Le bain

I love seeing posts about other people’s homes.  So in the spirit of sharing you get ~ my bathroom.  I’m actually very pleased with this bathroom.  It is an homage to my very favorite bathroom ever – the one in my room at the Sacher Hotel in Vienna.  That was some bathroom.  All pale grey marble and nickel.  Thirsty white towels and pretty glass shelves.  I took half a roll of film in that bathroom, standing precariously on top of the toilet to get the perfect shot.

One thing I noticed about European bathrooms is that they almost always have a towel warmer.  Why haven’t Americans embraced this idea?  Most were made from the hot water pipe that feeds the shower.  Very clever, don’t you think?  They would have a snakey bit of the exposed pipe that you would hang your towel on and as you were showering your towels was warming up.

This bathroom was the impetus for us to do a major remodel on our house.  The original bathroom was wallpapered to within an inch of it’s life and had just a shower curtain over a shallow tub.  Initially we were just going to put in a $300 shower door.  Then we thought we might consider getting a deeper tub.  Next thing you know we’ve hired a general contractor and we’ve gutted all the bathrooms in the house, replaced all the flooring in the entire house, replaced all the interior doors, added moldings and trims, retextured the ceilings and walls and painted every paintable surface.  A little more than our $300 budget.  We were victim to that "well as long as were going to do THAT why don’t we also do THIS" mindset.

It did turn out nicely I think.  If you ever are a guest at our house then this will be your bathroom.