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I grew up in western Canada and everyone I knew used the term en suite or ensuite. I had never heard the term master bath until I moved to the USA. En suite wasn't pretentious in Canada at all; there was no other term used. I believe it has started to catch on in the USA because of all the HGTV shows that air out of Canada.
I don't know how I feel about hearing it in the States because here it is a master bath, so it sounds strange to me.
I grew up in western Canada and everyone I knew used the term en suite or ensuite. I had never heard the term master bath until I moved to the USA. En suite wasn't pretentious in Canada at all; there was no other term used. I believe it has started to catch on in the USA because of all the HGTV shows that air out of Canada.
I don't know how I feel about hearing it in the States because here it is a master bath, so it sounds strange to me.
Ontario here and mostly see the term ensuite, occasionally Master Bath. A bathroom with an entrance from the hall and a bedroom is semi-ensuite.
I grew up in western Canada and everyone I knew used the term en suite or ensuite. I had never heard the term master bath until I moved to the USA. En suite wasn't pretentious in Canada at all; there was no other term used. I believe it has started to catch on in the USA because of all the HGTV shows that air out of Canada.
I don't know how I feel about hearing it in the States because here it is a master bath, so it sounds strange to me.
The master bath is part of the master suite, or adjoining the master bedroom. The term en suite is most often used when the bath is in a bedroom OTHER THAN the master bedroom.
That's the case in my market area, anyway. YMMV.
Bill Keegan, you must be dealing with homes where there are more than two bedrooms that have private baths. These must be either older (truly) luxury homes or newer subdivision (mass market) luxury homes.
It sounds like the folks making the descriptions had to resort to utilizing a reasonable term to handle this situation. If the home had a single 'master' bedroom then preforce it could only have a single 'master bath'. The remedy was to call any private bath entered via a secondary bedroom an 'en suite'. Genious! And with new subdivisions having 5 bedroom/6.5 bath homes, there are going to be plenty of these appropriately named en suites. Changing times.
The master bath is part of the master suite, or adjoining the master bedroom. The term en suite is most often used when the bath is in a bedroom OTHER THAN the master bedroom.
That's the case in my market area, anyway. YMMV.
That may be a US interpretation of ensuite. In Canada, it refers to the Master Bath (at least in the Western part) and the term Master Bath is not used (or used to not). With the Canadian and US HGTV audiences watching shows from each others countries I can see how the meanings may have been muddied over the last few years.
I have lived in Europe, but am not sure how the word is used there. I would guess it's similar to Canada.
Only lately, while watching house hunting shows, have I started to hear this term "en suite" and wondered what was the different between that and a master bathroom.
Exactly, I've never heard the term en suite until I started watching HGTV.
Friends who own inns are sometimes asked if the bedroom has an ensuite, still usually by English people. And "are you sure it's an ensuite". They are assured the innkeeper knows what they are talking about...separate room beside the bedroom, total privacy and not having to walk out in the hallway in their robes.
Exactly, I've never heard the term en suite until I started watching HGTV.
I prefer master bath.
Same here. And I've been an appraiser for 32 years. Also, I can't get used to the Canadians saying "hose" for house.
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