When you go to the restroom to take care of business, you might not be thinking about the room itself, unless it’s bad. Well lucky for you, there are people who care about restrooms. Like many rooms, the comfort of a restroom is in the details, this years top water closets offer toilets for toddlers, and color coded water.
This year’s top restroom is located in the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago museum’s restroom ceiling has a night sky decor that is said to be, “soothing” and as an added bonus it absorbs sound. The restrooms have 3,500 visitors per day and are cleaned every hour. They offer nursing rooms with their own sink and sofa and family restrooms with toddler-sized toilets .Picture at top
The second best place to answer the call of nature in 2011, is in Arlington, Virginia at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel. This toilet is very different from the one in the Windy City. Created by an architect and interior designer the restroom plays with light and special effects to secure second place. The restroom features, “walls ablaze with sunset tones of orange and gold and the mirrors above feature lit bird silhouettes,” says BestRestroom.com. The cleverest feature are the faucets. They’re no-touch automatic, and light the water red or blue to indicate hot or cold water.
Third is a restroom in Scottsdale, Arizona and the Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts. “The loo is sleek and modern with terrazzo flooring, glass-tiled walls and spacious, stainless steel stalls,” says BestRestroom. As with the Virginian lavatory, this one has an intricate lighting system continuously shifting the colors of the space from, “cool blues and greens to warm golds and reds.”
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In fourth and fifth places are Don’s Johns luxury washroom trailer and a pot in Huntsville, Utah at the Snowbasin Ski Resort. The luxury trailer is a fully mobile commode, commissioned for the 2009 inauguration ceremony of President Barack Obama. It contains hardwood floors, recessed lighting and an HDTV! It’s quite the porta-potty. Though, not one to be outdone by other powder rooms, Snowbasin’s water closet’s feature, “Italian Carrera marble, Barovier, Tosso & Moscatelli chandeliers crafted from bronze and crystal, floor-to-ceiling commodes, beautifully inlaid African Anegre wood and hand-painted walls,” according to BestRestroom.com.
Cintas, sponsors America’s Best Restroom, holds this contest annually. Each year, restrooms are nominated and voted upon online. Any public restroom is eligible. Once nominees are reviewed, a committee announces the ten finalists and online voting begins. The winners are announced in September at which time they are presented with, “the coveted America’s Best Restroom plaque of recognition,” according to Cintas. Photos & Content: AFP, Cintas’ BestRestroom.com
source: http://news.discovery.com/human/top-toilets-united-states-111021.htm
by Trace Dominguez
http://www.thisoldtoilet.com
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