Master Bath: should it have a tub and shower, or just a shower.
hammerdigit
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We added an first floor addition to our home some years ago that included a master bedroom suite. I planned to install a bathtub but never go around to it. There is a 36 ” prefab fiberglass shower.
We are now ready to fix up this space and we are wondering if a tub and shower is a good selling point for a master bath or would a larger shower be a better selling point with no bathtub. There are two other tubs in the house. The other bathroom in the mudroom/laundry has a bath but no shower and and the single bathroom up-stairs has a shower/tub for three bedrooms.
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It's one of those alltime big questions............
Easy answer, what YOU want. Well, you and the other Masterbath user. What someone else wants if you should sell, is probably gonna get a different answer.
We have a tub only, bath down the hall, combo shower/tub.
My Mudroom/laundry personal space-shower.
If you have huge room and money, put in both. If the tub never gets used-waste of space, but maybe just maybe a good selling point.
For a master bath you want at least a 36" shower, and preferably 42-48 (by 36 deep). Anything smaller will "feel" cramped and make the bath seem cramped overall. So in part the question is how much room you have -- if a tub and separate shower will fit without seeming cramped (and without cramping space for the toilet and sink with at least a modest vanity) then go for it. Otherwise, pick tub or shower (per your personal preferance, with shower-in-tub if it works out), and avoid the cramped feeling
At sale time, having more "Full" bathrooms opens your home up to more buyers.
Since there is no good way to list a bathroom with a shower as definable from a hallway closet with a toilet, there were probably many houses that we did not look at because they didn't have at least "2 Full Bathrooms"
For instance, how would a house list that had 1 Full bathroom, and 7 bathrooms with toilets and showers? A 1.7 bathroom home?
But in many areas these days a bathroom with shower is counted as a "full" bath.
Around here, they commonly use the terms
Full bath for tub, toilet sink
Three Quarter Bath for Shower, toilet, sink
and Half bath for toilet, sink.
Its not unusual to see a real estate listing showing 2 full baths, 1 3/4 bath and 1 1/2 bath
In many place they've dropped the 3/4 designation.
If it were me, I'd much rather have a bigger shower. But other people might prefer a tub
It would also matter how the bathroom would look and what will fit well. Obviously we cant see that.
Asking a local realtor might be a good idea. They'll know what the local market is like.
Yeah, it would be stupid to include a tub just because it allows the extra designation in print ads if it results in a bath that is less pleasant (a major selling point) and less suited to your personal needs.
Yes it would be stupid... unless it was the only way to get a certain type of buyer into the house! Unfortunatly it's part of that "Realty Stupid" areas that demands white walls and granit countertops, and doesn't include utility costs in the matrix.
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