Hi everyone,
My husband and I just purchased our second house and we are considering remodeling our jack and jill bathroom. Just to give you the whole picture, we have a 3400sqft home, 2 stories, 1 full bath downstairs (no bedroom down, just an office type room among standard dining, living, den rooms), 1 master bed and bath (with tub) upstairs, 4 seconday bedrooms upstairs, and 2 seconday baths upstairs. The two small bedrooms upstairs feed into the hallway. One of the baths upstairs is also off the hallway is is large with a bathtub/shower and huge double sink vanity. The other two bedrooms are both larger, both feed into the hallway, and also have a jack and jill bath between them. My problem is that this bath is TINY TINY to be a jack and jill (I think...). It has a single sink and a small square shaped shower with no bathtub.

We are going to need to sell our home in a few years and I am trying to find out if, given the size of our home, the number of bathtubs we have already, and the size of the bedrooms that are connected to the jack and jill, if it is good to keep it how it is or perhaps block off one of the doors and put a full tub and shower in so that the biggest secondary bedroom has it's own private bath, leaving the other bedroom to join the other two in the larger hall bath.

Or maybe it isn't worth it? I am just not sure what is best for resale.

Thanks!
Heidi

This sounds so confusing; sorry!

is it possible to post a link to see pictures??

Think about function...Is it working for you? Who uses this space? I'm not sure unless you got the deal of the century, putting big bucks into something these days is going to bring you a return in a short period of time.

to make a change for the sake of change may not be a wise use of resources...

A 3400 square foot house most likely will sell to a family if your area is a family friendly area. As a mom to 4 kiddies, I can tell you that a jack and jill bath, no matter how small is very very very handy. I have a similar situation although my jack and jill is larger, and putting two of my boys in the rooms that attached to the jack and jill was so convenient for them. It was a very teenager friendly arrangement.

Now if your home isn't in a family friendly area, having a second master bedroom with attached bath would be a good idea for a mother or mother in law or guest suite.

Consider who you'd be targeting in your home sale as well as how you're going to use the home while you still live there. I don't think either way would impact the resale value, and I think you're going to find people that would prefer the jack and jill as well as other people that would prefer a private bath instead of a shared one. So I think it's a toss up as far as resale.

If you decide to make the changes, watch your budget because I don't think you'll recoup any additional money by doing this change.

Thank you both so much for your reply. I am unable to post pictures at the moment--sorry! We have little little kids, so a tiny shower stall in the jack and jill is not the best for us because we could use the bathtub. So, we just use the hall bath and the jack and jill goes unused. However, we will be moving in a few years (military), so any changes we make will really be for resale and we are just trying to get an edge up on the other homes in the area. I didn't know if this stall would be a turn off, but it really does seem to be a matter of preference.

Thanks so much!

Other opinions are still welcome. Thanks!
Heidi

you're never going to be able to guess what the next person is going to want/need. In these times i almost think that people are more concerned with price...Pricing the home correctly is going to be what sells the home & i'm not sure if you'd get back what you put into a big re-do....

If you are only going to be in the house a few years, my advice would be to leave the bathroom alone. With this market there is a very good chance you will not recoup the money, much less make a return on your investment.

Now, with that being said, if you are in an area where your installation is growing (thank you BRAC!), it may pay-off. But if what you have works for you now, I say stay with what you have.