Laying Down In Water?
Hello ,
An idea has been with me all day and I would appreaciate any feed-back you may have on another off-the-wall idea. Like most of my home design concepts, it often starts when I see something happen at my home or around me in public that makes me question if life could be better if I designed some thing to address the situation a little better in my homes designs.
This Wild Idea started a few months ago when I noticed that my 20 year old son Sean (he has a one year older brother Nik you may have seen in our ads) spends an awful lot of time in the shower. I mean A LOT of time like 45 to 60 minutes or more! It turns out, he has been doing this for some time and I just never took notice of it. His Mom and brother Nik knew exactly what he was doing.
When I first designed our present home in 1999, I saw that it was a mistake for us to ever put a big whirlpool tub in our master bathroom since my boys were the only ones who ever used “our” tub. Rather than having them come into our master bath to use our tub, I thought I would get ahead of that curve by putting the big 6 foot tub into my boy’s bathroom. They were pretty young when we moved into our present home and they took some baths together, so the 6 foot size was right. But I am avoiding the point.
The point is that my Son Sean is unfortunately a procrastinator. He hates waking up in the morning. His Mom or brother usually try to get him out of bed. Instead of trying to fight them on getting up, Sean has gotten in the habit of turning on the shower over the tub and “sleeping’ in the 6 foot tub! Sean has found a way to sleep in a hard fiberglass tub and LIKES it. He LIKES the warm water sprinkling on him while he sleeps. Sean will now occasionally just go into the shower just to relax as he takes a short nap after a work day or mid-Saturday.
I attributed this to my “weird’ son’s behavior. Since Sean is a” straight A” student, I figure this is not really hurting anything and I don’t think it could be dangerous. Now comes my big PONDER. If I could find a more comfortable way to lay down in a shower, would common “non-weird“(or are we ALL weird and I just don’t admit it?) folks like to also lay down for a relaxing nap in a shower? I think, and think on such things and one observation is that I know folks who like to lay-down and relax in a bath tub full of water, why not a shower? Would the sprinkling water NOT be relaxing . Would it NOT feel like a gentle rain massage?
My next thought is even if I did find a way to have an area to lay down in a shower, how could I make it more comfortable? Could I use some sort of fabric or woven straps like on lawn furniture? Could it just be a big, longer bath tub and could I get some of that closed- cell memory foam and have it shaped like the tub on one side and shaped like a dentist’s chair lounger on the body side? That would seem VERY comfortable to me! I wonder if anyone would buy this idea?
I also know that a dozen years ago, I tryed to tell people of a new Wild Idea of maybe putting two shower heads in one bigger shower. Few folks seemed interested. In the last few years, I now have folks ask me to do exactly that. I HAVE to think romance is a big part of this 2 shower head idea. I don’t want to get too ”racy” here but couldn’t “romance” be taken to whole new levels if you had a shower big enough for two to “nap” and “relax” together?
As I think of this, I am finalizing two new designs I have been laboring on for several months. I always want to use new designs to introduce new concepts. I have looked at one 4 foot by 8 foot double shower I have designed and I am now seriously thinking about the “shower lounge/bed”.
So I ask you. Is this Wild Idea appealing to anyone or am I just getting too “weird”?
Hey folks, we are having a lot of fun designing homes to go on lots that I have never seen offered so inexpensively. Today, we also had a gentleman talk to me about building a home and donating the profits to help support his missionary daughter. This idea could blossom into something that could support many missionaries if we could get tradespeople to get on board with the idea. We could use homes to do a lot more good in ways I had not before considered. Home building is so exciting and it seems I meet more nice folks every day.
Please let me know your thoughts on this idea or any other wild home idea you may have.
Blessings,
Tom Hignite
