What’s It #7 - a diorama of the wetroom
I have been trying to figure out the tile pattern for the wetroom. I was considering tiling the entire room in soapstone but I’ve decided to hold the use of soapstone to the kitchen. I also like the look of pebbles. These come in 12″ sheets so the installation is pretty easy and the opposite edges are design to be complements which reduces the obviousness of any grid pattern from using large sheets of mosaics. I could just do the floor in a dark color to anchor it and then the walls in something lighter (given there are no windows in the bathroom, “all dark” would be like a cave). But, I wanted some form of accent so I thought about a abstract “water fall” tiled right into the room. By using a third color, I can integrate a tile pattern, starting at the shower head and “flowing” to the shower drain.
To visualize the various tile patterns, I created the diorama. The photo was an early attempt and the “pebbles” are much too large but it conveyed the idea pretty well. I left the wall with the door open to make it easier to look at and to photograph.
If you bored, feel free to print out the flat sheet (click for a larger image) and cut out the diorama.
August 15th, 2008 at 19:27
I like this room. I find it pretty and functional - like me. We dogs have had this wetroom concept in our kennels for years. It is very gratifying to think we canines have influenced modern human house design. Have you noticed the open floor plans in newer houses? Our idea also! A place to get up some speed in the house.
The pebble floor reminds me of our dry river beds. You could go in this room and imagine you were in a river in the Cascades! If you brought in a large block of ice, you could pretend you were at Mt Rainier!!!! Zen, too! On a hot summer day, wouldn’t that be nice? That might be as close as Zen could get to Mt Rainier. Dogs are not allowed at Mt Rainier (except dogs like Dawson who are searching for people who lost themselves).
August 15th, 2008 at 19:48
Hi Cordy, I don’t think we have met but it sounds like you know all the best stuff to make a human house perfect for us. I am really looking forward to the new place. I’ve heard it won’t have a marsh but I bet I can find the mud puddles ! It looks like I am getting everything on my wish list - at least I hope so. I think the warm floors were given the green light and I am getting a big freezer to hold my raw food too ! It will take a while before I have a lawn for my agility equipment but I like dirt piles too so it won’t be too bad … accept that my dad likes to give me a bath if I get really dirty.
I love snow and I got to go play on the frozen lakes a couple winters ago. I don’t find any ice or snow here. I miss it.
August 15th, 2008 at 23:22
Dear Zen. I think that the new wetroom will be an excellent place for you. If you get dirty, don’t think about it as ‘having a bath’ instead you can go ’splash in the riverbed’! If you are hot, you can make it a glacier. If you don’t want to go outside to do your business in inclement weather…well… a river bed is where I like to go. You can can put on the innocent cutedog look and pretend you were confused and you thought the pebbles were an outside thing..
We don’t have the best house/dog stuff here, though I do know what we need. We need an elevator or else to be all on the ground. Your new house will be all on the ground, right? I have to be carried up and downstairs sometimes because of some old dog tendon stuff. You gotta train your people to plan ahead for your old age. I think we need our own HGTV show - Doggone Design.
What do you eat? I eat Darwin’s (plus, of course, bits of the compost pile and some McDonalds).
August 16th, 2008 at 06:53
I don’t ever want to get old. I got hurt a couple years ago and it was not fun because I could not go play and my agility fun got put on hold. I did get massages twice a day and I learned so really strange games. It took about six months but I am pretty much all better now.
I get lots of different stuff to eat. I like the combination of the cold raw stuff (Bravo or Nature’s Variety) and the crunchy dry stuff (Innova Evo). I also get extras like banana and vitamins, flax or fish oil (with different meals), and Glucosamine and Chondroitin.
I try to sneak the over ripe figs and the tiny wild cherries. There is interesting stuff everywhere.
August 16th, 2008 at 09:17
I like berries too! I eat blackberries and raspberries and salmonberries and they are all in season right now. Blueberries too but I am not allowed to pick those myself since they are on farms not wild. What’s a fig?
OOOH. You have good taste. Nature’s Variety is Dawson’s favorite food!!! (next to butter and cheese and yogurt, of course). She gets to eat it when she goes on strike with other foods. Princess Dawson is a picky eater. However, Dawson eats 2.5lbs of raw food a day so she doesn’t get Nature’s Variety too often. She really prefers it when Tamara make the food from scratch like we used to eat. Me? I like EVERYTHING. And I only eat 1.5 lbs a day.
I work at Darwin’s so it’s important that I eat the food. I wish I worked at McDbnald’s (sigh). Today is farmer’s market day. SAMPLES!!! Samples is another word for snacks! BOL (bark out loud)
When your new house is done, you should do a video tour. Maybe with a headcam! We can use it on Doggone Design
August 16th, 2008 at 10:52
My dad made my food for me for a while before finding Bravo. It’s hard to get Bravo here and our kitchen is so small and most of our stuff is in storage so “home made” has been tougher. I get a total of a 1/2C for breakfast and another for supper. I get training treats when I do good stuff and when we are working really hard at something. Lately I’ve been working on retrieve. I don’t get a treat unless I come back and hold onto the object until I’m told to “give”. If I drop it too soon, I have to pick it back up. At first I didn’t get what was the big deal, now I am better and I can be pretty quick.
I’m sure there will be plenty of pictures of the new home. I’ll try to make sure I am in every one of them
August 16th, 2008 at 16:27
You could try some Darwin’s if you want. They ship it to you in a foam box like for frozen fish. For east coast dogs, it goes to Pennsylvania, gets colder there, then goes to your house. If you don’t like it, they give you your money back…
Dariwn’s is similar to Bravo Original Formula- except the veggies are organic and there are more different seasonal veggies (some good some not so good. I don’t like kale). Its a step up from Bravo in that the protiens are all natural - the chickens are from Petaluma like WFM chickens and the beefs are from a local beefs place (free ranging humanely killed and all that.) It is made in little batches. Its a little chunkier and wetter than Bravo. since you are a pug you might not like that. Darwin’s is a bone in food like Bravo. I prefer a food with bone on the side. You? But I don’t control the groceries here. I like Amore from British Columbia. I suppose that is too far for you.
If you call Darwin’s, tell em CordyBrown sent you. They all love me. They will through in some extra goodies, I bet. LIke Duck Necks!
(You know there was a big Bravo recall last fall, right?)
August 16th, 2008 at 16:31
NO!!! Not fair. Tell them DAWSON sent you. My quota is down cause I am working out in the field all day. Cordy gets plenty of referral love. They rub her head all the time. Tell Ashley I told you.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with the nice wetroom. This is off topic. Dogs should stay on topic. Put your nose down and keep it in the game. ETC. ETC.
August 16th, 2008 at 17:10
Hi Dawson ! It’s OK to go off topic from time to time but I am curious about this wetroom. I like getting wet but not the top of my head and I like to control how wet I get so the wetroom will need to be a voluntary space.
I had my dad Google for “Dawson’s” but he kept getting “Dawson’s Creek” and “Dawson City”. As for “Bravo”, I’ve been on Nature’s Variety for the past 16 months since Bravo is not local and I eat such small amounts and we don’t currently have a big freezer so ordering a reasonable amount is out of the question. That should all change once we move. I like my bone ground up in my food. I have such a small mouth that it’s difficult to eat bones that are not ground up well. I like egg shells when I can get them. I think I’d eat just about anything I could get
August 16th, 2008 at 17:21
Not ‘Dawson’s’, Zen. Darwin’s. D-A-R-W-I-N - then that thing- then S.
Darwin’s Natural Pet Products.
Though Dawson’s might be a better name…I will have to talk to them.
Also, you only need to get 14 lbs for them to ship to you. We fit 20 lbs in the little freezer over the refrigerator and still have a little room for popsicles and gin and salmon and pup-pops and marrow bones and… well…you get the picture.
August 16th, 2008 at 20:14
Yum ! I love Pup-sicles … dad makes a batch at the start of every summer … hmm … I should see if I can get one tomorrow !
Dad keeps his gin in the freezer too. He doesn’t let me near the stuff.
Our freezer is really really small. After a couple of pie shells, some frozen sandwich meat, (the gin), some venison, and a few other things, we only get about 8lbs of frozen raw.
Found the website -> http://darwinspet.com/index.html <- thanks !