Your Ideal Bathroom

I'd separate the toilet functions ( separate rooms, please ) from the bathing functions. Then I might consider a drink in the bathroom. A nice big shower and a nice big tub. A nice big area to dry off in and get dressed.

 

Definitely a separate shower and bathtub. I'd like a stone shower, with multiple showerheads, a skylight (maybe frosted, maybe not), and, since I'm dreaming here, a way to just push a button to get different levels of spray. If I lived somewhere warm enough, a private outdoor shower would be awesome...

The tub would be huge, and sunken. I want to step down into it, and be totally enveloped in water. It doesn't have to be stone, but I'd like it to fit with a natural/tropical/spa type theme. No chrome and glass themed bathrooms for me.

Double sinks would be nice, with a good, long mirror over the entire counter. Supersoft fluffy towels hanging next to the sinks, and bath sheets folded on a shelf somewhere.

Ooh, and a bidet. Definitely a bidet.

 

I have stayed in a few hotels with shower and bath facilities that are outside. If I could build the perfect house with the perfect bath, it would have a place where I could soak in a tub, outside.

One dream is to retire to a small villa in Thailand or Bali. Maybe then.

 

If we're dreaming, then dream big.
I'd have to have a room off the bathroom to house my personal ass-wiper.
Preferably a blind one. I wouldn't want to abuse them too bad.

 

I want a shower made of glass blocks with LEDs behind them that I can dim or set to start low and brighten over a few minutes to help me wake up. Next to that, a nice deep, long tub that I can sit down in without resting my chin on my knees. I don't need ideal, though, I just want a showerhead that comes out of the wall above my head. Fuck plumbing and building codes.

 

Dear god, please keep my wife away from this thread. The bathroom is likely the next project that we do and I'm really struggling to keep her under $10k.

 

This - let the children have their own bathroom and make them clean it. This is actually what happens in our house.
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Yep. Was definitely a requirement in our place - the plumber actually asked at what height we wanted the showerheads (in the two bathrooms). Both come out of the wall at about 6'2" and have arms that go up from there

 

First of all, I would want a separate room for toilet facilities, wherein would be this toilet, along with a very vigorous air-filtration and freshening system, a well-stocked bookshelf, and a laptop mounted on a swivel arm, for use while on the toilet. I occasionally have a rather slow system, and so need good entertainment options while pooping. I have no use for bidets, though, so that typical feature of luxury bathrooms would not be making an appearance in mine. Call me a control freak, but I like actually wiping, so that I can feel confident I have adequately cleansed what needs to be cleansed. A jet of water up my ass is simply insufficient, especially since several of the times I have tried bidets what I did not get was well-aimed butt cleansing, and what I did get was a deeply unnecessary and undesired testicular pressure-washing. I would also want some nice plants in there, a little decorative fountain or two, and some nice, well-framed prints on the wall, to make for a really pleasant environment.

Second, in the actual bathing part of the bathroom, I would want double sinks (marble, above-counter basins, with nickel-steel fixtures), a heated/cooled towel rack, a small clothes rack, and an inset video screen visible from the sunken bathtub with bathing seats-- something along the lines of what snowy posted above, only larger and more sunken, like CinnamonGirl described. I would want said tub to be large enough that I could stretch out completely, deep enough that I could sit submerged to the neck, and wide enough for both me and Mrs. Levite together. I would definitely want jacuzzi jets, too. And I had a friend describe something like a giant tea ball that she had made, which is a weighted sphere of fine steel mesh the size of a baseball or softball, into which she can stuff a bunch of herbs and dried woods and stuff, turning her baths into both aromatherapy and restorative immersion experiences: I would totally want one of those. I don't take baths very often, but if I take one, I want it to be legendarily comfortable, a true experience of luxurious relaxation.

Next, I would want a stand-alone shower: I like those. Ideally, I'd love for it to be big enough for two people to have ample room to be in it. Doors made of frosted tempered glass, to let in light but keep privacy and seal well to keep the inside temperature and humidity constant; floor made of granite left naturally rough for good traction. Walls of polished granite with a balance strip of rough granite set hand-high, and a couple of well-placed grab bars, since Mrs. Levite has some balance issues that mandate grab bars if shower sex is to be a possibility. A wooden spa seat at one side. Three showerheads, plus a detachable sprayer: two fixed with massage jet heads on arms, on the side walls, and the detachable sprayer head with multiple settings on an arm at the back, with intersecting spray zones for maximum coverage; and then the third showerhead would be directly overhead, an extra-wide "rainstorm" shower that just rains a steady downpour into the center, for real drenching. There would be controls to allow use of any one of the sprays alone, or any combination of all four. Also, both a set of standard inset lights with a dimmer switch, and also LEDs in a strip around the top of the shower, which could be set to any color, intensity, and pattern of alternation. And waterproof in-shower controls for the music.

And finally, I'd want a sauna/steam-room, big enough for several people-- five or six, I would think-- to stretch out comfortably. Classic spa wood, of course, and options for both dry heat and steam, with various essential oils as options to add into the steam. Speakers for music. And a cold-water tap, for refreshment.

In the "common" area of the bathroom, with the sinks and the tub, and the access doors to the shower, the sauna, and the toilet room, I would want a mini-fridge for cold drinks and light snacks, a filtered water tap, a small side cabinet for storage of glasses and cocktail equipment and other sundries, a linen cabinet, a couple of comfy chairs, a lot of plants, and a couple of decorative fountains. I'd want the floors to be rough granite, like the shower floor, and the walls polished granite halfway up, and then wood the rest of the way. Unobtrustive track lighting, with different areas on different dimmer circuits, to really control atmosphere. A few skylights would be nice, too.

 

as long as I have a nice tub, I don't care about any of that other stuff.

 

I need a large sink that's not 25 in. off the floor. I'd like a mirror that's doesn't stop at my nose. A toilet in a separate room would be nice but not a deal killer. I'd like a separate shower, separate from the tub, w/ several shower heads. I'd like the shower to be plenty big enough for two people with at least one bench to sit (or ???) on. Preferably one hand held massage unit and a large tub big enough so my feet and knees can soak at the same time. The tub needs jets too, lots of jets. If they were all aimed at my lower back that would be fine. A nice view of the beach or garden from the tub would be nice.

 

You poor suffering motherfucker. Two sinks is an absolutely necessity for any couple that has a partner that puts on makeup, "does" their hair or owns more than two bottled personal hygiene products.

This. I want a bathroom that is designed for the height of the average American male and not the average Japanese male. The sink height, toilet height, size of the tub, etc.

I don't know about the rest of you dudes but I don't think it's normal (or even desirable) that I can put my balls on the counter when I brush my teeth. Way too short, man.

 

Huh. I thought one wiped and THEN used the bidet. Now I feel like I'm doing it wrong.

That sounds AWESOME.


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Now that I think about it, a sound system would be pretty rad, too.

 

My ideal bathroom is one I don't have to clean. One where my husband learns to flush the toilet and the sink is not covered in toothpaste from my six year old. As you get older it is really the simple things in life that please you the most.

 

This.

A second bathroom is a luxury I've never experienced. That would be pretty awesome, too.

 

I would love to have this

Don't look behind the curtain when you use it.

 

Twas a nice toilette.