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I want to see comments from the seven folks (so far) who said "yes" to combined bathroom bedrooms.

I know my roommate would say yes. She would live in the bathtub if she could. I don't even like baths - give me a quick, rough, hot shower and let me get on with my life - so I really don't get it. But Roomie likes to read, sleep, snack, talk on the phone, watch tv, and god knows what else in the tub, and has always wanted a clawfoot tub in her bedroom.

I couldn't deal with it. I'm w/mjoe: I prefer a shower. And, imho, a bathtub is just not that comfortable. Plus splashing and cleaning and...no. No.

I had friends who put a robins egg blue clawfoot tub in their wood panneled bedroom right in front of the fire place in their Brooklyn brownstone. I've been jealous about it since the first time I saw it. Their explanation was that they loved to take baths, didn't have enough room in the bathroom for a tub, and thought taking a bath by the fire and then snuggling down into bed was the most romantic thing ever. I can't argue with that!

how about separating toilets and bathroom, just like anywhere else in the world? I find it far less inconvenient to have Mr/Mrs Joe taking a bath while I'm in the bedroom than having someone taking a shit in the same room while I'm showering.
I must be very prude.

No, loki, that makes sense.

mjoe likes his/her showers like I like my sex. Except for the quick part.

i am a big fan of the bathub in the bedroom thing, and i also agree with separation of the toilet, far far away - the things that go on in each of those appliances are worlds apart --

but just think, after a cold awful winter week in the northeast, is there nothing better than a warm toasty, steamy soak in the tub with bath salts and wine and music (with or without your sweetie) ?

then just imagine coming out and just falling into a warm bed nearby for dessert ;)

or, imagine you got out first and lay in bed watching your sweetie hake his (or her) sweet time?

mmmmmmm.....

I don't like the bathroom in the bedroom thing. I like a warm, steamy bathroom, with steam generator were it possible, so I don't freeze the minute I leave the shower or tub. You simply can't stay toasty warm when the tub is in the bedroom. And if I could keep the bedroom warm enough, I wouldn't want all that moisture wafting around the bedroom.

I might feel different if I were in a warm climate though. You don't seem to freeze when you step out of a tub or shower in South Florida.

I'm all for separating the pooper from the shower. Next house, definitely! As for a big romantic clawfoot tub in the bedroom, I think the idea of it is more attractive than the actual application of it. Plus, like mjoe, I don't really dig baths, preferring a quick super hot shower under a rainshower head. I just can't stand for my fingers to be pruned and you can't take a bath without pruning! Blecch.

I think a bathtub in a bedroom is pretty damn sexy - as long as it isn't a shower/tub and as long as there is a more traditional bathroom somewhere else in the house.

Would any of the nay-sayers change their mind if the tub were a small pool? In other words, sunken, right in the middle of a stone-floored, leafy, glass-conservatory bedroom at the top of a turret? Or how about a clawfoot in a one-room cabin in the woods?

I thought the ATers were a more sensuous group--I am shocked.