Research steam showers, the simple ones with the glass enclosures. You feel better than a bath soak when you get out of one.

I would love to have the goofy big tub in our master bath that we never use. One bathtub upstairs is enough.

Anonymous wrote:We are ditching our tub and converting it to a large shower.

We did it and love our large, sea glass tiled shower--we do have a tub down the hall for the kids. 7 years and not once have I "missed" the tub.

We bought a house with a large master bathroom shower. The hall bathroom has a tub. We love it. We also have another tub in the basement bathroom,

Anonymous wrote:OP you will be fine. You have an easily accessible bath. More and more masters are opting for the large gracious shower with extra wand, body sprays, steam, etc. For every person who wants a tub in the master, there are 10 others who apppeciate a better showe experience and in your case laundry.

Keep in mind when building the laundry to put in a floor drain and lip at the door to catch eventual leaks.

or just a plastic pan with drain

OP you will be fine. You have an easily accessible bath. More and more masters are opting for the large gracious shower with extra wand, body sprays, steam, etc. For every person who wants a tub in the master, there are 10 others who apppeciate a better showe experience and in your case laundry.

Keep in mind when building the laundry to put in a floor drain and lip at the door to catch eventual leaks.

Anonymous wrote:Well, one of the problems is that the previous owners put the laundry in a front window of the house just off the powder room, not the basement. We have to move it somewhere. Can't for the life of me figure out why someone would want a washer to be visible to people walking up to the house.

Is it a laundry room or just an area? If a room with a sink do side by side W/D and who would notice with plantation shutters. After reading all the posts:
-current master bath has a giant tub and a shower
-current master bath oddly has a door to another bathroom with a tub. That room also has a hallway door. Is that a buddy bath with more doors? Is the tub and toilet in a separate room from the sink/s?

Our house has several baths one is a buddy bath/jack n jill with sinks and a separate toilet room with a tub shower combo. When the kids were little they took baths in it now they take showers. The one that occasionally soaks in a tub won't sit in it.

You can always shower in a tub but can't soak in a shower so don't give up an option. Close off the door to the hall bath and do a smaller new tub and larger than existing shower in the master. Better yet is to keep the plumbing lines in the same place [saves thousands]. We've been out with a realtor recently.

PP your DH takes baths?

Most of the people in my neighborhood who have remodeled their baths have put a nice, big shower stall in the master bathroom and have left the bathtub in the hall bath which the children use. That is what we will do, if we are ever able to remodel.

I love baths. Would not buy a house without a bath.

Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you think about who is going to need traipse through your room to do laundry.

+1. Do you have kids or houseguests who might need to use the laundry. And before you wonder who, my parents and mother-in-law often come to visit for a week or so and sometimes pack light so they aren't carrying so much luggage. And they want to do a load of laundry mid-week.

We also had some friends who stayed with us for 2.5 weeks between when the movers came and moved their furniture and when they actually left town. They and their two kids needed to do laundry. These issues have come up enough that I would never want a laundry in my master bath unless the master bath had a door to the hallway. But I do love my 2nd floor laundry...just not in the master bath.

We just bought a place with a gloriously large and tricked out shower and no tub in the master, but with a tub in the kids bathroom. The shower was a selling point and I haven't taken a bath in years.

When we did a master suite addition, I chose not to have a tub. I prefer a large, spacious shower. We have two other tubs on the 2nd floor if I ever really wanted a bath, but so far, the urge hasn't hit me.

We are ditching our tub and converting it to a large shower.

It is my dream to redo our master bath to just have a large shower. We gave a tub in hall bath. It would not bother me at all but to have a tub in the master bath.