Off of our kitchen, there’s a laundry room and half bath with a sink and a toilet. Our home is currently a five bedroom and 4 bathroom (2 full baths and 2 half baths) and as of now, we have a standing pantry we recently scooted into the kitchen.
There’s half the contents of our pantry thanks to an in-progress paint job and bad lighting due to bad lighting (could this photo be any worse?). Through that doorway you can see the room in question. We haven’t used it as a bathroom since redoing our floors because we simply haven’t gotten around to putting the toilet back in…or the door back on. Which makes us wonder, do we need a 4th toilet with 2 others on this level and one more downstairs? Would a walk-in pantry with a large utility sink be more desirable?
Which would you prefer? A 4th bathroom or a walk-in pantry? Or maybe you have an idea all your own. Weigh in! We can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
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[…] Back in May, we asked you if you would rather have a 4th bathroom or walk-in pantry and we loved reading all of your thoughts–there were a lot (!!) and most of you declared hands down a walk-in pantry. Considering there is a guest bathroom already on this level, and we haven’t used this 4th bathroom off of the kitchen since re-doing the floors (we never even put the toilet back in!) we felt that was the direction we should go, too. Here’s the current floorplan of our main level so you can see where we’re talking about: […]
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Wow, this is kind of a hard question! Four bathroom seems like a lot, but it also seems really nice to have a bathroom right by your garage / kitchen / living room area where most people probably hang out. Then again, the other half bath looks like its only a few steps across your entryway & is it really that much of a hassle to take a few more steps?
I would say turn it into a pantry but leave as much of the plumbing and electrical in there so that if you do happen to sell the house, you can say, oh well, this is pantry but you can also convert it back to a bathroom if you need it.