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.
My mom lived in this configuration with my sister in Sarasota.
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.)
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.
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!)
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.