English Countryside · Bathroom: The One Added Later

A renovated cottage bathroom. It is clearly an addition: the layout is irregular, the ceiling slopes with the roof, and pipes are semi-exposed along the walls, painted the same color as the walls. A freestanding cast-iron clawfoot tub is placed off-center in the room, its exterior painted grey-green. The vanity is a repurposed old painted pine cabinet, topped with a white ceramic basin and an old-fashioned brass faucet. The floor is brick or linoleum. The walls are cream-colored lime wash, with only a small section behind the tub tiled with white handmade tiles. Towels hang on an old iron rod. The window is small and deep, with soap and a potted fern on the windowsill. Avoid: using modern integrated bathroom units and built-in fixtures, hiding all pipes within the walls, using large areas of glossy tiles, making the layout square and symmetrical.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一間改造出來的小屋浴室。它明顯是後來才加的:格局不方正、天花跟著屋頂傾斜、管線半外露地沿著牆走並漆成與牆同色。一個獨立的鑄鐵爪足浴缸放在房間中央偏一側,外側漆成灰綠。洗手檯是一張漆過的舊松木櫃改的,上面放一個白陶盆與一支老式的黃銅龍頭。地是磚或油氈。牆是奶油色的石灰漆,只有浴缸背後一小片貼著白色的手工磁磚。毛巾掛在一根舊鐵桿上。窗小而深,窗台上有肥皂與一盆蕨。避免:使用現代的整體衛浴與嵌入式設備、把管線全部藏進牆內、使用大片光亮的磁磚、把格局做得方正對稱。