On Jun 3, 12:46*am, Clive George wrote:
On 03/06/2011 00:27, ARWadsworth wrote:

If you had a 3 bed house with no ensuites and were going to build an
extension to make it a 5 bed house how many ensuites would consider the
minimum?

The smallest existing bedroom is the nearer to the existing bathroom than
the proposed extention and will have to remain ensuite free.

I claim that there should be at least 2 full ensuites and three new toilets.
Any other views before I fall out with my Dad..

I reckon it needs one bath/shower, one shower, three toilets in that
size house. Achievable with one ensuite, one bathroom, one downstairs bog..

But that's needs, rather than wants.

Having more will probably make the house more saleable, provided the
size of the bedrooms doesn't suffer.

Exactly. I know of someone who put an en-suite in every room upstairs
in an ordinary house, and the result
is a rats nest of tiny rooms and doors every where. Looks ridiculous.
Even most new detached houses, say, 4 bed with integral garage, have
pretty small bedrooms to fit in
the en-suites, and you have all these bathrooms almost next to each
other. Its ridiculous. However, it may be
what people want.
Of course, a large spacious house is an entirely different matter.
What comes to mind is those american houses in movies / tv (most
actually sets built for filming !) that
seem to have a decent sized bathroom for every bedroom (complete with
1930s square tiles and one of
those hoop shower curtain things over the bath). This is so the kids
can lead an existance separate from the
parents, who are always somewhere else in the vast house, where their
mates climb in though the window and
have pizza delivered that way as well.
Simon.