Title says it all. Did you ever live in a house/apartment that did? If so where was your toilet?
My friend Mark, back in the early '80s, had a shotgun apartment in Hell’s Kitchen with a bathtub and toilet in the kitchen. He put a board over the bathtub and used it as a table, and rigged up a curtain around the toilet.
The house we lived in when I was born until I was 10 had a tub in the kitchen and the toilet was up the hill (outhouse). Not convenient.
MY friend’s fridge is in the living room - does that count for anything?
Why the heck did you guys have a kitchen bathtub?
My shower is in the kitchen area, the toilet is in another room. I have a small apartment in Greenwich Village.
Because Manhattan real estate can run upwards of $900/sq. foot. At that rate, bathrooms can become cost-prohibitive. Some bright slum lord came up with the idea of making the kitchen do double duty, and a trend was set.
I once stayed at a friend’s place where I had to take a bath in the kitchen. The setup was just as Eve described. It was very weird sitting in a tub of water between the refrigerator and rangetop.
The apartment I stayed in while visiting Paris in '97 (family relative on my wife’s side) had the stand-up shower in one corner of the kitchen - with a privacy curtain - but if I recall correctly the toilet was in a separate room. These were large apartment buildings, and people were glad to get 1 br. units, after waiting on the lists sometimes for years.
Just out of curiosity…In Denmark, it is not uncommon to find flats where the bathroom is in the basement. Apparently this was common when most buildings around here were built in 1920’s. Now, there are many solutions that have happened to fix this. A lot of time they use the space of the back stairs to create a bathroom. In DK, there was once a law requiring them as a fire safety thing. Whenever a building is completely renovated, of course, they create bathrooms.
But what was it like in New York? When I was there, my bathroom seemed slightly cobbled on. I can’t imagine that everyone had their own private bathrooms in the height of tenement housing in New York. I am assuming that such facilities were shared somehow. Were they in the basement like in Denmark? I’m very curious about these things…
Visited a fellow who had a nice, modern house with juniper paneling and picture windows. He had a tub pretty much in the middle of the kitchen and used it regularly.
Guy was a real dick, too, though that could be meaningless coincidence.
No, no one has a bathroom in my kitchen, but thanks for asking.
I looked at an appartment with a sink for the bathroom in the livingroom. I think that putting a 2 foot jog into the livingroom and having the sink in the bathroom would have made them more money in the long run than putting the sink in the living room.
A bathtub belongs in the kitchen, if you make bathtub gin, or marinade a person. :eek:
In 19th-century tenements, toilets were either in the courtyard or on each floor (“washing up” was done in a basin). When indoor plumbing became more expected, there was no room in the shotgun apartments to turn into a bathroom, so the fixtures were put where there was the most plumbing–the kitchen.
A house in Minnesota that I lived in had the toilet in the bedroom and a sink and shower in the kitchen. No bathroom.
The cartoonist Booth, frequent contributor to The New Yorker many years ago, frequently pictured a man in a bathtub in the kitchen (with the wife ironing on a nearby ironing board, the electric iron plugged into the light socket). I thought he was going for a somewhat surreal atmosphere – come on, nobody’s so poor or lives in a place so deranged that they have a bathtub right there in the kitchen, right?
Guess I was wrong.
I remember the interior of a real apartment in the movie The Naked City, which was pretty much filmed on location in New York. It was the scene near the end where the suspect was finally tracked down in his tacky apartment, and I believe the bathroom and the kitchen were combined. There was a board over the tub, as though it was put to use as a table when unoccupied. The toilet was not filmed, IIRC.
We had a thread in the past year about a carton in the New Yorker that involved a bird of some kind. Nobody could figure out what the Hell the carton was about. Was that your’s by any chance?
The nice thing about that arangement is the sink pot sprayer, allows for double use as a bidat on the adjacent tiolet.
I’m not quite getting your question. I’m not a cartoonist, and have never had anything in The New Yorker ( I wish!). The cartoonist I refer to, Booth, drew some weird stuff, but generally it’sd comprehensible. I don’t recall any with a weird bird in it. I don’t see the connection between his drawing a guy in a bathtub in a kitchen, and a weird cartoon about a bird, except that both appeared in The New Yorker.
For this thread no. For a conclusion to the other thread yes, since nobody could make heads or tails of the carton. I misunderstood your post apparently.