What's better - kitchen diner or second toilet?

[mamatwo]

We currently have a second toilet off our kitchen with no wash basin and no room for one. We have one other room downstairs and a kitchen with no room for a table. When we come to sell the property in a few years time do you think room for a table in the kitchen or a second toilet be more attractive to a buyer?

[mallam]

Dennis on the other hand is talking about personal preferences, and the feasibility of making the best of the existing arrangements. From what I understand of your comments, that would be closer to your position.

Dennis, I cannot imagine how I could have failed to recognize your Confucius quote, but it was a bit garbled. Thanks for your link. It gives �I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.� I think my own translation from the original would be �Hearing I forget. Seeing I remember. Doing I understand.� I would really like to translate the last one �By doing I understand�, but that would be to spoil the parallelism in the original for the sake of English idiom. But that idiom makes a distinction which perhaps is necessary in E to bring out the true meaning. What do you think?