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So I am thinking of doing some home improvement since I hate my bathroom but what I'm thinking apparently is a little more progressive. What do you all think?

Bathtubs are useless! Unless you need to wash your dog.

Not unless you have kids, or you are planning for a jakuzzi.

Julius Seeker wrote:Not unless you have kids.

Thats a good point. Is the place a 1 bathroom? Not a master bath and then a community bath for the other bedrooms? I suppose as long as there is 1 tub you are fine, so i would def say feel free to only have a shower stall in the master bath/parents room.

There are tons of options to bath your kids without a tub. That's no reason to not buy a house. Better to focus on the important things (ie. new furnace, windows, roof, etc.) than something like a tub

Right, Zeus, but Barret's not asking what people should do but what we will do. It's a relatively minor thing, but people are irrational and it's possible that seeing something they don't like will give them a bad feeling and be less likely to buy the house.

With that said, I have no idea. I've never been in the position to buy a house, and I don't know what I consider. It has never factored into me renting a place, though.

You're right. It's amazing the things people will cling onto when buying a house if they don't "feel it" and the stuff they ignore when they do. Men and women both are equally to blame on this one. I saw it when my mother was trying to sell the last couple of houses. For such a large and important purchase, you think people would attempt to curb their emotions a little bit and ensure that logic and reason enter the equation, but it's often the complete opposite.

That being said, at least one tub somewhere in the house - preferably in the washroom closest to the main bedroom - is certainly a plus. It won't be a negative to anyone to have it but it may be with a relatively large proportion of the population if you don't.

I've seen all sorts of living spaces with no bathtub, and assuming you take short showers they save water too. It's just a personal choice. Some people probably won't buy anything without a tub, other people might be LOOKING for a place with a shower and no tub. You're not going to render the place uninhabitable and un-sellable (unsalable) if you take out the tub.

There are a lot of people who'll say "there is no tub, I need a tub". And that's not that uncommon even to people who don't really take baths. They want the option whether they'll use it or not.

No one in their right mind will say "this place has a tub, I don't want it" unless it takes up 40% of the living area. Because of this, I can see it happening regularly in Toronto but nowhere else

I like a bathtub but most places I've lived in have had only shower facilities. I never minded.

Unfortunately my home is a 2 bed 1 bath home, though the basement is 75% finished which gives me close to 1400sqft of living space. There really is no place in the basement for another bathroom, much less a half bath.

I'm worried a bit about pushing the envelope with the house as I've already done the low-voltage cable upgrades throughout which some believe may have actually devauled the house. I'm a tall guy (6'4" 195lbs) and since I am living alone, and clearly too large to use the tub, I would much rather have a shower stall to stand in than a shower head that comes up to my shoulders and basin that curves drastically inwards and makes it somewhat awkward to stand in.

Since this is a one floor home I get about 768sqft and the bathroom is relatively cramped as it is so I am trying to make it seem larger than it actually is with removing the tub.

Another idea I had was to remove the door and go to a two-stage sliding door for the entrance since the wall next to the door is about half of the width of the door.