I am an American. I'm reading a book by a British author, in which a character mentioned that it was unusual to see a window in a bathroom. I chalked it up to a UK thing until thinking about the private bathrooms I remember being in. Windows aren't unusual, but definitely not as common as I initially assumed.
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Yes but it’s small, has blinds, and is on the 2nd floor
Yep
Yes most bathrooms here have windows.
I’m the opposite of the book, I find a bathroom without a window odd.
At least where I live, building code requires that every bathroom either have an exhaust fan or a window.
I’m currently in my bathroom (lol) and it has two windows. Our other bathrooms each have one.
But in the house I grew up in, my parents’ bathroom had a window and the other two didn’t. One was on the inside of the house so it didn’t have an exterior wall, and the other had the bathtub/shower against the exterior wall and no window.
One does, one does not.
I’m British and every house I lived in the bathroom has had a window
Almost every place I’ve lived has had a bathroom but in my admittedly small sample set newer buildings didn’t.
Only 1 of the 4 bathrooms the house i currently live in has a window.
I plan to move next year and expect only 1 of the 2 bathrooms to have a window.
There are rooms you spend for more time in that would make better use of a window
Yes they both do
In an odd juxtaposition, none of my house’s bathrooms have windows, yet all of the bathrooms at my parents’ house have windows. We live two miles apart.
Yes. I don’t have a fan so I open the window when showering.
I believe most US building codes require either a window or fan for ventilation. My home has one with a window and one without.
I’ve been in houses with a window in the bathroom, but usually not on the 1st floor.
Yes. But my house was built in the 1960s and they didn’t have fans then to air out humidity after a bath/shower.
I have a full sized window in my current bathroom and it’s so weird to me. I do like small windows for natural light though.
Yes.
My bathroom has three windows.
Guest bathroom also has a small window in the shower, close to ceiling.
I do not like bathrooms without windows. :’)
Three bathrooms in my house. Primary bathroom has a window, secondary doesn’t, half bath is interior (and so also doesn’t). Previous house had one full bath (with a window) and one half bath in the basement (without one).
Prior house one bathroom did and one didn’t (it was a Jack and Jill style). Current house does not as both bathrooms are interior.
None of our bathrooms have windows, but for the age of our house (late 90s) it’s actually pretty unusual in our area. Usually only powder room type bathrooms lacked windows by the 90s. We’ll probably add windows when we need our siding done in another ten years or so.
Two of mine have a window, and two of them don’t.
We live in a 1 bathroom 3 bedroom house built in the 50s, moved in less than 2 years ago. The bathroom has a fairly large window. My neighbor who has lived in the neighborhood for 25 years told me that he helped the previous owner put in the window, as the previous window was the size of a brick.
In houses and apartments I’ve lived in, any bathroom other than the master bath tend to be interior rooms, ie no exterior walls, so there’s no place for a window. The master bath usually has one though, either fogged or high up so it can get sunlight but no one can look in.
Don’t have a window or exhaust fan in my current apartment bathroom, but every house I’ve lived in has had windows for full bathrooms. Half-baths are a different story. Many don’t have windows in my experience
Most bathrooms in places I have lived, both houses and apartments, have had windows. I did have one apartment, in a building with 6 units, 3 on each side, that did not have a window in the bathroom because the bathroom was in the center of the building, sharing a wall with the next door unit.
Yes and no.
Main bathroom, yes. Small window with blinds that looks over the pool area.
2nd bathroom is interior, so no.
It depends where in the country you are. When I lived in Northern California, all of my bathrooms had windows, even in the apartments I lived in. In Maryland and Virginia, none of our bathrooms ever had windows. I assumed that it was a humidity thing. MD and VA are so humid most of the year (and cold in the winter) so opening your window isn’t really going to help ventilation much. 🤷♀️
Downstairs yes. Upstairs has a sky light
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bathroom without a window.
I have two and one has a window and the other doesn’t.
Yes
Had one house with an interior bathroom, no windows. But by and large, in the US, if it has an exterior wall, it has a window.
Both of my bathrooms have windows, all other homes I have lived in EXCEPT the apartment my wife and I had when we first moved in together have hade windows in the bathrooms.
My mother’s current house one does not.
Our master has a huge window over the tub but it doesn’t open…two fans though in the ceiling
The master mathroom has a window, the other one doesn’t.
My experience is that hallway bathrooms often have small windows, half bathrooms typically don’t, and master bathrooms can go either way. But I’ve seen I’ve all types of bathrooms with and without windows.