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How To Accessorize One Of The Most Important Rooms In The House - The Bathroom
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gregg_Hall]Gregg Hall

One of the most important rooms in a home is the bathroom. Ask any real estate agent, and they will let you know that a clean, well-decorated bathroom, with a peaceful atmosphere and bright cheerful colors will add thousands of dollars to the value of the home. The bathroom is, according to the real estate pros, of particular interest to the lady of the house. The bathroom is second in importance only to the kitchen when it comes to the homes value in the real-estate market. One of the easiest and most efficient ways to create a bathroom with the appropriate atmosphere and style is the appropriate use of bathroom accessories.

Your first and most important task in changing the look of your bathroom and increasing your homes value is choosing the right color scheme. The color of your walls sets the mood and can create the appearance of more space when you choose light colors. You will also want your bathroom accessories to compliment the wall color, so choose with care. These days a bathroom design can be done in almost any color theme and should compliment the other styles and colors in the home. With the advent of modern technology and the internet, you can shop from the comfort of your own home saving time and gas while viewing the offerings of a variety of retailers at the same time.

By far the most important of the bathroom accessories you will need to buy is the bathroom suite itself (this would encompass the sink, toilet, bathtub and possibly a bidet). You will want to choose a color that compliments the décor of the room, especially the walls and the bathroom tiles. There are many colors to choose from including the traditional white or ivory as well as many pastel shades of pinks, yellows, blues and greens. If you like to change the look of the bathroom frequently, you may want to stick with the traditional colors. You will find many various types of integrated bathroom suites available in either traditional or contemporary designs. The traditional choices range from designs of previous centuries, such as the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Modern designs might include different shower options such as waterfall, multiple heads and ionic technology.

Other important aspects of the bathroom are the faucets or taps. These basic and often overlooked, but completely essential bathroom accessories are available in numerous styles and colors. There are probably more than you can even imagine. Ranging from basic simple classic designs, to the elaborate or even more sleek modern designs, the choices available to the modern consumer is extensive. One important thing to determine is the finish you want. Most standard faucets come in a chrome or gold finish, and some of the more ornate ones have ceramic handles or even plastic characters or other themes.

Once you have decided on the overall décor and color scheme and found the bathroom suite, faucets and handles you can begin to think about other things such as lighting fixtures, mirrors and bathroom accessories. You might consider adding a bidet for increased hygiene. Bidets are very common in Europe and Latin American countries. Some bidet designs are now even integrated into the toilet, and they are increasing in popularity in the United States. Towel bars or racks and bathroom cabinets are the other indispensable elements of the finished bathroom design. You can create a bathroom that provides a haven of peace, tranquility and relaxation with a well chosen color scheme and some thoughtfully selected bathroom accessories.

Gregg Hall is an author living with his beautiful wife and family in Navarre Beach, Florida. Find more about bathroom products as well as bathroom accessories online at http://www.exclusivebathroomaccessories.com

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Your bathroom is probably the most intimate space in your home. Many people invest excessively in renovating their bathrooms in the belief that the reflection of their personality can be found in the design of the bathroom. When your guests use your bathroom, they take the time to look around and examine the style and accessories decorating the bathroom. Your wealth and style will be reflected from the perfection of work and the material you use.

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Mexico: The Land Of Little Butts
By Douglas Bower

If you have only been a tourist in Mexico and have never lived
here, you may have never noticed this. Mexico is a country of
little butts and its entire infrastructure is designed for their
small, and perky rear-ends. In know this for a fact because I am
a professional writer trained to note and record such things.

Americans, of course, have all of the fat-butt genes God handed
out at creation. There is no use in denying this, so don't try.
You will not win the argument. Americans have the fattest
keisters on the planet and all the proof you need is to come to
Mexico, stay for about a month, and try to get along "well" in
normal daily affairs.

We have to be assisted into the back seat of Mexican cabs
because our fannies are so large that we cannot get in and out
of the backseats without the fire department coming with the
Jaws of Life. When we try riding the buses all we can get into
the seat is one butt-cheek with the other hanging over the side
looking and flopping about like a swollen blob-monster. It also
becomes plaintively apparent when we try to get in and out of
some of the doors installed in these buildings—houses included.
They were all built for hobbits, which, by the way, are real and
all live here in Guanajuato. Mexico.

My wife and I notice this too when we try going out to eat. I
swear to God that every restaurant in the town is designed for
someone no more than 4.5 feet tall. This includes the entrances
and the seating arrangements. I can get one side of my fundament
onto the chair cushion and one kneecap under the table. The
other leg has to stay extended out in to the aisle causing all
manner of havoc with people trying to jump over this
telephone-pole-sized leg. They act horrified since they have
never seen something so huge.

In addition, the toilets: I think I have some permanent damage,
or something, from trying to sit on these toilet seats designed
for someone with a backside the size of a hand puppet. I have
actually broken many of them—I am deadly serious—all around town
in the public facilities. I try never to frequent the same
public facility twice so as not to be recognized. I am sure
there is a warrant out for my buttock crimes.

It is nightmarish!

Not only does this town's infrastructure cater to little-butted
people but also to people who are the size of Santa's Elves. I
know I have sustained multiple concussions from forgetting that
the doors in all these homes and buildings are built with the
"little folks" in mind. I have rearranged my scalp, not
purposely mind you, on many occasions from scraping it on the
doors. We had an apartment here where the back door was less
than two feet wide. I swear I am not making this up. I could not
enter nor exit that back door without contorting myself into an
inhuman and ungodly shape. I simple could not walk squarely
through that door.

I cannot describe to you what it is like to be a giant in a
land of little hobbits.

I had to travel eight hours to a resort town that had a
Wal-Mart that catered to big-butted King Kongs just to buy a
pair of underwear. I do not for one nanosecond believe that I
would be able to find underwear in Central Mexico to fit me.
There isn't the demand to accommodate fat butts.

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Gender and public toilets

Separation by sex is characteristic of public toilets to the extent that pictograms of a man or a woman are used to indicate where the respective toilets are. These pictograms are sometimes (e.g., in California) enclosed within standard geometric forms to reinforce this information, with a circle representing a women's toilet and a triangle representing a men's facility. Pictograms depicting men and women in traditional dress (men in pants, women in skirts) have been criticized for perpetuating gender stereotypes; however, there may be no practical alternatives. Standard gender symbols are rarely used.

Sex-separated public toilets are a source of difficulty for some people. For example, people with children of the opposite sex must choose between bringing the child into a toilet not designated for the child's gender, or entering a toilet not designated for one's own. Men caring for babies often find that only the women's washroom has been fitted with a change table. People with disabilities who need assistance to use the restroom have an additional problem if their helper is the opposite sex.

Sex-separated public toilets are often difficult to negotiate for transgendered or androgynous people, who are often subject to embarrassment, harassment, or even assault or arrest by others offended by the presence of a person they interpret as being of the other gender (whether due to their outward presentation or their genital status). Transgendered people have been arrested for using not only bathrooms that correspond to their gender of identification, but also ones that correspond to the sex they were born with.
men's public restroom symbol
men's public restroom symbol

women's public restroom symbol
women's public restroom symbol
See also: SVG symbols of restroom symbols

Many existing public toilets are gender-neutral. Additionally, some public places (such as facilities targeted to the transgendered or LGBT communities, and a few universities and offices) provide individual washrooms that are not gender-specified, specifically in order to respond to the concerns of gender-variant people; but this remains very rare and often controversial. [2] Various courts have ruled on whether transgendered people have the right to use the washroom of their gender of identification. [3]

A significant number of facilities have additional gender-neutral public toilets for a different reason — they are marked not for being for females or males, but as being accessible to persons with disabilities, and are adequately equipped to allow a person using a wheelchair and/or with mobility concerns to use them.

Another recent development in public toilets is the "family restroom". Family restrooms are unisex but unlike other unisex bathrooms that allow only one user at a time, the family restroom contains multiple stalls designed for maximum privacy and communal washing area for use by both genders. The family restroom is designed so that a parent with a young child of the opposite gender can bring the child into the restroom with them without the concerns associated with single-gender restrooms. Family restrooms have started appearing in newly-built sports stadiums, amusement parks, shopping malls, and major museums.

Toilets in private homes are almost never separated by sex. However, the size of a home or facility bears on the availability of options. Small facilities are limited by their space to the toilet options they can offer; it is more common to find a higher number of choices in a large facility. The same is true for homes; in more affluent households in the USA, where the homes are usually larger, bathrooms are also often more spacious than average, and more numerous. In such homes, bathrooms (especially master bathrooms) are increasingly being designed with a small adjoining room exclusively for the toilet, as well as separate washing basins. This makes it easier for couples who share a bathroom to maintain their desired level of privacy and personal space. In Australia, it has long been the case that the toilet is in a separate room from the bathroom. However, a refinement not seen often in Australia is to provide a small washbasin in the same room so that users need not emerge with unwashed hands.









Toilets in public transport

There are usually toilets in airliners, regional rail trains, and often in long-distance buses and ferries, but not in metros, school buses, trams, and other buses. Many newer trains have a waste reservoir, but, in older trains and still in some newer ones, the contents simply fall on the tracks, hence the notice which appears in many train toilets: "Please do not flush while the train is standing at a station".

Lavatories on aircraft consist of a sink, a waste bin, and a toilet. On many newer aircraft the toilet does not flush with water; rather, suction removes the waste into a collection bin below cabin level. This type is generically known as a vacuum lavatory. Older aircraft use a lavatory tank below the toilet (normally hidden by a hinged "flapper valve" at the bottom of the toilet bowl) and a pump to filter and recirculate lavatory fluid to facilitate flushing.












"High-tech" toilets

Advanced technology is being integrated into toilets with more functions, especially in Japan - see Toilets in Japan. The biggest maker of these toilets is TOTO. Such toilets can cost anywhere from US$2,000 to $5,000. The features are operated by control pads (sometimes with bilingual labels), and even hand-held remote control devices. Some of these features are

* Automatic-flushing mechanisms, operated by a photocell or other sensor. Typically these flush a toilet when the user stands up, or flush a urinal when the user steps away.
* Water jets, or "bottom washers" like a bidet, as an alternative to toilet paper
* The "Portable Washlet", Toto's portable hand-held bottom washer
* Blow dryers, to dry the body after use of water jets
* Artificial flush sounds, to mask noises such as body functions
* Urine and stool analysis, for medical monitoring. Matsushita's "Smart Toilet" checks blood pressure, temperature, and blood sugar.
* Digital clock, to monitor time spent in the bathroom
* Automatic lid operation, to open and close the lid
* Heated seats (Some of these toilets have been known to catch on fire)[citation needed]
* Deodorizing fans
* Automated paper toilet-seat-cover replacers, which automatically replace a paper toilet-seat cover with the push of a button.




















"Lo-tech" toilets

According to The Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 by the World Health Organization, 40% of the global population does not have access to excreta disposal facilities, mostly in Asia and Africa. There are efforts to design toilets that are easy to build and maintain with simple materials, that are also hygienic. The World Toilet Organization has created some designs. See Outhouse.











Toilets for people with disabilities

Further information: Accessible toilets

Toilets for people with disabilities have a number of alterations to help people with a disability, most notably for people who use wheelchairs. These toilets may include lowered fixtures such as sinks and water fountains; adequate space and grab bars for maneuvering. In the United States, most new construction for public use must be built to ADA standards for accessibility.











Grey water
In some areas with water shortage issues, in order to conserve levels of potable water, some installations use grey water for toilets. Grey water is waste water produced from processes such as washing dishes, laundry and bathing.




History
Toilets appeared as early as 2500 BC. The people of the Harappan civilization in Pakistan and north-western India had water-flushing toilets in each house that were linked with drains covered with burnt clay bricks. Around the 15th century BC, toilets started to appear in Minoan Crete; Egypt in the time of the Pharoahs, Persia, and ancient China.[citation needed] In Roman civilization, toilets were sometimes part of public bath houses.

Roman toilets, like the ones pictured here, are commonly thought to be used in the sitting position. But sitting toilets only came into general use in the mid-19th century.[8] A strong case has been made for the squatting hypothesis.[9]

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Incinerating toilet

An incinerating toilet is a toilet that burns the excrement instead of flushing it away with water.

A film liner is dropped into the bowl each time it is used to keep it clean. The liner and excrement drop down through a door in the bottom of the bowl into the incinerator. The excrement is burned into a small amount of ash. The outer surface of the incinerator is cool to the touch. When the container is full of ash, the ash is dumped in any trash can.

Incinerating toilets are usually installed in places where access to a septic system is limited, such as camps, cabins, shacks, accessory buildings, self-sufficient autonomous buildings, or homes hit by natural disasters in which plumbing has been damaged.

Incinerating toilets require no plumbing/pipes in the house. This reduces the cost of building a home. A tube in the back of the toilet connects to a vent hole in the wall of the house to blow air outside.

Electric or gas-fired (natural gas or propane) incinerating toilets are available.

Gas incinerating toilets are portable outhouses without toilet bowls, where the excrement is dropped into a chamber located under the toilet seat. Gas incinerator toilets and their venting should be carefully inspected annually. An air space must remain clear under the toilet for proper airflow during incineration. A rug should not be under the toilet. The unit cannot be in a airtight room. Air vents in the wall/cealing might be necessary.





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A Short History Of The Toilet
By Tony Brings

Toilets are an essential part of our everyday lives. We tend to
take the toilet very much for granted and not really like to
think about it too much until we find that we desperately need a
toilet and none can be found. We forget that modern toilets are
a luxury in a lot of under developed countries and find it a
huge inconvenience if our toilet doesn’t work.

Toilets that we are used to using are a relatively recent
invention, and used to be only affordable by the very wealthy.
Even now the evolution of the toilet is still in progress with
technological advances including automatic flushing controlled
by sensors and economy settings to allow less water to be used
when the toilet fills up. The issue of hygiene is a constant one
and, along with all the different types of toilet cleaners and
fragranced deodorizers there are even public toilets that clean
themselves after each visit.

The prevalence of indoor plumbing has been the main factor in
the availability of toilets inside our homes. It is this
plumbing that ensures the toilet keeps functioning correctly and
we don’t have to do anything more than pull the chain or press
the handle. Before this all toilets were separate from the main
house in small outhouses. The water supply that these outhouses
were connected to was totally detached from the ones used inside
the house.

Toilets in outhouses began in a very basic fashion, a hole in
the ground. Then seats were fashioned from planks of wood with
openings in them to enable a person to dispose of their toilet
waste while sitting rather than squatting. These primitive
toilet facilities were then enclosed to provide a little privacy
for the occupants. Wealthy house owners could use chamber pots
in the privacy and comfort of their own bedrooms, or bed
chambers. These were usually made from ceramic and were emptied
by servants. As these pots became a more accepted method of
going to the toilet there were fewer places to empty them,
especially in towns and cities, and people would throw the
contents out of their windows onto the streets.

Thankfully we have progressed a long way since the days if
having to dodge the contents of someone’s toilet being thrown
over our heads as we walked along the street.

About the Author: Tony Brings is owner of Bathroom Pros.
Bathroom remodeling is one of the most popular home improvement
projects. At Bathroom Pros you will get tips to make your
bathroom remodeling project a complete success.
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