Now you can be the goldfish.
Only if someone else is responsible for cleaning it.
I have a clear glass shower door in my apartment in Kansas City, and it is a nightmare to keep clean. The tub looks like it will be even more difficult than a shower door. Pretty much every time you use it, you’ll have to scrub it - especially if you live in an area with hard water like KC.
The writer has obviously never seen those “champagne glass tubs” in Honeymoon retreats:
I’d imagine it would come in very handy if one had an porn site. I’ve not checked, but I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who really want to see hot women bathing in a clear tub and will pay good money to see it.
And I’m equally sure there is at least a few guys who will pay good money to scrub out that tub, solving the problem mentioned in my earlier post.
This is exactly where my mind went. This is a truly beautiful piece of interior design, and if you went whole hog and sunk some lighting fixtures in underneath the tile, covered in more glass, it will be exquisite. It will also be a bitch and a half to keep clean.
Oh, and if you ever accidentally swing a heavy belt buckle into it, it will no longer be a tub but rather a drywall-ruining device.
I’m sure it is actually tempered glass, like my glass shower doors. I wouldn’t worry so much about shattering.
You can break tempered glass shower doors. I’ve done it.
As someone pointed out in the comments, it’s not going to be very comfortable, as it’s all straight lines and right angles. A real bathtub has slopes and curves so you can lie down in it comfortably.
My wife wants one of these shoe tubs.
I think we’ll put it out on the deck…
What’s under the tile? I’d be scared of leaks, with so many seams submerged and under pressure.
All these practical considerations. Tsk, tsk.
My first concern is what the view of my naked body would look like when presented in a clear fishbowl. Especially if I happened to be leaning against the side. :eek:
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.
Again, I must note that this is precisely what turns some guys on. I’ve seen lots of erotic drawings and photos of women leaning against glass (washing cars, as seen from the inside, for instance). Even if you don’t think your body is ideal, there are plenty of guys who wouldn’t care.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Pepper Mill in one of those.
Why would a hypothetical guy getting turned on by it be of any solace? I wouldn’t bathe in it the thing either, and I don’t care how many boners my naked body causes.
Because if that hypothetical guy was Papergirl’s significant other, it would presumably allay her anxieties. If she’s concerned about how she looks in the tub if she locks the door and no one can see her, I can’t help her. It’s a separate issue.
I had no idea some guys like the idea of various body parts squished against glass. Will wonders never cease.
No doubt, however, that my SO would like it. He would like me naked under any circumstances, if experience is any indicator.
I wondered that too. I’m not sure something like Kerdi (a waterproof underlayment) is up to something like that. Maybe a one-piece preformed tub with tile on top? Seems like a lot of work, but it does look pretty cool. I’d want to work in some sort of floor to ceiling waterfall too. Oh, and use those temperature sensitive color-change tiles. Go all out!
It’s lovely, but I wouldn’t want to clean it. And whether or not my husband wants to see me in it, do I really want to see him?
Looks neat, but uncomfortable. I take baths to lean back, soak and relaaaaaaax… and that just wouldn’t do the trick. I also agree that into be a bitch-mother to keep clean. I’m not referring only to the ring around the tub either. Just regular house dust accumulating on the edge would look like crap. It blends in a bit on my boring beige tub.
It looks like an aquarium. And yea, no way could you really lay back and relax in that thing. Unless you had a life jacket on. I wouldn’t want to clean it.
But it does look cool.
On the H&G channel one time, I saw a bathtub that some ceramics/glass blowing nerd had made for himself. It looked like an opened lotus flower, with water cascading through a series of molded green glass leaves to reach the tub. (A quick google did not turn up pictures, sorry) My mom and I were both dumbstruck with admiration at the amount of work that had gone into it, and both arrived at the same conclusion at the same time:
“Can you imagine CLEANING that thing?!”