How often do you get a friendly elephant to test the temperature of your bath water? Taking a bath with an elephant is definitely on my bucket list!
Hello Kitty bathroom tiles
When I was a kid I was a huge Hello Kitty fan. I loved going to the shops to check out all the new hello kitty merchandise. One of my favorite pieces was a hello kitty aloha pencil. I didn`t sharpen it for the longest time because I didn`t want to use it up. I still have that hello kitty sharpener and still can`t resist stopping to check out hello kitty merchandise whenever I spot some, ok, and maybe buying one or two things... So when I saw these hello kitty tiles I had to snap some photos.
Love this little red and white heart tile boarder.
Aren`t these tiles with the hello kitty bow pattern adorable?
These hello kitty tiles would be fun for a girl's bathroom. I can just picture a little girl wearing her hello kitty pjs, brushing her teeth with her hello kitty toothbrush in this bathroom.
Were you a big hello kitty fan? What is your favorite piece you own?
images via: todaloos
Above the door bathroom storage solutions
It's fun to look at all the pretty bags in this photo. I am in love with Goyard bags at the moment, especially the blue shade of this yummy bag! I don't know if I would want to keep my precious bags and shoes in the bathroom like this. All that humidity must not be good for these beauties. It does look spectacular thought. And oh the amount of storage, heaven for city apartments with little space!
It would be great to style this shelving with bathroom products. I could see replacing the rows of shoes with pretty bath towels maybe do an ombre effect with the towels. I`d get towels in varying shades of orange and pink and stack descending from light to dark. Then I'd add a section with matching soaps, bath salts, a dish of bath bombs, oils and lotions all in pretty containers , a big glass jar full of my nail polishes,and some reading material....stacks of Vogue, Instyle and Inc magazine and maybe a few saucy hardcover novels. For the higher up shelves I'd use those to store glass vases and crystal candlesticks.
Now if you don`t have room for a big storage unit like this, then here are a few great examples of easy, build in a weekend, over the door shelving projects:
The wire basket to hold the toilet paper is a great idea. It looks good & it makes it easy to reach the tp without having them come tumbling down on your head.
Case in point:
This makes me think of an old client of mine, their bathroom had a shelf like this. It must have had over 100 roles of toilet paper stacked on it. They definitely shopped at Costco!
Ok, not exactly a bathroom, but I thought the recessed shelving was a great idea to
copy for above the bathroom door.
And this would also work great over the door. The glass window shutters add a nice rustic touch and you wouldn`t have to worry about things falling onto your head if someone slams the door.
images via: elle decor, cameron and company, house and home, martha stewart x 2, houzz, absolutely beautiful things, molly frey design, lushome
Hitler's bathroom
I stumbled upon this photo by pure accident. I was looking for the reference to a photo of Helena Bonham Carter and I saw this photo of this woman in a bathtub and wondered who she was. I though maybe she was a celebrity of days gone by so I looked into it. And what an unusual story I found. I hesitated about doing a post on Hitler. I actually wrote this post back in September and have left it in draft mode and was thinking again about just deleting it. At the time I wrote it I I had found the story interesting so I figured others might find it interesting too. Looking at it again, I still think it's a painful, unusual story, a horrible moment in history that I hope will never be repeated.
So here goes...
So here goes...
The bathroom you see above was the bathroom of Adolf Hitler. The girl sitting in the tub was working for Vogue. The day this photo was taken was a day or two after Hitler committed suicide. Interesting no? That's my coles notes version.
Here's the more detailed version of the story behind these photos (it's so well written, I didn't think it would do any good putting it into my own words):
Here's the more detailed version of the story behind these photos (it's so well written, I didn't think it would do any good putting it into my own words):
Lee Miller, covering WWII for Vogue teamed up with the American photographer David E. Scherman, a Life magazine correspondent. The above photograph by Scherman of Miller in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler’s house in Munich.
The night after Miller visited Dachau, on April 30, 1945–earlier that day Hitler committed suicide in Berlin–Miller and Scherman entered Munich with the American 45th Division that was liberating the city. They happened upon a dilapidated and normal-looking apartment building on Prinzenregentplatz 27, and realized, upon entering, that it was Hitler’s Munich apartment. They billeted there for three days. Miller wrote to her Vogue editor Audrey Winters:
“I was living in Hitler’s private apartment when his death was announced, midnight of Mayday. . . Well, alright, he was dead. He’d been an evil-machine-monster all these years, until I visited the places he made famous, talked to people who knew him, dug into backstairs gossip and ate and slept in his house. He became less fabulous and therefore more terrible, along with a little evidence of his having some almost human habits; like an ape who embarrasses and humbles you with his gestures, mirroring yourself in caricature.”
When the photo came out, it was considered an extremely poor judgement. For some, Miller posing nude in the tub of one of the most repulsive men in history was nothing more than a ill-timed reflection of the adage, “To the victor goes the spoils”. For others, it represents the power of life over death, “The living do what they can and the dead suffer what they must”. Lee Miller herself shied away from the controversies but reprouding the image very rarely and noted that she was merely trying to wash the odors of Dachau away.
This is what the The New York Times had to say about this photo: “A picture of the Führer balances on the lip of the tub; a classical statue of a woman sits opposite it on a dressing table; Lee, in the tub, inscrutable as ever, scrubs her shoulder. A woman caught between horror and beauty, between being seen and being the seer.”
Digging a bit more I found another interesting, but sad detail of this photo re
the boots in the photos:
The boots on the bath mat, says V&A curator Mark Haworth-Booth, 'had walked through the horror of the Dachau death camp earlier the same day.'
Sad, sad. I would not want to and could not sit in that tub.
Digging a bit more I found another interesting, but sad detail of this photo re
the boots in the photos:
The boots on the bath mat, says V&A curator Mark Haworth-Booth, 'had walked through the horror of the Dachau death camp earlier the same day.'
Sad, sad. I would not want to and could not sit in that tub.
I wonder if they placed the framed photograph of Hitler on the bathtub to create more of a sensational photo or if Adolf Hitler actual had a photo of himself on his bathtub? Only Miller and Scherman will ever know.
I don't know how she was able to sit in that tub or live in his apartment. Just the thought of it makes my stomach turn and looking at those boots makes me want to cry.
I don't know how she was able to sit in that tub or live in his apartment. Just the thought of it makes my stomach turn and looking at those boots makes me want to cry.
Please visit "Tweedland" the gentleman's club blog to continue to read about the fascinating life of Lee Miller. Jeeves, really did an outstanding job writing this very detailed post: here
Another post of his I enjoyed was the story of the origin of the bowler hat. You can check it out: The Bowler hat
Tub base Tuesday: Matching wood tub surround to wood panel flooring
Like? I'm not sure.
This wood is gorgeous, I think it might be ipe. It does look nice and clean and bright. However, this is a bit too much wood for my taste. Plus, I'm not a big fan of wood flooring in the bathroom. Always having to make sure you've wiped up every drop of water, I prefer something more low maintenance. This floor would look fabulous in the rest of the house though.
image via: unknown
Pets in tubs: Who's the cutest Cats vs Dogs
Who's cuter? Cats or dogs in tubs?
images via: 1912 bungalow, the zhush , my world of illusions, I am Maru
Tub with a view: A dream glass ceiling
Since this week we looked at some frosted showers, I figured that this was the perfect tub with a view to post. What is not to drool over about this bathroom?
I absolutely love the look of the shower area. Yeah, that glass ceiling is spectacular and I bet the view from the tub is equally divine and if I owned this shower I don't think I would even mind if people jumped up and down outside to see over the frosted glass into the shower, I would be that happy. Hey, they'd probably catch me dancing around in the shower I'd be so over the moon to own a place like this. What I love most about this design is the white section of the shower surrounded by the stone. Such a simply stunning design.
image via: arch daily
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