Bath or Shower

[wisewomen]

I have been thinking of swapping my bathrooms and putting a bath in our ensuite and a shower in the main bathroom. With this been a 3 bedroom family house would you think this is wrong? Would it put you off buying a house if the shower was in the main bathroom and a bath was in the ensuite?

[Ethel]

It is your home, and if that is what you want you should do it, unless you plan to move in the next year or two.

What is the point of having a family home you are going to live in for many years, and not do with it as you want because some future person you don't know may be put off buying it?

In any case, you can buy a bath for under �200 and it is easy to put a bath back in.

[gina32]

why are you thinking of doing it that way, what do the rest of the family think?

[wisewomen]

We are considering selling in the next couple of years and dont want this to put people off buying. We think it is a good idea but there are only currently the two of us living there. Really wanted a kind of family angle on it.....

[Postdog]

I personally wouldn't buy a house with that set up. Shower in the en suite yeah, but not a bath.

That said, I have only had showers for the last ten years - if I want to get in water I go swimming, not resting in my dirty water.

[Ethel]

If you plan to sell, leave the bath in the bathroom

You can still put a bath in the en-suite, with a shower over.

[Postdog]

Well I don't have a family, but if I did, then I reckon you are better off leaving it - who wants other members of the family having to go into the your room for a bath?

Ethels Idea is OK tho

[LoftyLottie]

I would leave it if you are thinking of moving. If you were staying I would say change it to suit your needs. Our family bathroom has a shower and no bath because we so rarely use the bath!

[sleepy1]

we have just took our bath out and put a shower in ...my bathroom is so small ..if we do sell we would put the bath back as it can put people of no bath ,,,,do what is best for u ..

[wisewomen]

I was thinking down the line of Postdog and people going through the main bathroom for a bath, but surely most people take showers these days.

I know that when we have guests to stay, they always want a shower not a bath, so they have to come through our bedroom and grown up children would not want to be going through their parents bedroom all the time. I think a shower is more widely used these days and that's why I think it would be most suited to the main bathroom where everyone can use it.

Am I wrong or is it just common for people to assume a standard layout and why is it standard?

[LoftyLottie]

I think you are dead right wisewomen. Baths are not widely used these days, except perhaps for the very young. Two showers would do us very nicely, and, as several have said it isn't too difficult or expensive to change back to a bath if necessary.

[Rosetta]

As LoftieLottie says baths useful if you have young children. Can you imagine putting a 2 or 3 year old in a shower. You would need a wet suit LOL

[wisewomen]

We're not getting rid of the bath altogether. We are putting a bath in our ensuite probably with a shower head attached for rinsing!!! The main bathroom will just contact a walk in shower.

[LoftyLottie]

Sounds good to me wisewoman.

[gina32]

i personally like a bath although do have showers as well, i wouldnt buy a house that had just a shower in the bathroom even tho a bath in the ensuite, but the choice is yours.

[wisewomen]

dont know whether it is worth also mentioning that our ensuite is actually bigger than our main bathroom!

[funnygirl]

For me personally, that set up would work well and I would buy a house like this.

I love my baths, hence the en suite for me.

My boys love showers, hence the main bathroom will be a shower room.

Great!

[Bettypat]

Round my way, the first thing people do when they move in is to rip the bath out and put a new one in to suit their own tastes, so I should not worry too much.