Home with side-by-side toilet has buyers kicking up a stink

Herald Sun

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Meghan Trainor raised plenty of eyebrows when she revealed her home with husband Daryl Sabara has a rather unusual feature: two toilets in the bathroom located directly next to each other.
The 'All About That Bass' singer made the revelation on an episode of Nicole Byer's podcast Why Won't You Date Me? in 2021, claiming the couple 'pee at the same time a lot.'
'It's gonna be a little different, but it's a tighter bathroom area, so we will be close. Knees to knees. And that's better. I want to see him,' she said at the time.
While certainly a unique way to bond, Trainor's bathroom habits aren't, perhaps, that unusual if a recent sale listing in Burns, Oregon is anything to go by.
The log cabin-style home comes with two side-by-side toilets, each with their own loo roll.
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It is like a public bathroom stall, but taken one step further, as no dividing wall separates the toilets from each other.
In lieu of traditional tiles, the floor is covered in plush salmon carpet – the shade presumably chosen to hide a world of sins.
The toilets look onto a matching pair of his-and-hers sinks, placed below a large mirror.
Unsurprisingly, the bathroom has already attracted attention on social media, with users torn over the unusual layout.
'I can't even look my husband in the eye after he comes out of a regular bathroom,' one person commented on reddit.
Another person wrote: 'It's a choice. Not one I'd make, but some couples have 'comfort' levels way beyond mine'.
'Having two toilets side-by-side does nothing. Literally NO ONE wants to to sh*t right next to someone else. The point of having separate bowls is in case two people need to go at the same time, or don't want to share a toilet area for personal hygiene reasons. This is worse than a public bathroom, which at least has stalls,' a third wrote.
The house is on the market for $US385,000 ($594,000) following a recent price cut.
Unusual bathrooms strike chord with buyers and tenants
While side-by-side toilets may seem a little out there, it's not the strangest bathroom setting to have caught national – and sometimes global – attention.
In 2020, an old terrace at Port Melbourne tested how far renters would go for an inner city lifestyle, with the kitchen and bathroom sharing a space.
Advertised at $400 a week, tenants could live at the two-bedroom property, where the only shower is right beside the stove and the toilet was found outside in the paved courtyard.
It must have been the year for unusual bathroom listings with a separate inner Sydney studio offering tenants a room with a different kind of view.
The apartment on Bourke St appeared to seamlessly blends the shower and toilet with the kitchen.
Recently renovated, the studio had done away with bathroom walls and instead opens the space up with glass.
While the glass walls allowed light to flow into the small home, it also meant the toilet could be admired from the comfort of the bed.
Meanwhile, an Aussie share house listing sent shudders over what renters may be tolerating in a tight market only last year.
The rental listed on a share house group social media site, claimed: 'rent includes furnished private room and bathroom'. However, the ad raised some serious questions when the only bathroom pictured was a portaloo.
The listing also stated that there was no access to the kitchen.
Social media was having none of it with one of the images of an outdoor portaloo seeing the listing flagged on popular Reddit forum sh*trentals.
'Private bathroom or portaloo? Came across this listing with a private bathroom … and photos of a portaloo,' a Redditor said.
'Also, photos of a kitchen that you don't have access to! Preying on the international student community in the area undoubtedly.'