#KISS: No dress is better
First of all, I would like to admit that everyone has the right to prefer the decoration they want, especially in their own spaces, in their own home, room and entertainment places. So talking about what I don't like doesn't necessarily mean that I'm absolutely right, or that everyone should think like me, or that whoever uses what I mention is doing it wrong. It's just to comment on what I wouldn't use in my case, it's a matter of taste. That said, here it goes.
Decoration is something that can affect your well-being. It can enhance it if you think it's harmonious, or you like it or associate it with something good for you. But it can also affect you in a different way, because if it takes away your peace, disturbs you or makes you uncomfortable, you might want to run away from there. I thought of houses with lots of decorations. Ornaments on tables, on shelves, on the floor, on the ceiling, ornaments, ornaments, ornaments and more ornaments, plastic, ceramic, glass, metal.... How can you clean them all? But since this week's #KISS asked for just one, I decided on one that might get me in trouble.
Toilet dresses! Please, if anyone knows who invented this, congratulate them for me. He must feel very important, because I guess he patented this accessory so that no one would steal his idea and thus earn money for all the pieces that are sold all over the globe. Besides, he must have many followers of his work and his new collections for each season of the year, where he experiments with different types of fabrics, colors and combinations. I have seen such a great variety of these specimens that I can only think that there is only one mastermind behind it all.
However, I am not a fan of this decoration and I have the right not to be. Perhaps some females will ask me: "Why, if they are so cute?" For several reasons. How about this one: I like minimalism in the bathroom.
Sometimes, entering someone else's bathroom for the first time with that decor can lead to funny situations. When you're allowed to use the bathroom, you head in, there's good daylight, so you probably don't need to turn on the light to see everything in that intimate place. You see the door and move towards it while you continue working out the plan to use it without making too much noise, if the door will have a reliable lock, wishing it's not one of those that have two doors, you know? One that you enter from the living room of the house but there is also another one that leads to a room, and that gives you the feeling that they can open it at any time. But well, with your head full of all these important things, you open the door with an elegance and speed that hides your desire to use it, and in the middle of the light you start to see something? It's fringed patterned fabric next to the sink! Oh my! Is someone in there? But when the pupils of your eyes finish to get attached to that place is that you manage to see that it is the toilet that is dressed with one of these things that seem to be made with an old grandmother's robe.
But well, overcoming those first scares that one can get, it seems inappropriate to have so much fabric in a place where water is one of the protagonists. You use it for your hands, in the shower, to clean it, and it can splash in several places. I mean, besides avoiding being called out at home for wetting the floor or not drying the bathtub properly, can I also get a scolding for getting that dress wet? Come on! All the fabric that must be in those places is for getting it wet, isn't it? The curtains that divide the shower from the rest of the bathroom get wet. If they put a towel, it's to dry your hands. If it's a carpet, it's for your feet or sandals to wriggle on. All the fabric there gets wet! But no, not the cloth of the toilet dress.... It's like an untouchable fabric, which only a graceful few can touch. So if we want to avoid that dreaded wake-up call, we have to keep our wet hands away from there, even if it seems to us that they can dry it better than the tanned towel hanging on the wall.
And finally, is it really hygienic to use them? If we already know that some bacteria can survive in those places and even get on our toothbrushes, how can they not get on that cloth that is closer to all the waste of our bodies? How long should that be there? As nice as it looks, I don't want to be the one handling it to get all that into the washing machine. I don't think this idea needs to be developed any further.
If the decision were entirely up to me, I'd prefer toilets without that decor, combined with ceramic colors. Want something that's more different from the others? Well, choose a more stylish and futuristic toilet. I think that will be enough.
What was the hardest part of preparing this content? Taking the pictures. We don't usually take pictures of things we don't like. So I had to get them done exclusively for this. Why do I think this post will get me in trouble? Because the photos correspond to my mother's bathroom...
See you next time (If I survive...).
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