How many dreadful bathrooms have you seen in your life? There have surely been times you have asked to use a friend's bathroom and have then been confronted by a cold garishly coloured bathroom out of the nineteen sixties! Mostly these monstrous bathrooms are in rented accommodation where the landlord just wants the rent and doesn't want to spend any of it making your life more comfortable.
Unless you are renting an expensive and relatively new apartment, you are always going to run the risk of a third world bathroom.
The worst scenario of all is the student accommodation shared bathroom.
No one seriously wants to take any responsibility for a bathroom shared by three, four or even five students.
These can be even scarier than the shared kitchen.
Fortunately, for most of us the bathroom has been getting a serious makeover in the last twenty years or so.
Forget about the shared student picture for a minute and try to remember what an average hotel was like twenty odd years ago.
As a regular traveller I have had the misfortune of staying in hotels with huge differences between what their brochure says and what the actual condition of the room are.
Many hotels had shared bathrooms and just as many again considered the description of a bathroom was a sink in the corner and a lavatory down the corridor.
Generally hotels today have a minimum of an en suite which includes a bath and a shower with bright modern furniture and fittings.
Some discerning hotels go a step further and create a home from home luxury bathroom with all modern facilities.
Ambiance bain are just one luxury recognisable style that you might be lucky to find on your stay away.
Another annoying habit of hotels of the past was the proliferation of instructions about the room.
Fire drill instructions on the back of the door was one thing but orders on key times and strict meal times was always another thing guaranteed to put you off your stay.
The trouser press was another mystery.
Why did every hotel of every standard have a trouser press? I have seen trouser presses in five star hotels and in one star hotels.
In the five star hotels there was a complimentary laundry service so therefore no need for the trouser press.
In the one star hotel nobody wore anything but wrinkled old jeans; so no need for a trouser press there either! Away from hotels and back to your bathroom.
Let us assume you are the house owner or even a generous and caring landlord! Bathrooms are one of the most important rooms in the house.
In fact a bathroom tells your visitor more about you than any other room.
You can rush around and tidy up your living room before your guests arrive and fool them into thinking what a tidy person you are, but what about that bathroom? Will it let you down when it reveals all its horrible secrets?
Unless you are renting an expensive and relatively new apartment, you are always going to run the risk of a third world bathroom.
The worst scenario of all is the student accommodation shared bathroom.
No one seriously wants to take any responsibility for a bathroom shared by three, four or even five students.
These can be even scarier than the shared kitchen.
Fortunately, for most of us the bathroom has been getting a serious makeover in the last twenty years or so.
Forget about the shared student picture for a minute and try to remember what an average hotel was like twenty odd years ago.
As a regular traveller I have had the misfortune of staying in hotels with huge differences between what their brochure says and what the actual condition of the room are.
Many hotels had shared bathrooms and just as many again considered the description of a bathroom was a sink in the corner and a lavatory down the corridor.
Generally hotels today have a minimum of an en suite which includes a bath and a shower with bright modern furniture and fittings.
Some discerning hotels go a step further and create a home from home luxury bathroom with all modern facilities.
Ambiance bain are just one luxury recognisable style that you might be lucky to find on your stay away.
Another annoying habit of hotels of the past was the proliferation of instructions about the room.
Fire drill instructions on the back of the door was one thing but orders on key times and strict meal times was always another thing guaranteed to put you off your stay.
The trouser press was another mystery.
Why did every hotel of every standard have a trouser press? I have seen trouser presses in five star hotels and in one star hotels.
In the five star hotels there was a complimentary laundry service so therefore no need for the trouser press.
In the one star hotel nobody wore anything but wrinkled old jeans; so no need for a trouser press there either! Away from hotels and back to your bathroom.
Let us assume you are the house owner or even a generous and caring landlord! Bathrooms are one of the most important rooms in the house.
In fact a bathroom tells your visitor more about you than any other room.
You can rush around and tidy up your living room before your guests arrive and fool them into thinking what a tidy person you are, but what about that bathroom? Will it let you down when it reveals all its horrible secrets?
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