By all means go for a Powder Room.  Once you have it you will wonder how you did without it.   It will not only be a major convenience for your family and guests but you will discover  there is that peace of mind when 'a stranger' asks if they can use your washroom facilities.  (ie:People who may have hired but do not necessairly know whether it be a Computer Techinician , a Roofer etc.)

Thanks for always being the icebreaker mrsben!  And I do have to say that I LOVE a powder room, but I dunno, some people have a problem with peeing, etc., where others can hear them - often the case with first floor washrooms....

Did they consider (or for that matter have you considered) a port-o-let for the guests? ...Heck, I'd sooner forgo my kitchen than be forced to send guests to a family washroom.

Please! Get a washroom and shave off that soulpatch!

a) I love the video. Cute. lol

b) How often do you have guests over? If it's often, then I vote yes. You don't want people shuffling through your medicine cabinet.

c) Do you plan on spending most of your time on that first floor? If so, then maybe a washroom there is a good idea. Especially when it comes time to potty train. It's hard enough getting kids to use a toilet, let alone when they have to climb stairs to do it.

Get the washroom on the ground floor if you have the space...as you said it will be convenient for your drunken guests!  

Its definitely handy but not a deal breaker. Unless you know people with mobility issues....

Main floor bathroom all the way!!!  Our current home (a 2 storey semi) has no main floor bathroom and I really miss it!  Unfortunately there is NO room to add one, no matter how we slice and dice the floor plan.  If you've got the room put it in - you will not regret it.

In my opinion, a main floor loo is essential! Case in point, my sister and her husband purchased and completely re-did a smaller 1½ home built in 1901. There was no area at all to install a main floor loo, so as a result, our elderly-mobility challenged parents rarely visited her home because the stairs were too much of a challenge. A real shame, they are a wonderful couple but the washroom issue just seemed to create another "roadblock" our parents spending time with them. With so much of our population  aging quickly, the lack a main floor toilet and sink would be a real estate deal breaker for me.

Don't you wonder what your guests are doing upstairs in your  bathroom..do you really want to have to put away all the gazillions of csmetics out on the counter spaces? I vote for  downstairs bathroom...a Toto to be precise under the stairs or in a closet ...even the tiniest closet can accomodate an elegant powder room I have seen it done.

Main floor powder room has been a lifesaver for me. My handicapped brother was too ill to climb the stairs, in fact his demenia prevented him from remembering how to climb. When we brought him to the main floor, he had to remain there until someone could carry him back.  It has been great training my granddaughter too!  Not to mention tradesman climbing up your stairs, with dust & dirt.

Main floor powder rooms must be strategically placed or there can be an issue of privacy, especially in smaller houses.  If the square footage is available, great! but it's another bathroom to clean (my least favourite cleaning chore!).

It's handy for guests yes, but also for kids. Running upstairs while toilet training can be a sprint to far.

Another consideration is the plumbing, since the washroom is moving quite far from the original drains you'll have to make sure your joists can accommodate new drain locations.

I kind of agree with Paul and Elaine...

Main floor bathrooms are great for people with mobility issues and small children or quick retreats from the outside. If you can put one in it will also help with resale. My husband and I just bought our last home and i made sure that the master bedroom and bathroom were on the main floor, for when we get older and stairs become a problem. Plus some of our older relatives have major problems with stairs and I want everyone that comes to visit to feel at home. hope these ideas help with yours.

You are more than welcome Elana!  

Re the privacy issue, honestly,  I have never encountered 'anyone' that has declined using it because of its location.    

P.S:   Shud have mentioned ..... and  it is in very close proximity to the Kitchen and Family Room.

wish you would put the price of the repairs you do on the house because if you only have sop many dollars to do repairs can yuo do it for that much because sometime the money dictate the work

who's the handsome dude in the video?

I say go with the powder room, you will not regret it.  We have a washroom on every floor of our house (3 level semi), and guests are always pleasantly surprised that they don't have to trek up or down stairs to use the facilities.  As for the privacy issue, install an exhaust fan and you should not have any issues with bashfulness.  

We have a home built in 1925 and it has no main floor powder room of course.  I was bemoaning this fact to my brother-in-law (who is doing some renos on his first home) and he said no one likes to use theirs, and ends up going upstairs.  I would much rather keep the original character and charm of our lovely home that try to put a bathroom in an awkward layout, where it would be far to close to our entertaining space.

How big is the house?  If its 4 bedroom 3000 sqft house then yes its a deal breaker... if its a 2 bedroom 1600 sqft house then no.  

People must be realistic with their expectations!

We recently renovated our 1930s house.  I was quasi-pressured by my mom to put in a main floor powder room because of her mobility issues, and I'm so glad we did it.  Aside from aging parents, having a main floor powder room is extremely practical when you have small children. Rather than having to run upstairs when a small kid needs to go potty (and what do you do this the other kid? lug him or her upstairs), you can deal with both kids on the main floor. yes, you can live without a main floor powder room but if you can do fit one in without killing your layout, do it. Also you definitely want to keep the plumbing close to the current location from a cost saving perspective.  I can't tell from the video but have you considered making a smaller powder room in the current bathroom location and having it share a wall with a hall closet at the entry way.  Hall closets are a must with kids.