Give me double toilets mate, couples that shit together, stay together
my sister’s house (no mansion, just a recent build) has double sinks in the master bedroom. the layout(s) of the bathrooms house-wide are annoying to me. it seems all new builds are just large for largesse rather than utility; laid out more for the listing than for use.
it’s a 4 bedroom 4 bath house. upstairs, the master has its bath complete with two sinks like post (toilet is relegated to a weird claustro-closet). one of the sinks in her bathroom is a junk drawer ha!
The other 3 bedrooms: one has its own master bath and shower, and the final two bedrooms have a shared bath n’ shower set between them. none of these bathrooms are accessible from the hallway, you must go thru a bedroom to do your business.
there is one “public” bathroom on the main level…now lemme talk about that stinker.
This damn thing is a half-bath, set right between the kitchen and living area. i don’t know how the architect managed it, but it is somehow accoustically perfected to deliver your performance to the rooms nearby where everyone’s tryina hang out.
Exaggeration? Not even. Like, forget stealth mode, you need a battle plan with flawless execution. You think things are going well? One slip-up and the people watching tv or chatting will be interrupted by your public broadcast. The noise is seriously noticeable.
No, I’m not scatalogically shy, nor do i possess super-hearing. It’s a problem. A bad enough problem she eventually had another bathroom installed basement-level so guests might poo without detailing exquisitely to everyone what they ate that day.
I agree they like to make big bathrooms just for the sake of it which is stupid. But I have to say I’m obsessed with toilet rooms and it’s what I want most in a bathroom. They are just so nice and cozy and safe
Sounds annoying to clean all that ngl
New house designs have gotten so shitty, and McMansions are the worst offenders. I live in an old WW1 era house and while it lacks in a feq modern conveniences like an HVAC system, the built-in efficiences are wonderful.
Every room has a solid door, and closing them gives you a lot of privacy. Walls naturally insulate, allowing me to open windows on cool evenings and close them in the morning before the heat arrives – It can be as low as 70 indoors when it’s 90 outside. This works in reverse too when it’s heat you need instead. If it’s truly hot, the windows are all positioned to allow a breeze to pass straight thru the household.
If needed, the kitchen can be closed off to stop the heat, smoke, and odors from permeating the house. This makes the kitchen more of a strict workspace and less of a socializing area though. There are a lot of major hassles in having an older house, but the energy efficiency is wonderful
In case this isn’t a shit post, it’s because it takes me 2 minutes to get ready for bed and it takes my wife 15 minutes, and it’s nice to not have to wait for the other to be finished at the sink.
my wiiifee she takes so long! I need my own sink!
lol sorry friend, I came in here to make a joke about men not wanting to wait for their wives and decided against it after typing it out, then immediately saw this.
Its actually helpful having more than one sink, I’d be overjoyed to have laundry trough in my bathroom.
All I want is space for four washer dryer combo machines
[For additional washing-up options, people will consider] everything but the kitchen sink
Believe it or not she wanted her own, I could t care less lol the last thing she wants is me muscling her out of the way to wash my hands while she’s late for work.
Good point, I brush my teeth and shave in the shower
What does the sink have to do with that though? Even if you are talking about brushing teeth, potentially having to borrow the sink for like 8 seconds seems like a good tradeoff to get more counter and storage space I. The bathroom or shrink the bathroom so it doesn’t waste as much sqftage.
Teeth, makeup (removal), shaving, nails, and whatever else.
I guess it’s a preference. I get to have my few things arranged how I like, she hers. We wouldn’t have any use for the extra counter space either, to be honest.
I don’t really prefer one way or the other. We bought the house and it has a double sink, when I renovated it I put in an ikea one because that’s what was there. 🤷
Teeth, makeup (removal), shaving, nails, and whatever else.
You do all of that in 2 minutes?
I wouldn’t renovate to get rid of such, but it just seems so wasteful by whoever originally designed it unless you have like a 4000 sq ft place for like 4 people and don’t care about waste.
I dunno what to tell you, the small counter space between the two basins is clutter free, I dunno what else we’d need to put on the bathroom counter. We’re talking like max 5 linear feet of vanity, basins included. Maybe you need more space than we do, that’s cool.
The alternative is just less sq ft in the bathroom. Obviously not sometimes you’d do now. But like, paying extra every month or year for an extra 10sqft is annoying, even if you live in a low cost of living city where that’s only like $10/month extra you are paying for it, is still hardly seems like it’s worth the few seconds of inconvenience unless you make like $100/hr.
If you reduce it all down to ratios then yeah it’s probably silly. And I’m also privileged to not be renting, so there’s that too. But when you’re buying an existing house, you don’t really get to decide where the builders put the bathroom walls 30+ years ago. You just gotta decide if it’s good enough, and in our case, it was.
If you check Zillow for mansions for the absurdly rich it’s actually pretty common to have his and hers toilets/bathrooms off the enormous master bedroom, often through huge his and hers walk in wardrobes the size of normal peoples bedrooms.
Yeah I’ve seen a fair few houses like that, the full his and hers bathrooms with an adjoining shower. Considering the types of people who buy those houses it makes sense that they’d prefer not to see each other whenever possible.
too much restaurant work. the third sink is the toilet.
why do they put their toilets in their bathrooms? i understand why people with small houses/apartments do it, but why not have a separate toilet room if you have a 9200 square foot house anyway?
they’re weird.
Well, I do prefer to wash my hands after cleaning myself and before touching 2 door handles, so I get that one.
I’ve never seen a toilet that didn’t have at least a small sink in there.
oh so the prorposal was a bathroom with no toilet (so sink and shower/bath), and a toilet separate from that room that also has a small washing station or something. yeah that could work
Yeah, especially if you have multiple people living there.
But then why not add a bath too, to that toilet room? If youre already rich?
The point of a bathroom is to clean yourself. It kinda defeats that purpose when you have an object slinging around poop particles everywhere in the same room.
So if you’re that rich, you would have a seperate toilet and bathroom for each person. (And of course a poor housekeeper that has to clean all of them).
I just put the lid down though, then your poop stays in. I hope…
ideally you’d have a small sink in it too, yes
I’ve been in houses where toilets were in small closets with nothing else. I didn’t like touching the doorknobs.
Yeh same, most of my life I’ve lived in houses where the toilet was separate from the sink, so you had to open at least one door on the way. There are some really cool Japanese toilets I’ve seen where there’s a small handbasin above the cistern that runs after each flush. Seemed very efficient
If the basin is tiny I would splash lots of water everywhere
Has to be a fetish. There’s no other reasonable explanation.
“Everything I don’t understand is a fetish, a disturbingly accurate guide to life”
Ok granted, but double toilets without any separation would 100% be a fetish thing. You can’t tell me otherwise.
I wasn’t disagreeing with you
Well, you should have. Because now I’m a bit scared about what you’re implying.
It’s pretty convenient to jump straight from the shitter to the shower. Saves a bit of time and paper.
A nice toilet-less bathroom with a big tub would be nice though for special cleaning occasions.
Bidet, or built-in bidet to save space.
I got a bidet, but it doesn’t compare to a shower scrub.
The question really is side by side or front to front. Are you holding hands when you haven’t had enough fibre? Or are you looking into each others eyes while you pass that log?
Third option, pilot/bombardier style (rare indoors).
definitely copiloting. no way we’re doing it therapy style
It really gets you in the mindset if one of you is just a little too good at making Chewbacca noises.
Knee to knee, facing each other. No breaking eye contact
i live in the master bedroom of our housr, and for some reason there’s the bedroom, and a small hallway leading to the bathroom. in the small hallway there’s a sink, right next to the sink in the bathroom.
i don’t know why they would do it like that. it would make sense if it was a kitchen sink, like maybe if someone wants to have a kitchenette. but why is there just another bathroom style sink 2 feet from the one in the bathroom?
I once rented an apartment where within the one bathroom, the shower and sink were behind one door, and then the “front” area had a toilet at a second sink. That way when you have guests over they don’t have to wash their hands around or even see any of your personal hygiene items. I think this is an absolutely brilliant design idea and an actual good use of a second sink if you only have one bathroom, but I have yet to see this design anywhere else.
his-and-hers sinks give big ‘wife bad’ energy. Everyone I know who wants them is a guy who complains about how much space his wife’s make-up and hair products take up. (source: I’ve spend a fair bit of time working in custom home construction) The stuff rich people prioritize for their houses is nuts to me.
So their plan is to use up even more of that counter space with a whole second sink that will only be useful less than 10 minutes a day?
one sink is for washing underwear, the other is for washing the baby
just kidding rich whites don’t even know how to use a washing machine, and don’t want to break a sweat unless it’s power yoga or playing squash (a weird tennis spinoff game for managers and finance bros)
Squash? I’m pretty sure they all play pickleball now.
What the fuck is pickleball
Also why do white people keep inventing the same racket sports? Just so they can take over more parks? Because pickleball has different courts and equipment than tennis, which has different stuff than badminton, which has different stuff than pulsmudington lupenhoff or whatever the fuck dumb names they can come up with, which has dif…
at least pickleball takes up far less space than a tennis court. Uses the same court size as badminton apparently.
It is tennis for people who don’t want to break a sweat. Pingpong for people who lack hand/eye coordination.
Tennis with a wiffle ball
I thought it was padel? Like a hundred of these popped up where I am from and all the petty bougies started doing this during covid. It’s sort if like squash, but in an aquarium of sorts I think. It’s the sweaty bougie display.
lmao whatever happened to wallball when we were kids? Just a red rubber ball you’d throw at the wall and try and hit it back without it touching the ground more than once. We had all kinds of special combo moves that, in hindsight, I realize people were making it up to break rules. Like there was a “run up the wall” where they’d make the ball roll up then come back down that was hard to hit. Or “the granny” where you’d do these tiny dribbles and just kind of tap the wall with the ball.
But no. Gotta have our special rackets and special shoes and special courts and special building enclosures and special nets.
Oh yes we did this too. It’s so much fun. There was a version where you threw the ball to the wall and called out someones name who had to catch it while others run away. Then the person with the ball had to try and catch the others by throwing the ball at them, if they got you, you would burn out from the game.
only played this regularly at one of the schools I went to but yeah it ruled. great low-cost social game.
Same in Arg, but I just thought it was because of nineties revival
Lol sounds plausible.
It was due to petty bougie covid boredom here for sure, they had to find a way to go spread that shit in close proximity to others.
I’ll have to go do a bike tour of all the big padel halls that opened here because of it and see how many are now closed. Nobody even mentions padel anymore.
His and hers sinks.
its about not wanting to share lol
Hot take, but sometimes it’s good to have a little space.
Because whoever built this McMansion made the bathroom too big and needed to fill some empty space with something besides a newspaper kiosk full of Wall Street Journals.
I will say that if you and your partner are both getting ready to go somewhere, and you’re somehow sharing a bathroom, then you don’t need to split time at the sink. I guess that’s nice.
instead of ‘his n hers’ lavatories, his n hers water closets. This could fix marriages all over the planet.
A strong marriage is the kind that blossoms even after seeing each other shit every day. That’s true love.
i wish my wife and i could poop together in the same room comfortably
Two toilets each on opposite walls so we can face each, to talk and shit, literally
A single wide tandem toilet so our shit can intermingle
Edit - I scrolled down a bit and saw that this had already been posted.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
My grandmas house had one of these. The bathroom area had two entrances leading into the SINK ZONE then there was a toilet/bathtub behind a door. She had a lot of grandchildren visit and it was more common for people to have 3+ more kids in the 80’s/90’s so having two sinks made things more efficient.
