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yeesh, some of those are so staged they don't even bother having visible plumbing - which really irks me.

oh boy!!!

i just scored an antique clawfoot off ebay for $25. i am chomping at the bit to do a post on refinishing it. (already ordering the powdercoat for the feet!)

alas... i just finished phase one of my bathroom and have so many projects going the tub will have to wait a bit. but i will try to post an update when i have tub post done.

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kdkaboom- my thoughts exactly. That pink one looks like they're in the middle of moving it to it's final spot. The no plumbing kills me.

I was thinking the same kdkaboom. You'd need a soak after bring all those buckets of hot water from the stove.

Totally staged.

yeah - the pedestal sink is the same... no plumbing behind the base.

i like seeing "real" rooms. i have too much stuff to have a "staged" room.

I wish I had the space for a beautiful clawed foot free standing tub. I would fill that thing with bubbles and take business calls out of there never leaving...

Pink Flamingos!

totally cute...staged or not. Love the Pink flamingos....

Was feeling sheepish thinking I didn't know how those magical free-standing tubs would drain. Now I realize the plumbing is not shown.

Flamingo wallpaper . . . on crack: http://stylenorth.ca/blog/2009/03/right-now-appetite-for-subversion/

with out first house (our Little House on the Prairie), we actually bought the claw foot tub BEFORE we bought the house! There was no bathroom on the second floor, and so we turned the smallest bedroom into one.

We painted the exterior of our tub black, and redid the feet. I had the best soaks in that tub...

I had a clawfoot tub in my unrenovated walk up in Brooklyn. Hey, the days without heat were a drag, but the long soaks were heavenly!

Thank you, Chris Toronto, for that wallpaper link.

#3... Oh my. I haven't had a bubble bath in so long and these convinces me I need a freestanding tub when I get a new place. No doubt about it.

I don't like the staged bathrooms either. Thats the same with some DIY - programms. They never show you really, really the proces only the result. The difficult parts are cut out.

Aside from the complaints about the staged tubs, look, they all look very nice. Just picture how the plumbing will work. Whether it will enhance or distract.

Aside from that I do not want to sleep where I bathe, defecate or urinate. I know that this is more over seas, however, I am quite attached to the American habit of having separate rooms for these things. There's nothing romantic about being in bed and looking at a bath tub or a commode.