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Not really biking related but you guys seem to have a balanced view on life.
We live in a 3 bed house (me, her and 2 kids), and we're thinking about building a ground floor extension.
It occurred to me yesterday that we haven't used the bath for over a year - always use showers. The bathroom is easily big enough to convert to a bedroom and the shower room (+ toilet) is separate.
So is is a bad idea to move the bathroom downstairs to create an extra bedroom? There will still be shower room + toilet upstairs, just the bathroom will at the end of the ground floor extension.
The missus thinks it will affect the re-sale, I think the extra bedroom will increase the resale - who is right?
keep the bathroom upstairs.
downstairs use what would have been the bathroom as a 'Study/Bedroom 4' room. It'll go on particulars as 4 bedroom house. People don't want to have to traipse through half the house from the bath to a bedroom. It's mostly onyl Victorian terraces that end up with a bathroom downstairs due to space constraints.
Have you got a moving date yet? If not, use the house the way that suits you. Worry about selling it if it fails to sell. You can always put a bathroom back if the plumbing and drainage is still in place.
A friend of mine recently bought a house here in Germany which has a huge bathroom with accompanying spa bath tub/Jacuzzi, bidet etc.. downstairs. Upstairs it has a small toilet with a shower next to the bedrooms. I asked him why the hell would anyone want to have the bathroom downstairs miles away from the bedrooms. Bragging rights to the guests was the answer.
wwaswas +1
We spent the last 3 years looking for a house to buy and while we would never have discounted one because it had a downstairs bathroom it did put it further down the list. FWIW I can't stand houses with shower rooms downstairs either (apologies to all those I've just offended). Upstairs for washing, downstairs for dancin.
Both..
but you guys seem to have a balanced view on life
That's a joke right?
Any slightly "unusual" layout can effect a house re-sale. However, from a practical point of view it sounds like a good solution for your family.
It may make the bathroom almost completely useless though.
Have you got a moving date yet? If not, use the house the way that suits you. Worry about selling it if it fails to sell. You can always put a bathroom back if the plumbing and drainage is still in place.
This. Box in the plumbing, use the house as it suits you. If your house doesn't sell in the future because of the bathroom, then stick a cheap one back in. I think we get obsessed with resale value, and forget that we live in these places and it should suit us to do do.
As long as there's a toilet upstairs, then your middle of the night pee is catered for.
I lived in a cottage with a downstairs bathroom, I never gave it a thought.
As long as there's a toilet upstairs, then your middle of the night pee is catered for.
sink in the corner of the bedroom?
I got rid of the bath altogether and installed a walk-in shower. Haven't missed it a bit.
my uneducated opinion is that a bathroom downstairs is to be avoided if possible, but a study/4th bed/guest room, not a problem to locate downstairs.
but I've lived in houses with "bad" layouts, surprising how much you can just get used to
"sink in the corner of the bedroom".... next to the beaker..... sorted. Ive got a downstairs wetroom and a main bathroom upstairs so i dont carry mud upstairs after riding. If you dont plan to move then do what suits but if its a possibility in the future it will put some people off, so you may want to factor that in, FWIW my SIL only has a DS bathroom and really finds it a bit of a pain.