Re: Bathroom Configurations

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@Carmie wrote:
@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.

@Carmie I've seen it used in floorplan in very small spaces.

In my case it was a small cabin on a smaller ship on a nature cruise in Alaska. The whole boat was a large catamaran, very nice but compact. That wet toilet was the pits.

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Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@Kachina624 I am with you there. I guess it's better than nothing, but not by much.

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

In both our bathrooms, everything is contained behind doors. Nothing separate for the toilet.

50Mickey · ‎05-21-2010

@LavernLuvsShoes wrote:
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

@LavernLuvsShoes My husband and I have been married for 42 years. Never one time have we had to get ready in the same bathroom for work or anything else at the same time. With our first house 3 of us lived with one bathroom and one sink. I would not want to do this again but it can be done.

Speaking of these annoying couples on House Hunters every single one of them comments on whether the house is suitable for entertaining and they all need a separate toy room for the kids. How many people here would put entertaining space at the top of the must have list for a home purchase? I think the show tells these people to make certain comments.

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@gardenman wrote:
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.

@gardenman

We have that and don't have any problem with plumber working on or removing and installing new toilet. We have been in our house for a while now and we had to have a toilet replaced. We did replace with Toto and bidet. Only this past month had any problems and plumber had no problem with it. I guess it depends on the breadth and width of the plumber. I appreciate having a separate room for my privacy, more as I age than I did in my youth.

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

One son and his wife have a large bathroom, I think you would call it a wet room. The shower is like a large walk-in closet, but they have those too. They each have a walk-in closet with shelving and storage and dresser drawers for stuff. They have separate dressing areas but the shower is just one big deal itself and then the vanity is very long, one for him and one for her and then they have their separate closets and dressing rooms. That's too much cleaning for me to do.