If you live with your SO, do you use separate bathrooms?

I can’t afford a house that would have those kind of options and I don’t know anyone else that could afford a house with separate bathrooms for each person.

@chyna Right now my husband and I live in a two bedroom apartment and he uses the hall bathroom.

It must be nice to have an SO… and a choice of bathrooms!

We have an ensuite and a main bathroom. We share the ensuite but if I don’t have to be awake my husband uses the main bathroom to avoid waking me.

I too can’t imagine having a house that’s big enough to have ‘his’ and ‘her’ bathrooms either! I also wouldn’t want that. We are both happy to share the same bathroom.

My husband wakes up earlier than me so he uses the hall bath because it has a shower without a bathtub and he likes it better.
We are in the process of remodeling a big room that the builder intended to be a studio apartment but never finished into a beautiful spa bath and master bedroom. I don’t think I am going to be able to get him to use the hall bath then.
I prefer a luxury spa bath to two smaller bathrooms though.

@Bellatrix : What is an ensuite? I have never heard of that. It French it just means “next.” Yep. You heard me right. :-p

In Florida they were building some homes with separate bathrooms in the master. Some as small as 3,000 sq. ft. 3 bedroom, 4 bath. Not that 3,000 sq. ft is small, but they aren’t mansions. One house I saw had the shower in the middle that both people could access, but they each had their own vanity and toilet.

@bookish1 It means the bathroom is in the bedroom, and not out in a hall. In America we usually just say master bathroom and it is understood it is accessed through the master bedroom. Houses with a bathroom for bedrooms that are not masters you will hear the term ensuite sometimes, since in America it is rather rare for a bedroom besides the master to have it’s own bathroom. Still the word is not utilized much here. Many times a second bedroom with a bathroom is called a second master, or that the apartment or house has two masters. Jack and Jill bathrooms are more common in newish houses here. I hate jack and jill bathrooms.

The ensuite is a bathroom that connects (is next) to the bedroom directly. In Australia, we call the master bathroom an ensuite. It’s for our use only. You can only access it through our bedroom.

@JLeslie & @Bellatrix : Thank you for the explanation.

I just wish that I had a separate WC & salle de bain… It offends my Brahmin sensibilities to have to bathe in the same room where I take care of other matters! What a strange idea.

In our new bath the tub toilet shower and sink are practically in 3 different rooms. There is a small extra sink in the toilet room.

@Judi Can you explain that further? Is the tub and shower in the same room with the extra sink?

In Japan in the apartment I stayed in the tub and shower were behind glass in the same space, basically a total wet area. I loved that. It was not a very large bathroom. When you stepped out of the bath you were basically in the shower area still, so being dripping wet was no problem. Also, the bath water faucet was the kind you can pull out and move to rinse off. That was awesome too. Every separate bath should have that in my opinion. That way you can rinse off at the end, or rinse your hair without having to slide down and put your head into the tub water. Also, with the bath in the wet area, if you wanted to add hot water you could run the faucet out in the shower until warm, and then fill the tub a little more with hot water.

We raised three children in a one bathroom house. I really missed our sons when they went off to college, but I’ll admit, the thought of sharing the bathroom with two fewer people was appealing.

If we did have several bathrooms, I don’t see a need for a his and hers. I only take up two drawers in the vanity for my bathroom belongings and I don’t spend that much time in the bathroom throughout the day. I just don’t see the need for our family. Just having two toilets in the house would be nice.

When you walk into the bathroom the focal point is to your right and it is a big jacuzzi bathtub under a window to your right. To your left is the sink and huge countertop. To the right of that is an L shaped shower with 6 body sprays, a shower head and a hand held shower that I will mostly use for cleaning.
To the right of the shower is a hydronic towel warmer (we have floor hydronic heat that we just finished installing yesterday and so it works well with the towel warmer.
To the right of that is the toilet area. (We are getting another toto Neorest 600. The BEST!) that is a separate room with a pocket door and has its own sink.
When you come around the room (across from the door) is a walk in closet. It is on the north side of the house so I’m hoping it will be ok that it has a window in it. I’m sure ill get some construction pics up on Facebook when I get back to where I have decent Internet.

@bookish1, you should ask @Judi about her Neorest 600. Then you’ll have toilet envy.

@jonsblond I grew up in a house with 1.5 bathrooms, we were a family of 4, and I don’t even remember having bad traffic jams for the shower. Somehow we all had different schedules.

@Judi Thanks. I love the sink in the room with the toilet. I also love the heated floors and towel racks. I never was keen on closets being inside the bathroom. I feel like the humidity in the bathroom is a negative for the clothing in the closets. And, closets are where my husband really hates to share. I am much messier than he in a closet, it drives him crazy. Do you actually use the multiple shower heads?

There’s only one shower head, the rest are body sprays. I have them in the other house and use them all the time.
We also have a spray wand in the bath tub but mostly use that for cleaning the tub.
They had a room that wasn’t quite big enough for a bedroom and the laundry was in a closet in the bathroom that backed up to it. We converted the room to a huge laundry/wardrobe room so most of our clothes will be there.
The bathroom is HUGE so I don’t think there will be a humility problem at all. The bedroom/bathroom combo is (I believe) 700 square feet.

Not us, as there is only one bathroom in the house. My sister and her husband have adapted to using separate bathrooms. She rules the ensuite one, and he uses the one in the basement (two floors below. She once said that separate bathrooms is one of the keys to their long marriage.

Then there is the former co-worker and her husband who live in separate houses in the same neighborhood. Crazy huh? Apparently, it works for them and their three children though.

We have a master bathroom that we share. No reason to have separate bathrooms for the two of us. Our master bathroom has more than enough room for all of our stuff. It does have two sinks though and we each have our own sink and cabinet space under our sinks.

I’ve always shared a bathroom. The master bathroom in the house I shared with my ex-husband was plenty big enough for two people to get ready in, so it wasn’t ever a problem. There were two other bathrooms, too, if you just needed an extra toilet.

In my little house (barely larger than @Judi‘s bathroom, at 1100 square feet!) that I live in now, there is only one tiny bathroom in the whole house. That really sucks when all the kids are here!

We live in a home with two full baths and a half bath, so we certainly could have separate bathrooms, but we don’t. He gets up at 5AM to go to work, so we never need to get in there at the same time. Our master bath has a double vanity, which I love, but all he really does in the bathroom is shower and brush his teeth, so we have no need to use separate rooms. I wouldn’t want another bathroom to clean, that’s for sure.

Yes, we each have our own bathroom. Mainly because they’re very small, especially the counter area.

Our townhouse has 2 BR, one full bath in the hall, one ¾ bath (stall shower) off the MBR, and a half bath on the first floor. My sweetie and I prefer the space of showering in the tub, especially since we usually shower together; so we let my young adult son have the MBR so it’s almost like a studio apartment for him, and we took the smaller BR and main bath. Obviously, we’re OK with sharing, but a bigger sink area, or even dual sinks would be nice.

Separate porcelain libraries were, and forever will be, my policy. I require privacy for all things bathroom related.

Only once in recent years was I forced to share a bathroom in a short-lived relationship and I hated it in the extreme. It was something like this.

5 people, 1200 sq feet, 1 bathroom. Sometimes I’d like another bathroom. But it’s one of those things I’d like as opposed to need.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room That was hilarious! Now I have to see that movie.

We have a strict rule in our house, if one of us is taking a bath/shower, then if you want a shit you use the second toilet…no brainer really.

My husband has to go outside.

My husband is really funny about the bathroom, though. If he’s in there for any reason, even combing his hair, he is uncomfortable with anyone else coming in. Which is why I use the bathroom in the house. :)