Floor plan design city villa 180m² with basement

I would be bothered (given the size of the house) by the lack of a parents' area. The children do have their own bathroom, but the parents cannot use theirs undisturbed. I have two teenagers in the house, so this is very important to me.

Best regards
Sabine

That was never up for discussion. We deliberately wanted to keep the bathroom accessible via the hallway. Both bathrooms should be open to the children, just as already says. Especially since the children won’t be using their own bathroom in the first years anyway.

Why – do the kids demand a toll from you?

I actually like that there is no separate parent and children’s bathroom here, just two bathrooms.

No, it’s simply a matter of taste, I just wanted to mention it. With us, two teenagers simply don’t ensure the necessary order in the bathroom (towels and clothes on the floor, a thousand different cans and bottles scattered around the bathroom) and I just don’t feel like tidying up behind them all day. That’s why I’m looking forward to our parents’ bathroom now! Also, I don’t want to meet my children’s friends in the hallway in the morning and at night; that’s important to me. I know many don’t mind, and with small children, these “problems” don’t exist either.

Best regards
Sabine

No, it’s simply a matter of taste, I just wanted to mention it. With us, two teenagers simply don’t provide the necessary order in the bathroom (towels and clothes on the floor, 1000 different cans and bottles spread around the bathroom, and I simply don't feel like tidying up all day long. That's why I'm now looking forward to our parents' bathroom! Also, I don’t want to meet my children’s friends in the hallway in the morning and at night, for me that’s important. I know many don’t mind, and with small children these "problems" don’t exist either.

Best regards
Sabine

That’s how it is :)
I don’t have children myself, but I’ve heard enough stories about nighttime encounters and seen enough bathrooms shared with teenagers. Parents’ privacy should be considered when possible. Because with two children, the sleeping floor can get quite full.

Admittedly, I hadn’t really considered the "conflict case" of a MILF-son-in-law encounter. But when it comes to using the bathroom without causing destruction, you can definitely create incentives for allowance recipients to open up to the connection between usage and cleaning :-)

Especially since the children will not be using their own bathroom in the first years anyway.

Then do yourselves a favor and only pre-install the riser pipe into the children's bathroom and postpone the sanitary installation and tiling. If the children are only planned during construction and would probably use their own bathroom at the earliest in ten years, there will only be lime scale, germs, and rust in the pipes until then, and later on, you will probably want something different anyway. There is still a second toilet on the ground floor, so it does not represent a bottleneck.

Then do yourselves a favor and only pre-install the riser pipe into the children's bathroom and postpone the sanitary installation and tiling. If the children are only planned during the construction and would probably use their own bathroom at the earliest in ten years, until then the pipe will only have lime scale, germs, and rust, and later on people will probably prefer something else anyway. There is still a second toilet on the ground floor, so it doesn't mean a bottleneck.

We have already thought about that as well. However, the bathroom could be used for guests until then. But there is still time to decide that.

Regarding the situation of encounters. In our parents' houses, we each only had one shower bathroom, and it worked without major encounters with the respective parents-in-law. I see that as a negligible problem. I prefer to have two bathrooms for everyone rather than each being accessible only to a certain group of people.