Ground-level pool instead of bathtub?

So you can imagine it...

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

I will attach the photo here shortly, just want to emphasize that I will arrange it completely differently in terms of colors and materials, and also in the arrangement of the sanitary facilities and so on – but so you get a little insight, here is the photo:

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

Best regards, Honigkuchen

Hm statically that will certainly be interesting

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

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

Retracting is nice but somewhere the cover then has to move to. I think you would also need a motor etc. and a lot of space.

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

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

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

Hello Jörg,

a walk-in shower will definitely be included anyway – the "bulkhead" idea is interesting, but not quite what I would like visually.

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

Or did you understand it as something that can be lowered by motor, the bathtub/mini-pool or something like that?

- That was certainly not the idea! 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 have to imagine it, and the hole can be filled with water, and if you don’t want to bathe, you just put the "lid" on and can walk on it and look out the window or something

Greetings and thanks for the suggestion,
Honigkuchen

No, it was correct

but I was thinking more of a massive slab in my head than a wooden board. You couldn’t just lift that up that easily anymore.

A board with a hinge is certainly possible. Maybe there’s another creative solution. I mean, you also have to consider that you’re getting older. And then crawling around on the floor isn’t so easy anymore.

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

You can have nice things made by the upholsterer as well.
Covered with wood or something in the front and no one would even notice there’s a bathtub. If you choose one with an overflow, there wouldn’t even be a faucet on the wall.

And you can look out too?

But someone is creative

Nice when you still have so much financial leeway that you can let off steam to your heart's content. I envy you a little.

Where can you get illuminated toilet seats?

Someone’s being creative there

Out of necessity, because we simply have no financial leeway – so we leave a lot unfinished or use many simple things, but for the great stuff we want to have, we have already prepared everything.

That means: at first only preparation for a mini-pool (in the future (later.. later...) attic wellness-"luxury" bathroom; until then we use the ground floor bathroom, which has a regular bathtub, not recessed), toilet bowl (cheapest version, generally no expensive designer stuff in there) without a wooden seat on top, etc. – but everything positioned in the bathroom so that we can do everything later, like mosaics, seat over the toilet, etc. – because if you already have rather inexpensive sanitary ceramics in there, then at least the loving decoration should make up for it.

It’s nice when you still have so much financial leeway that you can indulge yourself to your heart’s content. I envy you a little.

See above, that is not the case, but then I do almost everything myself when it comes to interior design.

And we just leave at least 1 floor unfinished, but already prepared with the technical installations, empty conduits, sockets, wastewater pipes, etc., just not yet finished/livable.

From the outside, for cost reasons and for logical reasons (energy/saving, the more rectangular a house is, without bulges, etc.) the house will simply be a rectangular block, so nothing particularly pretty, no bay windows, no dormers, no Roman columns or anything like that... although the latter might still come someday when everything is paid off.

But we are not building for others, only for ourselves.

And what we save with a simple floor plan inside and outside, we can pump back into our technology/the finishing.

And every year I will take on one room or another and decorate/work on it until it visually corresponds to how I want it.

That does cost something, namely the material, but if I only do one room every year, it might be financially possible.

We don’t smoke, he drinks little, we don’t go to pubs or the cinema – so maybe a bit can be saved there, although of course one should primarily save for the loan and for possible repairs/new purchases/finishing.

But a bit of paint here, some little stones there, that won’t tear a huge hole in the household budget.

Where can you find illuminated toilet seats?

Surely in many places – I once happened to see them in the large online auction house you probably know too.

But there are surely some more exquisite, nicer specimens somewhere else.

Regards
Honigkuchen