[prawn]

Cleaning bathrooms is horrible. I don't know why we haven't built bathrooms that can be sealed, towels/art put in a cupboard, and then a button pushed to pressure spray the interior and blow dry it. Waterproofed components, lighting and cabinetry wouldn't be impossible.

We pay a cleaner mostly because the bathroom is little joy to clean.

[jamessb]

A woman called Frances Gabe essentially did this with her entire house ('the self-cleaning house'): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/garden/son-of-carwash-the-...

[gwern]

> I don't know why we haven't built bathrooms that can be sealed, towels/art put in a cupboard, and then a button pushed to pressure spray the interior and blow dry it.

I recall that Buckminster Fuller tried to build that sort of bathroom: the idea was that it'd be basically a one-piece metal thing with no seams or cracks for mold/dirt and all rounded corners, so one could just spray it down. I guess it didn't work for the same reason a lot of his ideas never got picked up.

[prawn]

There are self-cleaning public toilets in many places these days.

I think it would be possible if the right suppliers set their minds to it. I guess it requires the spraying and drying technology and that won't exist until the bathroom hardware itself exists, and that won't change until the spraying/drying is an option.

[riffraff]

there used to be public toilets like that in my town. The first I used it I fell in love and I've been dreaming of a similar setup at home (minus the obscenity on the wall, probably)