and I are considering putting an en suite in the box room because we have three daughters and handing over the family bathroom entirely to them.
They will still have to share but at least hubby and I will get the ocassional hot shower too.

mumblechum · 16/02/2010 20:30

Our rule of thumb is one bathroom per person, so for dh, ds and I we have two shower rooms and a bathroom.

QOD · 16/02/2010 20:30

ha
Well, my friends built their own 5 bedroomed 3 bathroomed house and they all use their parents en suite even though the girls are 10 and 8!

venusonarockbun · 16/02/2010 20:35

Im a bit at the necessity for one bathroom per person! Isn't this just a teeny weeny bit excessive? - and so not the norm.

PortofinoLovesPancakes · 16/02/2010 20:40

I was just thinking that venus!

And we have 2 wcs, a bathroom and a shower room so not like I am . In my house, I'd glad because we have lots of visitors but certainly not necessary for normal family life.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 16/02/2010 20:41

Ensuite for you, bathroom for the girls.

bibbitybobbityhat · 16/02/2010 20:42

Lolol at Mumblechum's rule of thumb.

OP - have as many bathrooms as you can afford dear.

Chunkyrice · 16/02/2010 20:42

Ah mumblechum, but do you have a lake for the horses?

nappyzonecantrunfortoffee · 16/02/2010 20:45

Well we grew up with one bathroom between 4 and i had a brother and we both liked our privacy and it worked provided we used the lock! We have an ensuite shower which i am ensuring is strictly for people who sleep in master eg me and dh. The family bathroom has a seperate shower and bath and will be a free for all. Jeez if we had 4 bathrooms i would be forever cleaning them and thats not my idea of fun

nowwearefour · 16/02/2010 20:45

i grew up in a house with 1 bathroom and we managed. it is amazing that these days so much more is expected. we moved recently into a house with 3 bathrooms which is crazy. we have 2 girls too and dh thinks we will need all the bathrooms. i think we can lose one. we cant afford to do anything anyway so an academic conversation. will watch this thread with interest!

bluetits · 16/02/2010 20:46

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hana · 16/02/2010 20:48

we have 3 girls and will have 1 bathroom plus a toilet/sink downstairs as they get older. It will have to work for us! Have 2 sinks in main bathroom which already helps

PortofinoLovesPancakes · 16/02/2010 20:49

Actually when I was little we didn't even have ONE bathroom. Outside loo and a tin bath. My school friends didn't believe me. I'm not recommending said arrangement, but we were clean! How far things have come....

Mongolia · 16/02/2010 20:50

We were 3 girls, my parents had an ensuite and we had a bathroom, and mirrors in the bedrooms. It was fine.

However, if I were to get my way, I think I would have liked the possibility of the toilet being separated from the bathroom.

psychomum5 · 16/02/2010 20:50

we have three teenage (well, almost three....DD3 is 11) girls and one bathroom and one downstairs toilet, and we cope.

that said, if we had the luck of building our own property, I would have an ensuite for us.

I would go for the amount of bathrooms you can cope with cleaning.....I would cope with three, and no more

TheFirstLady · 16/02/2010 20:53

We have three girls, one a teenager, and one bathroom, plus downstairs loo. We would like to have a shower room and hope to convert the box room to a shower room in a year or two, but we manage fine with one bathroom. It helps that none of us seem to have any sense of privacy/modesty though - so bathroom can be multi-tasked.

janeite · 16/02/2010 20:54

We have 15 and 12 (nearly 13) year old girls and have one bathroom and one downstairs loo. We cope! As a child, there were four children, plus mum and dad and just the one bathroom- again, we coped.

It seems a bit mad to me, just how much people think is 'needed' nowadays - but of course, get what you can afford (and can be bothered to clean).

crankytwanky · 16/02/2010 20:59

QOD, I know someone with exactly that problem!

He says there are plastic toys all over his en-suite.

I have a downstairs loo for the first time ever, and it's lovely!

TrinityIsFallingApart · 16/02/2010 21:03

wow I'm amazed by one bathroom each
I would just love to have abother toilet on our house

we have 3 adults and 3 young girls and only one bathroon

jasper · 16/02/2010 21:10

How about how my family lived when I was a child?
4 children under 5,
one OUTSIDE lav and a bath in a separate building, shared with the neighbours.

WE moved to a proper house when I was 3 and had one bathroom for the whole family.

Anything more than one is a a bonus!

101damnations · 16/02/2010 21:30

We have 2 dd's and one bathroom.The toilet is separate and we did think of knocking them through into one bigger bathroom.Then dh pointed out that when they are teenagers and hogging the bathroom,he will still be able to use the loo in peace if we leave things as they are.

We had an old fashioned privy [emptied by a dunny man as no sewers]until I was about 7.I still remember going down the garden in the dark to go to the loo.
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Feierabend · 16/02/2010 21:31

OMG didn't think this thread would take off thanks everyone!

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Feierabend · 16/02/2010 21:37

I like the idea of keeping the loo separate... I know DH and I already fight over the shower in the morning (because HE takes ages) so if two more people had to use the same shower it would become a bit of a problem. Hence my OP, I wasn't being silly

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LoveMyGirls · 16/02/2010 21:40

Well when I were a lass, way back when oh we were lucky if we got stood under the leaky guttering once a fortnight

Seriously we had a main bathroom, en suite and a downstairs loo at my mums which was fine and that was with at least 1 of my brothers staying there too.

PortofinoLovesPancakes · 16/02/2010 21:55

The separate loos are the key thing in mho.

Since havindd we have had:

One bathroom with bath, loo, washbasin. (lack of shower was a pain)

One ensuite with bath (shower over) 2 basins, loo. Separate shower with basin (only ever used by visitors). Separate loo with with basin off hall. Good for us - pain for visitors.

Downstairs loo. Loo upstairs. Shower room with basin. Bathroom with double basin and bath. Nothing ensuite.

The last one works best. Toilets separate from bathrooms. Only children ever go in the bath. Even with loads of adults, noone spends THAT long in the shower and there are other sinks for teethbrushing/mirrors for make up etc.

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