I am surprised that the consensus is to keep the bath. We are having a similar dilemma as we are turning a bedroom into a bathroom and neither of us have used a bath in years so we are considering having a nice spacious bathroom with just a shower. I thought most people these days took showers but am also aware that if we needed to sell, a bath might be better (with a shower). Someone also said that a shower upstairs will always leak and cause problems? What do others think?

Marc - these are absolutely stunning sketches! Sadly, the opportunity to move our WC has passed, so we can’t put the the shower in that corner :( I’m back to two options: 1. Keep same layout but with a shorter, 1600mm bath and bespoke shower built onto the end (only really feasible if I can find a fabricator or bathroom designer to make this happen), and some storage / fitted furniture around the WC/sink - pros are the separation of the two / luxe factor, con is that there’s nowhere for the laundry baskets https://www.duravit.co.uk/products/all_series/happy_d2.com-en.html?product=3167994 2. Full-size bath with bespoke storage at end of bath (opposite the door), with laundry and towel storage, etc) - pros are that we maximise storage and have a full size bath, plus we could save costs around the WC / sink by skipping the additional furniture, cons... no separate shower... Same bath but 1700x750. I’m feeling kind of ambivalent at this point, but the builders are back and will be ripping out the old one soon so need to pull the trigger and get this stuff ordered! Final round of thoughts?

I’ve only got a shower because I have mobility problems and I couldn’t clamber in and out of the bath anymore. However, if you have young children then I think a bath is best. People gone on about de-valuing your house if you don’t have a bath, but not sure that is so? If you plan to stay in your house for many years then choose what suits you and your family.

When we had our family bathroom redone, we agonised for a long time about having a bath and shower or just a shower in there. We thought that although we only have a shower in the master en-suite. as one of the guest bedrooms has a bath in the en-suite, we would only have a shower in the family bathroom as it more suited the way we live and we were doing the bathrooms for US and not someone who may buy it in the future. We concluded as long as there was a bath somewhere, this was enough for any future resale. Incidentally, as there is only 2 of us (and the cats) now I use the master en-suite as "my" bathroom and the OH uses the family bathroom as "his". He did get the better deal though, because we still have yet to re-do the master en-suite, so it's really crappy.