Topic: If you had a rockin' shower, would you miss your big tub?
When we were looking to buy our house we must have looked at over 100 homes. We were very picky. It was a scary investment. We didn't want to make the wrong decision. We ended up putting offers on 5 different homes. I see now why each on needed to happen and why the ones we didn't get didn't work out. We were blessed.
While some homes were much nicer than others, all of the homes were pretty much guaranteed to have two things in a particular room. The master bedroom baths all had huge tubs and carpet on the floors and around the tubs.
I will never get the carpet in the bathroom. It is just really disgusting to me. I would love to rip ours out, but that is a project a few years down the road. Other projects are more pressing at the moment.
I am not a big bath taker but when I was pregnant with Jack I decided to take a bath to relieve pressure from the heavy "load" I was carrying around. You can imagine my extreme disappointment when I found our water heater only has the capacity to fill my monster tub about 1/8 of the way before running our of hot water. What is the point of that? Why would you put a tub in that is too big to fill with hot water?
Thus the plans to re due the master have begun in my head. I don't think I will miss that tub one bit when we finally take it out. Where it now stands I want to put a big, beautifully tiled shower with an awesome shower head and glass doors. The dilemma is do I put a tub somewhere else in the bathroom to appease future buyers?
What are your thoughts. If you were looking at homes and walked into one that had a total master bath makeover with a rockin' shower, but no tub, would that make you think twice about buying the house and why?
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for me, it wouldn't make a difference. i don't take baths and wouldn't miss it. but chuck, well, i think he'd be sad. is there another tub in the house? i think if so, chuck could live with it. even if not, i think chuck could deal with it.
ReplyDeletenope. i hate taking baths and wouldn't miss it one bit, especially if the shower was a beautiful one. although, i do like the space the tub/shower combo gives. shaving legs is soooo much easier in a tub/shower than in shower alone. chuck would miss it, however. he loves taking baths. is there another tub in the house?
ReplyDeletethat wouldn't bother me in the least. but i am so far less picky than most people. i've never lived in a "fancy" home, or even a home that 99% of my friends would even consider buying. i've never had, nor will i with our new home, a master bathroom. so my opinion might not be worth much.
ReplyDeletebut really a master bathroom is really for the adults of the house. and most adults don't usually bath on a regular basis. and when the urge does come up for the adult to bath in a tub, then they could just use the other tub in the home.
that's what i think.
I could care less about a bath in the master bath. I would way rather have a rockin' shower with two shower heads. We have only used our bath once and it was by the kids. Frankly I don't have time to take a bath. It's just easier to take a shower and get it done.
ReplyDeleteI also want to comment on a previous post. The one about modesty. I'll admit I sit on the fence. I see both points. My question is what should the rules be for a boy]? Should we let our little boy wear tank tops at a very young age? If we were teaching him to dress as if he had garments he would not be able to wear one. I was just wondering what your feeling is on that one. Are boys and girls the same as children since the little girls do not have breasts yet? So, should we be as strict with the boys? Just a question. I know that topic is long gone but I just thought of that because since it is really hot in Vegas I bought Cole some tank tops. In my mind it is completely different but was just wondering what your thought on it is.
ReplyDeleteI detest taking baths and i would be ecstatic to see a "rockin' shower." To be honest, I probably wouldn't even notice the tub was missing.
ReplyDeletei had a comment - did you get it? if not, i'll leave it again.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely I would think twice! Sorry, meg:) I am a bath taker, even though I haven't had a good tub in a very long time, but it is my dream!!! If you took out the bath, I would guarantee that I would not buy your house... I would turn around and leave immediately, especially if you just had redone the bathroom so I would feel awful about wanting to do a remodel on a newly remodeled bathroom! I watch a lot of hgtv too, and I think that many, many people at least want the OPTION of taking a bath, even if they don't do it all the time! sorry, that's my take on the matter. I would however love to have the rockin shower too...but I just think you need both.:) it doesn't have to be fancy, but a tub of some sort is a necessity in a master bathroom I think.
ReplyDeleteSo the best shower that I have ever been in is my inlaws in Florida.
ReplyDeleteIt is essentially a room of its own - big enough to fit my small family in comfortably all at once.
It is tiled with slate grey tile - floor, wall and ceiling and it is beautiful.
There are double shower heads, built in seating and a heat lamp.
The walls are high to keep warmth and water in and the shower heads adjust for tall/short people.
Our own bathroom is boring as heck, cheaply made, and layed out poorly. But our garden tub and separate shower serve us well as we will often bathe the girls in the tub together while we shower right beside them - killing for birds (and all the hot water) all in one stone.
I once saw a garden tub, walled in, with a shower head. I really like that because it was pretty the way it was centered in the room. It had the removable shower head but was not too deep to step in and out of.
If I were designing my own I would insist on...
-removable shower head a MUST for a really clean shower
-built in seating for shaving or holding sick babies in steam - or holding ones sick self up in the shower
-walls high enough that tall people don't splash
So, to answer your real question - being that we are avid supporters of LUSH handmade and organic bubble bars and bath bombs, candlelight baths, reading in the tub, and the family bathing experience, finding a tubless master suite might leave us in speechless, shock, and no we wouldn't even think once about buying the house.
I'm with the previous two bath-loving ladies. i have to say that a lot of days I live for my almost daily ritual of soaking in our garden tub, sometimes it's the only truly calm moment in my day. A double shower would be ideal---but only in addition to the only (in my opinion)prerequisite for an awesome master bath---a tub. To ditch the tub would be wrong, wrong, wrong in my book. You would have lost us as buyers as well--Maybe you could think about another water heater....?
ReplyDeleteI love taking baths and so does Michael. We would not buy a house that didn't have a bathtub in it and would prefer one in the master bathroom.
ReplyDeleteIn response to the question about boys and tank tops. I do not let my boys wear tank tops at all. I also make sure their shorts are knee length, most sports shorts are longer nowadays. Children remember what they are taught at a young age and will always go back to those standards even if they stray a little.