<p>Well, I love my double sink in the master bath, but I also prefer not to share the bathroom. Call me strange, but after 20 years of marriage, I still like to have privacy and not have my husband see me getting ready.</p>
<p>My pet peeve is also the 20 somethings who insist they must have granite countertops and stainless steel! What ever happened to living with handme downs for a few years? Why do kids think they want everything perfect right away, and won’t settle for anything less? </p>
<p>I think the funniest one was the guy who insisted that his master bathroom was a ‘five piece bathroom’! never heard that one before. I guess that meant double sinks, toilet, shower, and bath.</p>
<p>“Can anyone explain to me the fetish for double sinks and large enough bathrooms for multiple people to be in at the same time?” - Oh my, we use our double sink together A LOT. We both work and often carpool. (It is nice that the toilet is in the corner, behind half wall).</p>
<p>We rarely iron and don’t even own an ironing board - I think it got left behind in the 1993 move. (The padded dining room table worked the few times we had to touch up a concert shirt.) When we used to shop for houses I used to ask myself, “where would we put the vacuum? and the suitcases?”. Bi-levels had lots of space, but no basement or attic.</p>
<p>^I spent two years living in a house with one bathroom with water that needed to be boiled to drink, a latrine in the backyard and water that had to be conserved carefully because it got delivered once a week by truck. Our house has only one bath on the floor with the bedrooms and it’s never been a serious problem. I always thought I’d put in a masterbath, but it would require adding space.</p>
Yes, notrichenough, you are absolutely correct. I thought the comment made by a previous poster regarding having more than a single sink as being dumb was in regards to a kitchen double sink. However, a single sink in the kitchen is the new trend, and I still don’t understand why. I am constantly using each of my sinks for different purposes, simultaneously, and would feel as if I am taking a giant step backwards if I had to use a single. I DO wish someone would explain to me what I am missing about the single sink KITCHEN trend.</p>
<p>Old houses are notorious for lack of bathroom space. Or just plain lack of bathrooms! </p>
<p>I know that would/will be a fault of our house when we should sell. One full bath, one half bath and one makeshift shower/toiler/sink area in the basement. </p>
<p>4 bedrooms though and lots of other living space!!!</p>
Speak for yourself. I am the furthest thing from spoiled. I get up early enough to make sure that I have the bathroom to myself. That is entirely reasonable and has nothing to do with water.</p>
<p>I think thirty years from now those gigantic gourmet kitchens with underused professional grade stainless appliances, red walls, brown speckled granite countertops, brown wood floors and brown oak/maple cabinets are going to be as decade defining as the avacodo green/ harvest gold kitchens of the 70’s.</p>
<p>I’m so tired of every kitchen looking exactly the same…</p>
<p>(My own kitchen is outdated and builder grade, still the same ugly Formica countertops installed when the place was built almost twenty years ago. My fantasy kitchen redo will be white/ gray/black. And will NOT feature red walls.</p>
We live in a Victorian that had four nice-sized bathrooms. The previous owners turned the smallest (but not small) bedroom into a spa style bathroom that is ridiculously big and turned the previous bathroom into a closet. I find that ridiculous and would never have given up a bedroom. But we still only have one bathroom in the main part of the house. The other is in the basement where the girls and I do not go.</p>
<p>We would settle for one sink-- or, really, a bathroom too small to add a double sink since we plan to redo the main bathroom anyway and how many sinks it comes with is irrelevant. But the second sink would be HEAVENLY if “the” house happens to have the space for one. Didn’t know so many people were so picky about sharing bathrooms with their spouses. It’s a rare occasion that we AREN’T in there at the same time. We fight over the space in front of the sink every morning. I always thought double sinks were silly until I had to share… now I get it. </p>
<p>As for single/double kitchen sinks… I grew up with a single and now have a double, and I miss the single. I can’t fit cookie sheets or large pots and pans into the double properly to wash them without having to fight with it-- I had an occasion to soak a cookie sheet last week and resorted to soaking it in the bath tub. Aside from that, the double sink leads my household to believe it is okay to leave dirty dishes to sit indefinitely on one side “soaking” since we have the other side free to use. I’d prefer if our sink were less accommodating of that. :P</p>
My marriage wouldn’t have lasted 27 years if we shared a bathroom at the same time. I would definitely be a widow by now. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that my husband absolutely never shuts up. The thought of being in a bathroom and listening him talk incessantly seems like one of the circles of hell.</p>
<p>I have to be at work by 6 am, so DH and I aren’t usually getting ready for work at the same time. But we are often in there together when getting ready to go out for dinner, getting ready for bed, etc. I don’t see washing my face, brushing my teeth, fixing my hair, or putting on makeup as an intimate act requiring privacy, though I can see how different people might have other preferences. The fact that our bathroom is large and has plenty of separate space has kept any kind of getting in each other’s way to an absolute minimum.</p>
<p>DH and I have actually had many enjoyable conversations in the bathroom over the years. Sometimes it was the only place we could actually get time alone together for a conversation, lol. :)</p>
<p>My BF leaves for work a half hour before I do, but as it takes me twice as long to get ready we end up waking up and needing the bathroom at the exact same time. He spends 10 minutes playing with his stupid hair, which looks the same no matter what he does, and demands the spot in front of the sink because the reflection of his hair blends in with our dark shower curtain at the other space in the mirror and he refuses to just open the curtain so he can see-- meanwhile I have been brushing my teeth and am fighting the urge to elbow him in the face so I can spit. Or am waiting to wash my face. Or am waiting to do my hair in front of the sink because I actually need that space to use the medicine cabinet mirror to style the back of my hair. When I finally get the spot in front of the sink, I walk away for a second to dry my face or get the hairspray and he has snuck back in to tie his tie or tuck in his shirt and needs to be elbowed out of the way. We laugh about it in the morning, but boy do we get excited when we see double sinks in prospective houses! Though, I bet you one will be better than the other in some inexplicable way, and there will still be elbowing… but hell if I am getting up a half hour earlier to avoid him, I value my sleep much too much for that. IAnd anyway, i’s nice to get to spend a few minutes with him before we leave in the morning even if we are just elbowing each other and giggling.</p>
<p>As said above, I actually kind of enjoy our bathroom conversations. But I love the double sinks, so I’ll leave the giggling and elbowing for the lone sink to you young lovers. :D</p>
<p>Yes, but by then, juniors in high school will be expecting this:</p>
<p>"Come to XYZ Public State School. Forget SAT and ACT. That’s for the birds. Come and check us out. Brand new singles with en-suite bathroom. Stainless sinks. Granite counters. Even a stainless steel hairdryer. Yes, we do have a few reconverted quads, but the doubles will have double sinks. AND we’ll throw in a full size stainless steel refrigerator and a matching dishwasher. Sorry you’ll need to bring your microwave! </p>
<p>Your parents might want to stay with you! Especially since they sold their home to send you to our academic paradise. Did we tell you a full load here is 6 hours? To keep up with our motto. Give us six hours and six years, and we will send you to the next OWS meeting!"</p>
<p>Twenty two years ago we installed a large, double shower. Which raised any number of eyebrows back then, but which we have always adored. It is the one thing that I would absolutely, positively figure out how to put in if we moved somewhere else. (I’ve noticed more recently that there are more and more of them out there.) </p>
<p>And I am sure it is correct about the granite countertop/stainless steel thing becoming the iconic turn-of-the-century look, just as polished brass was all the rage in the '80s. (Now it is brushed nickel.)</p>
<p>And xiggi’s comment about the dorms is none too far fetched. I still remember telling D she was packing far too much for college only to find that her dorm room had a closet for her nearly as large as her closet at home.</p>
<p>Eyemamom, Candice Olson projects have to have enormous budgets.</p>
<p>I like The Selling NY, LA and London series…the real estate agents and clients are over the top. Lots of acting there.</p>
<p>Every HGTV show, if someone can’t find something bad in particular, “it’s kinda small”.
Another pet peeve…a room is always a “space”. Food Network is just a bad with “dish”.</p>
<p>Surely. When we bought our house, the bathroom on the main floor (the only bathroom on that floor) had two sinks. Thus although it has a standing shower, which guests use sometimes, there are never two people who need to wash their hands at the same time. We lived with it for over a decade but the second sink was a complete waste of space.</p>
<p>I do not get divided sink in the kitchen. They are usually smaller than one large sink. We put in an English farm house sink, which looked like a bath tub (or as big). It was convenient for washing large pots and pans.</p>
<p>Love my 6’ double vanity - he has his side & I have mine. We are often getting ready for work at the same time, so there’s plenty of room & we don’t bump each other. We also have our own drawers for toiletries, so he doesn’t need to mess with my cosmetics looking for his razor. </p>
<p>We created our master bathroom 17 years ago from an odd 7x14 room/space off the master bedroom with no hall access. It was possibly meant to be a nursery in our 1920 colonial. We put in a toilet closet & large glass enclosed shower (across from the vanity - no concerns w privacy).</p>
<p>^I’ve got that same nursery. It’s now our walk in closet. We’d have no closet space without it, especially since I stole the one small closet the room had to make a better bath.</p>