Bathroom Furniture Cabinet Designs By Foster
26 January 2010
“Say It Loud!”
What we put into a bathroom is clearly dependent upon the amount of room we have, but I also believe that it often revolves around how much we actually need to put in that room. My wife, along with every other wife that ever was, I suppose, has just an incredible amount of paraphernalia, the bulk of which, even after three decades of marriage, carries with it a bit of mystery and foreboding. I don’t know what she puts in those drawers, and I don’t really want to know. I’m not sure if that’s a “respect her privacy thing” or a “don’t turn on the lights, ’cause I don’t want to see” thing. But either way it is fair to say that she clearly needs a lot more storage space than yours truly.
I mean, face it, I’m in and out of the bathroom in twenty minutes flat: shower, shave, and brush my teeth. Bald as I am, I no longer even stop to comb my hair-can’t! In fact my hair is so long gone I don’t even have to stop to clean out it out of the shower drain the way I once did. That train has most definitely left the station! But, to return to the subject at hand, since my needs for bathroom storage are so limited, I can get by with considerably less than would otherwise be the case. And suddenly the minimalism I am forever writing about in these blogs takes on a degree of common sense that is damned near genius! Because ours are small bathrooms, and small bathrooms they must remain.
I bring that up, though, because I have recently come across a huge Italian company called Foster that has a wonderful line of bathroom designs that are both compact and wonderfully fresh in both line and color. That last, color, is a concept that we tend to shy away from in the USA. Our one fear is that we will do something that will hurt the resale value of our homes, so we tend to play it safe, which has come to mean bland. Personally, I am of the school that says, do what you love with your home. Later, if you should sell it, you may find another who shares your tastes, but even if you don’t, it probably is not going to matter much. Bad drapes, cramped kitchen, so-so backyard, any fault a body can imagine often accompanies a new home, and people, if they really want the home, just tend to work around it. That being the way of it, why in the world spend so much of your life in a home that really does not suit you, and especially this is so if you know that an aggressive remodeling would be just the ticket.
And that takes us back to Foster because they have the verve and the skills to design something that is both imminently practical and decidedly different from the run-of-the-mill that is the norm for so many of us, not because we prefer it so much, but because we fear the repercussions of expressing ourselves. But, hey, say it loud. I’m bold, and I’m proud!
Joseph
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2 Responses to “Bathroom Furniture Cabinet Designs By Foster”
January 26th, 2010 at 8:08 AM
I like the blue bathroom, but… dare I ask, whose blood is that on the floor?
January 26th, 2010 at 9:34 AM
For those old enough to remember Jack Benny, let me just say, “Now, cut that out!”
Joseph