# Have You Ever Been In A House W/O A Hall Bathroom? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187 "2011-06-20T18:50:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/21 "2011-06-21T00:16:27Z")
The standard two bedroom California Bungalow has one bathroom with two doors sandwiched by the two bedrooms. Normally, access is only possible through either bedroom. Usually, the toilet and sink are on the outside wall and the tub is on the inside wall, so it would be impossible to add a door from the hallway. I have run across a couple that were either originally built with, or renovated with a shower stall instead of tub, making it possible to add a third door off the hallway, but again, that’s uncommon as the bedroom closets are usually back-to-back in the space between the bathroom and the hall. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/22 "2011-06-21T00:44:58Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > The standard two bedroom California Bungalow has one bathroom with two doors sandwiched by the two bedrooms. . My mom lived in this configuration with my sister in Sarasota. > [@tdn](#): > > Rarely. I have a tiny studio apartment, and my bathroom has its own little hallway. Our farmhouse when growing up was like this. The bathroom was basically under the stairs, and it had a tiny hallway parallelling the stairs that branched out from the formal living room. (Our formal living room was smack dab in the center of the house, oddly enough. I’m not sure what it was used for originally but we used it for entertaining guests and it had our piano.) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/23 "2011-06-21T00:59:30Z")
AFAIK, I’ve never beein in a house WITH a bathroom directly connected to a bedroom. There has always been two doors separating them. Joe ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/24 "2011-06-21T01:59:01Z")
I grew up in one for a long time–because we didn’t have a hallway. The two bedrooms were just off the living room, and the bathroom was between them. To this day I tend to think that a hallway is a waste in a two bedroom home. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/25 "2011-06-21T02:02:05Z")
The house across the street didn’t have a toilet until the late 60’s. It was put into the entrance boot room and the entrance room shrunk down. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/26 "2011-06-21T02:11:49Z")
I once lived in an apartment where going through the bathroom was the only way to get from the kitchen to the bedroom. If you were using the toilet, no one could get from one room to the other. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/27 "2011-06-21T02:33:06Z")
The house we moved into last week has three bathrooms, all accessible only through the bedrooms. Not the most usual/convenient setup ever, but it will encourage all of us to keep our bedrooms a little bit neater! (Or it will encourage me to be even more anti-social, not encouraging any company unless the bedrooms are clean!) ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/28 "2011-06-21T04:32:33Z")
My friend’s condo down on Balboa Peninsula in Orange County has two bedrooms, one upstairs and one downstairs. Both have an attached bathroom that are only accessible through the bedrooms. This is real inconvenient when you’ve drank a bunch of beer and you are sleeping on the living room couch and there are people sleeping in both bedrooms. There was actually a beach bathroom open 24 hours about a block away that I would use occasionally. Another set of friends lived in a funky little two bedroom house with a bathroom between the bedrooms that was only accessible from the bedrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/29 "2011-06-21T09:08:13Z")
The house I grew up in only had an outside toilet- the old thunderbox down the backyard- until some time in the 1960’s. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/30 "2011-06-21T09:20:49Z")
I live in a cottage that only has one bathroom. It is accessible only through the bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/31 "2011-06-21T20:08:02Z")
The first house (dump, actually) that my Navy bud & I rented when we could afford to live off-base had an ‘interesting’ bathroom arrangement. Connected to the kitchen was one ‘bathroom’ that contained two items: 1 shower-stall. 1 mirror. Through the living room, then through to the back of a bedroom to a ‘bathroom’ that contained two items: 1 toilet. 1 shelf. Not a real thought-out situation. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/32 "2011-06-21T23:36:34Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > My friend’s condo down on Balboa Peninsula in Orange County has two bedrooms, one upstairs and one downstairs. Both have an attached bathroom that are only accessible through the bedrooms. This is real inconvenient when you’ve drank a bunch of beer and you are sleeping on the living room couch and there are people sleeping in both bedrooms. There was actually a beach bathroom open 24 hours about a block away that I would use occasionally. > > Another set of friends lived in a funky little two bedroom house with a bathroom between the bedrooms that was only accessible from the bedrooms. Speaking of which I spent a week in a cabin like that in the Rockies. Great place – right off a mountain creek, but I was staying with 2 other couples and they got the rooms with the only bathrooms. Thankfully, there was a kitchen sink available. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/33 "2011-06-21T23:59:45Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > The first house (dump, actually) that my Navy bud & I rented when we could afford to live off-base had an ‘interesting’ bathroom arrangement. > > Connected to the kitchen was one ‘bathroom’ that contained two items: > > 1 shower-stall. > 1 mirror. > > Through the living room, then through to the back of a bedroom to a ‘bathroom’ that contained two items: > > 1 toilet. > 1 shelf. > > Not a real thought-out situation. No sink? I’ve never lived in a place that didn’t have a bathroom accessible from a common area. One place in Seattle, though, had a basement bathroom where the shower rained down directly on the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/34 "2011-06-22T00:37:55Z")
My parents new house (built in the 1930’s) had 5 bedrooms (it was a large family) and one indoor bathroom, with running water. Luxury. The previous one was outside. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/35 "2011-06-22T00:43:02Z")
My two bedroom condo has an upstairs bathroom accessible only through the two bedrooms - they’re on the second floor - with a half-bath on the first floor. I didn’t know what en suite meant until I traveled in Ireland. If you didn’t ask for an en suite at whatever B&B was in the area you were going to spend the night at, you ended up with a room at one end of the house and the bathroom at the other. For an American, that got old real fast. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187/36 "2011-06-22T01:37:48Z")
My previous residence was a small apartment with no halls. The front door opened into the living room. There was a kitchen and a bedroom off the living room. And the bathroom was off the bedroom. Weirdest arrangment I ever had was a house I rented several years ago. It had a bathroom with an external door. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-in-a-house-w-o-a-hall-bathroom/586187.md?page=1)