flapper
Decor
Bathroom
The bathroom had first moved indoors in the mid nineteenth century, and by the
nineteen-twenties the indoor facility was pretty much standard, at least in the
urban areas. It had become a simple, functional room measuring about 5X7 feet.
But in the twenties, bathroom decor became a sort of measure of one’s status.
When it came to the bathroom, the flappers were indulgent hedonists. The
Necessity was quieted, hidden, decorated around. The bath and sink became
available in a variety of colors and styles. Floors and walls gained tiling of
various materials. Towel bars were heated. And even the humblest house could
have those marvelous fixtures.
Sometimes the bathroom was exotic, as in this Turkish-influenced design.
This might be the dream design for a bathroom. The bathtub in the middle of the
room, away from the walls, was popular with many people of means.
But then this is what most middle-class Flappers would wind up with. Cute,
functional, sort of the bathroom statement of the thoroughly modern Flapper.
