No tub in master bath?

We will eventually be renovating the master bedroom and bath in our new house.

DH wants to put a nice shower in there - multiple jets, a bench, beautifully tiled, etc. and just eliminate the tub. His reasoning is because we hardly take baths anyway and we will have a tub in the other bathroom for the kids. The space gained from not having a tub will give us more space for the walk-in closet.

I would love to do it his way but I think it would be better for resale if we have the tub in the master bath. (I'm talking modest sized soaking tub, not a behemoth jacuzzi.)

What do you think? Could you live without a tub in the master suite?

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We have a small master bath, and it came with just a shower. We renovated it and replaced with shower again. We have a jacuzzi tub in the other bathroom. There really was no room to add a tub, so we didn't... it doesn't seem to be problem at this time (no potential buyers have mentioned this as a problem for them).

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I'd much rather a nice big shower than a tub, I never use a tub either. Not sure how it would affect resale, but i'd love it!

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i think that just a nice shower would be fine.. make it big enough for 2 and make it look "spa like"- i think that will be good for resale i think a lot of times the jaccuzzi tubs are more for show anyway- by the time you fill them up, you forget that you wanted a bath lol
as long as you have a tub somewhere in the house for bathing young kids, thats good.

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If you can make it a big shower, I think you should be okay. I would check with some real estate experts though to find out if it will affect your resale value.

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That's what my house has - big, beautiful shower in the master bath, but no tub. I love it and don't miss having a tub in there at all, but I do wonder about resale sometimes, because I think buyers expect the master bathroom to have a nice tub. There's one in the second bathroom, in case anyone really wants to take a bath though.

I guess ask yourself how long you plan to stay in your house, and what's more important in the meantime, making the house buyer-friendly for if/when you plan to sell, or having a nice shower that you will enjoy every day.

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Our master bath is tiny - a shower (although it's a big space and could fit a tub) and a pedestal sink and toilet. That's the way it was when we bought, so we updated it and left it as is, and we have another bathroom with a tub (as well as a third bathroom with another shower stall downstairs).

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You will be fine as long as there is at least one tub in your home.
It doesnt have to be in the master bath.

I think an extra large shower would be great

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We have a medium sized master bathroom & we only have a shower. When we redo it, I will not put a tub in since we have one in the main bath. I only take baths when my back is bothering me, so it is wasted space. I would much rather have a big shower

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i would consider an awesome shower to be a plus! something that i would want more than a tub.
is there at least one tub in your house? i think if you have one somewhere else, youll be fine!

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Resale resale resale... If ever you plan on selling down the road it will only hurt your sale....

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I could live without the tub. We never use ours. I'd much rather prefer a larger shower but, for some reason when we were looking, every house we saw w/o the tub we scratched.

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the master in the house I grew up didn't have a tub

there was a tub in the kids bath down the hall

I think the rule for resale is 1 tub in the house...

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I don't think it will hurt your sale at all. As long as you have one tub in the house. We just redid our master bath and we have a stand up shower. Our last place had the tub and we never used it plus it was a PITA to keep clean. We have a tub in our main bathroom next door.

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I seem to be in the minority here but I'd put in the tub. Any house that we saw where the Master Bath was beat up or didn't have a tub, we passed on. Just my opinion.