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Bathroom Configurations

Twins Mom — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:01:02 GMT

I am seeing a lot of bathroom configurations with what seems to be called wet rooms or large walk in showers. Family members also searching for home so am Also looking at real estate listings. I am really surprised how many primary bathrooms have the toilet open or behind partial wall to the rest of the room. I believe in togetherness but..... Our bathroom has a pocket door between sinks and shower \ toilet area. Not as spacious as those online but practical. I wonder hos this became popular or is it just easier for builder?

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Kachina624 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:07:14 GMT

@Twins Mom. Are you speaking of a bath where the toilet is with the shower so it gets soaking wet? I've used one of those and never again.

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Nightowlz — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:08:07 GMT

I have seen shows on HGTV where they put a tub inside a large shower because there's not enough room for both in the bathroom.

I don't like them. If I'm taking a shower I don't want to dry down the tub & shower both when I get finished? I don't want a toilet in my shower either. Never seen that.

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rockygems123 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:11:22 GMT

@Twins Mom

Not crazy about open concept bathrooms either.

We have a WC - water closet with a toilet and a door, prefer that.

Crazy how house trends swing.

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catter70 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:13:30 GMT

I know no one whose bathroom has a separate room for the toilet. My bathrooms aren't big enough for that. Where I lived prior to where I am now my ex and I built a new home and there was the toilet and separate shower with a door to separate it from the double sink and tub. That's been over 30 years ago.

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ID2 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:31:08 GMT

We have a pony wall next to the toilet in our master. Never thought twice about its functionality. It's just fine for me.

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millieshops — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:54:02 GMT

How much space there is in most homes depends upon the cost for land where that home is located. Find the cost of that land as well as the cost of the house when it was designed and built to know whether it made financial sense to design for the kind of privacy separating the toilet behind a wall delivers.

In my older home, the bathrooms could have been designed for privacy IF each were designed with much smaller counters. That's in homes which already have limited counter space as well as the storage space beneath those counters. Apparently lots of buyers are okay without the privacy. Even owners who have done very expensive remodeling haven't added it!

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Imaoldhippie — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:18:19 GMT

I guess Im old school. When anyone is using the bathroom its off limits to others, thats why they have doors on bathrooms.

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gardenman — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:57:33 GMT

Tucking the toilet into a very small room was pretty trendy for a while but in terms of cost per square foot, it quickly becomes the most expensive room in the house. It's also not especially practical. If you need to work on the toilet there's very little room to do so. And every toilet will need work done on it from time to time. And cleaning around a toilet in a small enclosed space is not easy. You're better off with the toilet exposed in the bathroom.

There was a house plan a few years back that drove me crazy. The master bedroom was at the head of the second stairs on the right, and at the top of the stairs was an entrance into the master bath. You open that door and there's a big tub in the middle of the floor with a big window behind it and eight doors around it. One door led to the master bedroom. One to a linen closet. One to a cleaning closet filled with cleaning supplies. One led to his dressing room and one to her dressing room. One led to the vanities/sinks. One led to a utility room with water shutoff and circuit breakers for the second floor and one led to the toilet. All eight doors looked the same. If you were a guest and wanted to use the toilet and they sent you upstairs, you'd be playing "guess what's behind door number one" as you frantically looked for the toilet. And then after using the toilet if you were the sort to wash your hands, you'd be playing the game all over again to find the sinks. Or you could just wash them in the tub. This was a multi-million dollar house also.

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Carmie — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:44:58 GMT

When we visited Greece, the finer hotels we stayed at had open bathrooms.

IMO, it was creepy. I need a bathroom door...a solid one, not a glass enclosure.

I have seen this concept here in US homes, mostly newer ones. I can't see this concept catching on. It looks beautiful, especially if glass enclosed, but there is no privacy. Yuck!

I don't want to share a bathroom. I prefer not just to block off the toilet area from the sinks, tub or shower. Lucky we have more than one bathroom, so we don't have to share.

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Carmie — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:49:07 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Twins Mom. Are you speaking of a bath where the toilet is with the shower so it gets soaking wet? I've used one of those and never again.

I've only seen this set up in an RV. I used it once....never again.

Both of our RV's have a real tub/ shower and seperate toilet.

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Still Raining — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:55:57 GMT

In my dreams I would have one room with a toilet and sink, a different room with a shower and sink, a different room with sink, large counter and mirror.

Crowding three functions into one room leads to lack of privacy.

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faeriemoon — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:09:41 GMT

Our master bathroom has a separate water closet with a door. It is convenient. (It's also a large bathroom which is rather necessary to achieve the goal.)

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wilma — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:42:43 GMT

I am in my 60s. I have lived in both older and newer apartments and houses that are small to medium sized with smaller bathrooms.

I have never had a separate enclosed room with a door for the toilet. The toilet always was next to the vanity and usually faced the tub/shower. Some places I lived in had a partial wall between the toilet and vanity.

As a child we had one bathroom for 9 people! Only in an emergency did someone want to use the toilet while someone else was in the tub or shower. We're family so we dealt with that. I remember when we added a half bath with a toilet and sink. That helped a lot!

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Twins Mom — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:17:41 GMT

@Kachina624

Haven't heard if that one, but a definite "no"

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Twins Mom — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:19:19 GMT

@rockygems123

yup, Carrying open concept way too far 😂

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Twins Mom — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:22:25 GMT

@catter70

About 28 years ago saw builder whose homes all had separate primary toilet room. Also had large walk in closets. Tub and shower open to sink areas.

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LavernLuvsShoes — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:23:48 GMT

I've always marveled at the young couples on those "house hunting" shows who complain about the size of the bathrooms or lack of 2 sinks...

They always say there isn't "enough room for both of us to get ready at the same time."

Never in the entire 38 years of marriage have we brushed our teeth at the same time in a bathroom - Must be a Gen-Whatever thing

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Twins Mom — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:27:19 GMT

@gardenman

😂 that's a lot of doors! Hope the master had one simple path for those drowsy nights.

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Sooner — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:58:22 GMT

I am old. I am blessed to have indoor plumbing. I have lived in a house without it. One thing, however, you did have privacy in the toilet and hopefully a nice path to it.

So, I am happy with a nice bathroom, whether the toilet is in the open with the sink and shower and tub, has a little wall by it, or is in it's own room with door.

I've had all three kinds and never found it to be an issue. We've never had issues with one, two, two and a half or three and a half baths for two people either.