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Agreed completely. I have a 4-bedroom, 3 bath house, and we use them all. We have one attached to our master bedroom, one main bathroom on the main floor, and o

Agreed completely. I have a 4-bedroom, 3 bath house, and we use them all. We have one attached to our master bedroom, one main bathroom on the main floor, and one in the basement. We spend a lot of time as a family in the basement, we spend a lot of time with guests on the main floor, and my wife likes to use our private bathroom as a little getaway. I think a decent rule of thumb is one bathroom per floor, plus one. It really sucks having to wait for a bathroom when you need it, and they take up so little space (especially if it doesn't have a bath/shower) that it makes no sense to skimp. We've used all the bathrooms simultaneously, so it's hard for me to consider having fewer.

close04 7y ago
> I have a 4-bedroom, 3 bath house, and we use them all. This tends to be more or less valid for any resource in the house (extra room, closet, etc.). And as it stands bathrooms are on the important side. If you had one bathroom per resident they'd still all be used simply because the people would thoroughly enjoy not having their stuff moved around or bothered by anyone else, or ever risk having to wait for someone to get out first. So you'd just have "assigned" bathrooms. You could even have an extra one that can come in handy when you are remodeling or simply experiencing technical issues in one of the others.
burlesona 7y ago
One per floor, plus one, makes a lot of sense to me. I don’t think having multiple “full bathrooms” is so important, but “half bath” ie. a toilet and sink takes up very little space, and it’s the kind of thing that, when you need it, you NEED it. So it’s worth it.
- systemtest 7y ago
  In my country we don't call that a bathroom. You can't take a bath in a "half bath". It's just a toilet. A typical Dutch house has a toilet + sink downstairs for guests or for convenience of the owners. Upstairs there is a bathroom with a toilet, shower, sink and shower for the owners of the home to use.
  - frosted-flakes 7y ago
    It's called a washroom or a "powder room" in Ontario, Canada. Powder room specifically refers to a small room in a house with only a sink and toilet and is not a term I personally use. A washroom is any room with toilets and sinks, whether or not it has a bath/shower, especially in commercial settings, but "washroom" seems to not be used in the US much or at all, in my experience.
    - Aardwolf 7y ago
      Seems like in (mainland?) Europe people dare to use the actual word a bit better rather than hide the meaning: if the main purpose of the room is the toilet bowl inside of it, it's called a toilet or a wc
      - frosted-flakes 7y ago
        "Water closet" or WC is hiding the meaning just as much as "washroom", in my opinion. Both imply a room with washing facilities. Calling the room a toilet just sounds odd to me, because the toilet is in the room, but I understand why it's used like that. I've also heard "I'm going to use the [toilet] facilities".
  - vonmoltke 7y ago
    > In my country we don't call that a bathroom. You can't take a bath in a "half bath". It's just a toilet. What do you call a room with a toilet, sink, and stand-up shower? That's what one of the full bathrooms in my house is.
  - kube-system 7y ago
    Because the US traditionally consolidated WC/baths, there was only one room, and people found it more polite to call it the bathroom. Needing to 'use the bathroom' then became a catch all for any function that might happen in there. But when we started building some without bathing accommodations, the customary terminology didn't go away. Everyone already understood that 'going to the bathroom' really meant using the toilet. So, the term 'bathroom' stuck.

close04 7y ago

> I have a 4-bedroom, 3 bath house, and we use them all. This tends to be more or less valid for any resource in the house (extra room, closet, etc.). And as it stands bathrooms are on the important side. If you had one bathroom per resident they'd still all be used simply because the people would thoroughly enjoy not having their stuff moved around or bothered by anyone else, or ever risk having to wait for someone to get out first. So you'd just have "assigned" bathrooms. You could even have an extra one that can come in handy when you are remodeling or simply experiencing technical issues in one of the others.

burlesona 7y ago

One per floor, plus one, makes a lot of sense to me. I don’t think having multiple “full bathrooms” is so important, but “half bath” ie. a toilet and sink takes up very little space, and it’s the kind of thing that, when you need it, you NEED it. So it’s worth it.

systemtest 7y ago
In my country we don't call that a bathroom. You can't take a bath in a "half bath". It's just a toilet. A typical Dutch house has a toilet + sink downstairs for guests or for convenience of the owners. Upstairs there is a bathroom with a toilet, shower, sink and shower for the owners of the home to use.
- frosted-flakes 7y ago
  It's called a washroom or a "powder room" in Ontario, Canada. Powder room specifically refers to a small room in a house with only a sink and toilet and is not a term I personally use. A washroom is any room with toilets and sinks, whether or not it has a bath/shower, especially in commercial settings, but "washroom" seems to not be used in the US much or at all, in my experience.
  - Aardwolf 7y ago
    Seems like in (mainland?) Europe people dare to use the actual word a bit better rather than hide the meaning: if the main purpose of the room is the toilet bowl inside of it, it's called a toilet or a wc
    - frosted-flakes 7y ago
      "Water closet" or WC is hiding the meaning just as much as "washroom", in my opinion. Both imply a room with washing facilities. Calling the room a toilet just sounds odd to me, because the toilet is in the room, but I understand why it's used like that. I've also heard "I'm going to use the [toilet] facilities".
- vonmoltke 7y ago
  > In my country we don't call that a bathroom. You can't take a bath in a "half bath". It's just a toilet. What do you call a room with a toilet, sink, and stand-up shower? That's what one of the full bathrooms in my house is.
- kube-system 7y ago
  Because the US traditionally consolidated WC/baths, there was only one room, and people found it more polite to call it the bathroom. Needing to 'use the bathroom' then became a catch all for any function that might happen in there. But when we started building some without bathing accommodations, the customary terminology didn't go away. Everyone already understood that 'going to the bathroom' really meant using the toilet. So, the term 'bathroom' stuck.