For proof that the property market is mad, look no further than toilets

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When did we become so squeamish that a bathroom for each individual became virtually de rigueur?

You cannot expect to sell your home these days, it seems, if the number of bathrooms is not greater than the number of bedrooms

But wherever we look there is a single common thread: bathrooms. Hundreds of them. Everywhere. Crammed into the smallest, most unlikely spaces. We saw one “ensuite” that was literally a linoleumed corner of a bedroom with a bath parked on it and a lavatory crushed against a wardrobe. You cannot expect to sell your home these days, it seems, if the number of bathrooms is not greater than the number of bedrooms. Every occupant must be able to ablute alone.presenter Kevin McCloud.

I do understand that this wasn’t a solution for everyone. But when did we become so squeamish that a bathroom for each individual became virtually de rigueur? I thought at first it was one of those modern myths that is conceived by the powers that be and then becomes accepted as fact.

Where my renting years were short enough to be done mostly with friends, or at worst friends of friends, these days of course it is a way of life for much, much longer. Especially if you cannot call on theSo you run out of friends with whom to share comfortably. You start sharing with strangers and hoping for the best. Who wants to share a bathroom, if at all possible, with strangers? No-one, that’s who.

 

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