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Hidden Commode: BenchToilet from Julien

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This is an interesting — yet odd — idea. The Julien bathroom suite by Troy Adams Design features a toilet that is hidden within a bench. The bench design includes one or two storage drawers (perfect for storing TP, even pink) and a sliding wooden panel that conceals the commode. Survey after the jump...

 
 

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Would you have to explain where the toilet is located? Is it just one more lid to close?

Via: Contemporist.

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Too much design gives me a headache. It's sort of cool I guess, but can't a toilet just be a toilet?
Blasphemy, I know.

posted by RobertTheChicken on April 23rd 2008 at 7:11am
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Utterly pointless.

posted by bepsf on April 23rd 2008 at 7:12am
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At least you wouldn't fall in in the middle of the night if DH leaves the lid up! (bad DH! Bad!)

posted by darcidoodle on April 23rd 2008 at 7:14am
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i think you guys showed this before... it's weird, and oddly unsanitary-feeling. toilets aren't furniture for a reason. er, and furnitures aren't toilets for a reason. i need help.

posted by kdkaboom on April 23rd 2008 at 7:16am
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Why not turn the toilet into a useable seat that isn't screaming "here's something full of water that you crap in!" The slide-away cover seems easy AND good looking. I wouldn't necessarily want it in a metal finish, but I've seen something similar in wood, in a sort of Japanese-bath-type decor that looked great.

posted by kuroneko on April 23rd 2008 at 7:16am
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I kind of like the idea but I wouldn't want to have to clean that. I like the look of the soaking tub too, but am trying to figure out how one actually gets in.

posted by twenty twenty-one on April 23rd 2008 at 7:29am
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Guests would be confused.

posted by K T G on April 23rd 2008 at 7:37am
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20 20 1, can't you see the drawers next to the sink? They're the steps to get in the tub! ;)

posted by pantzini on April 23rd 2008 at 7:39am
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Is it just me or does zebrano and wenge type laminate seem like a passing trend?

posted by art on April 23rd 2008 at 7:49am
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Pantzini - Or steps to get into the sink? So confused!

posted by twenty twenty-one on April 23rd 2008 at 8:07am
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I love it and I am going to get one of this. I don't like the sight of a toilet. I would love also a bathtube that can be trasformed in a spa bed. My bathroom will be more like a bedroom!

posted by mille100piedi on April 23rd 2008 at 8:17am
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Seems to be a real toilet fixation lately on AT -- what's that all about? I thought bathroom month was over . . .

posted by Mid-C Frank on April 23rd 2008 at 8:41am
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I think if you had this and then hosted a raging party, people might end up drunkenly peeing in your tub out of frustration...

art - I agree on its trendiness, but there are some cool pieces being created in zebrano right now. I have a feeling it will be like light blue and chocolate: not exactly cutting edge in a few years but that won't stop people from using it (and irritating us design snobs with it) later.

posted by firecracker on April 23rd 2008 at 8:57am
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Pantzini and 20 20 1 ~

(excuse us while we discuss something other than the storage toilet...)

~ about the tub - so do you climb the storage steps next to the sink and .... what... take a flying leap from the sink into the tub????

posted by lynnelise1 on April 23rd 2008 at 4:12pm
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... and isn't that a demi-wall next to the sink?...

posted by lynnelise1 on April 23rd 2008 at 4:13pm
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We did this during bathroom month. I sent it in. Try to keep up. ;)

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/tubs-toilets-showers-sinks/more-modern-bathtubs-045422

posted by TRUE BLUE on April 23rd 2008 at 4:31pm
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I think it's great. If someone is too dumb or too drunk to figure it out I sure as heck wouldn't be hanging out with them anyways.

posted by TheoJ on April 23rd 2008 at 9:11pm
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Hmmm, confusing your guests by making them hunt for the toilet...it could be evil fun!

posted by kuroneko on April 24th 2008 at 8:16am
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