Would a downstairs bathroom put you off?

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Just that really! 3 bed cottage, attic room has a toilet en suite but the main family bathroom is downstairs. Would this be a problem for you if you were viewing the house?

It would yes - nothing worse in the winter than having a bath and not being able to nip into your bedroom wrapped in a towel. And what about night-time piddles? I grew up with a downstairs toilet - it was the one thing that I said would be a deal breaker for me when we bought our house. If i am very honest we were luckly that the house we bought did have an upstairs bathroom because in our budget many didnt.

I would need at least a loo near the bedrooms for me or dc during the night so it would be a no from me. Whilst house hunting I have specified this before.
But might just be my weak bladder

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Depends on the price. If well under my budget and with the option to move the bathroom upstairs, the work wouldn't put me off

We have a downstairs bathroom and had also done so in a previous house - didn't and doesn't bother us. But in both places we had an upstairs bog (in current house, an upstairs shower room). TBH I think it's a compromise you make for a "character" property, which would not have originally been built to accommodate indoor sanitation.

A downstairs bathroom with young kids is brilliant. But you do need at least a toilet upstairs. If there's scope to add one then go for it.

The OP says there is a toilet upstairs already (if I'm reading it right?)

I would have no problem with a downstairs bathroom - this was the case in our last house, where we lived for 11 years, and had 3DCs. You just change your routine to suit the fact that you can't wander from bathroom to bedroom in a towel - in other words, you buy a cosy dressing gown.

For us, it made a 3 bedroom house affordable. If the bathroom were upstairs it would have been a 2 bedder.

Nope I have a bathroom downstairs and shower room upstairs, I like the bath down stairs as the DC's can come out the bath and get changed into pj's in the warm living room without trailing up or downstairs.

We had one in our last house. It was only an issue when I was heavily pregnant.

No, we've only got a downstairs one in this house and no loo upstairs. It's fine, DCs (now 8 and 10) have lived here all their lives and going in the night has never been a problem (neither of them has ever done this regularly though and we never "lifted" them to go). We just kept potties in their rooms during night training. Neither DH or I go in the night (well, hardly ever). The only time it was a pain was when they were very young and having night time feeds and nappy changes, then I had to go downstairs to wash hands, also no water available upstairs for wiping their bottoms with, we kept a flask of it by the changing table. Actually even now, it is the lack of water upstairs rather than the lack of a loo which is a bit of nuisance (for filling the iron, watering plants, cleaning upstairs etc).

It is right at the bottom of the stairs though, if it was a trek through a freezing kitchen it might be a deal breaker.

And yes, agree that downstairs bath was great when kids were young.