I was watching Leave It To Beaver and June is scolding Wally for washing his hands in the kitchen sink. Evidently Wally is full of ebola or something that could ruin her food. Anyway, Wally explains Beaver is “hogging” the bathroom and he has to wash up for dinner.
This got me to thinking, in the Cleaver house, Wally and the Beaver have a bathroom that is connected to their bedroom. June and Ward also have a bathroom that is connected directly to their bedroom
I have been in houses with bathrooms connected to bedrooms, but there has always been at least a half a bath (toilet and sink) somewhere else in the house.
So has anyone ever been in a house where all the bathrooms are connected directly to the bedrooms.
And yes, I know it’s a TV show so house floor plans are often illogical
I live in a house that has only one bathroom, off the bedroom.
Of course, my house doesn’t have a “hall”, either. The front door opens to the living room, the kitchen’s directly to the right, the bedroom’s further in and to the right, and the bathroom is between the two (but only connects via the bedroom.
Yes, I’ve lived in older houses with bathrooms in odd places. Most of the ones I grew up in, actually.
Usually these were either houses built before plumbing, so that bathrooms were an afterthought; or houses which had been split up into apartments so that bathrooms were converted closets or such.
My first husband and I lived in a block house which originally had neither kitchen nor bathroom. It wasn’t wired for electricity either, he had to add all that.
My brother-in-law’s house, built probably in the 60’s, has only one bathroom (not counting the basement, which he finished later). It has an entrance from the hall, but also a door from the master bedroom.
We only have a “hall bathroom” located between the house’s two bedrooms. Neither bedroom opens into the bathroom directly. There are three sinks: kitchen, bathroom and the laundry room in the cellar.
My parents last house (which they bought in '88 and my mom lived in for the next 17 years) had just the one bathroom and it was off of the (only) bedroom.
In my grandparents’ old house (not sure when it was built, but they lived there circa 1960’s through 1980’s), there was only one bathroom, and it was off the kitchen. I always thought that was weird.
For some context, the house didn’t really have a hallway to speak of. The living room, dining room, and kitchen were connected in series. There was an entry foyer off the living room, a bedroom off the dining room, and the bathroom off the kitchen. Kind of an odd layout, now that I think about it.
My parents’ house is like that. It’s a good sized house, about 2600 square feet, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and every bathroom can only be entered via one of the bedrooms. It’s a newer house, too, built around 2006.
I’ve been in apartments i did not rent that had the bathroom in different rooms. There’s nothing like a toilet in the corner of a living room to make you want to rent the place.
The majority of older UK houses have only one toilet, usually upstairs and only one bathroom too. They are often but not always the same room.
(Not being snarky by using UK terminology, bathroom just means a room with only bathing facilities to me).
Edited to add: My house is of this type and there simply wouldn’t be room to put in a downstairs bathroom. I could however put in an ensuite upstairs if I cared to.
When my son and his future wife occupied “married” student housing at MIT that had only bath that you could access only through their bedroom. When my wife and I stayed at their apartment on a futon, we each had to go through their BR during the night to pee.
Not quite up to the OP, but my brother moved into a new house in the mid 90s that had a bathroom downstairs, but both upstairs baths could be accessed only through a bedroom. You couldn’t have gotten me to buy such a house.
Well, a lot of British houses, especially the terraces built without bathrooms during the Victorian building boom, have a bathroom that can only be accessed via the kitchen (usually with a double dividing door). But that’s still easily accessible.
One flat I lived in in Berlin had a shower in the kitchen, plus the usual kitchen sink, but the only toilet was outside the flat and in a separate room down the communal stairs. You had to take your front door keys with you every time. My Berlin friends thought this was totally normal.
One was a very cheap split level without a bathroom. It had a separate toilet, but you were supposed to wash yourself with a washcloth in the kitchen. The city had renovated the apartment it in the 80’s and built a shower stall on the former balcony, off the master bedroom. Everyone taking a shower in the morning had to go through the bedroom where their host slept. Awkward.
The other was in the house of my MIL in Spain, this spring. Their bathroom, with the only toilet in the house, has two doors, one to their bedroom and one to the hallway. It was very awkward to have to check if both doors were locked when I was in and unlocked then I left again. Especially as the locks had keys, not convenient switches that told you if they were open or closed.
We had to make arrangements with my MIL’s husband. I surprised him by accident once when he hadn’t checked if I was in the bedroom (the only place with a computer with internet) and I walked in on him.
Even more embarrassing was when I went for a ultra quick shower in the morning (which he had asked us not to do without consulting him first) and he had to wait two minutes untill he could get in. He was so angry at me that I guess I made *him *have an embarrassing accident. He and I got on each others nerves anyway, so my husband and I left for a hotel where we stayed for our last three days of our vacation.
It is really incovenient, especially as MIL and her husband have guests staying over all the time.
I was in a house with NO bathroom whatsoever. The bathroom was outside by the garage. Bedrooms had chamberpots. The house was in Missouri and it was long ago.
As has been said, here in the UK single bathroom/toilet is pretty much the norm, at least for older houses. I’ve never lived in a house that had more than one.
Well, saying that, more than one which was plumbed in- one rented house had a (non-working) toilet in an outhouse, which actually had a small road running between it and the house- when built, that was the only bathroom (as a side note, if anyone ever went to the ‘Wigan Pier’ museum, that house was a terrifyingly close copy of the Victorian workers’ house exhibit, right down to the wallpaper, weirded me out somewhat on a school trip). The house I lived in as a little kid had a toilet in the entrance porch for a while, which some batshit previous owner had half installed before dying, and my parents didn’t get around to removing until I was about 5.