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Why not? It is a practical way to add another bathroom in a small space and the access to plumbing is handy.
I admit it may make it messy for a formal guest bath, but for a bathroom off a basement rec-room, or a mudroom off the back door on a farm or beach house, it works and I wish I had one, particularly when we're coming in the house muddy from outside farm chores in winter.
Is it the laundry in the bathroom that upsets you? Or the bathroom in the laundry room?
My laundry is in my master bath. It's weird but it works.
See, if I were ever to design a home from scratch, that's what I'd do. My current laundry is at the complete opposite end of the house from the bedrooms and bathrooms, far from where all the laundry is generated, and far from where needs to go when finished. Makes no sense. I say put them near each other!
My current laundry is at the complete opposite end of the house from the bedrooms and bathrooms
The same in this place we moved to a couple of years ago - As you say, it makes no sense. We have spacious rooms but for some reason the people who had the house built skimped on the size of the bathrooms. We're planning on building a new bathroom in the smaller unused bedroom, then convert one of the under-sized bathrooms into the laundry. It makes much more sense having the laundry near the bedrooms than at the opposite end of the house.
As for having a washer and dryer in a bathroom, it's pretty common in some European countries, where square footage is typically less than in the average American home. It also makes sense if that bathroom is close to the bedrooms. In the U.K., it's very common to have a washer in the kitchen, fitted under a countertop in the same way as a dishwasher. Again, I think it's partly due to smaller size homes on average, and partly due to the fact that traditionally the kitchen was where the washtub would be used back in the days before most people had automatic washing machines.
In terms of efficiency, it's good if you can group the kitchen, laundry and bathroom(s) all close together, since it minimizes the pipework runs so that when turning on the hot water faucet you don't waste a lot of water waiting for it to run through hot (assuming that your water heater can also be located close to all of them).
In terms of efficiency, it's good if you can group the kitchen, laundry and bathroom(s) all close together, since it minimizes the pipework runs so that when turning on the hot water faucet you don't waste a lot of water waiting for it to run through hot (assuming that your water heater can also be located close to all of them).
Completely agree! In a new build I'd put all the watery rooms in a cluster.
Completely agree! In a new build I'd put all the watery rooms in a cluster.
So which is it?
More 1st world problems! Go figure-
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