A bad mistake
There is a development in modern higher-priced home design that leaves me aghast.
Now I should explain that a bathroom to me is just one step below a chapel. It’s a private place where you contemplate, ruminate and read The Western Producer. No one comes barging in or otherwise interrupts this sacred ritual.
This spring we toured a show home in Saskatoon. It had a huge master bedroom with a king-sized bed, hot tub, a sink and, alongside it, a biffy.
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There were no doors or curtains between the aforementioned items.
“You’ll never catch me in a room like that,” I snorted.
This summer it happened. We were in rented quarters in Alberta, in a large bedroom with a huge bed, hot tub and there, out in the open, a toilet. In our mid-Victorian fashion my spouse and I agreed that when serious bathroom work had to be done the other partner would be out in the host’s parlor reading the evening paper.
I suppose some designers consider sitting on a water closet seat is somehow a way for marriage partners to cast aside all inhibitions. My view is that sitting on a pot doesn’t make for the best theatre. In fact, this performance, however gratifying for the party of the first part, has considerations both olfactory and auditory that can be quite unpleasant for a non-participant.
Then too, if a new husband wishes to impress his bride with his refined bathroom style he could develop a bad case of constipation. In the interests of unrestrained good bathroom performance I hope designers will quietly abandon the open design as a thoroughly bad idea.
