This bedroom made me do a double-take. Is that a bathroom behind a glass wall? A reader named Jenny found this photo in a listing for a house in Tasmania and points out that even if you overcame any shy bladder issues and tried to use it, it looks like an awfully tight fit in there!
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Ewww. That would only work if I lived alone
…or in REALLY great shape…LOL
Well, the bathroom vanity Coordinates with the bed spread… NO,NO,NO I could NOT live there! So many homes are also putting HUGE windows in the bathroom(Not for me!)…
Ha! My bathroom is just like that, except there is no glass! My house used to belong to my grandparents and my grandfather was confined to a wheelchair in his last years so they just opened up the bathroom to the bedroom entirely. I would take a glass wall over wide open space any day!!!!
Do you remember seeing something about public restrooms where the walls were like one-way mirrors, so you could see out but you had to trust no one could see in?
Crazy.
I remember seeing something similar where you could flip a switch and have the glass go from clear to opaque and back again.
It was rather novel, but even without someone using it, who wants to look at their toilet while in bed? Motivation to keep it cleaned I guess…
Also, if you look closely there is a shower head pointed at the toilet. Talk about multitasking:)
Ha — I didn’t know if I was seeing things or not! Crazy!
I think I figured this out, the toilet hangs off the wall rather than touching the floor, so it’s closer to the front wall than it looks. (I think)
That means that while the shower does point at the toilet, there is space behind it (with that wood patch) where the water actually runs. Also, it would mean you could sit on the commode without kicking the shower wall, which was my biggest confusion looking at this picture the first time.
(though, our house had a toilet pointing almost directly into a wall like that when we bought it. I’ve no idea why they didn’t turn the thing the other way so you didn’t bump things. Short people with small feet I guess)
I think you might be onto something!
The hotel my husband and I stayed in in London had a glass door like that – the door was around the corner from the bed and did have a pattern etched into it but you could still see in if you really wanted to.
Yikes! I hope that is a trend that never catches on!
What a funky bathroom. It looks like a glass shower and there’s not even room for one. I’m guessing whomever buys this place will tare that out and maybe expand it or put in a bathroom somewhere else. At least that’s what I would do.
That is bizarre!
That’s just wrong…in so many ways!
Don’t like this at all. Ditto that I hope this is a trend that never catches on.
I think maybe we’re in FetishLand here. Yikes!
I once looked at a house for sale that had an open bathroom on a platform in the master bedroom. There was a glass enclosure around the shower, but the rest was just out in the open. Even though you could at great expense rebuild a bathroom, you have to wonder just what kind of people would do this–the work was all new and expensive.
–Road to Parnassus
Baths like this are more common than you might think–the glass makes it easier to keep clean and allows for increased air flow (thus decreasing the ability for mold and mildew growth). Also, pretty sure the shower head isn’t “over” the toilet: there is a teak, bamboo, or cedar mat beside the toilet, that is where you stand to shower.
Perhaps all this, but there is such a thing as opaque glass.
Looks cute,
but not for me…
I’d be too shy to use it even only with my hubby in the room.
Going to the Bathroom in that house is a spectator sport!
I’ve seen this in small space layouts, more common overseas. In fact at last year’s Sunset Magazine Celebration Weekend they featured a tiny house made out of a cargo container that had this. The entire bathroom is the shower (hence the sliding glass doors) and inside is the rest of the bathroom – so it fits all in one footprint. I too was taken back with the clear glass, but without it the space would seem really small. It didn’t face the living/bedroom area like this one though. Curtains to the rescue!
http://www.sunset.com/home/sunset-cargotecture-home-00418000071888/
Interesting! Thanks, Maria.
My “inspiration file” has a bathroom from at least 20 years ago from a home in Atlanta, the bath/shower area was a huge open room …surrounded by windows to the great outdoors. Granted, it was a woodsy outdoors and quite secluded; but can you imagine relaxing in the bath and a face appearing at the window?
The Good Wife is our favorite show!! And of course I love Alicia’s apartment – always was partial to the entry for some reason – but like all of it!!
HGTV Home Giveaway had a guest house with the same glass wall bathroom concept. I think it was the New Mexico home a few years back. EEEWWW!!!!
This is a trend that needs to end. Glass doors and exposed bathrooms… even if you can live with the very basic things that occur in a bathroom, if you live with someone, get up at night to do your business and turn on the light… you illuminate the bedroom. I don’t care to know what my spouse is doing in there, I don’t want my bedroom flooded with light at 3:00am. This is where designers are all very taken withthemselves on how bold/out there their designs are…but the don’t think about how people actually live in spaces.
Totally agree. In our first house the master bath didn’t have a door on it and you could see the sink. The shower and toilet were behind a wall, but if you got up in the night or, say, your husband had to get up early for work, the bathroom lights lit up the bedroom. Hated that!
It’s an ensuite, people! It’s not like anyone will be seeing you in there. It’s obviously been sqeezed into a space (possibly where a built-in wardrobe once was) against an internal wall – it would be really dark in there if it was walled in. And better to be able to advertise 2 bathrooms instead of 1 in a real estate listing these days.
Easy and cheap fix would be the stick-on frosting used in offices – just a ‘modesty’ panel of it at the appropriate height.
You can see that there is a pane of glass to the right of the vanity which screens the vanity area from the spray of the shower; there’s also a glass door opening to the left – the room has more depth to it than it seems.