saw a house where the bathroom is one floor ABOVE the bedrooms… do people actually live like this?? imagine going at 3am half asleep and just having to ramp through the stairs
Do y'all hold a bottle or sum
That sounds like a nightmare honestly, id definitely end up faceplanting halfway down the stairs by week two. At that point you might as well just install a slide or accept your fate and get a bucket.
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cosmicblushdropApr 3, 2026
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id simply not drink water before bed
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Foreign-Cookie-2871Apr 3, 2026
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No, you just groan a bit more and wait a few seconds more to be a bit more awake.
And you learn to drink a bit less water in the evening so you don't wake up in the middle of the night to pee (which is always a good thing imo, as waking up to pee is always terrible for me even if the bathroom is next door)
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MobileOrdinary6827Apr 3, 2026
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I just bought a 14th century cottage and the only bathroom is next to the kitchen on the bottom floor. You basically have to get out of bed, walk down a hallway, and go down some stairs, walk into the kitchen, and then go to the bathroom door. It sounds like a trek, but the house was absolutely beautiful so can't complain. Oh, and the toilet has its own room and door Victorian style with an 1800s toilet as well.
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eirissazunApr 3, 2026
What, like it's hard?
Bur more seriously, I'm not quite sure what's so shocking about this. It's not a marathon, it's some seconds of stairs.
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New_Average_3716Apr 3, 2026
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I think the issue is more about navigating stairs while half asleep and possibly in darkness. Plus, as you get older, you often feel sore and stiff when you first get out of bed to shuffle to the bathroom, including your feet being kind of painful. Age, other infirmity or even being especially sleepy or hungover can also affect balance, spatial awareness, etc. Any of this could make it more challenging to get to and from a bathroom on another floor.
Obviously, if having the bathroom on a separate level is something you’ve lived with for a long time, you’d probably be much less likely to see an issue with it and would simply make any accommodations you feel are necessary on an as-needed basis. This is where a bedside alternative of some kind might come in handy for the light work, at least for me. 😉
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DoKtor2quidApr 3, 2026
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For many years I lived in an old victorian terraced house where the bedrooms were upstairs, and the bathroom was down the stairs, through the (knocked through) dining room/living room, through the galley kitchen, back porch, bathroom. I never thought twice about it.
I’m guessing the layout is from the old days of having the toilet in an out-house and the bathroom extension at the back of the house was built later on and the out house would have been demolished.
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