THE IDEAL BATHROOM

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20057, 14 March 1935, Page 12

THE IDEAL BATHROOM

Many bathrooms are illuminated now with a yellow light (says an exchange). This is all the more the case if they are tucked away in cupboards or under the stairs, so forcibly is it recognised that of all things sunshine is necessary for the ideal bathroom. Where, therefore, there is a choice in the matter, it should be an axiom that a good deal of sun is fixed in with the bath. Colouring comes, perhaps, next in conveying that cheerful feeling to the bathroom which makes even of early rising one of the joys usually better described than experienced. If a geyser is used the composition of the wall will need attention, as geysers often have a bad effect on ordinary plaster. Walls which are most agreeable to the eye are usually not tiled, which may be cold and laboratorical, but are painted a good rich shade of cream or yellow. This goes excellently with reddish woodwork, which may be the natural wood well oiled, so that the grain shows and the colouring is only deepened. A large cupboard of this wood, perhaps a slab for a dressing table, wainscoting, and other woodwork, side by side with the cream paint, convey a sense- of cheerfulness at once. The high lights come with the chronium bath taps, and preferably, with a hot towel rail. A mirror without a frame or one framed in the same wood as the room itself gives point to these. Iron windows painted black are the modern version of the leading which used to be charming but which has lost its point to-day. The floor and window sill can be of brown-red tiles, preferably kept in a high state of polish. With the low, white bath, the white towels, the white ceiling, the bathroom looks clean and fresh and warm enough in tone to make even a cold bath comfortable.