department of the interior: home decor

it is like if you put a herman miller eames bent plywood dining top onto a swag leg swivel / rolling base, but the seat and backrest parts are smaller and less flamboyant than the eames shapes, sort of a transitional thing from 30s industrial to 50s midcentury, looks like something a WWII architect might sit on

the Nelson chair maybe?
http://www.homeofficesolutions.com/common/images/products/main/herman_miller/nelson_swag_leg_chair/herman_miller_nelson_swag_leg_chair.jpg

no it's not that crazy. it doesn't have armrests. it has a simple rectangular backrest (wider than tall) and a simple rectangular seat, both of which are mildly rounded-off and subtly bent.

i said swag leg but i realize that's wrong now - it isn't angled the way a swag leg is.

hmm sounds kind of like a generic Enco-style factory stool?

http://www.use-enco.com/ProductImages/0171770-11.jpg

yeah i think that's the right brand, actually. i kept wanting to say an ARCO chair but i knew i was thinking of the arco lamp.

the difference between what i was looking at buying and that one:

1) legs are more "modern" looking, meaning they don't bend down to a perpendicular foot, they just stick radially out and terminate in legs

2) the metal was some sort of fancy black anodized stuff, like what they use for the legs of nelson slat benches

3) the seat was flatter, no "bump" in it

4) the back and seat are closer to the same size

terminate in WHEELS, not legs

http://vintageindustrial.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/18.jpg

^^ very very similar to this, except with wheels and no "gooseneck" bump on the pipe to the backrest

also, made in the USA based on a classic design and available for under $200, often paired w/ heywood wakefield TV tables as a tiny desk/chair set

mega LOLs at I DIED's floor plan suggestion. typical bloody architect.

(my suggestion would be very close to same)

i should post my floorplan ... my landlord - who is either a self-employed handyman or general contractor, not really sure which - designed and built the house himself. the bathroom is like 20 feet long and 5 feet wide and has one entrance at one end to the master bedroom and one entrance at the other end to the kitchen. my bathroom is a hallway!

it does make sense in the morning though - get out of bed, enter bathroom, use bathroom, exit at other end, i'm standing next to my coffeemaker

whoa i'm impressed by hallway bathroom

also, sorry for being a dork who can't follow display-name changes, but whois the late great?

nnnobody

moonship journey to ponyhair nikes

i am both horrified and envious of the hallway bathroom tbqh

thx for clearing that up for me :)

i think for those of us who have tiny bathrooms, the huge hallway bathroom seems like some kind of dream/nightmare

it sounds like the kind of bathroom that could have furniture in it, like a chair and a bookshelf, as i have boggled at in certain home decor magazines

Ha, yeah me too. I'm trying to figure out if I can put a shelf in our bathroom somewhere. (I actually don't think it's that small, but it's arranged awkwardly.)

i need to put a shelf in my bathroom too

my bathroom is small but i have seen even smaller bathrooms here in montreal and in nyc. at least i have a full-size tub, is what i'm saying.

i asked guy i'm dating if we could go to the country tmrw (he has a car) but now i kinda just want to go to ikea
lol/eye-roll-at-self

also, sorry for being a dork who can't follow display-name changes, but whois the late great?

I'm so glad you asked, I was wondering too!

Also two days later but lol at the Barcelona chair that will eat you.

I have a full-sized tub, but you also have to dry off in it, because there's not enough room to swing your towel/elbows around anywhere else in my bathroom, because the tub takes up half of the floor. It's bigger than V's, though!

This is my dream tub.... has an overflow channel around the sides that recycles any water that falls into it back into the tub, so you can fill itright up to the edge and splash around with wild abandon. The laminar-flow spout drops water from the ceiling to fill the tub. Has a champagne-bubble generator that produces tiny air bubbles that float upward very slowly, clinging to your skin all the while and feeling great. Did I mention there's room for two?

I want want want!

http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/files/ascent-homebuilding/images/hro810_baths4.jpg

http://www.us.kohler.com/common/images/bathing/483x333_images/aaa89482.jpg

that looks like it might cost more than my car

they start at about $5,600, more if you want those colored lights inside. Faucet not included.

that's why I want want want, not have have have....

there's an easy trick to converting a normal tub to something that makes champagne bubbles, but it involves a lot of champagne

I stayed in a hotel recently that had a shower that was basically just water falling out of the ceiling. It was like showering under a waterfall. Amazing.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LOpKkZGIRA4/Tb_5eSSzkqI/AAAAAAAAATY/Q5YTUAFthe8/s320/regendouche+douchekop.jpg

Argh I hate those things.

Why? You don't like getting drenched?

Actually, water falling out of the ceiling more like this one:

http://s7.decofinder.com/0/2/zoom-autre/vig3/433/433907/Regenpaneel_Hansgrohe_France_Raindance_Rainmaker_Ø_600_Mm_Avec_Eclair.jpg

I'm quite the aficionado of awesome showerheads - I own a few and occasionally swap them out just to change things up. Good-quality wall-mounted showerheads that attach to a standard shower arm (or an extension) are actually quite affordable and easy to install, like this one:

http://designawards.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/performingshower.jpg?w=480

you do need decent water pressure for these to work though.

Aghh I hate those 'rainfall' showers. They look cool but they had them in the hotel I was at last week and I just wanted a quick shower without washing my hair or taking my make-up off but NO CHANCE of that. Plus the pressure was crap so the water was just dribbling down from the ceiling. We did look at tons of showers when we did our flat up but we just went with a huge shower head that you can adjust.

Is it a US thing to have the head fixed to the wall? I get a bit IA about it. Our one here is and it's quite low down so my husband can't even stand under it. Showers in the UK are usually on this vertical pole so you can adjust the height easily and take them off if you want to hose under your feet or whatever or even around the cubicle when cleaning.

I think fixed to the wall is standard here. My brother-in-law is 6'8" and has spent most of his adult life taking showers on his knees.

Most showers in the US have fixed heads that sprout from the wall, but the UK-style hand showers on flexible hoses that can be mounted at any height on a vertical pole or removed and aimed anywhere are becoming more common, as are large fixed-mount "rainshowers" permanently mounted in the middle of the shower stall. I wouldn't mind having both in my shower - as others have noted, they serve different purposes.

Yeah, it's impossible to keep your hair dry in a ceiling-mounted shower, and I don't always want to re-do it.

UK shower heads so ahead of the curve
wall-mounted ones are often good for water pressure but hose ones are much more practical for awesome cleaning power in those hard-to-reach areas... i've seen systems where there are both, and that is neat

I had no idea the flexible hose shower heads were UK standard. It's really easy to swap out a standard shower head with a hose shower head. Pro tip: pry out the water flow restrictor while you're at it.

i love giant rainfall shower heads - my parents have them in all showers + independently controlled flexible hose + each has hot and cold taps! so you can bask under a lukewarm monsoon while you spray a superhot jet between your toes

however on an ecological level these things are indefensible in the southwest usa

just met a dude off craigslist to look at a danish 70s alba office chair. turns out someone had hacked it onto a sixties swivel base w/ wheels stolen from a ... KEVI office chair

that's what I was thinking of! a KEVI!

http://bloggiwog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/kevi.jpg

Aghh I hate those 'rainfall' showers. They look cool but they had them in the hotel I was at last week and I just wanted a quick shower without washing my hair or taking my make-up off but NO CHANCE of that. Plus the pressure was crap so the water was just dribbling down from the ceiling

The one in the hotel I stayed at had great pressure and was just amazing all around. I always wash my hair when I shower so not getting my head wet is a non-issue for me.

okay guys im in love with those small glass (sometime sea glass?) tiles. I'm thinking a neutral color for the kitchen backsplash. Expensive much though???

I love them but they're kind of aggressively "modern" when used in en masse. Suspect unless you & your bathroom/kitchen meet certain other criteria, it's best to use them in an accent capacity, or small spaces.

Kitchen backsplash might be perfect! Use a colored grout, though, because it's going to be impossible to keep white/clean.

or maybe some color (our mostly brown and white walls, floor and decor could probably use it):
http://st.houzz.com/simages/463256_0_8-7842--accessories-and-decor.jpg

yay! I always feel like im making the right choice when Laurel gives her style approval <3

I love them when they're blue and blue-green and green, because they have such a water quality to begin with.

xp loooool I don't know if that's a good idea but it's nice of you to say so.

Kitchen backsplash might be perfect! Use a colored grout, though, because it's going to be impossible to keep white/clean.

Laurel OTM, always go at least a shade darker than the tile w/ your grout. White grout should never have been invented.

my ex-wife and i had those installed in dark brown with gold sparklies and white grout on all of our bathrooms floors - they were beautiful but *very* fragile. if you drop anything on them, they break. we had C&B walnut slat floor "mats", and when you'd shift your weight on those wrong they'd break. they'd even break if ladies walked on them in too-pointy heels.

Putting glass on a floor is maybe not a great idea.