My boyfriend and I recently moved into an apartment with 2 full bathrooms- we love it so much that I don't think we could ever go back to sharing.

I wouldn't mind having separate bathrooms, because we seem to need to be getting ready in the mornings about the same time, but other than that, I mostly wish I had a second bathroom for guests to use. But it's amazing what you can get by with. :)

My boyfriend and I have separate bathrooms sometimes and even though we have 3 bedrooms he's not into having separate bedrooms. I would love it!.

Explain the decapitated deer next to the sink to me please.

I don't understand..................

the buck head in the bathroom....

My grandparents' house had separate bathroom & dressing rooms off the master bedroom. Seeing how amazing it was, I will always aspire to having that! But that was a pretty big house. It was really nice having the space, privacy, and different decors for the two bath/dressing areas. Why on earth share if you don't have to?

Sharing would be okay, but I've had my own bathroom / dressing room for a decade now. All visitors and guests use my husband's bathroom due to location, so I still have to clean both of them.

We rent houses or cabins when we vacation. I always try to get ones with separate baths. The last house we rented had a 1/2 bath he could use. I LOVED IT!! The next place, fingers crossed, we can find one with at least a 1/2 bath.

I suppose my husband & I have our own bathrooms. The one I have dominion over is attached to our bedroom. He keeps all of his gear in the bathroom in the basement- which sounds strange, but he has an office in the basement where he writes and hangs out and stores his clothes (our closet is tiny). It works great- especially since he is a proponent of the "if it is yellow let it mellow" philosophy and I prefer a clean bowl.......

We have separate closets and bathrooms. I love it, it is absolutely worth the addition cost, compared to owning/renting a smaller place.

Another WTF for the deer head in the bathroom.

If I was rich, a master suite with separate baths would be waayyy up on the list. Right now I just dream of separate sinks...

Our condo has a weird bathroom configuration. There's a sink/dressing area (mine) next to the bedroom, a shower/toilet combo in one room with a sliding door to sink/dressing area and a door that leads to a room with just toilet and sink (his). We only share the shower.

Call me a romantic but I like sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. We get ready about an hour apart so the space is never technically "shared" except for general stuff that we keep in there. We are working on an organization system (what bathroom doesn't have any shelves in the cabinets or any drawers to speak of?!?) but otherwise we've actually enjoyed it....ask me again in a few years though haha.

No bathroom of mine will ever have a head on the wall though. That I am sure of.

Interesting read, but that animal head is just scary!

In a small space, it's easier to just have individual toothpastes so that you don't have to negotiate about flavor, consistency, cap usage, etc.

Not sure why you would want a dead deer watching you when you get out of the shower, but as a lover of taxidermy it's pretty appalling that someone would hang a buck mount in a bathroom where constant steam and humidity is going to ruin it.

Sharing a bathroom is not a hardship.

Oh what a dream~ As a one-bathroom homeowner I have to say that getting kicked out of the bathtub because the hubby has to poop is not fun.

We do however have separate blankets (!) that has contributed to numerous uninterrupted nights of sleep!~

I can never go back to sharing a bathroom.

I would love my own bathroom and not share it with my husband and son. One day it's going to happen. Oh and @sisero, I know exactly what you mean on both counts. Lol!

While it'd be nice to have a duel sink bathroom, I don't mind sharing. I set myself up with a vanity in the bedroom, so I can put all my skin care and makeup on, as well as do my hair while he's showing. Its actually nice not to do it in the bathroom, since the warm/steamy room makes it difficult for my skin to actually absorb anything.

Deer head in bathroom = she doesn't want it in the house, so it goes in *his* bathroom. Great reason to have separate bathrooms.

Eh, this would probably be last on my list of dream attributes for a home. I'm in the minority who showers at night, and having a staggered showering schedule eliminates most of the headache involved in sharing a bathroom.

No on the dearhead, yes on that sunburst mirror.

One of the many things I have gone green with envy over in the more posh Designer Showcas homes I have toured over the years is the "his and hers" (they always seem to be for male/female pairs) luxury bathroom-and-dressing-room layouts. I really dislike sharing a bathroom with my husband (who manage to get body hair on the alls...honest). If I was building a custom home with a large budget, I would absolutely do separate dressing rooms and bathrooms off the master bedroom.

Oh, dear...that should have said manages to get body hair on the walls.

He really does. I think he shakes off like a dog after showering.

When my husband and I first moved in together, we had separate bathrooms, which was amazing. My husband was VERY messy in the bathroom back then, so it saved us a lot of headaches to have two bathrooms. The part that was even better was that his bathroom was off of one of the bedrooms (his office), so guests rarely even saw it.

Of course, we've lived in a couple other apartments since then, both of which had only one bathroom. It was certainly a struggle at first, but we've both gotten used to it.

@JARICHTIG

Tasty, but tasteless as a "decoration".

In our house at Ft. Benning (very, very old jr. Officer housing) only had one bathroom. It was ok when our daughter was still in diapers & Ryan was deployed. Then he got home & the kiddo was potty trained. Three in one very small 1930s style loo. NO FUN!

Next house, in San Antonio, we had three bathrooms. AWESOMESAUCE!! It was everything I thought it could be & more. In addition, Ryan had a futon in his downstairs office (where he also kept his clothes). He occasionally slept down there if he had to be up super early or stayed up really late on the computer. We love having our own space. :)

After years of one bathroom apartments, our previous (first) house had a full bath and a lavatory. We quickly came to appreciate the value of not having to accommodate each other when we came back from somewhere both needing to use the facility simultaneously!

Our new house, which is modest sized except for the home theater (finished basement) and the rather large twin master bedrooms (the only layout we could figure out over the lower floor -- we didn't really need big bedrooms, but we had to do something with the space!), has a total of five toilets!! One for the home theater floor, one for the living room floor, one for the guest bedroom, and his and mine. We had a movie night with a bunch of friends and every one of them was in use at one time! It's wonderful, except for the cleaning part!

(Honestly, though, the living room is apartment sized (about 10x15 feet, maybe) as are most of the other rooms, and the ceilings are 8 feet -- this isn't a MacMansion, no matter what it may seem like! ;^) )

I'm like LIZ30. We have 1 bathroom, and for years, I've had a vanity/make-up table in our bedroom. I can sit down, dry my hair, put on my make-up. Our bathroom is small and it's way more comfortable to do all of that in the bedroom. I wish we had a second bathroom, even a half bath on the main floor of the house.

The man and I have separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms. The separate bedrooms are due to his sleep apnea and COPD and the machinery involved with those conditions.

The separate bathrooms are due to the fact that, bless his heart, he's an appalling slob in the bathroom. I get in there and muck it out on a regular basis, but he's never really learned to put the seat down...

We're approaching 35 years together, and being able to go into my bathroom and find a clean floor, and towels on the towel rack and no toenails in the sink (EEEWWWW!) makes me a happy person.

id be into seperate bathrooms, i'd end up with alot less loose hair all over my stuff...

The deer = Buck naked. nothing wrong with it.

I don't think I could deal with separate bedrooms- when he's stateside, I insist on cuddling as much as possible, no matter how much he snores. However, I dream of the day when we can add another bathroom to the house. We only have the one, and it's teensy, with little storage- I'd love to have a bit more room to breathe!

My bf is over regularly enough to make it feel like we're sharing a bathroom. It. Is. Disgusting. Having never had to share a bathroom with a male before, I've found myself mystified by the horrors that exist in his wake. It's not like we do different things in there! How is it possible that we each have such different outcomes????

15 years ago an older friend advised me "The best way to keep a marriage together is to have separate bathrooms. It's a lot easier to love a man when you don't have to look at the tooth gunk he flossed onto the mirror, or see all those beard hairs in the sink". I've now added my own - "... or seeing remnants of a snot rocket in the shower"

Separate bathrooms? YES!!!

That deer is watching you pee.

Hm my neighbor cured the toilet seat up by having a urinal installed. Half gallon flushes, and was placed in an unused closet so it's behind closed doors.

separate bathrooms - yay! deer head reminder of violent death and the need to dominate lesser living creatures to compensate for some sort of lacking in your own spirit - boo!

I don't think I get the point of a seperate bathroom. We only have one bathroom and one sink in our house, and, due to remodeling, it is currently the only place with a toilet. There's four of us using it: my husband, my 3 years-old son, my baby daughter and myself. I know you'll say the baby doesn't count, but her changing table is in that 5 square meter bathroom too. We plan on adding a second tiny 1/2 bathroom in a few years, using a part of a corridor, but that's all.

I guess it's about respect and living together. If we are going out and I need to spend some extra time in the bathroom, my husband takes a shower in the morning. And if my son needs to pee while I'm putting on mascara, well, so be it. It's about organizing and respecting the others, i.e. putting things back where they belong and accepting the fact that you can live with one drawer per person, plus one for the family items (yes, we share blowdryers and toothpaste).

My husband and I have separate bathrooms. It was about a week into us living together for the first time and I was in the tub shaving my legs, he came in and sat on the toilet to do his thing. I shot out of the tub like there was a snake in there and all our homes after that had two bathrooms.

Laughing at the deer mounted in the bathroom. Must be the only place its allowed to hang in the house. Still, I would feel awkward having it stare at me while I'm getting ready in the morning...

I have no issue sharing a bathroom with my husband, it makes mornings a bit more low key if we purposely plan time to work around each other. What is VERY good is separate dressing areas & closets, because at times one of us may be getting ready while the other has several hours left to sleep. For this reason my closet is in the den, directly off our bedroom.

For women who find sharing a vanity area with their man to be too crowded, I would suggest the option of setting up a small console table with baskets or even enclosed cabinet below, and a mirror above and small stool, where you can do your various beauty routines without disturbance, outside the shared bath.

Also - newlyweds or newly co-habitants : have the discussion. What activities are ok while sharing the space, what are not. And lock the door accordingly. Everyone has a different ICK threshold, save yourself the embarassment and voice your limitations upfront.

I would LOVE my own bathroom!

When I moved in with my fiance, I took over the guest bathroom as my own. :)