Strategies and Secrets from the Notebook of a London Bathroom Design Professional - The Public Bathhouse

Strategies and Secrets from the Notebook of a London Bathroom Design Professional - The Public Bathhouse

Bathroom design professionals in the 1800s would often find themselves employed to create not bathrooms but bathhouses. The bathroom itself only started to become popular when well-heeled London gentlemen started to equip their country mansions with smaller replicas of Roman-inspired dive pools. Enterprising London bathroom designers then started recommending more compact versions for city residences. They advertised the benefits both in terms of regular cleansing (protection from the diseases of the city) and to aid certain ailments. In addition, such luxury bathroom design schemes definitely added to the feeling of opulence and plushness that aristocrats of the era craved!