Alert reader / nosy person wimple spotted this intriguing bathroom in the house from this post. Cheryl put it well: “I’ve seen that toilet before, in my nightmares. Though mine rarely includes the curtains.”
Why windows, and not walls? I try to think of an occasion when I would ever say “Now! Now is the time to draw back the curtains! Hello, world!” but then my mind goes “no no no don’t think about it no no no think about something nice” and suddenly my mind is flooded with images of kittens. Thank you, mind. Self-preservation is an important instinct.
Loveliest comment, by jackie31337: I still maintain that it’s a toilet isolation booth, and toilet is competing on a game show.
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I can imagine a mother with young children wanting to go to the bathroom with the door closed to contain the smell, but be able to see out to watch her kids. The curtain’s there to allow privacy on all other occasions.
Except that the ceiling appears to be, well, missing….
Have you seen the casita for the HGTV dream house giveaway? The “wall” of the bathroom is the glass shower enclosure and right next to that is the toilet! My son said this post reminds him of the casita, only this bathroom has curtains!
I’ve decided that if I win the dream house, the first order of business is to install a curtain on the bedroom side of that shower. I don’t really want to see what is going on in the bathroom!
I think that bathroom was built by the mom of small children, who occasionally retreats to the bathroom for a little bit of quiet reading. From time to time, she can pull the curtain and peek out to make sure the kids aren’t killing each other. Otherwise, she’s enclosed in a soundproof glass booth.
Hey, my comment looks like a rip-off of dxp2718′s, but I swear it wasn’t there when I posted!
I can verify this claim. Sorry, Vivian. Some comments sit around waiting to be approved, while others zip on through in the carpool lane.
But why is the light switch on the outside of the glass box??
Why would you need separate lights in a glass box?
We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don’t you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the things you want?
just like in the movie (except they added curtains)
Health and safety. Some countries only allow switches inside a bathroom if they are hermetically sealed (like an electric shower unit), otherwise they must be outside the bathroom or controlled using isolated contacts (piece of nylon cord that is pulled down).
In some locations it’s not legal to have the light switch inside the bathroom. I live in one of them.
As an aside, when I was looking for houses a few years back I saw a house that had a toilet sitting on a raised platform, with half-walls around three sides. Yes, a literal throne.
My kids would think it was great fun to turn the lights off on me if the switch were outside the door.
I have lived in houses set up like this, and that does happen. Quite a lot actually. Sometimes even on purpose.
The toilet in my friend’s basement was like that. Something about needing to raise the toilets so it could be flushed into the main waste pipe for the house or something. We always referred to that bathroom as the throne room.
I’ve always wanted a bathroom modeled after Hannibal Lector’s prison cell!
It’s for gas based laxatives. Step into the chamber, sit down, flip and switch and……that’s better.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Its the lifeguard’s bathroom, that way they are always on duty.
Of course one way mirrors would have been far more efficient and less creepy, not to mention easier to clean, but I’m sure this was cheaper.
Obviously, the staff of this institution wants to watch the residents at all times… to avoid water intoxication….
No, you really don’t want to know anymore… (Do the bedrooms have shackle bolts?)
It’s so that when the realtor was writing the MLS copy and wanted to type “One of a kind” property, it would be a completely, 100%, defensible in court statement of fact.
I thought maybe it was so they could sometimes have a view of the beautiful back yard, but the reflections in the glass would indicate that isn’t the case.
On the other hand, at least it doesn’t give you a view of the beautiful front yard!
At first I thought, if you had someone in the house who couldn’t be trusted in the bathroom (naughty kids, whatever), that might explain this bathroom. But with the curtains on the INSIDE, the perpetrator could just close them. No, I can’t figure this out at all, and I agree, it’s the kind of place I have in my nightmares, except with the curtains absent or on the OUTSIDE of the room. Eek.
Actually, I have had actual nightmares of using this kind of bathroom.
And how come there’s no curtain on the door????
It looks like the curtain to the left of the door is wide enough to draw across the door if you are inside.
You’ve all got it wrong–it’s not a bathroom, it’s a recording studio!
Some folks sing best in the shower, but this homeowner prefers a more sedentary and contemplative spot. The curtains are for sound proofing.
You mustn’t let my husband catch wind of this. Someone show me a floorplan, I’m fairly confident the throne is facing a wall-mounted, widescreen LCD screen. They didn’t want to splash out for a separate one for in the bathroom…*scratching head* now how to kill two birds with one stone?
I agree this is truely a man’s best dream. “Got IBS but don’t want to miss the game. Problem solved.”
I know when I am watching a good show on TV and I have to go to the bathroom, I try to time it for the commercials. I once had an apartment that was set up so that I could see the TV from the bathroom, but this is way better. I could sit back, relax and spend as much time in there watching my shows.
Popcorn, anyone?
I still maintain that it’s a toilet isolation booth, and toilet is competing on a game show.
It’s not a bathroom. It’s a voting booth in Florida.
WOO HOO! twice in 2 days – yesterday I had a post come up on Crazy things parents say and then now this.
Believe me I’ve had worse toilet dreams, one time it was in the middle of a field, with roads on 4 sides.
Keep the noise down in there … I’m trying to watch TV!
I’m glad to hear that my pathology is shared by others, the open air toilet dream is one of my top 3 recurring nightmares. I wonder what it means, that I’m feeling EXPOSED maybe?
(I’m not going to share the other two, you first…)
Being a Mom, I really don’t think this would work as a hideout anyway, the kids would just smoosh their grubby little faces up against the glass, “are you done Mom? are you done, Mom?…”, leaving me nose marks to clean up, the dogs would just stand outside the door and bark, and the cat would just jump up and over.
I have on occasion hidden in the bathroom to eat chocolates so I wouldn’t have to share with the kids (they are too young to appreciate fine chocolates, that’s my story anyway and I’m sticking to it).
OMG, I thought i was the only one to hide and eat chocolates, and really isn’t all chocolate fine??
It’s a bathroom designed for science experiments. Like this one: http://maneggs.com/page/14/
Yes I have the nightmare but sometimes the curtains are there but do not completely cover the window or I think they are closed to just turn around and find that there is a fine rear view of it all.
The toilet in fact looks like an afterthought…a tiny room added to one side of a larger room….. Maybe the glass panels were on sale.
Those bathroom nightmares often mean that you need to go, but your body doesn’t want to actually wake up. So you have dreams about bathrooms that you can’t use—no privacy, or really dirty, or it’s just a regular chair with no hole, etc. It’s your body’s way of trying to make you hold it.