Bathroom Furniture

History of Bathroom Furniture

The idea of a room in a home dedicated to personal hygiene and grooming is, strictly speaking, a recent one.  For the most part, houses built before the turn of the century didn’t have bathrooms.  So, in the span of about 100 years, the modern bathroom has evolved from a novelty into an almost universal residential fixture.

Greek Outdoor Toilets

Prior to this the majority of toilet, bathing and sauna facilities were either outdoors or public/shared and short of somewhere to leave the 'communal sponge' or the odd urn! Bathroom furniture is a relatively new concept.

The closest thing we can see to this is the use of towel rails in Roman baths. The Victorians first made connections between the improper disposal of waste and disease and this is the time when bathrooms began to become more developed than just 'holes in the ground'.

Modern bathrooms have expanded on the Roman idea of very basic toilets with simple towel hooks.  The modern bathroom includes shelving units and housing racks, designed to store away or keep to hand those vital bathroom items that we rely on for everyday cleanliness such as shampoos, towels, soap and toilet roll and alike.