department of the interior: home decor

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.

they're floor tiles

I wouldn't believe everything you read. Until the manufacturer starts guaranteeing them not to break under normal use including walking on them with shoes, and pays to replace them if they do, they are not floor tiles.

sad nonetheless

I have the dark brown with gold sparklies! Or one of the many, many varieties of that anyway. Not on the floor though.

want

http://cdn.theatlanticcities.com/img/upload/2012/01/09/BookBike.main/largest.jpg

though i suppose it wouldn't be so hard to mod a regular bookshelf/wardrobe as long as it was anchored to the wall

i wouldn't want my bike projecting into the room like that ... on a related note, i gotta distrust any furniture that's shown sitting at an angle in the middle of an empty room, rather than inside a house. i have a hard time picturing where i would put that (except backyard / garage / shed) where it wouldn't just be in the way. maybe if you have a bigass (10 foot wide) foyer?

don't get me wrong, the idea is awesome. and i guess maybe it's meant to go in the garage?

hahahaaa garage

i live in a 1-bdrm apartment on the second floor

i don't have a garage either, or a foyer

i think it's meant to go in a "loft-style apartment"
...

seriously, knowing me i'd just lean my bike up against it 75% of the time

what i really want is a level/pulley system that i hook my bike into and then it is taken up to the ceiling and out of sight

now THAT's a good idea

those are really p easy to install

i've been meaning to do it for 6 years

just like i've been meaning to paint my apartment

maybe 2012 is MY YEAR

If you just got home from a bike ride on a wet day, dirty water would work its way down and drip from the bottom of the tire. I wouldn't want one except in a shed, garage, or unfinished basement.

hey everyone!

i moved the tree out of the living room and spaced things out in the living room the way people suggested and it looks 1000x better!

i was wondering if there was any interest in doing ILS house tours or if that's kind of corny.

yeah, but I wouldn't want it on public ILX tbh. maybe a super secret facebook group!
My mum just announced she's thinking of redecorating their living room although it will be some kind of compromise between her and my dad as to what they get. My dad has zero taste/style bless him, just wants some snazzy wallpaper or something, and my mum doesn't know what she wants apart from 'something plain' so this could be interesting.

I've got a for real TASK CHAIR getting delivered this week after months of my spine indicating that it's very unhappy spending 60 hours a week in a knockoff swivel tulip chair.

http://freedomchair.org/wp-content/uploads/freedom-chair.jpg

I hate the way task chairs look but my apartment is pretty much turning into an office anyway.

got my kevi

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

it's a second-generation rabami-built one though so the rolling-part with the casters etc isn't quite as good.