We are going to have a gut remodel in the MBath and am getting rid of the tub. We have a tub in another bathroom.
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We also have another tub in the master bedroom and separate shower as well but I think the number of tubs available among other things is what drives the prices of the property. We never use any of those tubes after children grew up. It would be interesting to hear what realtor here think.
I havenāt heard that the number of tubs affects the property value as long as the house has at least one tub. We also havenāt used the tub since the children started taking showers on their own. We are in the Bay Area and water shortage has been the norm in the last decade so I donāt know any adult who takes a tub bath anymore.
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Iām eagerly following along here.
We talked about redoing our primary bathroom 12 years ago. Still havenāt gotten anywhere with it. I had a couple of quotes but H could not visualize it, so that ended that. It was originally a tiny bathroom, but the previous owners carved out part of a small walk-in closet and the hallway to add some space and an extra closet. Bathroom is currently 7 3/4ā wide by 9 3/4ā long. Still has the original 1966 blue toilet, tub and wall tile! Previous owners added a second, small shower in there, but didnāt use the right backer board, which ultimately caused moisture behind the wall and prompted this whole sorry business.
Want to pull the original tub/shower and put in a slightly larger shower (we canāt go beyond 36" wide), turn the second shower into a big linen cabinet, replace toilet & vanity. H would like a soaker with some jets, but we canāt do a separate tub and somewhat accessible shower in that space. H really wants a heated towel rack. We have a freestanding cabinet made by the previous owner in the bathroom for linens and stuff right now, and that is going away. Thereās an electrical outlet there, so the towel warmer is an easy add-on. Because of the geography of the room and very tight clearances for aging in place, we will probably not move water lines. I like the big vanity mirror with lighting around the frame and I want to add more lighting. I have definite opinions on tile and cabinets.
With all of Hās travel, he has been in some nice bathrooms around the world and has opinions. Heās not a fan of a linen cabinet. Iām tired of all the stuff on the counters, bookcase, existing cabinet, etc. Thereās a reason I use a different bathroom!
I had a dream last night that H was so tired of procrastinating on this project that he went out and bought really crappy blue marble-y formica slabs in several different shades, hammered them into the walls and over the dead shower, and pronounced the reno done! I told him about it and he said, āYou mean I actually used tools?!?ā We had a good laugh.
You cannot have too many cabinets, is my opinion.
My husband, of course, points out that I am a goldfish and will grow to fit whatever space I have. He is not wrong.
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Want mine that I want to rip outš¤£
My husband is not on board with doing the bathrooms over. Soā¦Iām going to get all the wood in them painted (cabinets, trim and doors). That will help!
I had a soaking tub and a jacuzzi tub in my previous life. I used the soaking tub a lot, but not the jacuzzi tub. The jacuzzi tub was hard to clean and the jets were not strong enough to do anything.
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I would remodel a bathroom even if my husband is not into it if you have the budget. As we get older we spend more time at home. Why shouldnāt your home be nice. I am a big bathroom person. I judge a hotel/Airbnb by its bathroom. Itās the first picture I check out.
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We had a jetted tub in our home before we remodeled. Apparently an important part of it was missing (maybe some kind of liner, I canāt remember). We used it, but not often.
Our bathroom is odd - we have the vanity area with a sink without any wall between our bedroom and it. There is/was a door between the vanity area and the small square room with the tub, small tulip sink, and toilet. We first redid the vanity area - with nice comfort height cabinet, granite (not 70s plastic whatever) countertop, still just 1 sink (2 probably would have been better for resale, but would have taken away other space), and a new mirror. Then we decided to tackle the other part. Took out tub and replaced with a nice tile shower with glass barn style door, removed the sink, kept the old toilet, and put new floor tile throughout both. It would have been easier/smarted to tackle it all at once, but husband didnāt want the larger expense, and I couldnāt stand the old sink/vanity any longer.
If youāre putting in a new shower, consider the kind of shower head you want. We did a large normal one (not rain head or whatever itās called) and one you can pull down/off and adjust the spray of.
We both really like the new shower.
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Iām with you! No such thing as too much storage!
We have a double vanity in our bathroom with six drawers and under sink storage each, plus three towers above the counter, and a big linen closet. Love having the counters totally empty and everything put away.
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LOL, I will confess to this here, and only here: my DH gets very manspready with his side of the vanity (I would now only build a bathroom with separate vanities in my dream home, because of what Iāve suffered in the last 25 years).
I am the person who likes to have everything put away.
āClean surfaces. I must have clean surfacesā (Any AbFab fans here?)
But b/c my DH will put his crud all over the entire vanity if heās given the space, I have become very passive aggressive, and carefully place my toiletries to fill the entirety of my side of the vanity, with a precise dividing line at the half mark. If he puts his stuff over the line, I push it back and fill the space with something of mine.
I canāt decide which is worse: Looking at crap all over the vanity, or knowing that half of it is mine.
And yes, of course, I asked for years that he put stuff away. He is incapable.
I can relate! We custom built our last house and I insisted on separate vanities on opposite sides of the room for that exact reason. It wasnāt possible in our current houseās configuration but having all the extra storage did work out.
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Us too. We use separate bathrooms. Mine has the toothbrush holder and contact solution on top. Hās has about 15-20 weird misc items on his. I hate cleaning it and often just shove it to one side and clean everything else.
Our counters are perpendicular to each other due to the shape of the bathroom. Very Occasionally when we are both standing at our sinks and back up, our butts touch. Ask me if I care.
We must also be the only ones who love our huge oversized jetted tub with built in heater. When we redid our bathroom we put in a bigger one than was previously there! I do not care for those small , footed tubs that catch dust bunnies underneath and have nowhere to put anything while you are in the tub unless you put one of those tray things across it. No thanks. Plus DH and I like to soak in the tub together. Love the big tub!
I shower in our master bathroom, but I get ready in our other upstairs bathroom. The master bathroom has a huge medicine cabinet, which H has filled with stuff. We each have three drawers in the vanity, but I only use one ā¦ Hās are full. He also has a bunch of stuff on the vanity counter, which I try hard to keep corralled in a plastic container. The bathroom I use has everything out of sight. After more than 40 years of marriage, I just work on ways to make it work for both of us. I know that I would miss his mess if he was gone.
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I love the term āmanspreadyā! My H always sets everything out the night before (clothes, meds, toiletries, breakfastā¦ anything.) Makes me crazy because I like clear counters. Sometimes I mess with him. He takes a lot of meds and supplements and theyāre all in a row on his side of the bathroom with his comb, razor, toothpaste, etc. I get up earlier than him and will stack them vertically or make a zig zag. I may be evil.
When we remodel the bathroom our sinks will be on the same long counter. His will need to go to enlarge the phone booth size existing shower next to it now. No way we could share one sink. (We really donāt even share this bathroom except when we have guests. I use the hall bathroom that is just as close.) I like the idea of have a tall cabinet in the middle for more storage and to delineate his and hers territories.
This has been a useful thread!
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@Gatormama we are married to the same man.
Thankfully the house we bought 2 years ago has 2 bathrooms upstairs (one ensuite) and one sort of ensuite (you have to walk through the walk in closet to get to it and it has another door to the hallway) so we now use separate bathrooms.
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We have 2 bathrooms in our home. When it became an empty nest, DH moved to the other, so we now each have our own. Best improvement ever. 
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My bath is my greatest joy at the end of the day. I wouldnāt buy a house without a tub. My tub is a soaking tub that we had a jet system installed when we did the bathroom. I rarely use the jets so if I replace I donāt feel I need jets.Having recently had knee replacement I look at my bathrooms and house in a different light. The only shower (in the master) I could get in had a step over to enter. It was pretty hard at first but there was no way I was stepping into a tub with a shower. I can see the benefits of a floor level shower. My sister has such a set up and it has been great as she has health issues that make it safer. Iām back to being able to take a bath and what helps is my tub is set into a surround. I can sit on surround and pivot my legs into the tub. My same sister has a stand alone rub and she can not safely get in or out.
What Iād do differently is get a rimless glass enclosure which would be easier to clean. We have tubs in all our bathrooms with most having glass doors. I find it a pain for bathing the grandkids. We have one tub thatās just a curtain and thatās great for the kids.
Other suggestion is to get a higher height toilet. Again with knee replacement Iām very aware of toilet height.
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We redid our Master Bath 2 years ago. We ripped out the non-working jetted tub and put in a large shower. We got a steam shower for DH. It was the one thing that he wanted. We made the separate shower into a closet that opens up in the hallway leading into the bedroom that we primarily use for storing our luggage and the mechanics for the steam shower. Instead of a tile seat we just bought a teak bench that my husbands turns 90 degrees when he takes his steam shower. (The old shower had a tile seat. It was made with cider blocks that had cement poured into the holes. It took our contractor 3 days to demo the shower.)
The previous empty corner next to the closet had a vanity top that had become a repository for junk and a blank wall to its left. So, I had the vanity top removed and put in a 5 foot long linen closet. It holds our hampers and tons of other stuff.
The thing that I love the most about the remodel is my towel warmer. We put it on the blank wall next to the shower where the old shower door had been. It is so nice on a winterās morning.
I love my new bath. There is a bath tub upstairs, so not having one in our bath is not a problem.
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