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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry if this has already been brought up, but do you worry about having the bathroom door right off the current living room?  We use the middle room as the dining room, and the bathroom door is directly off of it.  It's always been a sore point.  I'm just wondering if you ever worried about maybe one day flipping the rooms and then being stuck with a bathroom door right off the dining room.

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Yes, it is not ideal. However, in my opinion there is no ideal spot on the first floor of a rowhouse for the bathroom. The floor space is simply restrictive.

I've seen them:

1. all the way at the back of the house (sort of behind the kitchen) which blocks the flow of the light from the rear of the house. Like [url=https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/40-U-St-NW-20001/home/10048398]this house[/url]. The bathroom is behind the tiled wall.

[img]https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/235/mbpaddedwide/826/genMid.DCDC435826_7_0.jpg[/img]

2. Underneath the stairs (in the dining or living room), like mine is. Not ideal because you have to exit right into the room. In perusing a ton of listings for renovated houses in my neighborhood, I think this is the most common choice. See for example [url=https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/2108-Flagler-Pl-NW-20001/home/10049506] this house[/url], with this floorplan:

[img]https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/235/mbpaddedwide/154/genMid.DCDC432154_14_0.jpg[/img]

3. If the turned staircase is kept, sometimes it is placed in front of the staircase. Not ideal because it makes the front room, whether used as a living or dining room even smaller than it already is. Plus, for the reasons mentioned above, I don't want to keep the turned staircase. I can't immediately find an example of this.

4. Where the peninsula is. Not ideal because it creates a smaller opening into the kitchen (which is why everyone hates the peninsula) and takes a valuable window (who cares if there is a window in a powder room, plus who wants the neighbors looking in the powder room).

Do you have any other suggested placements? [/quote]

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