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

[AndreaDM]

At home I call it a bathroom, when at a restaurant etc., I call it the ladies room.

 

[DLgal]

We call it a powder room because that is how it is labeled on the floor plan for the house. My son is a stickler for proper names if things. If we call it a bathroom, he corrects us every time.

 

[Disneylover99]

If it’s got a toilet, we call it a washroom, no matter where we are.

 

[tvguy]

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.

Ours are:
Master bathroom (full bathroom)
Kids bathroom (full bathroom, and the kids are adults and have purchased their own homes and moved out)
New room bathroom (half bath, even through the "new" room was built 25+ years ago)

 

[DIS_MIKE]

Can we update the poll to include the "head" for us Military folk.....

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

Can we update the poll to include the "head" for us Military folk.....

Oh, we are listing slang too. Now you have opened Pandora’s box. Let me get my list ready.

 

[PaulaSB12]

The loo or cloakroom

 

[Kitty 34]

I call any room with a toilet, the bathroom.

 

[billlaurie]

No tub, then it is technically in real estate terms a half bath but I call it the powder room.

 

[tzolkin]

I usually say bathroom in a house, either bathroom or restroom in a public/commercial space.

I have found that most people where we now live (North Carolina) will call a half-bath a "powder room". To me, it sounds like using the phrase "I'm going to go powder my nose" when you need to use the restroom on a date. I'm too direct and literal so it just seems like trying to skirt around the fact that women use the toilet.

As an offshoot, does anyone have a term for a private toilet area within a larger bathroom (water closet)? In our family that is jokingly referred to as a "poop closet".

Cloakroom

You keep your cloaks in with the toilet?

 

[Praying Colonel]

All the cool kids on HGTV call it a powder room, but I call it a bathroom.

 

[lovesmurfs]

So in my house, it's the bathroom. When asking in someone else's house, I call it a restroom.

 

[ronandannette]

Ours are:
Master bathroom (full bathroom)
Kids bathroom (full bathroom, and the kids are adults and have purchased their own homes and moved out)
New room bathroom (half bath, even through the "new" room was built 25+ years ago)

New builds here universally have 3 "bathrooms" as standard. They're always referred to (on contracts and blueprints) as the:

• Ensuite (full bath accessed from the master bedroom)
• Main bath (full bath accessed from a common area)
• 1/2 bath (toilet and sink only usually located off a main-floor common area)

Some designs have the main bath with a second door to one of the secondary bedrooms. This is called a "cheater ensuite". Others have an additional full bath located between two secondary bedrooms with a door from each one. These are "jack-and-jill ensuites".

I usually say bathroom in a house, either bathroom or restroom in a public/commercial space.

I have found that most people where we now live (North Carolina) will call a half-bath a "powder room". To me, it sounds like using the phrase "I'm going to go powder my nose" when you need to use the restroom on a date. I'm too direct and literal so it just seems like trying to skirt around the fact that women use the toilet.

As an offshoot, does anyone have a term for a private toilet area within a larger bathroom (water closet)? In our family that is jokingly referred to as a "poop closet".


You keep your cloaks in with the toilet?

Does it even really need to be discussed? I've always just gone with "please excuse me - I'll be right back".

 

[ford family]

I usually say bathroom in a house, either bathroom or restroom in a public/commercial space.

I have found that most people where we now live (North Carolina) will call a half-bath a "powder room". To me, it sounds like using the phrase "I'm going to go powder my nose" when you need to use the restroom on a date. I'm too direct and literal so it just seems like trying to skirt around the fact that women use the toilet.

As an offshoot, does anyone have a term for a private toilet area within a larger bathroom (water closet)? In our family that is jokingly referred to as a "poop closet".


You keep your cloaks in with the toilet?

It keeps them away from the powder!

ford family

 

[tvguy]

New builds here universally have 3 "bathrooms" as standard. They're always referred to (on contracts and blueprints) as the:

• Ensuite (full bath accessed from the master bedroom)
• Main bath (full bath accessed from a common area)
• 1/2 bath (toilet and sink only usually located off a main-floor common area)

Some designs have the main bath with a second door to one of the secondary bedrooms. This is called a "cheater ensuite". Others have an additional full bath located between two secondary bedrooms with a door from each one. These are "jack-and-jill ensuites".

Does it even really need to be discussed? I've always just gone with "please excuse me - I'll be right back".

I had never heard the term ensuite until I started watching Love It Or List It, but that is a Canadian show. Just a master bath in most real estate listings here.

I am amused watching those home shows when they make a big deal of a bathroom with two sinks. The custom home my parents bought new in 1960 had a bathroom with two sinks. One almost never got used (rusty water came out when it did get used). When I sold the house 7 years ago, both the hot and cold water faucets on that sink were stuck in the off position. But in 1960 a three bedroom house with TWO bathrooms was a step up, because most three bedroom homes build up to that point had one bathroom.

These days here it isn't bathrooms, it's how many cars your garage holds. My subdivision was built 1976-1979 with two car garages. They extended the street in 1985 and those houses had a few two car garages, and mostly three car garages. They extended the street the other way in 2008 and those houses have half with three car garages and half with four car garages.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Bathroom, unless I'm at some kind of an event/dinner when I fancy it up saying "restroom." I only realized I do this right now thinking about it LOL

 

[tzolkin]

Does it even really need to be discussed? I've always just gone with "please excuse me - I'll be right back".

Of course it doesn’t need to be discussed. I just don’t find it necessary to make up a coy excuse. Not really an issue. I was just explaining why I’m not a fan of the term “powder room”

 

[disneychrista]

Does it even really need to be discussed? I've always just gone with "please excuse me - I'll be right back".

Not being someone who has ever really dated I just told the two guys I have gone out with "I gotta pee, be right back." Not sure I would do the same on a "real" date though.

 

[CynBeth]

I agree. It's a powder room, if there's no tub/shower. But I will typically SAY "I have to use the bathroom" or "toilet" or "restroom" if I'm heading there.

Same here.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Half bath