Jack & Jill Bathroom

[normando]

In all my years in appraising, this was the first time I came across a jack & jill bathroom between a bedroom and master bedroom. I rarely see this and not sure if it's a functional inadequacy. In your market have you seen such bathrooms and are they undesirable?

 

[sandpiperapp]

Only if you do not have a pail of water.

 

[Wm. Hattaway]

They are common in my area and count as 1 bathroom.

 

[Mile High Trout]

They're common in many homes. Lots of mid 70's semi custom design plans had them. It would seem many 2000's era homes and slightly before that are also bringing back this trend of interconnected bathrooms.

A proper J&J setup has several features;

A double bath contained within one room, with access to both bath areas via 2 doors. A pass through is not as appealing of a scenario.

Or a single bath with double amenity, with an access door to each room, and an access door to a mid hallway or hallway within that set of rooms. A single bath with access only via bedrooms is concerning, only if there is no other commons bath for guests on that level.

"from the shoes of a buyer" you don't want to see; Having guests need to go into a bedroom to use a bathroom. Having a dual bathroom which one half goes unused because it's set back in some obscure pocket.

What you do want to see is; additional usability, additional value in use, space saving while not sacrificing the amenity.

One presumes that in select areas there is a general appeal offset in one form or another. If it's a retrofit J&J, that's totally different.

People call all manner of baths J&J around here. When most of them are more appropriately just called 5 or 6 piece baths.

A good J&J presents more like a brother and sister use bath, while the master bath is still luxurious for husband and wife. A nice master J&J bath has a partition at least and more than just 2 sinks on one counter, there is a totally different counter and plumb in area so that your wifes most annoying lady things do not compromise your machismo.

 

[RSW]

we have them around here that have two half baths and then a common tub/shower.

 

[Michael Willis]

I see it every now and then in my market. They are normally between two bedrooms but not the master bedroom in my experience. The few times I have seen a Jack and Jill with a master bedroom was in a small townhouse or condo, but never in a SFR.

 

[normando]

This house had an addition done in 1970s so maybe back then it was more popular. This house has two bathrooms so it should be fine with guests. I personally need a quiet private master bath away from the children. I guess when the child moves out of the adjacent bedroom, it has some value as an office/study convenient for the master bedroomer.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

They have new homes here with jack & jill bedrooms sharing the bathroom (entry from either bedroom). No penalty here.

 

[Lost Cause]

I've seen many jack & jill bathrooms; that's not at all unusual. But I've never seen one in which the master bedroom was part of it. The question that comes up for me is how then does one tell which is the master bedroom? Is it just the bigger one? Or the one with the walk-in closet? Or etc, etc...

I'm sure things vary from market to market, but I can't imagine it not being a functional inadequacy almost everywhere.

 

[Restrain]

The "Master" portion comes off the bedroom. Here, the second door opens onto the hallway in these types of baths.

We don't specify "master" bath in these instances, just say bath, etc.