Are wet rooms a good idea?
For second bathrooms, en-suites and small rooms — usually yes: they free floor space, look premium and future-proof the house. As the only bathroom in a family home, think twice: no bath narrows your buyer pool, and everything in the room shares the moisture.
The genuine advantages: space (no tray edge or enclosure footprint, which in a room under 4m² is transformative), access (level entry works for buggies-of-limbs at every age), cleaning (one plane, no tray corners or door runners), and looks (there is a reason every boutique hotel went this way).
The genuine drawbacks: cost (£7,000–£12,000 against £5,000–£9,000 conventional), moisture (towels and toilet paper live in the splash economy unless the layout protects them — usually with a fixed glass panel), and heat (a tiled floor that gets wet wants underfloor heating so it dries, which most wetroom budgets should include).
Our standard advice across south London: convert the en-suite or second bathroom, keep a bath in the family bathroom. That configuration gets the daily-use benefits and the listing photos without the resale risk — and it is what we would do in our own houses.
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