Our bathrooms are a very coveted, private space. It’s in our bathrooms that we find ourselves at our most vulnerable. We want them to be comfortable, or at least comfortable enough that we feel safe doing our business.
Some people have very strange definitions of the word ‘comfortable’, and wind up creating bathrooms that most people find odd at best, abhorrent at worst. Those types of bathrooms can be found in this list, so let’s take a look togheter!
“My uncle’s house got a bathroom without a door, literally the first thing you see when you enter the house.”
Not only is there no door, but the walls also don’t go all the way up either, and the walls that do exist are made of glass. It’s like a domino line of bad decisions, one after the other until it becomes completely unusable.
“A bathroom at a rest stop in SW Texas made my head spin.”
Oh god. This is immediately headache-inducing. The tile pattern would be a lot on any one element of the room, but having it on everything is just plain overwhelming. It also looks kind of like modern camo, you wouldn’t be able to spot this bathroom in a snowy forest.
“My parents bathroom is on a platform next to an angled ceiling so you hit your head every time… and it has a telephone.”
The step and the angled ceiling are two elements that I’d be willing to forgive on their own. Stuff happens, not everything is perfectly constructed, whatever. But together? And with the baffling addition of a phone, too? What was the build process here?
“This bathroom with too many stairs.”
I posit that any amount of stairs in a bathroom is too many. Bathrooms should not require any steps upwards to access any one part of it, let alone so many steps that they felt the need to install a railing.
“My grandparent’s carpeted bathroom.”
Carpeted bathrooms were a mistake. Whoever the first person to conceive of a carpeted bathroom was, they need their impact on the world erased. This is only worse because of the awful wet-sand brown marble-esque bathtub they have alongside that nasty garbage green carpet. Why did this happen?
“Fake grass around toilet in the man’s bathroom.”
This is sort of like the last photo, but at least that carpet looked soft. Fake grass tends to be harder and more plastic-y, which would make for a terrible sensory experience while trying to go. Did everyone suddenly become allergic to simple tile floors?
“My Friend’s apartment has a 1/2 bathroom on the ground floor. This is the view from the street.
Of course, the main piece of advice being yelled in the comments was for them to get a curtain, and I agree. Any and every window in your home should have a curtain. That doesn’t stop this from still being a terrible bathroom choice, though.
“These creepy people are trying to grab me in the bathroom.”
Okay, remember what I said about people seemingly being allergic to tile floors? This one people can be allergic to. Who genuinely thought that this was okay? Who thought that this was a visual experience people wanted while sitting on the toilet?
“This bathroom in my dads new house. I’m 6’1”. The room is so short they had to cut holes in the ceiling over the toilet and sink so you can stand up.”
I’m also confused about the toilet being on a strange raised platform that looks to be made out of foam. Hopefully, their first project in this new house is to just redo that entire bathroom so your dad won’t spend the rest of his life with his head in the ceiling.
“Heat Lamp vs Bathroom Door In My Hotel Room.”
Inappropriate placement of the heat lamp in relation to the door aside, who puts a heat lamp in the bathroom anyway? Having that on would just make me feel like a lizard in an enclosure in the worst possible way.
“The ‘bathroom’ in my Airbnb will 100% result in shitty encounters with the host.”
There’s not even a curtain hung up to pretend that this is a private bathroom, they really want you to just pop a squat in the middle of the stairwell and pray that no one needs to deescalate for a few minutes.
“This bathroom in a house I was shown by my realtor.”
Sure, there’s not a lot of legroom, but imagine the time you’ll save washing your hands while you use the toilet instead of doing it after! Or, take a page from this guy’s book, use that sink platform to ponder many deep thoughts in your most serene moments.
“Upon walking in this bathroom at the supermarket I was initially disgusted at filth and lack of cleanliness until a closer look revealed it was designed this way.”
Wow. It really does just look like dirt and grime. It’s reminiscent of the wet, grey marks left behind by snow boots that just trudged through some sleet on the side of the road. If only this were actual dirt, then a good pressure wash is all it would need.
“Don’t come down the stairs! I’m pooping!”
Another stairwell bathroom? Is this some trend I’m unaware of? If so, can it stop now? Just like bathrooms don’t need stairs in them, they also don’t need stairs around them unless it is sealed off from those stairs by four walls and a door.
“The ridiculously tiny bathroom with everything you need (or don’t).”
It somehow has more features than a regular bathroom all while being one-tenth of the size. In my corner of the world, you never find built-in bidets like this! So yeah, it’s small, but consider the extra amenities you’re getting. Silver linings and all that.
“[…] the flaw in the ceiling of the living room’s stairs that makes my mom’s bathroom have stairs.”
Here we go again with the stairs. Funnily enough, people weren’t even focused on the steps, instead deciding to highlight all the other issues going on with this bathroom like the sorry excuse for a sink drain. Pick a struggle.
“This is in the office bathroom where I work.”
Your reaction to this could be very indicative of your self-esteem, I think. Are they looking mockingly? Admirably? Do you care about their opinions? All very telling. It’s a strange psychological mind-trick for your work to be playing on you, though.
“Lars Ulrich.”
Um. Yep. It sure is him. Do you think Mr. Ulrich knows about this? Someone must have shown him or tried to anyway. Would he appreciate a half-nude toilet sculpture of himself? Or would he do the sensible thing and file a restraining order against the sculptor?
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“Super awkward semi-transparent bathroom stall doors.”
And they’re all in a circle, too. It reads like a business meeting in a board room, but everyone gets their own private stall and nobody talks about how they’re all using the bathroom while speaking to each other about quotas and profit.
“Bathroom-ception.”
In case being in a stand-alone bathroom didn’t feel private enough, you can scurry on further into the second bathroom, wherein you’ll find an endless spiral of bathrooms within bathrooms to ensure you’ll never be interrupted ever again.
