Powder rooms with banjo tops are perfect...

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck) 02/27/2017 at 20:33 • Filed to: Mah junk, Houses

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... For men over 5’6” who want to stare at their genitals for an extra 30 seconds each day.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 20:41

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My mom’s house’s bathroom is like this and I know this feel.

TheJWT > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 20:43

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I stayed in a hotel once with mirrors in front of and behind the toilet, so I could watch myself shit into infinity

garagemonkee > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 20:49

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I absolutely love when you throw shade at home design.

Birddog > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 20:49

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They’re also great at limiting what kind of Toilet you get to install. That looks terrible.

EngineerWithTools > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 20:56

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I have the same problem with this as the interrupted roofline of the house across my street.

Namely, someone looked at it, likely on a CAD screen and said “yeah, that’s good!” A design pox on them.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > garagemonkee 02/27/2017 at 20:57

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This is mid-remodel. I asked the project manager use of the facilities. Whilst using said facilities, I couldn’t help but notice that I could see down to my goddamn knees.

Banjo tops with wall-to-wall mirrors do a great job of making smaller baths feel much larger, but a powder room is not supposed to look — or feel — large, in my book. It’s a closet with a sink and a toilet. Yet often people jazz up their powder room, because it the bathroom that your guests are most likely to use. It’s strictly there to impress people.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 20:58

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What about the discerning gentlemen who sits when he pees?

OPPOsaurus WRX > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 20:59

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i was looking at house listings and came across a picture of a chandelier and checked to see if somehow I had been transferred onto DrZ OPPO post

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 20:59

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Counterpoint: they suck for when you want to work on your toilet.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/27/2017 at 21:00

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NO

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/27/2017 at 21:02

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The biggest crime with those is when on an open floor plan (large kitchen blending into living room blending into foyer kind of thing), they arbitrarily hang a chandelier 5 feet above the ground as if to say, “THIS is where your dining room table goes. I have made that decision before you even walked through this home. Deal with it.”

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > TheHondaBro 02/27/2017 at 21:05

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Silly lowly Snohomish County dweller, working on things is what laborers do. No one living here is going to stick their hand in any toilet reservoir to jiggle a chain.

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 21:07

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WE LIVE IN THE SAME COUNTY

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > TheHondaBro 02/27/2017 at 21:10

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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > TheJWT 02/27/2017 at 21:14

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itranthelasttimeiparkedit > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 21:20

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Our new-to-us house had that. We disagreed, so now if you lean forward a bit when you get up from one end of the table, you will hit your head

OPPOsaurus WRX > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 21:21

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i see what your saying, but having just finished trying to rewire a light in a finished ceiling. how would you wire a chandelier if the rooms finished?

TheJWT > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 02/27/2017 at 21:22

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Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 22:25

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Since when do you live in my wretched county where we don’t do such menial activities?

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 22:27

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OMG, do I hate that. I had two in my place in San Diego (where I had a living room/foyer/kitchen/nook that all blended together). One I dealt with (just put my dining room table under it), but the other one ended up with a zip-tied loop in the cord so I could walk/work/live under it. I still hate them because they dictate furniture locations to you. My last place had a similar open layout, but the hanging chandelier was all the way to the far end of my dining room table. They expected me to have a little square/round table off to the side in there instead of the 6+’ long one I have. So it was never even and I was annoyed...

So glad that my current place has recessed lights (which are annoying for other reasons) everywhere and they dictate nothing about the furniture locations.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 22:38

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I can’t fathom trying to keep that crap clean in a restroom you barely use... Mine is a big enough PITA and I use it more than most due to the weird lopsidedness of the house design (it’s so bad that they put a hot water circulator in the garage so you can have hot water in the loop at the times of day when you’re going to want hot water in the rear-40 of the house, the only problem is that it depends on power, so when the power goes out it ends up off and it’s enough of a pain to set the time that I just gave up on it). 3 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, a den, and an office all 60-80' from the water heater. Boggles the mind.

Spasoje > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2017 at 23:25

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Those mirrors that stretch behind the toilet are just as common up here in Vancouver, and I haaaaaaaaate them. I don’t wanna watch myself taking a leak!!

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/27/2017 at 23:27

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I don’t like chandeliers so the answer is I wouldn’t!

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 02/27/2017 at 23:28

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I’ve effectively lived in SnoCo my entire life

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/28/2017 at 01:02

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I thought you were implying something about King.

LongbowMkII > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/28/2017 at 10:56

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“why is this powder room always so cold?”

Tazio, Count Fouroff > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/28/2017 at 11:20

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For a while there was this gig where I had to travel on someone else’s nickel — also they made the travel arrangements — and one thing that distinguished the posher hotels is that in every one, the hotel-room bathroom had a banjo-WC-mirror deal like you posted, where you could stand and stare at yourself pissing...or pretend not to notice and look elsewhere haha...

Never figured that one out.

Aero > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/28/2017 at 18:38

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Here, in Jefferson, the toilets are outside.

RPM esq. > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/01/2017 at 15:37

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Hey now.