“En Suite” - Stop it. Stop it right this fucking minute!

Well, no. A master bath is the main bathroom. An en suite bathroom means it's connected to your bedroom.

Duh.

The French don't actually use this term. It is truly pretentious and made up.

R1 Calm down before you have an aneurysm. The home shows that use that term are imported from Canada, where “ensuite” is the term used for what you call a master bathroom. They’re not “trying to make ensuite happen.” Just accept it and move on.

You know in France, there's no such word as entrepreteur.

En suite is a perfectly acceptable phrase.

[quote]it’s MASTER BATH!

Uh, no OP. It's an en suite in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Just as a school party is called a fete and nursery school is called creche. These countries adopted these particular words years before you were born, so you can rest assured that they were not instituted solely to ruin your sad, boring life.

R5 preach 👐

You can have multiple ensuites including on small bedrooms that aren’t masters.

yes en suite is perfectly acceptable in Europe and Canada. It's fine on Househunters International but using the term when you are buying a McMansion in a subdivision is pretentious.

Face it, OP. Your thread failed and so did you.

R5

And a printed or engraved invitation, whether in Britain or the white dominions, is known as a "stiffie."

As in "Jeremy got his first stiffie today from a boy in his preschool class."

OP, today is a holiday not a vacation.

I’m telling you, all the HGTV shows that use that term were produced and broadcast in Canada and purchased on the cheap to re-broadcast in the US, and often people don’t know they are watching Canadian shows (or that Canadian people don’t speak American English).

What I'm getting from you, R3 & R5 , is that Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are more pretentious than America. I didn't expect that.

You’re so dumb, R13.

I hate the term, too. Not because its foreign, but because the fucking fake "let's buy a dream home" HGTV shit has made it so expected, even for people who can barely afford a house let alone one with three bathrooms. No ensuite? We have to keep looking.

And yeah, since it's usually only the biggest bedroom that has one, what is wrong with "master bath"?

Keep fighting the good fight. You are part of the next greatest generation.

“And yeah, since it's usually only the biggest bedroom that has one, what is wrong with "master bath"?”

As discussed by many people above, what’s wrong with it is that you are assuming “master bath” is the correct/preferred term for people to whom that term is foreign. You probably don’t realize it, but suggesting this makes you exactly that kind of obnoxious American stereotype the French stereotypically hate: you think everything you’re not familiar with or which is foreign to you is “pretentious” and should be restyled in the image of American preferences. That’s what’s wrong with “master bath.”

Lincoln freed the slaves. Rosa Parks fought to sit at the front of the bus. Harvey Milk fought for gay rights. And the OP makes his fight in life the term ensuite in real estate listings. Jesus fucking Christ.

Master bath can only be applied to the master bedroom ensuite. Many houses have multiple ensuite additional bedrooms. I also don't like the American tendency to call a half bathroom a bathroom. No, you don't have 14 bathrooms, you have 6 ensuite and 8 half bathrooms.

R19 tells us "I also don't like the American tendency to call a half bathroom a bathroom."

While we're here, do you have any other issues you'd care to share with us?

I personally hate the Kiwi tendency to call a bedroom a BEAD-rum, while we’re being dialectically xenophobic.

[quote]You know in France, there's no such word as entrepreteur.

There's no such word as that in any language.

A trailer with an en suite is the nec plus ultra.

I thought the term "Master Bath" meant such spa (and related accoutrements) was immediately adjacent to the "Master Suite," n'est-ce pas?

I just got back from Europe and they use "en suite" for any bedroom with a bath attached. It may seem pretentious in Assclam US but it's actually just the name for something, like "croissant" is crescent bread, because it's shaped like that symbol on the doors of outhouses.

[quote]Unless you speak fluent French as your first launguage, it’s MASTER BATH!

Et si je le parle courramment comme ma deuxième?

Is there a powder room on the parlor floor?

Ok, not all master baths are ensuite.

OP, do you live in Wisconsin?

I can't get over the fact that according to R10 somewhere in the world there are preschool kids giving out engraved invitations.

The word "master" is a slave reference! I'm triggered!!!!

I thought "en suite" was just used to describe hotel rooms that have a bathroom (rather than a shared bathroom.)

Anyway, my house has three bedrooms. Two are upstairs (the master and a smaller one.) There's a bathroom with a shower only (no tub) attached to the master, and a full bathroom (with a shower-tub combo) in the hallway opposite the smaller bedroom.

Downstairs, there's another bedroom, plus a half-bath/powder room. I've seen this described in RE listings as:

1. Three bathrooms

2. 2.5 bathrooms

3. 1.75 + .5 bathrooms (would that make it 2.25?)

It's all very confusing. There should be some standardization.

A quarter bath is toilet alone or shower stall alone..usually in basements.

In America the correct term is "the shitter."

I guess “attached bath” works

[quote]Well, no. A master bath is the main bathroom

No, you’re wrong. The master bath is a bathroom that’s accessed from the master bedroom, The “main bathroom” is frequently called the “hall bathroom.” Some older houses don’t have a master bath, but unless it’s part of the master suite, it’s not a master bath.

House Hunters isn’t a Canadian show, all the house hunting occurs in US cities. No one should be using “en suite” on that show.

An adjoining bath can be accessed directly from the bedroom and additionally from a hall.

Ensuite is entirely within the bedroom/bathroom suite of rooms with no other way in like from a hall

It’s always called the ensuite, you American numpty.

[quote]A quarter bath is toilet alone or shower stall alone..usually in basements.

Those are half baths. As in, this condo has 1.5 bathrooms which means it has one bathroom with a toilet and bath/shower and one with only a toilet and sink, no bath/shower. It's missing half of what is usually in a bathroom, hence the term 'half bath". What are the three other components beyond a toilet that you imagine a quarter bath is missing?

Half bath has a sink and toilet

Quarter is just a toilet no sink or just shower...the 4 components are toilet, sink, shower and tub

R42, they all have sinks. I assumed that went unsaid.

Kevin knows his shit...

No they don’t all have sinks, hence quarter bath

NO R44. I lived in a house once that had a tiny room with a toilet only, no sink. We called it the "potty room". It was next to the kitchen. You had to wash your hands in the kitchen sink when you were done.

Well, that's just disgusting, R47. I've been looking at condos forever, a-wishin' and hopin', and I've never, ever seen that. I wouldn't think just sticking a toilet in a closet would make it a bathroom. Pretty much the actual definition of 'shitter'. Yuck.

R 48–It only makes it a quarter bath..they are rare

It wasn't a condo, dumbass R48. It was a house with 3 other bathrooms. Whoever built it in the 1960's put the 0.25 bathroom there for whatever reason. So fuck right off.

Here for the .25 doubter

This thread has people losing there shit..hope they don’t have just the quarter bath with shower

En suite is not a French tournure. When we talk about a bathroom attached to a bedroom and a walk in closet, we call it "une suite parentale". 😀 R22

Darling, I had the most fabulous en suite. Unfortunately, I can't find a picture of it.

But here's a picture of the bathroom where Cecil Beaton sucked off Horst. Was it a man with a horse? I know he didn't say that thing about race horses. It was definitely sexual and involved a horse. Or Horst.

Oh, forget that bathroom. Here I am showing how I fleeced rich women or their husband's mistresses back in the day.

A room with only a basin and a shitter is NOT a bathroom.

I expect this thread to reach 600 replies. It has the same quality potential as the now infamous pasta draining thread!

I like my en suite bathroom. Which has a lovely view of the cul-de-sac. But my favourite room is my boudoir, where I lounge around on my chaise longue, as I do galipettes with my chaffeur and play with his quiqui (peepee) and his noisettes (hazelnuts = balls).

R5 How spot on. Might I add gateau/gateaux , courgettes, aubergines, eau de toilette, bourgeois, chic, chauffeur, all used/spoken by people not necessarily fluent in French OP.

[quote] I expect this thread to reach 600 replies. It has the same quality potential as the now infamous pasta draining thread!

Since this is not the first time I have heard mention of this blast from the past thread...

and since I missed it the first time around...

for your viewing enjoyment, below is the link to the famous thread titled...

[quote]Draining spaghetti is so middle-class

Then there's the anti-ensuite: the Pittsburgh Potty.

So what would we call THIS room?

In my house, the en suite is a grapefruit juice can next to the bed.

I had an ensuite sink in my London dorm room as a grad student. Just a sink. Toilet and shower were way down the hall and often occupied, which meant climbing stairs.

And let me tell you, like all other young men with an ensuite sink, I found it served non-sink purposes at times.

pssst. please don't tell OP about "Jack & Jill" bathrooms, his head would explode

[quote]In my house, the en suite is a grapefruit juice can next to the bed.

Wow. You have a house? And a can?

Is a "Jack and Jill" like what the Brady Bunch had?

I lived in an apartment in college that had a two sinks in an open area off the hallway, and a separate room each for the toilet and the shower/tub. Since four of us shared it (two bedrooms), everyone could be using something at the same time.

R60 I absolutely adore you for posting the bit about the Pittsburgh Potty.

Because if one scrolls down after reading about the open toilets was an incredible compilation of the rooms in Tyler Perry's Atlanta mansion which is for sale. It would make an incredible Tasteful Friends! I can only imagine the comments skewering sister Perry and her OTT house in the kudzu.

Sister Tyler's house is the shitterz.

P.S. And you're going to love the en suite, OP

It’s what we call it in my country, OP. Travel a bit - you’ll be terrified but you may learn something.

LOL! I'm right there with the OP. What's up with the term "ensuite"? Master bathroom has worked in this country for decades, but suddenly we need cooler term for it? No, not really. It irritates the shit out of me, too.