Just sharing a urinal story. We toured a large home in a bougie neighborhood where a divorced dad lived with his four boys until they were all out of the house. He remarried at some point and the main level of the home totally reflected his new wife’s excellent taste and preferences. Then we went to the extremely large walk out basement to find a home theater designed with lazyboy recliners on tiered platforms with intense sound system, a 100 gallon fish tank walling off the pool table, cement floors with large garage style doors to open up to the small built in skate park outside (for skateboard training based on the many trophies on the wall) and, most surprising to us, a urinal next to the washer and dryer in a walled off laundry room. It felt like what four sporty young boys with a wealthy dad would absolutely design as paradise. Honestly I bet they made a lot of great memories with each other and friends. We continue to refer to it as “the urinal house”. Discussing this option with others opened my eyes to the fact that yes, many men want this and see it as the ultimate expression of function over form. That said, a urinal/bidet situation can be tres chic an no worries about seat hygiene. As long as you don’t put it in the laundry room (IMO).

And it’s just cute! The concept is cute (and also happens to be practical). We live in Maine and this idea would be very appropriate here with all our camp-lodge style houses.

(We have separate bathrooms. The key to our 31-year *mostly* successful marriage.)

I’d only add a urinal with the “law” that my husband would clean it DAILY.

Yes to this. We are renovating 3 bathrooms with roll-in and sitting options for aging parents and ourselves down the road. A friend’s husband had cancer and they had a shower he was able to sit in for comfort and I immediately decided to add that feature in our new bathrooms.

It would be in keeping with the fun, rustic, outdoor aspects of this project. Sealed of course for low maintenance!

Dunno if anyone else suggested; I didn’t read through all the comments.

Would it possibly make sense to have a powder room that’s accessible to the backyard but actually closed off from the rest of the guest house, and then a full bathroom with the rest of the space (which is then just private for the guest house)?

Yes, yes, yes for Schlueter!!!