Love It or List It : Each kid with their own bathroom?

What is the deal with each kid having their own bedroom and bathroom? We had six in our family but only one and a half baths. We had to learn to share. Also what is an ensuite I thought those were Master bathrooms. It just seems like the houses are bigger and bigger but with less children. Do people even want to interact with each other. I guess my old age is showing but I love being around my family.

Agree, agree, agree. I love how they invariably demonstrate that all those bathrooms are absolutely necessary by showing a scene with five people crammed around the sink all brushing their teeth, shaving, or putting on mascara at the same time. It looks like that old "stateroom" bit in a Marx Brothers comedy! Over the weekend, I saw an HGTV show - I think it was LIOLI - where the guy countered his wife's insistence that their two kids absolutely must each get a bathroom by saying,"We don't need a whole extra room that's only going to be used for 15 minutes a day." THANK YOU, sir, whoever you are.

Haha, I just saw that episode. And once again, the wife was a nasty witch

En suite is a French term that means "in a suite." The bedroom & bathroom & perhaps even a sitting room are the owner's suite.

Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!Lindsey McDonald (Angel)

En suite actually means "following on," as the additional room "follows on" from the main room.

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I figure those parents that want their rooms far from the kids is so they can have sex without worrying about the kids hearing them.

You can always tell how old people's kids are by how they want the bedrooms arranged. Littlet kids? Close by so we can hear them and deal with overnight issues. Older kids? Far away so everyone has their privacy. And, yes, that means parents being able to have a sex life without traumatizing the kiddos.

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En suite actually means "following on," as the additional room "follows on" from the main room.

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Suite can mean to follow or a room in French. The English, as often happens, just use the French word because it usually sounds fancier.

En means IN.

So when referring to a bathroom it is a bathroom that is IN the BEDROOM.

Ma Sale de bain est en suite.

It is also most commonly applied to master bedroom bathrooms that also include a bath or shower but not an absolute requirement.

In my family, it was 6 kids + 2 parents, and just 1 bathroom. I can't say I loved all the knocking on the door that happened poopus interruptus, but we survived. At least is was only one bathroom to have to clean.

Still, I'll always prefer at least 2 full bathrooms if it's more than one person. Canada has no issues with water availability, so I guess they can build as many bathrooms as their space allows.

poopus interrupts. hystrique!! (That's French for hysterical, by the way) ;D

Stupid auto correct I actually typed poopus interruptUs.

"What is the deal with each kid having their own bedroom and bathroom? We had six in our family but only one and a half baths. We had to learn to share."

I think this is a television myth that's been passed down for ages, starting sometime around the Brady Bunch era. Growing up in the 90s, all the kids I saw on TV had their own bathrooms, but I didn't and neither did any of my friends. I grew up in a house of six with one bathroom and most of my friends grew up in houses where the parents had a bathroom and the kids shared a hallway bathroom (that's how the newer tract homes in my area were set up). Of course, there's a lesson in this for all the parents of HGTV: just because it's on television doesn't mean it's *beep* real.