<p>tub that is… We are in the middle (maybe 3/4) of a total master bathroom renovation. My wife couldn’t wait to get rid of our never-used Jacuzzi bathtub. The new bathroom has a large fully tiled shower with that thick glass door (door pulls and/or pushes open) and it is zero threshold. She also insisted on a grab bar so she will easily be able to enter the shower with a wheel chair (we are both very healthy and have not even been on crutches ever, let alone a wheel chair. I guess she is just planning ahead, plus the zero threshold shower looks cool now) The granite counter top and sinks (actually its marble) goes in this week. We have 2 of those old style rectangular bath tubs upstairs if anyone really needs a tub. </p>
<p>Anyone else dispense of the bath tub in their bathroom?</p>
<p>I would never get rid of our tub. I love a good bath. We have a nice deep soaking tub that we use often. My kids even like to come home and use it. To me, showers are practical but baths are luxurious.</p>
<p>Our master bathroom does not have a tub. It causes the county fits when they are trying to count bathrooms for property value assessment. I think I have been called by them three times in the last 10 years since we built the house just to make SURE… they sent someone out to check once, too.</p>
<p>Our master bath has no tub. The hall has one for bathing the kids. I cannot understand the fascination with bathtubs for adults. Shower does it for me.</p>
<p>We renovated the master bath several years ago and it would have required moving walls and reconfiguring closets to fit in some sort of tub.I don’t miss a bathtub. It was probably sometime in the 1970s when I last took a bath. A hot shower does the trick for me.</p>
<p>If I had my way, we would take OUT the jacuzzi…we never use that. And we would put in a nice deep bathtub for nice soaking baths. Our jacuzzi is two person size and it’s just too big…takes forever to fill. We already have a large shower…but ah…a nice plain one person deep bathtub would be great! (and yes, there is a tub in out hall bath).</p>
<p>I love my 33" deep (40" round, only takes 45 gallons to fill) Japanese soaking tub… but it’s not in the master bath, which has a VERY luxurious shower but no bath. My DH and I share a bed but not a bathroom; his is off our bedroom, mine is down the hall. (Worse, his uses a blue granite, and mine uses pink marble. How conventional.)</p>
<p>We’re with you NJres. We just did a renovation and took out the tub and, like you, replaced it with a tiled shower. We haven’t used the tub since we bathed our kids as toddlers. We got the glass door, but not quite a zero threshold. We did install a seat with a separate hand shower. </p>
<p>We do have another bathroom with an ancient claw foot tub. </p>
<p>But who has time to take a bath? And personally I’ve never really got the concept of a bath. I can see the soaking as relaxing, but you wind up soaking in dirty water–feeling you need to rinse off with a shower. </p>
<p>My wife–part Finn–grew up with a sauna, and that’s an eventual project. You never feel so clean as sweating it out. Me with my background could go for a nice steam bath, but you can do that in a sauna by poring water on the hot rocks.</p>
<p>We have 3 baths–upstairs one that kids use has the tub. Master has a small shower. </p>
<p>When we remodeled our house, we made the downstairs bathroom handicap accessible: 2 person shower with seat, door can be removed for flat entry, raised toilet with bars, counter doors under the sink can be removed for wheelchair access. We’re still healthy, but H is a packrat so we will have to go from here to assisted living (skipping the condo route) and I wanted to make our first floor totally accessible in order to stay in our house as long as possible. Thinking ahead, plus MIL was half time in a wheelchair.</p>
<p>We’ve added two master bathrooms to our last two homes – it was a challenge to find room for them. Both had showers. I’ve visited dozens of open houses in the last year, and all but one had a master bath suite with a shower.</p>
<p>Every house needs a bathtub, but I don’t see why it has to be in the master. One of the stranger houses we went to had a shower in the second floor bathroom, and the only tub was on the third floor, off of a family room. I thought that was bad planning and it was one reason we didn’t want the house, but it was under contract in less than a week.</p>
<p>I love a bath! (We don’t have a hot tub.) I have plenty of time for a bath, and I don’t feel like I’m that dirty that I’m soaking in dirty water! Our house doesn’t have a master bath, just a full one on the first floor (there are 2 bedrooms on that floor) and a tiny full one upstairs for the other 2 bedrooms. I am planning to enlarge the second floor bath and add a jacuzzi tub when last kid leaves for college this fall. I figure we have another 20-25 years in this house to enjoy it!</p>
<p>We have 3.5 bathrooms and 2 have baths. Last time I took a bath in one, S’14 was 3 and he kept coming in to check on me (!) because I guess he knew you shouldn’t leave someone alone in the tub. </p>
<p>A realtor told me you need to have at least one bathroom with a tub in case people have young children and they see themselves bathing them there. I take a bath when I’m on vacation, but not at home-- don’t have the time.</p>
<p>Our master bath doesn’t have a tub. The house has the obligatory tub in the family bath, but I am in the camp that doesn’t see the fascination with baths. Who wants to sit in dirty water???</p>
<p>Good Lord, how dirty are you people? And I will just say, that I am really thankful that I have time to take a bath. Nothing better than reading and falling asleep in the tub.</p>
<p>I think a house needs a bathtub somewhere, but if I ever get a masterbath it’s going to have no-threshhold shower. Preferably no shower door or curtain too, but that will depend on how much space I decide I can afford to use. As far as I know our building department counts a shower as the same as a bathtub. It’s a full bath. Half baths are powder rooms.</p>