RANT: Architects & Contractors: Stop building dumb bathrooms!

[Hand of Evil]

best mens room was in an club, now gone, it was the wall! Some one just took some bricks and layed them six inches away and just had water running down the wall. On the wall in BIG RED letters, piss here!!!

One of the worst, was when they were building a high school...they forgot to put in drainage for the shower rooms.

 

[Merkuri]

One of the oddest bathrooms I've seen was a "nested" bathroom. It was in some random gas station. It was a private unisex bathroom. As you entered the toilet was right in front of you and the sink was on your left, but in the far left corner (diagonal from the door) there was another room with a door and another toilet.

This is a diagram of the room. Asterisks (*) are used for spacing, lines are walls, ds are doors, Ts are toilets, and S is the sink.

----------
|T**|*T*|
|***|***|
---d--***|
|S******|
--------d-

The first toilet was not covered or blocked in any way. It was not in a stall, it was just sitting there in the open next to this inner room with another toilet. It didn't look like had ever been any attempt to put up a stall.

You'd think that with two toilets it meant that the bathroom was actually not a private bathroom, but the only way that two people could use this bathroom at the same time and not see each other peeing would be if someone went into the inner room first, closed the door, and stayed there until the person in the outer room did his/her business, washed his/her hands, and left, at which point the second person could come out of the inner bathroom, wash his/her hands, and leave.

It was so nonsensical that I actually checked to see if I was dreaming (since I often dream of odd bathrooms if I have to pee while I'm sleeping).

 

[fba827]

One of the oddest bathrooms I've seen was a "nested" bathroom.

If you replace the 'outter' toilet with a urinal, you have a fairly common men's room layout. My guess is that the took that men's room layout and just replaced the urinal since it was supposed to be a unisex toilet. (or it used to just be a men's room and there is a ladies room 'around the corner', but they converted the ladies room to employees only and therefore the men's room needed to be unisex.

But the result, yes, is very nonsensical for common usage.

(snip)since I often dream of odd bathrooms(snip)

You, my friend, have been blessed with an abundance of problems that no therapist will ever be able to fix.

 

[jonesy]

A gas station in western Russia.

I walk into the bathroom. In front of me, fixed to the wall, is a mirror. On the left is a toilet. Above the toilet, almost blocking the lever for the toilet, is a sink. It's not attached to anything, because the plumbing for the sink is below the mirror. The water faucet for the sink is on the wall on the right. I know it's the faucet for the sink, because there is a shower faucet above the toilet and the sink. There is no sinkhole on the floor for the shower, just the toilet.

The gas station attendant just said that the owner was having problems with the contractor. He didn't know whether the bathroom had been finished before or after the troubles began, so it might not actually have been incompetence.

It was so nonsensical that I actually checked to see if I was dreaming (since I often dream of odd bathrooms if I have to pee while I'm sleeping).

 

[Merkuri]

You, my friend, have been blessed with an abundance of problems that no therapist will ever be able to fix.

I find it hard to believe that I'm the only one who dreams of peeing if I'm sleeping and have to pee.

 

[jonesy]

I find it hard to believe that I'm the only one who dreams of peeing if I'm sleeping and have to pee.

I get waterfalls and fountains and one time this old lady selling bottles.

 

[fba827]

I find it hard to believe that I'm the only one who dreams of peeing if I'm sleeping and have to pee.

It isn't the dreaming of peeing (wow, am I really typing that phrase?) it's the "dream of odd bathrooms" part... :

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

In a little family restaurant somewhere in small-town America (maybe even here in TX?), there's a men's room with two toilets facing each other, no stalls or barriers. It was great for a casual conversation with a good friend, I suppose.

In a Chinese restaurant in (Romania maybe? I don't recall), the toilet and sink were just off in a corner of the restaurant. The toilet was walled off from the main dining room in a stall, so, yes, you could see the person's feet while feasting on your kung pao chicken. The sink was walled off from the dining area with a stylish beaded curtain, however.


(And fwiw, I also dream about weird bathrooms when I need to pee while I'm asleep. Most frequent one is of a cavernous dark space, like the great cistern beneath Istanbul, only scarier. )

 

[fba827]

I do a lot of traveling for family things.

I have actually gotten used to (though still dislike) the hole in the ground toilet style. However, my absolute least favorite bathroom ever (not counting ones that i disliked simply from being unclean) was ....

hole-in-the ground toilet and about 1 inch away was where you had to stand for the shower. if you stepped slightly to the side you'd have a foot in the toilet. if you turned around, you'd be staring down the toilet. and while you stand there you'd also keep thinking about anyone/everyone who couldn't aim right and may have missed the toilet to begin with. There was no way you could ever feel clean in that shower. It's been 5 years since and I can not shake it from my mind. Worst design ever in my experience.

 

[fba827]

*double post - ignore*