traingang

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.

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His and hers sinks.

These are usually in an atrium with shelves for bath stuff leading to the bathroom proper, so they have to fill the space somehow.

As far as stupid McMansion stuff goes, this ranks low on my list cause at least it has some utility.

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.

My outhouse has two seats and no sinks. They're the perfect distance apart to hold hands with the person next to you. Share the clenching through thick log and thin stream.

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.

i wish my wife and i could poop together in the same room comfortably

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.

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.

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)

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.

Give me double toilets mate

good idea

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?

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.

instead of 'his n hers' lavatories, his n hers water closets. This could fix marriages all over the planet.