I mentioned before that I drew up our bathroom design plan based on photos I liked. (That’s pretty standard, right?) Well – the aspects I was sad to leave behind – were as follows. Feast your eyes and pretend this is a safe space for pretty things.
Windows?
Many of my favourite photos were of bathrooms with windows. If you’ve ever felt frustrated about your bathroom windows and lacking privacy – first, give yourself a smack and then march on in there and tell your daylight that you love it.
Apartment therapy? Yes, I need some. For RICKETS. Certainly in Vancouver where they cram apartments in – windows in small bathrooms are rare as spirit bears (how’s that for a regional reference!). Both of the designy-thing photos I liked best were extremely day-lit, so it was hard to imagine our finished product.
Flooring?
Something I really, really like is these type of floors – with varying combinations of tiiiiiiiiiiiny tiles. In the future home where we stay a long time and care to liaise at length with math, measuring and a tile saw – it’s these guys, for sure.
I was both relieved and amused to notice them for the first time in the tile store — they come in slabs! I thought you had to buy a million little tiiiiiiiiiiiiiny tiles and lay them in one-by-one.
So there you have it – new discoveries every day. This time last year I didn’t know the meaning of eggshell paint. Another twelve months, I’ll be laying tiles blind-folded.
Hey, you want a s'more? Some more of what?
My (esthetically) favourite rental bathroom had a window the whole length of the wall parallel to the tub, so that when you were in the shower, it was shoulders and up all window, frosted for privacy with LOTS of light and a tiled 2 foot deep sill you could put all your stuff on. Only bad thing was they didn’t do the job properly and it had major ingress, so much that it smelled like garden soil every time I washed it, there was so much mould in that wall. *sigh* So close, yet so far.
Ohhh, the plants! The plants it could have held! As well – I’ve just looked up and learned a new word thanks to you! Ingress. Got it. (Is it better to have mould you can smell but not see? Easier to ignore?? Or “rental – not my problem!”)
I’m trying to remember rental bathrooms I liked…. nope – hated them all! (But I think you’ve just inspired a future blog post…)
I have 2.5 bathrooms (rental), NONE of which have windows. The bathroom in my last apartment was an aesthetic nightmare, (the only electrical outlet was in the wall sconce), but it had a big, beautiful window! At the time I complained because it looked over a parking lot. If I’d only known then what I know now… :^/
Hellooo! I think we windowless wretches should start Shawshanking our way to daylight…. in our case that would mean chiselling into neighbours’ living rooms…