Yes, I’ve noticed that in France, it’s very common for a tiny WC to have only a toilet, with no sink to wash your hands. Instead, you have to leave the room and go into a separate bathroom just to find a sink.
Even many French hotels have this type of design, which blows my mind! You’d think a hotel, of all places, would prioritize basic hygiene and meet international standards.
I remember once being invited to an apartment near Lyon and watching guest after guest walk out of the toilet room without bothering to detour to the other room to wash their hands. Absolutely gross
And people wonder how COVID managed to spread like LA wildfire…
Some older English houses have that too. I once lived in a shared house with only one bathroom and a separate WC.
Quite difficult to wash your hands if someone was having a bath or shower.
Usually old houses. With sink just outside in the corridor. In Germany too and I’ve even seen it in Switzerland. Not for a long time though, just realize I’ve not been to a real old house for a long time. But I grew up in one and it’s probably still the same as it is under “Heimatschutz”. (heritage protection).
My in-laws house in the UK had a downstairs toilet without a hand basin so you had to go into the kitchen next door to wash your hands.
It really wasn’t very practical at all.
The longer I look at the setup the more I think that an initial poor decision forces additional poor decisions. In particular, the toilet at the top center, the one adjacent to the corner bedroom. Sound insulation is difficult, there’s odors, and mind the toilet plume.
I find the bedroom placement in B a nobrainer, but without the awkward door situation. Instead I’d want kind of a cul-de-sac with the two bedroom doors on the left and the entire infrastructue to the right. That insulates the bedrooms from smells and noises, and some screen to block the view from the living room is easy to install.
The windows are too few and way too small with just ~1m width each. Not sure what to make of the top right room, I might want the kitchen there (and three room on the left).
I’d probably walk away from this plan and architect altogether. One poor decision may well be indicative of more poor decisions, they’re just not all visible.
Our house here in Switzerland is the same. While we have a bathroom with bathtub/shower and wash basin upstairs, the other is just the toilet and nothing else.
It’s very inconvenient. I would only do it if it’s an only bathroom in a family apartment.
We live in the house with an entrance door with a tiny hallway and a terrace door that leads to the living room, and we were very happy when the owner agreed to add a lock to the terrace door. Since then we only the terrace door to enter and leave the house and we use main entrance only when we leave for holidays and have to close the shutters on the terrace door from the inside. Nobody bothers to go through a tiny hallway anymore.
Haha, I guess it’s horses for courses. I’d be screaming at the top of my lungs if someone used the terrace and not the hallway, especially when it’s raining, snowing etc. I also don’t allow anyone to enter the living room or any room with their shoes on, no matter if they forgot something and just want to “quickly” grab it… I remember my mom being very peculiar about it too, I guess I carry on the same rules.
I remember my mom being very peculiar about it too, I guess I carry on the same rules.