Can they call it a bathroom? Most people know what a full bath is: Tub, sink, toilet, and sometimes a separate shower. A three-quarter bath is a sink, shower, and toilet. A half bath is a sink and a toilet but I have seen half baths that consist of a bathtub and a sink or a bathtub and a toilet.
The quarter bath is often found in basements of older homes and it is usually a toilet or a shower stall. These baths are not always in separate rooms either. If a home is advertised as having two bathrooms sometimes one of those bathrooms is that toilet in the basement or the shower stall.
Quarter baths are the most common in the older parts of town in smaller homes.
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This post took me back! I grew up in a home in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland where we had a “quarter bath” in the basement. We never thought of it as that, though – just the extra toilet in the scary basement, ha ha.
My 96 year old house in St. Paul has a full bath on the main floor, a 1/2 bath on the 2nd floor, & a shower stall in the basement. Would you list the house as 1 3/4 bath or 1 1/2 bath?
You do not get to add up your bathrooms that way, a 1/2 bath can not be added to a 1/4 bath to make it a 3/4 bath. Technically you have a three bath house with 1 full bath, one half bath and one 1/4 bath.
But how would you write it on the listing where you get to put just one number down (i.e. x bedrooms and x bathrooms)?
If you had a 1/4 bath and a 1/2 bathe and a 3/4 bath and a full bath you have 4 bathrooms.
Ok, thanks!
I grew up in an old house with the creepy little bathroom in the basement. The toilet was actually inside the shower stall with no sink…not sure how I’d classify that in modern real estate terms (other than tres-primitive)!
technically it would be a half bath but in this case we could call it a nonconforming half bath. We sometimes use the term non conforming for bedrooms that are missing closets.
LOL! Teresa, I think it would be more accurately described as a dungeon. Thanks for the chuckle.
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OK for me to have a bathroom you need a toilet and if you have a toilet you had better have a sink to wash your hands. So half bath. Toilet, sink, Shower equals three quarter bath. Toilet, sink, tub equals full bath. Anything less goes under comments “Additional luxury shower room in basement”