Grateful for opinions...we live in a 15 yr old house which is typical of lots of newish builds - the ceilings are low and the rooms are small but numerous!
It has 4 bedrooms and we have a dilemma with DD's bedroom. (she's 2). The bedroom is very small because it has an ensuite shower room. The house was built like this because these days, housebuilders like to put bathrooms everywhere! There is an ordinary bathroom upstairs and an ensuite shower room in our bedroom as well making 3 bathrooms in a 4 bedroom house! So - I can either:
-keep DD's room and shower room as it is
-knock down the wall between the shower room and the bedroom and remove the shower and toilet to make the bedroom bigger. Atm, the bedroom is very small.
I don't think the cost would be much different because the bathroom is 15yo and knackered so even if we kept it, we would have to replace it quite soon so that would be expensive. Knocking down the wall and removing the bathroom probably wouldn't be much different in price.
My SIL says that DD would adore her own bathroom as a teenager. I can see that this might be the case, but the room is very small and she is 2 at the moment and all I can see is that there is hardly any floor space for toys, depsite the fact that there is hardly any funiture in there.
DS's room is a bit bigger than DD's and he has toys etc in there an likes playing in there (he's 4). I would like DD to be able to do the same in her room, but am I being shortsighted in wanting to remove the bathroom?
When people buy houses, do they really want 3 bathrooms for a house built for 4 people? It seems strange to me. I can see in large houses why there might be loads of bathrooms, but our house isn't large so it just seems bizarre to me.