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Bathroom Design Of The Bathroom

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Bathroom is a place in the house where we escape for a few minutes of privacy and a place where we relax and recharge. Its presence extends beyond the practical functions of personal maintenance and hygiene; it is where we cleanse ourselves spiritually as well as physically. In antiquity, bathing is a purification ritual and baths are spaces designated for ceremonies and rites that require the use of water. Though small in scale, this room that we consider private had, at times of history, a very public image. Gradual changes in the level of privacy for bathrooms are closely tied to two main factors power (wealth and status) as well as hygiene. This essay serves to explore the private and public sphere of the bathroom, through the design of the bathroom itself, and the influence of power and sanitary in the history of Europe.

Bathroom design and decoration are rooted in a hierarchy of need fulfillment that starts with the functional and goes to the emotional and psychological. In it, “we confront our basest bodily needs, even as we transcend them, or flush them away.” They are places of passage and of transformation — one enters dirty and leaves clean — so that even today bathing retains some sense of the purification ritual about it.Though, personal hygiene has improved a lot, it is only a minute portion of the picture. It has been a status symbol, a center of social life and has even played a part in courtship rituals, celebrations and entertainment.

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