We live in one. It's becoming an issue with elderly parents coming to visit, but we can get by.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you be okay with this?

There are 2 upstairs and 1 in the basement, but none on the main floor.
There's also no room to build one

Not really. Even most older, smaller homes have a powder room on the first floor. I don't want guests traipsing upstairs to use the toilet or having to use a bathroom in the basement.

No, they don't.

We just bought a split level with 2 full baths up and a half bath on the family room level--so the "main" floor with living/dining/kitchen doesn't have a bathroom. It works just fine for us, as it's only a few steps up or down.

That said, a lot of houses in our price range were colonials with one bathroom on the second floor and one in the basement, and I really really did not want that layout. Had such a layout been perfect in every other way, I might have considered it, but it definitely put colonials at the bottom of my list over capes and split levels.

FWIW from one recent buyer's perspective.

We live in a 1940's Colonial with the exact layout. It isn't ideal but not a huge problem. The biggest issue with it has been during potty training but still love the house.

Anonymous wrote:Would buyers really prefer that we turn the only closet space on the main floor into a powder room, or carve out some of the already narrow floor space, or ruin the flow of the cute sun room? This is in a small urban rowhouse, where I presume buyers are more interested in location and are not looking to replicate the suburbs.

if given the choice of course you would want suburb sized homes in the city don't be dense.

Would buyers really prefer that we turn the only closet space on the main floor into a powder room, or carve out some of the already narrow floor space, or ruin the flow of the cute sun room? This is in a small urban rowhouse, where I presume buyers are more interested in location and are not looking to replicate the suburbs.

A minor annoyance. Not a dealbreaker for me if I love everything else about that house.

A bunch of my friends have lived in Fairlington over the years, and those townhouses tend not to have bathrooms on the main level. (1 up, 1 down.) They've had lots of parties and it's never really been an issue to go upstairs or downstairs to use the bathroom. Who cares?

We rentedva townhouse like this right before I gabe birth. It all depends on circumstances. It is a pain when trying to recover.

We had this in a rowhouse and it was kind of annoying for guests having to go up or down but we still loved the place for other reasons. Now that we have a half bath on the first floor- total deal breaker.

Our split level is like this, but it's only 6 steps up or down. Not a big deal so far, although I will admit it's not ideal.

Anonymous wrote:Wrong. It's much grosser to send guest upstairs down e hall third door on the left.

Our Cap Hill RH has a bath off the kitchen. Can't even hear the toilet flush.

I really don't understand what's gross about it. Do you not clean upstairs? If the bathroom is kept clean and private items are put out of view, what's the objection? Inconvenient perhaps, but gross? I don't get it.

Would be a deal breaker for me.

I have 2 powder rooms on the first floor one for guests and one for the family.