We looked high and low. We looked in the adjoining closet. We looked behind the door. We looked in the hall. It was nowhere to be found. It had never existed. There wasn't even a place where it could have been before. We couldn't figure it out.
It was a bathroom all right. It had a beautiful claw foot bathtub. It had a toilet. But no matter how hard we looked we could not find the sink! There wasn't even a place to put the sink. It truly was missing. How on earth did they wash their hands? How did they wash their face before applying make-up? The more we thought about it, the less palatable it became. Do you think they washed their hands in the tub? Eeeew! The alternate was even more gross!
It was the only bathroom in the house. Now we hadn't seen every house in the St. Paul market, but we'd seen enough to know that this one truly is unique. Hmmmm. Usually a half bath in St. Paul means a toilet and sink. A three-quarter bath is a toilet, sink, and shower and a full bath is a toilet, sink, and bathtub. What on earth do you call a bath that is missing a very important element? Is it one third of a three quarter bath? The visual just won't leave my mind. Ewwww!
I can believe it. Not always easy to notice what's missing. That's a funny story.
Posted by: Norm Fisher | March 04, 2007 at 04:09 PM
Believe it or not, Norm, my clients did not notice it. I had to point it out. They liked the house otherwise and kept trying to figure out how they would brush their teeth in the bathtub. The alternative of using the toilet water was not too appealing! ;-)
Posted by: Bonnie Erickson | March 03, 2007 at 08:45 PM
That is very odd indeed. I've been in a lot of homes and have yet to see one without a bathroom sink. Good thing you guys noticed it, but then, how could you not?
Posted by: Norm Fisher | March 03, 2007 at 08:18 PM