I was watching Love It or List It the other day and one of the houses shown had a bathtub in the bedroom.
The bedroom was L shaped, you walked in to the sleeping area. You would walk around the bed to the sitting area, which seemed like an awkward layout to me, but I guess it makes more sense to have the seating area near the french doors than having the bed there.
Right at the bend of the L, you could see it from the door was a large free standing bathtub.
If you walked in far enough to see around the bend on the far wall was double sinks with a vanity. Turn to the right and on that wall was a large glass shower and the toilet.
As near as I could see there were no doors closing off any of the spaces.
Now I’m reading that it’s one of the latest trends is to put the tub in the bedroom.
I think I wouldn’t like it. I think I would feel too exposed out in the open like that as well as I like pulling the shower curtain closed to hold in the heat.
I KNOW I wouldn’t like having the toilet in my bedroom. Even though it was off in the corner as far as I could tell there was no door closing it off from the rest of the room.
I have seen this on a few different kinds of shows - bathtubs smack dab in the middle of a bedroom.
In theory, for that young couple in love, this probably seems like a swell idea. The romantic bath together, drying off each other and then flopping into bed for a wild night of love-making.
Ask any couple who have been together a couple of years if this is still such a swell idea.
“Can you get me a towel?”
“I just got in bed…”
“But the towels are downstairs in the dryer.”
“Oh for christsake, now I have to go downstairs and get towels?”
“And can you turn up the sound on the TV…I can’t hear it due to the sound of the jets in the tub - oh, and get me a glass of wine while you are down there.”
“Geez…there is so much humidity in the bedroom now it is like a rain forest in here.”
“Turn up the air conditioner.”
“Yeah - that’s a great idea - run up the electric bill to cool off a room so you can take a hot bath…”
“I need to run some more hot water - it is getting cool…”
“Great - soak another two hours and your skin will look like a sun dried tomato…”
“Oh, go ahead and turn off the TV and hand me my Nook instead, I want to read my book…”
“But I wanted to watch that show.”
“We have it on DVR - and bring me the razor from the sink - might as well shave my legs while I am in here.”
How romantic.
Give me a huge ass bathroom, with a DOOR, and then you can put in any size bathtub you want. Still room for the romantic nights, but also peace and quiet for relaxing alone.
I had a whirlpool type xtra large tub and two sinks in my bedroom. The toilet was in a small ‘closest’ off to the side. I could not close the door if I sat on the stool. That’s how small it was. That was the first remodel project I did. It’s now a regular bathroom and I built a computer loft above it. My bedroom is WAY WAY to cold for a set up like that.
Our master suite has a tub, sinks, and shower right off the main room. There is a large oversize doorway to the bath/sink area, so it’s sort of a separate room, but no door. The toilet is in a room with a door (I would insist on this in any house). You can see someone enter and exit the shower from the bed area. Our kids don’t come into the master suite if the door is closed without knocking.
If the bathroom’s not closed off with a door, then the sound of the toilet flushing and the water running in the sink would be a huge pain in the ass when someone has to pee at night and someone else is a light sleeper. Not to mention a big issue for anyone with a shy bladder.
If I bought a house like that I’d put up a wall and make the bathroom into its own thing.
I’d want a door for the toilet and another bathing area for more functional “getting ready for work” washing up," but done right a very nice tub in the master bedroom can be quite nice. It can allow for some quality together time when one partner is in to long baths and the other isn’t.
I want my tub and shower to be in a small room. Why? Because my country is cold in the winter and I want the air to be warm when I get out of the tub/shower and it’s easier to warm up a small room than a big one.
This is all very strange. What’s the flooring situation? I really want tile wherever water is likely to be, but I really don’t want tile in my bedroom.
Also, for me, about 75% of the purpose of taking a bath is to have alone time. (Why, yes, I do have young kids.) I would really hate having a tub in my bedroom.
Our 5 year old twins have figured out how to unlock a locked door in our house, so our rule is do not open a door if it is closed. This only happens about 25% of the time, so a bath tub in the middle of the bed room would be a horrible idea for us.
I’m slightly embarrassed that I know this, but wasn’t that on Property Brothers and not Love It Or List It? And yes, the bathtub in the bedroom was bad enough. But the open-concept bathroom (with no privacy for anyone on the toilet) was really awful. And wasn’t the “bedroom” just an open space at the top of the stairs to the second floor, so that one had to go through it to get to the remaining bedrooms?
