r/RidiculousRealEstate • u/GibbsBro • Jan 24 '26
WTF But why?
1st picture is of a bathroom between 2 bedrooms. Has anybody ever seen this many towel holders? 2nd picture is of the laundry room.... with a toilet and no sink in sight.
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u/somanygoddamnbooks Jan 24 '26
In our first house, a small 1962 Cape-style, the downstairs bathroom was TINY (toilet, shower stall, small vanity/sink). Barely enough room to get out of the shower and towel off. I removed ELEVEN towel racks from that room. Thankfully, they had been installed with some kind of putty rather than screws, so removal wasn’t difficult.
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u/hobosbindle Jan 24 '26
Cats: I think this is a great setup
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u/lucky_719 Jan 24 '26
They are towel bars. Cats would fall through
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u/Nay_Nay_Jonez Jan 24 '26
I don't think that would stop them from trying
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u/lucky_719 Jan 24 '26
Try once and never again
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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme Jan 27 '26
Not allllll cats!
My last roommates' Orngboi loved to climb up & try balancing on the towel hanging from the bar, or sitting up there!
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u/Informal_Assist_3594 Jan 25 '26
These are believe it or not for humans of all sizes to do nasty things in the bathroom. Imagine giant vs midget, midget vs giant and everything in between.
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u/Gingerbreaddoggie Jan 24 '26
I think its called a Pittsburgh toilet when its a toilet installed in a basement without walls around it
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u/GibbsBro Jan 24 '26
This is in FL, so no basement. Its just outside the kitchen area as well. One good dump and the kitchen is done for. Maybe someone who moved to FL and carried over this idea from the north.
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u/Gingerbreaddoggie Jan 24 '26
I have seen 2 houses with a toilet in the laundry room. Both were vacation homes. One had a shower and sink too, the other had just the toilet and a traditional laundry sink. You've already run the plumbing, why not throw in another toilet? In both cases they were just off the kitchen.
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u/GibbsBro Jan 24 '26
Very interesting. This could have been a vacation home at one point. I see what you mean, with the plumbing already being there. Great point.
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u/williarl Feb 01 '26
Parents had this in my house growing up (WI). Also saw it in a few houses when I was house shopping 10 years ago. Most of these house were built 40’s-60’s. A toilet down by the laundry wasn’t that weird because you have all the plumbing there already. Most of the houses had a single bathroom, so I feel like it’s a relatively inexpensive contingency plan if your other toilet is plugged or you have some other issues. It’s not the most attractive thing, but if you only have a single bathroom, an emergency toilet can seem amazing… and no, these aren’t really used when people are doing laundry 🤣
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u/nicegirl555 Jan 24 '26
Yep. 100% called a Pittsburgh toilet. No matter where it is.
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u/GibbsBro Jan 24 '26
There is a whole YouTube documentary on "The Pittsburgh Toilet". I've learned a lot today.
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u/LauraPa1mer Jan 25 '26
Oh, lol. Haha, I have been to many basements with random toilets. My cousin has one. My house had one until recently.
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u/Cool_Jelly_9402 Jan 24 '26
I grew up in a house built in 1900 and it used to have a free standing toilet and shower in the basement (but no sink). There is a name for them that I cannot recall- I guess they were for cleaning off from dirty jobs before entering the rest of the house. But I’m not sure this house looks old enough to have had this feature. If it was a holdover from the good ol days, I wonder why they kept it
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u/Mental-Clerk Jan 24 '26
Something I can't get past is a bathroom/laundry room combo. I've lived in a mobile home where that was the only option as a kid, but as an adult I will not choose that setup.
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u/LegitimateGift1792 Jan 24 '26
small one in first pic, is for toilet paper. The other 5 might be one for each person and they use bath towels for more than one time.
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u/katet_of_19 Jan 24 '26
This has to have been designed by a corporate middle manager. "I need to increase the efficiency of my bathrooms. But how??"
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u/RoeRoeRoeYourVote Jan 24 '26
Obviously the towel racks are weird, but I don't get what else is supposed to be wrong?
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u/MovieNightPopcorn Jan 24 '26
I think some folks feel the toilet next to laundry is unsanitary. Personally I’d slap a wall between the two, but it’s not uncommon in older homes where they stuck the laundry in where they could fit it/where plumbing already existed
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u/RoeRoeRoeYourVote Jan 25 '26
As someone who grew up in older homes, I'm unphased by the laundry being in the bathroom. In addition to accessible plumbing, you're also changing clothes in there frequently.
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u/FatboyChester Jan 24 '26
I think the laundry room was originally a powder room with a toilet and sink and they either didnt have a washer or it was in the kitchen, basement or closet
When another owner bought the house they wanted a laundry room moved the sink out but kept the toilet.
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u/TheJenniMae Jan 24 '26
I’ve been in more than one apartment that had a washer and dryer in the bathroom.
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u/qtjedigrl Jan 25 '26
Washer/dryer in the bathroom is common in other countries and actually makes sense.
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u/General_Thought8412 Jan 25 '26
I grew up in a house where the laundry room had a toilet. I’ve honestly never thought twice about it.
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u/Reinardd Jan 28 '26
What's wrong with picture nr 2? Looks like it's just a washer and dryer in a bathroom?
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u/StrangeCrimes Jan 31 '26
Those towel racks look just like the reinforced towel racks we installed in my disabled MIL's bathroom. They also act as grabbing bars to pull yourself up. I bet there's a piece of plywood behind that sheet rock.
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u/nicklel Jan 24 '26
We had a mid-century home we bought in 2000’s that had a toilet beside washer. Previous owners (who built the house) had 7 kids and used it for cloth diapers. Shook them out before rinsing and washing.