Potties Part 1: Wood in the Bathroom

I hate to break it to you but, despite the title of today's post, we will not be showing any X-rated decor, instead I'll be focusing on real wood from real trees and how sometimes it's found (totally and completely behaving itself) in the bathroom. Ok, backing up:  the hubs and I are finally starting to talk seriously about redoing this builder-grade-crap-pile of a guest bathroom we've been living with for the last 2 years, which is throwing me into an indecisive whirlwind of overwhelming choices.  Did I ever mention that I'm bad with decisions?  I am.  Anyway, I was going to line up a bunch of different pictures of  bathrooms with various tile choices and force you all to tell me which was best when I realized that there are a TON of bathrooms out there with wood floors.  So many, in fact, that I decided the topic deserved it's own post.

I've looked at this picture a million times (it's in my bathroom file but I'm not sure why) and I just today realized it had wood floors.  So I'm indecisive and unobservant.  Great.  Anyway, I thought to mineself: self!  what the hell?  Aren't those floors going to warp.  I thought wood floors only came in bathrooms that looked like this:

Wood floors here are no surprise, and yes, they are lovely.  They seem to be in good shape so I don't know why they wouldn't work equally well in a modern bath.  Apparently, other homeowners share this thought:

I also came across a few painted wood floors in bathrooms:

But the award for my absolute favorite use of wood (floors) in the bathroom goes to this little gem.  The view doesn't hurt.

What do you guys think?  Would you ever lay wood floors in a bathroom?

A guest poster's crisis...

Hello DC Readers! My name is Amy and today I am honored to be guest blogging here on Design Crisis - its like a dream come true - somebody slap (or spank...) me!  My usual home is over at Waxyhearts where I write about basically everything I love on the internet - most often Etsy - since I am addicted.Enough self promotion...(but I need more readers - really!  My chihuahuas are neglected and they can't justify the time I spend at my computer without at least 100 readers...)...but glad to be here at Design Crisis today where I can have a much larger audience to frighten.  Anyhow I had one heck of a time coming up with something Design Crisis worthy...and I still haven't...so instead I will bore you with the details of my day yesterday - which certainly qualifies as a freaking crisis...

 

So the day begin with turning on my bedside lamp - luckily it takes up most of the nightstand with its huge base - so not only do I not have to dust the nightstand, but I have no room for an alarm clock - thus I have gotten fired from every job I have ever had and now I am on food stamps (thanks to all you hard workers out there for supporting me!!!).

So I go the bathroom to get ready for the day - ugh - accidentally went in the one with the fresh flowers in the faucet - yuck! Flowers and minty toothpaste scents do not go together first thing in the morning (or ever?)! Moving on to the other bathroom...

Just remembered (and forgot due to severe head injury) why I never use this bathroom... Get some ice out of the freezer for my head injury and attempt to sit on my favorite chair...shoot - I forgot that I prefer to sit on my behind...won't fit here!

 

Moving on to my anatomy chair - this is very helpful when I watch Grey's Anatomy...and if I never see Denny again it will be fantastic...

Once my head stops throbbing I head out to the garden to do some planting with my trusty leather handled bucket...since buckets often transport liquid don't ask me why it has a leather handle...at least it looked good when I bought it, right?

 

Heading out for the day! I think I will stop in at this shop - stores that are all white and have limited items always have the most friendly sales people, don't you think? Walking through the door is just like interrupting a conversation between a bunch of people you don't know.

 

Next its over to my friend's dinner party! A few drinks later I get disoriented by the mirror balls (I have a twin? What's happening???) and pass out - my friend not wanting me to mess up their dark house (who would notice vomit in that place anyhow?) drops me at some new hotel close to their condo of darkness....I remember none of it...and luckily I didn't grab one of the guns on the table...

I wake up here - in a hotel made for 5 yr olds?  What???  It takes quite a bit of time to unfold my 6ft body...

 

I guess it could have been worse - they could have made me sleep in a cage surrounded by a bunch of ghosties...Yikes!

 

ahhh - and now I am back home telling you my story! Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks again to Karly & Erin for the privilege of allowing me to guest post - and a big shout out to Erin's husband for getting her knocked up - without him this would not have been possible! Yippee! Don't forget - you can catch me at Waxyhearts if you want to write hateful comments! And don't abandon DC - tomorrow will be better, I promise!

I Think I Might Actually Like This

This evening I finally got to go on a date with my blog friend, Andrea, as if spending hours talking design with her wasn't enough, she topped it all off by sending me a link to the most insane toiletries I've ever seen.  If I were living in my forever house and never had to worry about resale value, I could actually see myself considering these.  Come on, they're hilarious, right?

Ok, please overt your eyes from the dreadful shower curtain(S!) and brown wall treatment.  Ignore the fact that this is shot in a studio and no one would ever have three little cups perfectly aligned on a chair.  Imagine this GOLD TUFTED BATHTUB (can you believe that sequence of words exists?) in a stark, white modern bathroom.  Kinda awesome, yes?

You can at least go for this seat, right?  Ok, I know it's probably the ugliest seat ever to show it's face on the planet earth, but there's something about it that I just kind of adore.  sorry.

I know you all are hating me right now and trying to delete DC from your RSS feed, but what about white?  Again, please ignore the bead trimmed(!!!) curtains.   And the silver base.  Imagine it in gold.

Almost too nice to pee on.

Incase you're planning to race out and buy one for your own home, these babies are made by Lineatre.  

Thanks, Andrea!  You'll see that other post we discussed on here Monday