How to Do It

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Dear How to Do It,

My partner and I like to have sex (or at least fool around) in the bath, but we bought a house two years ago that has two bathrooms with two tiny bathtubs. In the future, I’m thinking of remodeling the downstairs bathroom, which is the bigger bathroom, to include a two-person tub.

The problem is that the downstairs (technically it’s a finished basement) is where our two kids are going to live (the kids are currently 4 years old and still in utero, and we have roommates downstairs, but in five years or so, the kids will run out of space upstairs and need to move downstairs).…