I am very fond of bathrooms for various reasons. As a child it was the one place I would not be disturbed by relentless little brothers with spiders in their hands pushing their snotty faces into mine. As a teenager it was the only place where I could give myself undivided attention without my mother telling me how vain I was and how I really shouldn't look in the mirror quite so much. When I got married it was the only place I could do certain things that I wouldn’t do in front of my husband in the first few years. And when I got over that, I suddenly had my own darling, delightful toddlers that I wanted to turn into Hansel and Gretel or teeny little mice sometimes. And the bathroom was and is still there, a place of refuge, a sanctuary, a kind of Prozac room that served hourly bathroom therapy on demand. But a bathroom needs a few things to be complete.
Bathrooms need armchairs and not too many people know this. They have to be the old fashioned wingback type and large enough that your bottom half does not feel any larger than it really it is when she put your feet up and in it. Some people think this is very silly as armchairs are for lounges and such while a bathroom is a bathroom. Not so. If the only room in your house in the house where you can have some peace and quiet is the bathroom, the surely you want it to be as comfortable as possible. After all, no one really wants dot spend that much time in the actual bath. Sometimes it is in fact preferable to read without having to get wet and wash at the same time.
And if your bathroom has an armchair to read in then you need reading material. Books and the right ones, trashy but not too trashy, and ones that you don’t have a sentimental attachment to, just in case they fall in the bath. Magazines are good for when you can't be bothered to read words and just want to stare at a picture of how you would look with a facelift and a personal trainer. They are also great for helping you mentally reorganize your entire wardrobe as they tell you what not to wear. If, however, you wore that very item of clothing to work that day, toss the magazine aside with gusto.
Like it or not you have to have a set of scales in your bathroom and not the kind you use for measuring flour. It is after all the only place where you know for sure that no one will be peeking over your shoulder when you stand on it and stand on it we must if we are to fight the good fight. And no matter what it says you weigh, never throw the scales, bathrooms are sacred quiet places remember.
Bathrooms can be a sanctuary and we can make them gorgeous with all sorts of trimmings and tiles. Ultimately though it is what happens in rooms that demine them, so call your kids as well sometimes and get silly with them in the bathroom as they splash in the bath. Bathrooms can be too white or too cold, but they can never have too much laughter.
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