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Overall though, I believe people should make their houses work for them and to heck with this whole concept of resale values.
Yes and no. Bathroom renos are expensive and take time, you want them to result in a gain for what you put in them. You're not spending hours in this room, it's main purpose is to spend about fifteen minutes in it a day and be done, but it takes 20-30K. If you do something weird you're spending the money to result in it making it harder for you to sell your house.
Let's say you don't like to cook, so you chop your kitchen in half and remove the stove. You have every right to do it, you just have to take the financial loss in the end when you need to ask for 20 grand less when it's time to sell because the next owner expects a stove.
Take away your front steps, plant a forest of trees in your front yard, take away the bathroom and put in an outhouse, you certainly can do all of these things, and if you feel like it works for you I'll even come lend a hand. You're allowed to do whatever you want, you're just going to likely take a financial hit for it when the time comes. This person was just gauging the waters to see if anyone else would be interested in a house without a tub.
Yes and no. Bathroom renos are expensive and take time, you want them to result in a gain for what you put in them. You're not spending hours in this room, it's main purpose is to spend about fifteen minutes in it a day and be done, but it takes 20-30K. If you do something weird you're spending the money to result in it making it harder for you to sell your house.
Let's say you don't like to cook, so you chop your kitchen in half and remove the stove. You have every right to do it, you just have to take the financial loss in the end when you need to ask for 20 grand less when it's time to sell because the next owner expects a stove.
Take away your front steps, plant a forest of trees in your front yard, take away the bathroom and put in an outhouse, you certainly can do all of these things, and if you feel like it works for you I'll even come lend a hand. You're allowed to do whatever you want, you're just going to likely take a financial hit for it when the time comes. This person was just gauging the waters to see if anyone else would be interested in a house without a tub.
+1 to everything that you stated.
Last year, an old friend of mine decided that it was finally time to re-do his low-rent kitchen. I gave him helpful info on the best dishwashers to buy, but because he prefers to hand-wash his dishes in cold water ( Don't ask!), he decided to put a blank panel in the kitchen cabinetry, in place of the old, broken dishwasher that was being removed.
I pointed out to him that few--if any--people at this point in time would be interested in buying a condo sans dishwasher, and his answer was...When I get ready to sell, I will install a dishwasher. Even when I pointed out to him that his approach would inevitably be more expensive than simply buying a decent dishwasher and having it installed at the same time as the new cabinets, he rejected that approach.
Some people just seem to blunder into the least logical, and--inevitably--most expensive ways of doing things, and attempting to reason with them is frequently pointless.
Across from the toilet is a door to the bedroom. Theres literally no where for storage. ETA: my uncle had a cabinet blocking the bedroom door but you couldnt sit on the toilet without hitting your knees.
walk in to left is sink, toilet, tub. on opposite wall is door and laundry chute. You can touch all 4 walls standing in the middle of the room.
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Our claw foot tub and wall hung sink was on the left. Toilet on the right across from the sink. That was a pretty tight space for adults. Mom eventually pot up a shower rod, two curtains. Little kids still got a bath.
Our claw foot tub and wall hung sink was on the left. Toilet on the right across from the sink. That was a pretty tight space for adults. Mom eventually pot up a shower rod, two curtains. Little kids still got a bath.
I do have a shower curtain since i have a DIY shower now but no one takes a bath.
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I have heard this many times. I don't agree with it but it appears to be near universally true.
Do people really fill up the tub for the toddlers every night instead of popping them in the shower?
I guess people do but we always brought them in with us.
Yes and no. Bathroom renos are expensive and take time, you want them to result in a gain for what you put in them. You're not spending hours in this room, it's main purpose is to spend about fifteen minutes in it a day and be done, but it takes 20-30K. If you do something weird you're spending the money to result in it making it harder for you to sell your house.
Let's say you don't like to cook, so you chop your kitchen in half and remove the stove. You have every right to do it, you just have to take the financial loss in the end when you need to ask for 20 grand less when it's time to sell because the next owner expects a stove.
Take away your front steps, plant a forest of trees in your front yard, take away the bathroom and put in an outhouse, you certainly can do all of these things, and if you feel like it works for you I'll even come lend a hand. You're allowed to do whatever you want, you're just going to likely take a financial hit for it when the time comes. This person was just gauging the waters to see if anyone else would be interested in a house without a tub.
I'm not saying not to research and then own your decision at the end of the day. Absolutely.
I just see a lot of people remodeling with the idea of always thinking about resale value, resale value, resale value. And not as much thought to how they actually live and what brings them joy. Which is fine if you are planning to sell in the near future.
But long term, if you want something (or not) I believe one should go with it. The way people rip out everything every ten years means that by the time you sell it, it will probably be out of date again
This goes for lesser things too, even paint colors etc.
Your house not only needs a tub for kids (I find it hard to believe that you shower infants), it needs a nice soaking tub for the mom. Many women de-stress by having a nice long soak in the tub; some even consider the bathroom w/tub their sanctuary. I would put in at least a slightly deeper-than-standard tub, or a clawfoot tub. These can be a bit selling point.
In my observation, remodels these days tend to have one big shower in one bathroom, with a tub in another. It's hard to go wrong with providing buyers with variety, instead of showers only. I would never buy or rent a place that had no tub. Home appraisers I've spoken to say that a tub adds value to the home, while the complete absence of a tub subtracts value.
i would not buy a house without a bathtub somewhere in the house. I have two small kids (5 and 3 years old) and cannot imagine life without a tub! they're boys and get really dirty from the constant rough/tumbling outside almost daily, not to mention hot sticky summers too.
we have three bathrooms; our master bathroom which had the horrible shower/tub combo original in 80's when we bought this house 9 years ago. We've renovated it into a big rainforest type of shower with frameless shower doors, heated tile floor etc. Our hallway bathroom which is the boys bathroom was just renovated with deeper than standard tub (for me to soak some nights!) and i easily fill the tub halfway to toss and wash both boys in same time. It's actually good we have a tub somewhere upstairs since my youngest HATES the shower, so life would be hard without a tub in our home. Lastly, we have a half bathroom with just toilet, sink and shower in basement. Not used much right now, but will come in very useful when boys are older.
outside of a handful of baths for each of my kids in their first month of life (i used the sink tubs), they have had exactly 3 baths in our tub in 2 years, mainly because they wanted to play. i have always showered both my kids, holding them while they couldnt stand/sit and now they both love to sit and stand under the showerhead. i cant imagine having to fill the tub each night, even half way. i am in and out with my kids in as little as a few minutes.
that said, looks like tub it is
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Don't ask!), he decided to put a blank panel in the kitchen cabinetry, in place of the old, broken dishwasher that was being removed.
