17 ways to have a healthier, safer bathroom : TreeHugger
The bathroom is proportionately a teensy part of a house, but it's probably the most important room, the most dangerous room, the most toxic room, the worst designed room of the entire home. Almost everything about it is wrong. Ellen Lupton and J. Albert Miller write in The Bathroom, The Kitchen and the Aesthetics of Waste: The small size of the standard bathroom reflects the ambivalence which has attended bodily functions and maintenance in American culture. The bathroom is at once the most and least important room in the house; it accounts for a large percentage of building costs and is used by all of a home's occupants, yet it is granted one of the smallest spaces. It is a private room yet is made very public by its shared status. It is physically clean yet culturally dirty It is also a terrible, terrible design that we have been living with for over a hundred years. I wrote in the Guardian: We mix up all our bodily functions in a machine designed by engineers on the ba...