Me and my SO are informatively looking for some new houses or to be built houses and chalets in in Valais and Vaud, and what caught our attention on the floor plans is that sometimes there’s a small (visitors) bathroom in the living room, always with a at least a toilet and a small sink, sometimes also a shower. Example: [https://www.immoscout24.ch/acheter/3003137910](https://www.immoscout24.ch/acheter/3003137910)
Here also:
\- [https://www.immoscout24.ch/acheter/4001008064](https://www.immoscout24.ch/acheter/4001008064)
\- [https://www.immoscout24.ch/acheter/4000769616](https://www.immoscout24.ch/acheter/4000769616)
In Belgium at least we’d put a visitor toilet more near the main entry door as far as possible from the living areas and kitchen. I recall in France and the Netherlands it’s also more common to not have a bathroom in your living room… And certainly not next to your dining or couch area.
Is there any specific reason for this? Is it a Swiss thing?
I haven’t talked with real estate agents or architects about the matter, but I hope for a new building at least we could cancel that or reposition some rooms with some more logic. Unless obviously there’s some Swiss logic, I don’t know about yet…
https://old.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/1c4j1uv/floor_plans_new_houses_chalets/
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Sorry for the big image coming from the first link, wasn’t there when I posted. If there’s a mod who can delete it, please do so if it bothers, because I can’t even edit the post…
There’s houses available for under 3 Million in Switzerland? Confused Zürcher here…
I would say it isn’t standard Swiss thing. First time I see it and looks terrible. Imagine you have guests for dinner and somebody needs to use it… all floor plans we have seen are as you described-toilet fares away from food/living area. This looks like somebody without school made it, it is one of basic rules in architecture
Stop looking at Chalets in Wallis and you might find more “normal” layouts…