While the others at office were busy pushing magical bikes (read Shreya's blog here), I had a very different kind of day. Almost the whole day went in selecting things related to bathrooms - fittings, fixtures and tiles.
Ask any intern applying for an architectural internship in any firm and they would tell you that the word they dread hearing the most would be 'bathrooms'. Bathrooms seem boring - take a commode, a sink and a shower area, place it - and there, the bathroom is done . I thought the same too. Surprisingly enough, the day was exhausting - but not as intellectually draining as I thought it would be. Bathrooms could be made into interesting spaces too.
Accompanying a client who needed some advice picking fixtures and tiles for their bathrooms, we set off to a jaguar showroom and spent our day looking at shower heads, commodes and flush tanks. Later, we looked at glossy vs Matt tiles, marble lookalike ceramic tiles and many other versions of tiles. We have seen it all, fixtures that cost about Rs.1000 to ones that cost lakhs and lakhs. People have spend hours designing these units - considering the white deposits on the shower head, the aesthetics of the pipes that run and factors of cleanliness, comfort etc. Suddenly, designing bathrooms didn't seem as pointless as it did earlier.
Later, as I got back home and looked into my bathroom, I could see details which would have made the design better and my home a much more comfortable space. I wondered if there was an disillusioned intern who could have possibly made the drawings for this space which is one of the spaces I use the first thing in the morning.
It's probably time to design a couple of beautiful bathrooms.
P.S We have set our eyes on an expensive jacuzzi which I think would be a perfect addition to the office. Just have to convince Sai to get it for us.
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