Dream Bathroom

Once upon a time I dreamed a dream of a large, luxurious bathroom. I imagined a big walk in shower, a big bathtub for soaking, two sinks, tons of storage, and, since it's a dream bathroom, a big window that would look out into an small enclosed garden.

{ love the green tile in that HUGE shower, the white, the hardwood floors}

{exposed brick with wood and an old fashioned tub, be still my heart}

{gasp! Behold the awesomeness of this very zen shower.}

Alas, our bathrooms have all been less luxury and more simply functional in nature. And small. Really, really small. For example, here is the bathroom in our London flat.

See? Tiny. There was practically no storage at all - just one small three shelf corner cabinet and the small closet in the alcove which was also home to the hot water tank. There wasn't even enough space to fit in our clothes hamper. Things are somewhat better here in Denmark. (I'd show you a picture, but two lights need replacing so it's pretty dark in there right now. You can get a sense of our current bathroom situation here.) We no longer have a tub, but we do have more storage. The most awesome part of our Danish bathroom is the washer and, for the first time in 4 years,  DRYER! I cannot tell you how much this appliance has changed my life. I know that it's much better to hang clothes to dry. I know that they will last longer that way. But you know what? I can do laundry in a day now when it used to take me 3 - 5 days. That's a lot of our week! And our house looked completely trashed with drying racks and dripping clothes hanging everywhere during that time. So, yea! dryer. There is a lot of lint due to said dryer (booo!) which is a little troublesome to get up since it's in the bathroom and somewhat damp, but this is a detail that I can live with. 

Anyway, what I've learned from having small bathrooms is that I really don't like cleaning bathrooms. So unless that big fancy bathroom comes with someone else to clean it, I think I'll take something small but nice. Something like this bathroom I found on Alvhem Makleri. This has everything on my dream bathroom wish list except for the window with a garden view. I love pretty much everything about it.

 I love the white tile/exposed brick combo and slate tile floors. 

I love the dark wood countertop and look at all those drawers!

{Yes, I know that rhymes. It's like I'm writing an ode to this bathroom.}

Oooo... spa bath and...

... a separate shower. It's right there! How very Japanese.

It even has something I think EVERY one bath apartment/house should have - a 

separate room for the toilet with a second sink.  

So small. So simple. So brilliant. 

The first three pics were filed away pre Pinterest, so if anyone has attributions, I'd love it if you could share.