We actually put pass-through on ALL doors, including bathrooms, excepting the Master right now, as we have 4 little kids. I just find it easier. It's easy enough to change out when they are older. We also don't have guests who stay, so there is no issue there.

I'm also short, and it's too much work to find a chair to stand on to get the key/bobby pin from above a door frame hahaha!

I am not sure I've been in a home that didn't have locking bathrooms.

We have locks on bedroom doors. I lock mine when we have guests with kids who might open the wrong door. I lock mine when I have dogsitters (or similar) that I don't want to have full access to the house. I lock mine if I'm in any state that I wouldn't want someone walking in on..... :) I know guests do the same. So, I guess it gives a sense of security/privacy.

We learned our lesson with the kids too and only have a lock on the closet the guns are kept in.

Its never been an issue, but I also think it's good manners to teach your kids to knock on a closed door before entering a personal space anyway.

Please put a lock on bathroom doors that guests might use...I walked in on my uncle using the bathroom when I was a toddler, and it wasn't something I'd want anyone to repeat. Doesn't need a key, just privacy lock.

Also, I would keep a gun safe keyed diff than a present-key, just in case little hands (or burlgars) get into one, they can't get into the other.

I have privacy locks on all the doors. I lock the doors if we are having a big party, or like lolauren if I want to restrict worker's access. They are not keyed so I know worker's can get in if they really want, but that would be pretty bold.

I also have a traditional sliding bolt lock on the basement door to keep little kids from opening the door, or guests from confusing it with the powder room or closet.

I like locks for the privacy reasons everyone else has mentioned. I
also feel they're a (very, very) cheap security measure. No way am I
going to break the bank on a panic room, but an extra $1.58 for a
privacy leverset? Sure. Even an additional 2-3 seconds might make a big
difference in terms of getting to a gun safe or phone.

I had to go look, clearly I'm not a locker. There are locks on two bathrooms, and two bedrooms doors. There is a sitting room outside the master, no lock there. A heavy pocket door between the sitting room and master, no lock, and a second heavy pocket door to the toilet tub room of the master bath with no lock. The vanity area/sink is open to the master, no lock and no door ;0)

We've lived here 4 years.

Many bathroom door lock sets have provision to lock the knob from one side of the door. These also have a way to unlock the door from the other side. Sometimes, it is small hole in the center of the knob. Insert a small screwdriver or other object to unset the lock.

We have the old-fashioned mortise lock sets on our vintage doors. They could be locked with a skeleton key, I guess. With just two seasoned citizens, there's really no need.

There is a distinction in the world of hardware between lock sets and privacy sets. Lock sets are further divided into storage room and entrance sets. Bedrooms and bathrooms usually have privacy latch sets that can be locked with a push button from the inside, unlocked from the inside with a turn of the knob and unlocked from the other side with a paperclip. This set can be mortised but is usually cylindrical. A separate surface or mortised dead bolt can be added on the inside but would require the door to be forced open in an emergency. A keyed interior passage door lock set would be in violation of most building codes and obviously a potential danger to your family. The same is true of exterior egress doors.

A storage room lock can be locked from the outside with a key but can be opened from the inside by turning the knob. A deadbolt lock would be more secure but should have an interior thumb turn.

An entrance set has a latch and lock keyed from the outside and operated from the inside with a thumb turn or push button. Some sets retain the push button setting and others must be reset each time the set is operated. A mortised version can have push buttons in the door edge to set the latch to lock automatically.

A hotel lock is a combination latch and lock entrance set that always locks the latch from outside when closed and has a dead bolt thumb turn on the inside. Both devices can be unlocked from the inside by just turning the knob. This complex function requires the set to be mortised.

Just FYI - about those guns in a locked closet: If you're ever burgled, they will be gone. Invest in a safe and bolt it to the floor.

I don't think I've ever seen a house without privacy locks.

Ours unlock easily with a coin so we have pennies on every door jam so when kids do lock themselves in its only for a moment.

We also use them because one of our cats can open doorknobs.

SO used to have a keyed lock on his office, to keep the kids out.

We absolutely do interior locks, lol. I would go insane without them, and I'm not sure if it's because I have a ton of kidlets, or because of our family's circumstances, or both.

I homeschool our 5 special need kiddos. None of the kids have physical disabilities, but all have cognitive and linguistic delays. They acquire physical skills at the appropriate age (or earlier), but do not acquire the necessary expressive/receptive language skills and the ability to judge risk/associated danger until *well past* the typical age of reason.

So, of course, we have strategically located locking knobs and non-locking knobs throughout the house, lol.

I keep those little extra pin-keys in my purse, in my bra or pocket, and/or on the stairwell's half wall for easy access, whenever I need to open a lock or rescue a trapped kiddo. I'm a shorty and can't reach the top of the doors, especially when carrying a child (or two). ;-)

In our house we have key locks on two interior doors that come in from an enclosed porch, and we have a bathroom door that has a lock that is easily opened from the other side. It's just there for privacy so people don't accidentally walk in on those inside. We have a very old house and our (upstairs) master bedroom door is one with an old fashioned keyhole for which we no longer have a key. So, to lock that door, my husband installed a sliding lock and installed it up high so the kids wouldn't accidentally lock themselves in. So when my daughter was 3, I had put her in our room for a nap because her baby brother was in their room. She woke up and crawled on top of the nightstand, stood up, and slid the lock over and was locked inside. I realized it and almost panicked, thinking we'd have to break the door down. There's a roof outside the window, but it's very steep and it was covered with snow. I kept trying to explain how to unlock the door, but it's a sliding lock on which the thing that slides has a little knob that hangs down. To open it, you have to lift it and then slide it over. I couldn't get through to her what to do. So, I had to think creatively. I told her I'd be back, went downstairs, and pulled up a picture of a similar lock from the Lowe's website, printed it out, and labeled various parts of it A, B, C etc. She knew her letters by then. So I slid it under the door and told her to look where it said A and then find it on the lock. Using this diagram, I explained to her how to get the lock undone. It worked! Ahh, memories. She's nearly 11 now and still isn't much of a sleeper.

We have privacy/locking knobs on all bedrooms and bathrooms. It never occurred to me to install anything else. I think one should have the option to lock doors to areas where privacy is needed. A closed door isn't universally known as a door that should be knocked on first. My in-laws keep their guest bath door closed all the time.

Our locks aren't used very often, but they're there when someone wants them. My 7 year old recently started locking doors because she wants privacy in the bathroom and while changing from her little sis. They're push locks and easily unlocked with the pin.

Its never been an issue, but I also think it's good manners to teach
your kids to knock on a closed door before entering a personal space
anyway.

Yeah, kids don't have to be very old to learn this lesson, so I'm not really concerned about interior locks to enforce politeness.

I have privacy locks on all the doors. I lock the doors if we are
having a big party, or like lolauren if I want to restrict worker's
access.

I never close off rooms if we have a party, and I have never had workers in the house when I wasn't home -- though I do hide my purse under the bed when I have someone working in the house.

I had to go look, clearly I'm not a locker.

Yeah, me too. I was surprised that I have lived in this house 16 years and never even thought about whether we had interior locks or not. It just didn't occur to me.

Just
FYI - about those guns in a locked closet: If you're ever burgled,
they will be gone. Invest in a safe and bolt it to the floor.

Eh, we actually own two safes; one for guns, one for other items. They'll be inside the locked closet.

No need for the "eh" - just speaking from personal experience. Our gun safe kept us out of the news. lol

When I'm a guest in someone's home or have non-immediately family in my home I always lock the door when I'm using the bathroom or changing clothes.

I'd feel very uncomfortable not being able to lock the door in someone else's house.

Over here it's very common to have interior privacy locks (that can be opened with a paperclip or pin) on every bathroom and bedroom. Many people have a "kids shouldn't be able to lock their doors" philosophy, but for changing clothes etc I'm a fan of them. I don't want to walk in on my kids changing, or walk into my guest room by habit when a guest is getting dressed...

We are also talking about a $10 lockset I can change in 2 minutes if I ever get wishy-washy

A lock set requires a key and is pretty expensive. A privacy set is a passage/latch set with a button that stops the outer knob from operating the latch.

Also it's simple to move door knobs around. For a while I took the locking knobs off my kids' doors so they didn't lock themselves in and swapped them from rooms like closets I didn't want them getting in to. When they were older and wanted to be able to lock to keep their younger siblings out I switched them back.

That's exactly what I do here in the rental... Just what cevamal describes. I'm switching knobs all the time, every few months (as new kids develop new skills). :-)

"...I hear you knockin', but you can't come in..."
"...I hear you knockin', go back where you been..."

Thank you Fats Domino, 1960.

We are only putting locks on the guest bathroom doors and exterior doors. We don't have kids though.