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[Mups]

We had a lovely detached bungalow, but due to OH's health, our income was severely impacted, so we bought this house twenty years ago to be mortgage free.  It would take a stairlift, there's no room for a downstairs loo unfortunately.

When you think about it,  its daft why the majority of  houses were always built with one toilet upstairs, isn't it.   Did they think we only wanted a wee after bedtime?

I think it should be the norm to have one upstairs and a smaller one downstairs too. 

Surely many families have elderley relatives and friends visiting sometimes who couldn't manage stairs?
Or what about tradesmen/workmen doing jobs for you.   Do we want them traipsing all the way upstairs in their work boots to use the loo?

No,  two loo's in houses should be the norm nowadays.

[klondike]

I think it pretty much is with new builds apart from with small houses where there just wouldn't be room. I had a fairly modest bungalow and even that had two. A family bathroom and an ensuite toilet and shower.

After I inherited this house from my parents and modernised it I had a downstairs toilet and shower put in. My parents had had a stair lift which I certainly didn't want to keep. If you had an urgent call and used it you'd have been too late.

[JBR]

January 17, 2025, 08:20:31 PM
I have lived in a bungalow for the last 22 years. 
I would never want a house now.  Doubt my knees would take to it kindly anyway.

We live in a bungalow.
Just one little drawback: there are 13 steps to climb to get to the front door.

[Mups]

We live in a bungalow.
Just one little drawback: there are 13 steps to climb to get to the front door.

How daft!     You buy a property because you want no stairs,  then have to climb a staircase to get to it.

[JBR]

How daft!    You buy a property because you want no stairs,  then have to climb a staircase to get to it.

No.  Joking apart, stairs are not a problem for us... yet.  In fact whenever we come home, I always say to Marge that this is good exercise for us, as I sprint up the stairs at full speed.
If and when the time comes, we might invest in an outdoor elevator next to the front garden wall...
or maybe move!

[dextrous63]

Haven't the Japanese put an escalator on one of their mountains?

[klondike]

A golden oldie....

[dextrous63]

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