ᐅ Ground-level pool instead of a bathtub?

To give you an idea...

I looked around a bit and took a screenshot of an installation example of a mini pool used as a bathtub replacement.

I’ll add the photo here shortly, but I want to emphasize that I plan to use completely different colors and materials, as well as a different layout for the sanitary fixtures and so on – but to give you a small insight, here is the photo:

Of course, the copyright belongs to the photographer; unfortunately, I don’t know who took it, otherwise I would have mentioned it.

Best regards, Honigkuchen

Hmm, the structural aspects will definitely be interesting.

Just as an idea – you could also consider a walk-in shower at floor level, where you can basically move a "bulkhead" to flood the area up to a certain height.

I think I’ve seen something like that in an oval shape before.

Lowering it is nice, but the cover also has to move somewhere. I guess that would require a motor and quite a bit of space.

Regardless of the likely costs, I find the idea interesting.

JOERG24 schrieb:
Just an idea – you could also consider a walk-in level shower where you could basically deploy a “bulkhead” to flood the area up to a certain height.

Recessing it is nice, but somewhere the cover would have to move to. I think that would require a motor and a lot of space.

Hello Jörg,

A walk-in level shower is definitely planned anyway – the “bulkhead” idea is interesting, but it’s not quite the look I’m going for.

The cover can be operated manually – imagine a kind of board (nicely finished, of course) with a hinge that you can fold up or down as needed.

Or did you mean it could be lowered by motor, like a bathtub or mini-pool?

- That’s definitely not what I meant! That would be way too expensive!
(So EVEN more expensive than my idea.)

- No, no, it’s simply a “hole with a bottom” in the bathroom floor, that’s how you should picture it, and the hole can be filled with water. And if you don’t want to bathe, you just put the “lid” on it so you can walk on it and maybe look out the window or something.

Best regards and thanks for the suggestion,
Honigkuchen

No, that was actually correct.

But I was thinking more of a solid slab rather than a wooden board. That wouldn’t be so easy to lift anymore.

A hinged board would certainly work. Maybe there is another creative solution as well. I mean, you also have to keep in mind that you get older. Crawling around on the floor won’t be so easy then.

You don’t seem to like the simple solution of just having a padded cover made for the bathtub. You would basically have a bench with a backrest there and wouldn’t see the bathtub at all.

A upholsterer can also make some attractive designs. The front could then be clad with wood or something similar, so no one would even notice there is a bathtub underneath. If you choose one with an overflow, there wouldn’t even be a faucet on the wall.

And you can still look out too, right?

Someone is quite creative

It's nice to still have enough financial freedom to indulge your heart's desire. I envy you a bit.

Where can you find illuminated toilet seats?

JOERG24 schrieb:
Someone is being creative here

Out of necessity, because we simply have no financial leeway – so we are leaving some things unfinished or taking many simple options, but for the nice features we really want, everything is already prepared.

That means: at first, only preparations for a mini-pool (in the future (later… much later…) attic wellness "luxury" bathroom; until then we will use the ground floor bathroom, which has a standard bathtub, not recessed), a toilet bowl (the cheapest model, no expensive designer stuff at all), no wooden seat on top, etc. – but all positioned correctly in the bathroom so that we can do everything later on, like mosaics, a seat above the toilet, etc. – because if you already have cheaper sanitary ceramics, at least the loving decoration should make up for it.

JOERG24 schrieb:

It’s nice when you have enough financial room to indulge your heart’s desire. I’m a bit jealous.

As mentioned above, that is not the case here, but I will just do almost all the interior work myself.

And we will leave at least one floor unfinished, but with all the technical provisions, empty conduits, sockets, waste pipes, etc. already prepared—just not finished or made livable yet.

From the outside, for cost and logical reasons (energy savings; the more rectangular a house is, without recesses or projections), the house will just be a simple rectangular box, nothing particularly pretty—no bay windows, no dormers, no classical columns or anything... though perhaps the latter might be added someday once everything is paid off.

But we’re not building for others, only for ourselves.

And what we save by a simple internal and external floor plan, we can invest back into technology and finishing.

Every year, I will tackle one room or another and work on decorating or improving it until it visually matches what I want.

That will cost some money—the material—but if I only do one room per year, it might be financially feasible.

We don’t smoke, he drinks little, and we don’t go to bars or the cinema—so maybe some money can be saved there, although the main priority should be saving for the mortgage and possible repairs, replacements, or extensions.

But a bit of paint here, some stones there, won't cause a major hole in the household budget.

JOERG24 schrieb:

Where can you get illuminated toilet seats?

Definitely available from many places—I once saw them by chance on a large online auction site you surely know as well.

But I’m sure there are also more exquisite, nicer models somewhere else.

Best regards
Honigkuchen