Once, on a work trip, our team was working out of a hotel in which the rooms had open bathrooms. We were using one hotel room as our office and anytime anyone had to use the bathroom the rest of us stood in the hall.
Sounds like a big mold/mildew issue waiting to happen in the bedroom, due to humidity.
Maybe it’s based on an assumption that no more than one person will be entering the master suite at any one time.
An open bathroom?
The horror. The horror.
Why, for heavens’ sake, wouldn’t you go to one of the other rooms you have rented to use the restroom?
Bought my current house 30 years ago. The master bathroom had duel sinks and a garden tub. In the bedroom. No walls. Cold as hell to bath in.
And the toilet in the master bath was in this little closet. Little meaning you could not close the door if you where using it.
It was my first remodeling project on the house. Now it’s a real bathroom with doors and everything (what a concept). I even built a loft/office above it which is where I work, and am typing from now.
Because we were each in a different building in the complex, it’s easier to just ask people to get out.
ETA and some were staying in a hotel across the street
Except that most of these ridiculous open-concept bathrooms exist in high-end real estate, we’re talking million dollar homes, where the primary bedroom suite is large enough to have a bed, a sitting area, a separate bath and shower, his-and-hers dual sinks, and sometimes even a laundry alcove. So space really isn’t the issue.
Open concept bathrooms sounds like an article out of the onion. Sort of like his and hers toilets from SNL.
I can’t imagine it’s this stupid, but here is my (probably incorrect) thought.
Bathrooms that do not have a window must have an exhaust fan. If the toilet, etc. is part of the bedroom, then it is in a room with a window, so no need to install an exhaust fan. Except, exhaust fans are not that expensive to put in during construction.
I was recently listening to a podcast segment about “Pittsburgh toilets,” which are open concept toilets, except in an unfinished basement. I was aware of the phenomenon, but didn’t realize it was given that name. Such a thing in an unfinished basement makes sense. Now there is a second toilet, and maybe someday we’ll finish the basement.
An indoor open toilet sounds terrible, but I must admit that when in the wilderness using an outhouse with only \frac{3}{4} walls was remarkably relaxing. Enjoy nature when nature calls.
Such is the case with the place I’m staying in. The second bedroom has this arrangement and is only middling-sized. But the master BR is huge (at least 1,000 sqf, I would say, and probably a lot more). Besides the toilet, it also has a shower, a jacuzzi, a sitting area and a lot of empty space all around.
There doesn’t appear to be any sort of exhaust ventilation system, despite all these plumbing apparati.
Not so weird to me. When I lived in Denver, we had a toilet in a room adjacent to the laundry room. It had a toilet and sink, and a door you can close for privacy. It wasn’t our main bathroom, but it was handy to go to from the man-cave.
That reminds me of another phenomenon I’ve noticed: Toilets with large windows right next to them. Not low enough to show off the toilet from outside, but low enough you can see outside while using the toilet.
I figure there’s a designer out there who decided we all want to just shit and look out the window.
And assumes nobody wipes standing up.
Some decades back, we were in a house that had a large tub installed on a platform two steps up from the rest of the bedroom with the bed facing the tub. I don’t recall if the toilet was nearby - I just remember the tub - as if bathing was to be performance art or something. It was way more than I wanted to know about the homeowners… < shudder>
I encountered something similar on a cruise ship, of all places. My husband won a suite playing bingo ( I would never pay that much) and when we got there, there was a door from the living/dining room into the bedroom/bathroom. One was to the right of the door and the other to the left. The bedroom was separated from the bathroom by a set of curtains that left the door on the bathroom side. The double sink , bathtub (with a window next to it) and closet were in the open area of the bathroom and the toilet and shower were in separate enclosures. With frosted glass doors and walls. It was tolerable because only my husband and I were in the room - but the suite slept 3 or 4.
That, at least, makes a lot of sense. You need privacy for the toilet, not for the sink, and by putting the sink outside, someone can still use the sink while someone else is privately using the toilet.
One-way glass. I’ve seen it in a bar somewhere, floor to ceiling.
"Look at those fools on the sidewalk! I’m watching them while I poop, and they don’t even know it!"
The 21C hotel in Louisville has that in the mens room behind the urinals.