Bathroom

**Types of Bathrooms:**
– Full bathroom: Contains a bath or shower, a toilet, and a sink.
– En suite bathroom: Attached to a bedroom.
– Family bathroom: A full bathroom not attached to a bedroom.
– Jack and Jill bathroom: Shared by occupants of two separate bedrooms.
– Wetroom: A waterproof room usually equipped with a shower.

**Design Considerations:**
– Towels: Towel bars or rings for hanging towels.
– Furniture: Cabinets for personal hygiene products and shelves for storage.
– Bidet: Some bathrooms have a bidet next to a toilet.
– Plumbing: Design must account for hot and cold water usage and waste disposal.
– Electricity: Installation of electrical fixtures like lights and heaters.

**Historical Background:**
– Use of baths dating back to 3000 B.C. for religious and purifying purposes.
– Communal baths were common in village or town life.
– Romans built large thermal baths for social gatherings and relaxation.
– Egyptians rarely had special bathrooms in their homes.
– Ancient bathing practices and traditions in different civilizations.

**Ancient Bathing Practices:**
– Distinction between private and public baths.
– Wealthy families having thermal baths in their houses.
– Roman citizens enjoying imports like ointments, incense, combs, and mirrors.
– Earliest surviving bathtub dating back to 1700 B.C. in Crete.
– Advanced prehistoric plumbing system found in Akrotiri, Santorini.

**Decline of Public Baths and Bathing Traditions:**
– Use of public baths declined in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries in the West.
– Private spaces became favored for bathing.
– Urbanization led to the creation of more baths and washhouses in Britain.
– Shared bathing still exists in Japan.
– Bathrooms seen as both private and connected to the outside world.

Bathroom (Wikipedia)

This article is about private rooms for personal hygiene. For toilet facilities outside the home, see public toilet. For private toilet room at a residence, see toilet (room). For washing facilities outside the home, see public bathing.

A bathroom, restroom or washroom is a room, typically in a home or other residential building, that contains either a bathtub or a shower (or both). The inclusion of a wash basin is common. In parts of the world e.g. India, a toilet is typically included in the bathroom; in others, the toilet is typically given a dedicated room separate from the one allocated for personal hygiene activities. In the United States, the word 'bathroom' is often used to refer to any room (i.e a toilet, or restroom) that contains a toilet, regardless of the inclusion of a bath or shower.^{[citation needed]}

Historically, bathing was often a collective activity, which took place in public baths. In some countries, the shared social aspect of cleansing the body is still important, for example with sento in Japan and the "Turkish bath" (also known by other names) throughout the Islamic world.^{[citation needed]}

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Bathroom:

A bathroom is a room in a home or public building that contains a toilet, sink, and typically a bathtub or shower. It is used for personal hygiene activities such as bathing, washing hands, and using the toilet.