Dude. Check it out. The weirdest thing ever is going on here. You see? You see it? So bizarre: the toilet paper is hung on the shower stall door. Crazy!
There might be something else wrong here, too.
(Found By: Mikael V)
Tags: not the bathroom, odd layout, toilet
It is obvious what else is amiss. The ceilings are made of wood, which will warp from the shower’s humidity.
Would it make a difference if the top of the shower was sealed off, so humidity could only escape when you open the door? I don’t know much, but that still seems like a bad combo, so I agree.
We had a Swedish style bathroom – the wood is is made from slats which interlock. Each slat is nailed in place separately, then the whole assembly is varnished over with a waterproof layer. There’s no water penetration, so there is no problem with warping or mold.
I was watching Seinfeld in Finnish one day and thought, no no, Kramer has it all wrong!
Putting the toilet in odd (and unconcealed) locations seems to be the new fad. I’ve come across toilets in kitchens, toilets in living rooms, toilets in rec rooms, toilets in bedrooms. I guess in the modern age there’s just no need for privacy–and your guests better be both tolerant and intimate!
That is absolutely repellent.
There’s a reason for this — they did it in East Village (Manhattan) apartments all the time. Note the stairs to the sleeping loft and the lack of stove/oven, plus wardrobe right under the stairs? I think this place is probably 20 square feet.
285 square feet. And highly efficient! Just, no guests, please… ew..
Yep, like Sarah said, 285 square feet. To be fair to this place, it’s not intended as a full-time residence. It’s a vacation cabin. They’re lucky to even have indoor plumbing.
Actually, I take it back after reading the listing more carefully. While this type of building is typical of a holiday cottage, this one is intended as a full-time residence. Somebody stuck a little cottage on their property and they’re hoping to rent it out. That’s probably the reason they added the oddly placed bathroom suite. I doubt the renter would want to use an outhouse, and I doubt the landlord would want to let them use the bathroom in the main house.
What’s really weird is that the bedroom is clearly up those stairs and is a real room. Stairs like that and I’d expect a loft.
You can just barely see the railing on the left side of the upstairs photo. The house is that small that basically you get to the upstairs through a hole in the floor, and the “walls” of the upstairs are actually the roof.
I know its the “attic” but here we have “loft” bedrooms that are just wood platforms, usually lacking a proper floor, and often not tall enough to stand upright in.
So while you’re waiting for the potato to bake, you have a quick shower. What’s odd about that?
It needs a low butcher block in the kitchen so you can sit on the toilet and chop vegetables at the same time, LOL!
OMG LOLOLOL
Yeah, and a kitchen table so you can eat while you’re sitting on the toilet. A real boon for people on the go … so to speak.
How sanitary. :-/
Ooooooh … how sanitary!
According to the listing, it’s 285 sq. ft. (26,50 sq. m.). That’s tiny. I was going to ask how on earth it passed code, until I clicked through and found out it’s not in America. I just can’t imagine the spray from flushing being IN the kitchen. (shivers)
That’s exactly what I was thinking. If they can find stuff on our toothbrushes because people flush with the lid open, just imagine how gross it would be to prepare your kitchen on the countertops!
Last week on How Clean is Your House UK, Kim and Maggie did a demonstration of how far poo particles travel when you flush using a giant toothbrush and firehose of brown slime. That’s what I’m seeing when I look at this.
Ha Ha! you said doody, I mean duty
Why not at least hang drapes? Why not rough in two walls with a door? Why? Why? Why?!
Because they wanted an open layout.
I’d makeshift drapes if I had to. If that was like, 100 bucks a month everything included I’d probably rent it.
Oh wow, I was so distracted by all the wood-on-wood (ie: the interior design equivalent of a Texas Tudexo) that I didn’t even notice the whole edible cesspool situation. Man, what a charming apartment.
I like this. It’s a lot larger than some very efficient efficiencies I’ve had. I would put a screen between the toilet and cooking area and always close the lid before I flushed. Doesn’t everyone do that anyway?
You don’t need reading material in the bathroom anymore. You can cook & make yourself a coffee while you do your “business.” It’s revolutionary, really. I wrote a book about how to take real estate ad photos that actually are helpful.
There’s no excuse for this. Even the Tumbleweed Tiny Houses of 120 square foot don’t have the potty facing the kitchen.
Haven’t they ever heard of the saying “don’t poop where you eat”?
Frosted glass? What’s the point? You’re going to have to get out of the shower sometime….
This person has it both better and worse than I did when living in Denmark. My toilet was in a closet, so at least there was a door you could close, but the shower was in the basement. Every morning I had to go down three flights of stairs to take a shower, which was shared with the other three apartments in the building. Then I moved to Texas where I now live in a house which is roughly five times as big and rent is roughly 1.5 times as much.
Ah, what a wonderful scene, I can see it all now; Pa’s on the crapper, reading the sports section while Ma’s baking a tuna-cheese casserole in the microwave, the Twins are working on their coloring book at the picnic table, Sis is in the shower getting ready for her date, and Gran’pa’s applying denture paste at the white sink in the tidying-up nook. The half-spider plant is growin’, the plastic topiary on the top shelf ain’t, the cat’s asleep upstairs on the bed and all’s right with the world. That’s family togetherness for you! Maybe if *you* lived someplace where the sun don’t shine for six months out of the year, you’d be a little less closed-minded and a little more like the rest of us wood-lovin’ exhibitionists heah in Finland. ;P
LMA, I LMAO at your delightful slice of hominess.
“Let’s see, we’ve got a main room and a second room to work with. What do we put in the separate room?”
The BATHROOM, please GOD for the love of all that is HOLY…!!!!!
But if they put the bathroom in the second room, there wouldn’t be a place for the big-screen T.V. Priorities, after all…
I see LMA noticed the second sink, too – if you’re working with such a small space that you can’t put a wall or a partition between the kitchen workspace and the toilet, why use up space with a “bathroom” sink?? The kitchen sink is only a step and a half away.
I’ll tell you one thing, I bet they never have to worry about friends, relatives, neighbors’ kids, handymen, delivery-people, etc asking to use their bathroom!
why is there a ‘bathroom’ sink and a ‘kitchen’ sink?
Wow… the cabinets are beautiful, at least…
Sure glad I don’t live in Finland – or New Zealand.
I live in Finland, and trust me this is not a normal Finnish thing.
I used to live in Finland, and ALL THE HOUSES ARE LIKE THIS I SWEAR.
(Some of what I just said might not be true.)
Yeah, yeah, you say that now, but if a Finnish Restaurant moves into my neighborhood don’t be surprised when it’s a smoking pile of rubble within a week.
Then when the police apprehend me, with accelerant on my hands, and ask me why I did the flamy deed, through my sobs I’ll point a shaking finger at this listing and tell them someone had to do it. The Finnish have never heard of the aerosol plume. Someone had to stop them. Someone had to stop the airborne madness.
That a blogger I trusted told me all about the ways of the Finnish and…
Then the Thorazine Dart will hit my system.
Then you’ll be sorry!
But then where will you get your blood pancakes with lingonberry sauce?
Luckily, my heritage is Scottish. I’ll be able to find something equally …uh…sustaining, yes, sustaining in the cuisine of my mother’s country.
Blood sausage and Haggis…plus separate bathroom facilities. Woo hoo.
I live in New Zealand. I’m glad you don’t live here too. :/
I wouldn’t worry yourself too much about New Zealand. Our building code (which is enforced) requires two doors (not just doorways) between the toilet and the kitchen! I don’t know about Finland though.
Picnic on the Potty!
Is it a sauna that’s been converted into a kitchencrapper?
“kitchencrapper” LOL!!
You know, looking at the picture yet again, there appear to be *wheels* underneath that shower enclosure! Check it out — there is definitely a sizable gap down there, and something white on the front edge that is either a wheel on casters or one of Basement Cat’s glowing green eyes. And what’s with the dark square right in front of *that*? Is it a floor drain? Is the shower enclosure on wheels an actual *improvement* to the room? Did the inhabitants previously have to stand in the middle of the room using the pot sprayer at the kitchen sink when they wanted to shower, until one day, the owner got tired of having to keep the toilet paper dry by storing it in the Mr. Coffee and decided “dagnamnit, I’m rollin’ in a shower enclosure!”
If only there were a murphy bed in the kitchen, they need never leave this room.
Murphy bed? What are you, some kind of inefficiency wuss? Can’t you just sleep while you’re on the toilet like the rest of us?
Did anyone notice that something else is missing? NO STOVE! I guess you will never cook anything you can’t fit in a microwave!
No, it’s there. It’s a tiny two-burner thing built into the counter above the tiny fridge. The listing also says there’s a washing machine in the kitchen, but I couldn’t spot that.
If you lift the id on the toilet, ..”
They’re marketing it to someone who lives somewhere else but needs a place to sleep in (that area isn’t exactly known for lack of space or expensive rents, it’s pretty much in the middle of nowhere), probably to someone who’s both a male and a builder. Which most of that sort of workers are (in the apartment below me about ten Romanian builders live in maybe three rooms) and presumably don’t care that much about where they live (when I was looking for a place to rent I came across a lot of cheap and tiny flats with no shower or bath).
For the past 7 years I’ve lived with a bathroom (bath, sink, loo) that opens out directly onto the kitchen. It’s actually against the law in the UK where I live and usually when houses have downstairs bathrooms there’s a vestible area between the bathroom and kitchen.
I’m moving house right now so of course I’ll be glad to have a vestibule between my kitchen and bathroom, but I’m not sure that a metre sq vestible area is going to make a huge amount of difference for poo particles floating through the air.
It sounds really gross and insanitary but I’m not entirely clear on exactly which dreadful disease I could catch. E-coli, perhaps?
I’ve lived in a few apartments like that, including one where you could turn off the whistling tea kettle while sitting on the toilet. I’m glad that I didn’t know the phrase “poo particles” at the time.
Everybody else then now, “GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! LAND THAT I LOVE …”
I wouldn’t think you could catch much from your own poop, after all you already have it?
But yes you’d worry about e.coli, salmonella, and a bunch of others.
What if your guests poop?
(And why am I having this discussion out in public where anyone can see it? You wouldn’t believe the e-mail I get sent every time there’s a toilet-focused post. Some people really, really like toilets. But now my LOLcat overlords get to deal with it. Ha!)
This is my all time favorite ! I am still laughing, especially after reading all the comments!!
I just don’t understand – it would be so simple to put up a screen or hang a curtain. Anything! Why does that not seem to be an option!?
Sadly, I have lived on a boat that is smaller than this but had separate rooms for living, sleeping and peeing. Open concept on this scale is idiotic.
its not a kitchen….its not a bathroom……..its a BITCHIN!
Sniff…sniff…
I smell something in the kitchen…
Honey, what are you making?
It’s a pee-in kitchen.
That really is amazing how it got passed in the inspection. I mean i have seen some creative solutions here in Finland, like my girlfriends apartment that has a showerhead right above the toilet seat and the thing is build in to the closet.. You have to be an acrobat to shower there. Also the kitchen doesn’t have a stove or an oven..
But this is way beyond that. As i looked closer i noticed that it’s in Lappland in a tiny town so i guess the building inspector doesn’t care or is drunk. Probably both.
The website seems to be a catalog of DIY home improvements like matching kitchen/bathroom. “kokoonpano” means asssembly time, so it would take 1-2 hours to put this together in a room.
I like to just eat on the crapper…You know, out with the old, in with the new. Saves time.
Alright!!! Time to skip the middle man. Just pour the chili in the toilet.