This toilet is placed in the middle of the bathroom

    by airwarr

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    1. probably a minimal effort toilet set up in a basement where relocating this would require trenching and digging to relocate the sanitary lines.

      janky drain setup for the sink ties into a higher drain stack or maybe even a rainwater leader.

    2. If this was in my house it would drive me nuts. I’d have to build a storage cabinet or something so the toilet was against a wall.

    3. Mugwumps_has_spoken on

      I get that this was probably a basement bathroom or something similar, but why not have the toilet with the tank against the wall? Or perhaps there used to be a wall behind the toilet for a closet and they took it out?

    4. MongolianCluster on

      If it was installed properly with the tank against the wall, that outlet for the bidet would be in the way of the tank. The bidet feature is more important than a toilet facing forwards.

      Though it would be easy to move the outlet, they didn’t think so.

    5. This way someone can rub your shoulders and give you encouragement. It’s a new design to get people off their phones in the bathroom and increase social support. /s

    6. It’s so you can have support to give you a shoulder rub when you’re dropping a massive loaf.

    7. I think I know the reasons, because I almost had the same thing happen when renovating a toilet. Old toilet bowls have the waste pipe much further away from the wall, they don’t make them anymore. Most new toilets want the pipe horizontal, so extra space for a curve downwards is required. So, new toilets have to be 30-60 cm ahead, awkwardly. The floor is concrete, so they didn’t want to move the hole. For myself, I moved the wall 15cm inwards, then a 15cm deep box (like a wardrobe/shelf) that together fill in half the gap, and then a toilet that can take the remaining 30cm. It looks really good, even though it sacrificed a 1.5×1.5×0.3m area from the small toilet. Here they didn’t think of this solution, and pointed the toilet towards the sink perhaps for convenience. Adding a shelf behind the toilet will help.

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