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Girls' Jack n Jill bathroom is painted (pics) - Thanks everyone!
Comments (10)Thanks everyone! The wall color is actually brighter & greener in person. Thanks for the suggestions for artwork. I'm excited to pick up some frames & blue craft paint & let the kids paint them! My oldest daughter picked out the frame sitting by her sink that we thought we would hang by the door and it has words like dream, inspire, and believe so maybe they can write some words on pretty paper & we'll put those in the frames. I know my youngest would love to draw pictures but I'm sure my teen daughter would not be too thrilled with that! LOL But maybe we could compromise with 3 words & 2 pictures. Thanks so much everyone for your very kind compliments & suggestions....See MoreJack and Jill Bathroom
Comments (24)Both my parents grew up in a house where they had one bathroom for the entire house. My dad had 3 other siblings and my mom had 2 other siblings. They all managed to survive and thrive. I grew up in a house with two sisters and all three of us shared one bathroom. We all managed fine. (And the master bathroom consisted of a shower, toilet and one vanity and my parents survived.) The house my son and daughter grew up in had one full bathroom for all four of us. We just never got around to putting in the master bathroom. (We did have two half baths downstairs though). Again we all managed. I never recall arguments or fights over using the bathroom. Fights over other things? Yep! You make a good point: The "need" for more and more bathroom space is more of a "want". I grew up with two bathrooms -- five of us kids, two girls, three boys sharing one hall bath. We had a shower schedule, but I don't remember it being a problem. Hair, make up, etc. was done in the bedrooms. I remember fights over the washer/dryer -- we had a schedule for that too -- and the car and mowing the yard, but never the bathroom. An unintended (and positive) consequence of growing up without "lots": The first time I had "my own bathroom" was when my husband and I married and bought our first house, I felt like a master bathroom was such a luxury. It was also the first time I had a phone next to my bed. I really felt like I had "arrived". Today kids have so much, so much, so much ... are we robbing them of the opportunity to enjoy that feeling of "now I'm an adult and I have adult things"? When I was about 7 my 16 year old brother, who was a bit of a sleepwalker, got up to use the toilet, and exited the bathroom through the wrong door. He crawled into my bed squishing me into the wall. I tried to wake him with no success. I eventually left my bed and went and slept in his. On another occasion, a brother just a year older than me also needed to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. He walked through bathroom, into my room, opened up the toy chest with the white lid, peed there, and returned to his room. I had a sleepwalking brother too --- hmmm, is that a guy thing? I remember him once opening the refrigerator door and peeing in it! I don't think this is related to house design....See MoreHELP WITH JACK AND JILL BATHROOM
Comments (69)It closes into a recess that has the same effect as a door jamb. Sounds awesome to me! My builder-grade hollow-core doors all permit light and noise to come through. I never really noticed until my daughter complained of light penetration into her bedroom (from the hall) at nighttime. Sure enough, I go in there when everything's dark, shut the door, and it glows. Maybe you have better trim/jambs/doors than I do? lol I've never lived with pocket doors -- doubt I ever will because I hate doors on tracks -- and the ones I've seen are from a few decades ago, but are your tracks on the ceiling or the floor? If on the floor, are they a pain to clean? Tracks on the floor would be another reason for me to dislike pockets. ;-)...See MoreJack and Jill or two small bathrooms???
Comments (20)In response to saving money with a J&J. You will save on the cost of one toilet and one tub and tub/shower fixtures...that might be $1000 depending on grade plus installation and a little extra plumbing. Floor tile is probably a wash because the area covered really hasn't decreased. There's a little less wall tile from removing a tub (or even less cost saved with a fully fiberglass unit). Wall framing and drywall might see a slight increase, and you may have 2 extra doors if the vanity areas also had doors. So all in you might be looking at something like $3000 to exchange two bathrooms for a J&J. So while it is true that they could save "thousands" it's a drop in the bucket compared to the full cost of a house to have it put ahead of function. But coming back to the original question, it sounds like the poster is largely thinking about the two bathrooms for resale if the bonus room were to become another bedroom, not necessarily because they ever plan to use it themselves. In that case I would first check local real estate and see whether it is essential in your area that all bedrooms have their own bath. In a really high end area that might be the case, but most anywhere else as long as a bedroom has access to a bathroom on the same floor, that will be good enough. If it were my house I would do a single hall bath in that area with an extra door leading into bedroom 3, That way that child has direct access to their bathroom and will keep the door to the hallway locked at all times. But when you go to sell, you can still count the bonus room as a bedroom because it has hall access to bedroom 3's bathroom. You can save the money from a 6th bathroom and get a larger playroom....See Moremillworkman
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