Bed/Bath dilemma

[tootles]

As some of you may be aware, I live in rather unusual circumstances.
We moved here nearly two years ago, staying in a caravan (all five plus dog of us) for 7 months and then moved into part of the 'house' in December 2007. We are still all in the same bedroom (all five minus dog, who now sleeps downstairs) We have replaced the roof, the floors and built an extra new third floor room (which is a mezzanine job - mainly to make putting on a new roof without the aid of scaffolding easier).

So, we now have a utility room and shower room on the ground floor, a sitting room and kitchen on the first floor (although it is on the ground floor at the back - French house into hillside), a bedroom, second room and landing on the second floor and a mezzanine room on the third floor.

The mezzanine room is currently the tv room and the boys' bunkbed is about to be moved into the landing. The second room is (eventually, one day) going to be our bathroom, we have put in all the electrics and plumbing for a bathroom behind the walls (the loo will be a wall hung thing and the fittings are already there).

So, the dilemma is this, should small daughter have a nice bedroom and the children a tv room, or should she have the tv room as a bedroom and I can finally (after 2 years) have a BATH!!!????


(option 3 - small daughter could always sleep in the bath...............)

[janeyo]

BATH!
I could not be without mine for long.

[selfraising]

Bath would be my choice too!

[coreopsis]

Definitely bath-do you want your kids to get stuck in the tv room for half a day?Chase them to the garden,then nothing feels better than a good scrub

[Nicos]

my choice.......

[quark1]

Its a no-brainer for me - a bathroom is the facility the WHOLE family need and can enjoy.

[sweetiepea]

Speaking on behalf of those with showers only .....THE BATH is the only choice.

[scarey55]

Speaking on behalf of those with showers only .....THE BATH is the only choice.

I am one of those people and I sort of miss a bath - not all the time but sometimes when I want to just relax a bath is the best thing.

It isn't as if your small daughter will be deprived of a bedroom if you have a bath.

Go for it and, as for small daughter sleeping in the bath - she might enjoy it, you know how kids are

[tootles]

Hurrah for the right answers!!!

(to tell the truth - I'd already decided.........)

Any good bathroom designers amongst you??

[SlugLobber]

the worst 4 months of my life were in a house with no bath! On the other hand, i shared a bedroom until i was growded up and am an expert in mortal combat

[Nicos]

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Any good bathroom designers amongst you??[/QUOTE]


First...take one bath........

[SarzWix]

I'd have gone for the bedroom My 3 kids are much happier when they have their own space (which means I'm happier too ) and I prefer having a shower to having a bath!

But, you should definitely do what you want the most, everyone's different!

As to bathroom designs, isn't Mikeywills good at that?

[janeyo]

2 sinks is a must. And storage, you can never have enough. And towel rails are really useful. Big tiles make the room look much bigger and if you match floor and walls even better, looks seamless. Save a couple of each tile and store behind the bath panel, then you will know where they are if you break one accidentally. And always leave access panels in the tiling over any pipe boxwork (we had a nightmare in our old house with a leak and had to rip everything off to find the leak, not the one we had fitted ourselves though thank goodness)

And get the biggest bath you can. And don't go for an iron /metal one as the water goes cold really quickly. Jacuzzi baths are great for aches and pains, we bought one and fitted it ourselves, easyish job.

And make sure lighting is good enough for make-up, depilation, removing splinters... soft lighting is all very well but not very practical!

I would never have wooden worktops in a bathroom round the sink as they can get water damaged with children no matter how careful they claim to be!

Have fun

[Jardiniere]

i dont have a bath i have a shower room....i dont really miss the bath but if i stay overnight in a hotel i always have one..................but even so i'd go with the bath....children dont need a tv room!

[tootles]

Jardiniere, the tv room is for us (not the sprogs!) I don't like to have a tv in the sitting room. And I really DOOOO miss the bath (not to mention not having to go down two flights of stairs in the night for a wee).