BATHROOM DESIGN
30 June 2008
"Had I but Room Enough and Time"
Draw a bath, get an interruption. That’s how it seems to work in every newspaper cartoon that ever was, especially poor Dagwood. In all the years I’ve read that strip, I don’t think that man ever took a bath in peace.
But when I think of a bath in the real world, what I most think of is absolute indulgence, because face it, we live at the speed of light these days, and in the amount of time it takes to draw a bath we could take a shower and get on with our day. And do.
But also, if your bathrooms are as small as ours, you have a combination shower/bathtub that is nowhere deep enough for a good soak anyway. It’s because they need to make the tub low enough for people as short as my wife to step in and out of the shower, but what they’ve come up with might as well be just a shower, and when I remodel our bathrooms it will be. But, still, a tub to soak in, that’s the ticket.
And that brings us to one of the most incredible line of tubs I have ever seen. You do need more room that we have in our standard tract-sized bathroom to achieve this, but it is surprising how little space one actually needs to comfortably accommodate both a tub and shower in a bathroom. And if you have a bathroom large enough to accommodate a separate tub, the WS Bath Collection has a tub that will surely take your bathroom design in an entirely different direction.
Regardless of how fast your world moves during the week, I still maintain that the best bathroom design, for those who can achieve it, is one that is conducive to absolute pampering, and I cannot think of anything more indulgent than soaking in a tub. In order to do that, though, and to make of it the utterly hedonist moment it can be, one really needs a tub that lends itself to that purpose, which is where the WS Bath Collection comes in.
When I grew up in Montana during the fifties, showers were not commonly used, and a tub was just your basic scrub-a-dub-dub-and-get-the-heck-out affair. Tubs like those of the WS Bath Collection, by way of decided contrast, almost seem to REQUIRE one to soak for an hour or more. Bit of Beethoven, perhaps, or a book for the gentlemen; perfumed bubbles for the ladies—that sort of thing.
It’s tempting to say more, but really, if these pictures don’t inspire you, you’d better consult your physician, darling!
Joseph
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