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Description: | By the early 1970s, eighty-eight percent of British homes had their own indoor bathroom. In older houses, which had been built without a bathroom, a bedroom was often converted for this purpose.
This photograph shows the bathroom of a house in Hampstead in 1974. Before central heating, bathing could be a chilly experience. But by the 1970s, bathrooms were no longer seen as purely functional. They were becoming places of private luxury and contemplation. This bathroom had a cork tiled floor, a radiator and - an innovation for the time - a bidet. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | MoDA, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (Middlesex University) | Subjects: | Home and Family | Temporal: | 1974 | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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