Why do mansions have so many bathrooms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because those of us who grew up poor vividly remember having to smell dad's poops when we used the one family bathroom, going on vacation and having to smell everyone's poop when we used the one motel room bathroom, having to use a bathroom that someone had recently vomited in, etc.
I think that for me one of the signs of having truly arrived in not having to smell anyone else's poop or other bodily secretions, and having privacy to poop. Anyone who remembers people banging on the door for you to hurry up because they also had to go?

Yes, I grew up that way, and live that way in my current house. I wasn't poor growing up and am not poor now. Probably UMC. It's just life. So you smell someone's poop or have to wait for the bathroom. That's life. Also why they invented air fresheners (although I hate the smell of those even worse and don't use them. But nothing says my parents' house like their nasty 80s-era air fresheners ...).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because those of us who grew up poor vividly remember having to smell dad's poops when we used the one family bathroom, going on vacation and having to smell everyone's poop when we used the one motel room bathroom, having to use a bathroom that someone had recently vomited in, etc.
I think that for me one of the signs of having truly arrived in not having to smell anyone else's poop or other bodily secretions, and having privacy to poop. Anyone who remembers people banging on the door for you to hurry up because they also had to go?

Ha! So not only does your poop not stink, you can’t smell anyone else’s! I guess you don’t own a pet or have ever changed a baby’s diapers or toilet trained a toddler. Sad life if you ask me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh. It's a negative for me. Who wants to clean that many bathrooms. And I object as a philosophical matter to kids having their own bathroom. They should share. They'll sure as heck be sharing when they're older. No need to raise prince/princesses who can't share.

Perfect set-up in my opinion is a reasonable master bath, one upstairs bathroom for everyone else to share, and powder rooms on the first floor and basement. Maybe a full bath in the basement if there is a guest room there.

Very few people clean their own mansion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. It's a negative for me. Who wants to clean that many bathrooms. And I object as a philosophical matter to kids having their own bathroom. They should share. They'll sure as heck be sharing when they're older. No need to raise prince/princesses who can't share.

Perfect set-up in my opinion is a reasonable master bath, one upstairs bathroom for everyone else to share, and powder rooms on the first floor and basement. Maybe a full bath in the basement if there is a guest room there.

Very few people clean their own mansion.

I’m cleaning my own McMansion. Cleaned 7 toilets yesterday.

[Anonymous]

There was a house on Million Dollar Listing last night tha t had 22 toilets in 15 bathrooms. “The house is built for entertaining” is what they said....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. It's a negative for me. Who wants to clean that many bathrooms. And I object as a philosophical matter to kids having their own bathroom. They should share. They'll sure as heck be sharing when they're older. No need to raise prince/princesses who can't share.

Perfect set-up in my opinion is a reasonable master bath, one upstairs bathroom for everyone else to share, and powder rooms on the first floor and basement. Maybe a full bath in the basement if there is a guest room there.

Very few people clean their own mansion.

I am thinking of the 2 million dollar houses in this area that are 4000 sq ft and have 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. They are not mansions size-wise, only price-wise. Still way too many bathrooms. I wouldn’t want to spend double on a cleaning service just for the bathrooms either!

[Anonymous]

13 bathrooms

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Potomac/11510-Highland-Farm-Rd-20854/home/11178777

[Anonymous]

Rich people don’t like to hold it in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:13 bathrooms

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Potomac/11510-Highland-Farm-Rd-20854/home/11178777

Unbelievably ugly and charmless! I am cracking up at this house. So many weird custom rug shapes. And, notice that the His closet is full of clothes, but the Hers closet (with the girly light fixtures) is empty.

[Anonymous]

In the olden days, rich Europeans would just poop in the corner, or maybe into a chamber pot. I guess this is a lifestyle upgrade for these people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. It's a negative for me. Who wants to clean that many bathrooms. And I object as a philosophical matter to kids having their own bathroom. They should share. They'll sure as heck be sharing when they're older. No need to raise prince/princesses who can't share.

Perfect set-up in my opinion is a reasonable master bath, one upstairs bathroom for everyone else to share, and powder rooms on the first floor and basement. Maybe a full bath in the basement if there is a guest room there.

Very few people clean their own mansion.

I am thinking of the 2 million dollar houses in this area that are 4000 sq ft and have 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. They are not mansions size-wise, only price-wise. Still way too many bathrooms. I wouldn’t want to spend double on a cleaning service just for the bathrooms either!

That’s the way builders worked from the 90s onward in any size home. Even 3 BR townhouses have 3.5 baths if they’re newer. A lot of the remodels around that time also centered on getting more bathroom space (putting powder rooms in toilets, hooking up bathrooms in basements).