BATHROOM SINKS
11 August 2008
“Sink to My Lou”
I don’t know, maybe I’m getting too old for these cutting edge bathroom design concepts, but this one is, I don’t know… for the younger set, I think. And yet and yet and yet, I cannot help thinking that I might well have gone for something like this when I was, well, younger. So, there we are. Also, someone as bald as myself tends to spend very little time in the bathroom, but I do know there are men, especially younger men with terrific jobs, hot sports cars and gorgeous heads of long, thick—no, I promised myself I w
asn’t going to go there! Let’s just say men who style their hair in the mornings tend to spend more time in the bathroom then I do, as do women who put on their makeup in the bathroom. For these people a product like this may make terrific sense, as a little music for a daily hour chore is often welcome.
I do know that my wife very much enjoys her music in the morning, but she has a vanity and a large bedroom with a walnut entertainment center (previously featured on both this site and Thinking About It). Perhaps if she were still putting on her makeup in the bathroom, as she did during the early years of our marriage, she might welcome a concept like this one.
No one with a working brain would have a radio in the bathroom for fear it would fall in the tub or get wet somehow, and with one big blinding *POOF* take you and it to another world. But suppose, to be supposing, that it were possible to safely introduce a music source into your bathroom—not a speaker with a wire that runs to another room, but the actual music source itself, something with an internal, amplified speaker system, which is able to hook up to 
any CD or MP3 source. And with that I have described the Meltdown sink by Italy’s WET STUDIO.
If you look closely at the pictures of the translucent sink, you can see the speakers underneath. And it gets better. You can make this sink glow in the dark (or the light, for that matter!) and change the colors with which it glows. You can even customize it with a small static projection screen to display any kind of personalized message or artwork onto the sink’s surface from within. And all of these models carry with them the option of having the speakers and music hookup.
Well, again, as I said at the onset, I still believe this is a concept better suited to the younger set, but the whole idea of a sink that changes colors caused me to do a little research on that subject (it’s done with LED lighting) just to see what else is out there. Well, as it turns out, there’s quite a bit that is new and innovative, and over the next few blogs I would like to share my findings with you.
Joseph
NEXT: “Catch a Falling Star”
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