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[mindmetoo]

I don't know about you but I got one of those "Asian" style bathroom at my apartment. I'm not talking one of those squat thing. I'm talking like a shower/sink combo. There's no separate shower/bath stall. Oh to have a tub for soaking in... but that's another post.

Anyway, the whole room is pure tile and there's a drain on the floor. At first I was like "Hmmmmm�� I kinda like the Western bathrooms." But I see now the advantage of the Asian style bathroom. Cleaning is a snap. Soap up the whole room with a mop (floor, toilet, sink, walls) and then hose everything down with the removable shower head. The end.

Too bad the rest of my apartment wasn't like that! God the dust bunnies here��

[Swiss James]

they have that kind in Israel too, I wonder if it's a hot country thing?

If you want a good soak though, public baths are your friend.

[ed]

I moved into my apartment a year ago and I thought the same thing too.

what a great bathroom system! though I do miss a bathtub.

now, however, I don't like my bathroom due to mold and rusting metal and rotten wood, especially the door and the cabinet!

now I wish I had an enclosed shower....

[Saxiif]

Better than Bolivian bathrooms. They've got an electric thing in the shower head and if you're tall you'll get electrocuted occasionally.

That said, I can't stand the Korean bathrooms that have the TP in the main area instead of the stalls, always a bit strange having to estimate the consistency of my shit so as to be able to choose to correct amount of paper.

[aussie col]

what i cant work out is why there isn't any heating in any bathrooms. I'm an ozzie from warmer parts so i don't normally have to worry about these things. but i would think that since koreans are so great and designed this great underfloor heating (which i love) why can't the bathroom be heated? it took me a while to work out that it wasn't my crappy shaving cream that wouldn't foam... but the face that it would get so cold that it wouldn't want to come out of the can.

sitting on a toilet with air temperature around 0 deg C isn't my idea of fun. sitting on a toilet (summer time), hungover with the show spraying me however is. it's the only thin i like about these small bathrooms.

[JackSarang]

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[wylde]

[Danielos]

I am with you wylde. I have the same type of bathroom. It also has no heated floor. I always keep the door closed at night to keep the heat in the main room. But it is so cold to go in there in the morning. If only the floor were heated ... sigh

[The Man known as The Man]