What do you call the place in your house with sink and toilet

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

At the moment, I'm kind of partial to cousin Eddie's nomenclature (from Christmas vacation) Dis rules prevent such words from being used, however.

 

[CdnCarrie]

no bath or shower? powder room
with bath or shower? washroom
looking for a public facility? washroom

I am pretty sure "washroom" is a Canadian term, or at least not one that is used in the States, every time I have used the term in the States I have received blank stares...one guy in Seattle actually outright asked me where in Canada I was from!

I had couple cast members look at me oddly and hesitate when I used washroom. I try to say bathroom if in the US.

 

[MetalMasterC]

I pretty much call any place with a toilet a bathroom. Although, the rule is that if it doesn't have a shower/tub, it's a powder room.

 

[FairestOfThemAll37]

The loo or lavatory. Estate agents often refer to it as a cloakroom. Some women say, ‘little girls room’; some men refer to it as ‘the john ’.

This must be a British term (guessing you might be from Wales from username). I’ve always thought a cloakroom was like a closet room or type of mudroom. Interesting.

 

[Searc]

/rushing to google "where is Wisconsin?"

Not close to Canada.

 

[TippyThomas]

The 1/2

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

Some of these terms seem to require an inspection of said room before asking where is. And I forgot .

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

We call it the bathroom in my house (has sink, toilet, tub), and restroom in public places, but in Europe I like to call it the WC or servicios, depending on where I'm at.

 

[lorimay]

Toilet & sink is the downstairs bathroom.

 

[barkley]

according to my cats-'the human observatory'

 

[disneychrista]

I don't call it anything because I have never lived in a place that had a half bath.

 

[Moliphino]

Bathroom. For house purposes, if you want to be technical I'd call it a half bath.

 

[Feberin]

Bathroom if I was just going to use one. But when we sold our house we used half bath so nobody was expecting a tub.

 

[ronandannette]

It is a Canadian thing - most of us would call it a bathroom or 1/2 bath in our own homes but will call it a washroom when out. As in "may I use your washroom" or "where is the washroom". I've never in my life said the word "restroom". It just sounds totally stupid to me.

 

[georgina]

In my home, bathroom. We don't have a half bath and I don't use the term powder room. When out I usually say restroom. That is what the signs say at most restaurants, etc.

My mom is from Ireland and used the term washroom. I have come across it in Canada also.

 

[amcnj]

I guess in a house I usually just say “bathroom”, but in public places tend to use the term “restroom”. At one time at least, wasn’t it also called “the necessary room”?

 

[Wendy1985]

I always say restroom, I had a friend who got a good laugh out if that, kinda confused me on how that was funny

 

[tvguy]

Bathroom, doesn’t matter whether it has a bathtub or not.

Yup. I don't recall seeing Real Estate websites use powder room of washroom, the just list bathrooms.
In our house, if I'm headed there, it's to "my office"

 

[CdnCarrie]

In real estate terms it’s called half bath here.

 

[DisLiss]

At our house we refer to each bath by the floor it's on, because we have just 1.5 baths for two floors. So instead of changing the name based on size, we change the name based on location---upstairs bathroom instead of bathroom or full bathroom, and downstairs bathroom instead of half bathroom or powder room.

I voted for "powder room", though, since it's what I'd call a 2 pc. bathroom in conversation if being precise. In terms of realty, though, around here they refer to bathrooms as half, three-quarter, or full baths.