Only Exhibitionists Want To Buy Homes With See-through Bathroom Doors

When you think you have seen everything when house hunting, there is still more to surprise you. A few years ago, I was looking for a new house. I must have seen over 20 homes when lo and behold - a bathroom with a clear glass door. I thought it was a joke. Who would want to have the most private room in the house, clearly visible? My only thought was that nudists lived in the house. It would be bad enough that everyone can see how clean or dirty the room is BUT it would also be a huge surprise to dinner guests and visitors.

If you think the clear bathroom door brings light into the rest of the house, you may be right. However, privacy will always trump light when it comes to bathrooms. I never went back to that house and thought it was a unique ‘feature'. Later in my search, I came across another bathroom with the clear glass door, this time in the basement of a sprawling bungalow in a very desirable part of town. Was this just a local Ottawa phenomenon? Once might be unique, two could be coincidence but seeing a third on a TV make-over show made me think there was a less than desirable trend occurring.

If you are selling and your bathroom door is glass or missing , you have three choices:

• Leave it and learn to live with voyeurism and a house on the market for a little extra time;
• Remove the glass door and replace it or the missing door with something standard and private; or,
• Frost the glass so that it is not transparent.

A bathroom is not the place to play....

Peek-a-boo, I see you.

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