Thursday, November 12, 2020

Even the toilet...

 ...deserves proper attention :-)

In reality I have even long term plans for this room, as it is almost intact from 1958 when the Edler had moved in in Villa Bellevue. The same tiles were found in the bigger bathroom and as far as I have understood, they were also in the kitchen, at the time. 

The toilet is breathing 60s with its style
I sadly haven't had the time to look behind the paperboard that is today on the walls. I have seen a picture from the previous owner where the walls had some yellow medallion wallpaper, but I do not know if that is from the 70s or earlier (I doubt it was the original one).
The roof is lowered - I guess for adding the ventilation, but who knows, maybe there are other interesting traces there if one would there to open up? - but my understanding is that this was a small wardrobe room from the start. 
Windows and doors were in dark brown with a slight tint of red. 

I am probably repeating myself from previous posts where I have described the toilet and what I have deducted/found around it, but I do not remember everything I wrote in these years :-)
Nevertheless, although I have the ambition to one day fix this room but simply patching where the column for the upstair bathroom has been placed, paint doors/windows with the right shade, have once again the 60s-70s bathrooms accessories (hangers, mirrors, etc.) and have the most appropriate wallpaper on the wall, right now we are happy to just add some minor decorations.

A perfect jugend newspaper holder
As the space in the room is quite limited, being it pretty small and narrow, I can't add much furniture in it. But the walls can be decorated. 
It is probably a bit suboptimal, in a toilet from the 60s, to have a jugend decor, but I think the mix and match works quite ok in this context.
The latest addition is then a jugend embroidered newspaper/magazine that matches the toilet rolls holder on the wall and can keep some of the "toilet cultural material" in place. 
It at least got some attention through this blog post! :-)