Alfredo washroom
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There is a door in the center of the north wall that connects to the bedroom shared by the three resident domestic servants. It swing westward as it opens into this room. This door is normally kept closed.
The primary, somewhat oversized door is in the center of the east wall. While it, too, swings into this room, it was hung so that it can be brought all the way around to lie flat against the wall south of the doorframe -- in fact, a cavity in the wall neatly fits the inner doorknob. If the great bathtub is ever removed from the room for any reason, the door will have to be fully opened in exactly that way for the tub to fit.
One double-hung window, in the center of the west wall, is made with a complicated mosaic of colored glass pieces fit into strips of lead and copper. The glass does not look like much from the outside, but casts light images on the walls or floor of many different yellow flowers from all regions of Edoya.
It really is too bad that Big Lui and Big Mauri did not think about how this color effect would pick up the raspberry colors of the rhodonite.
Contents & Furnishings
This unfortunately-colored bathroom has a great bathtub large enough to comfortably fit two adults, plus a sink and a toilet.
Alterations
Originally this southwest corner room of Alfredo House was the private suite for the owners of Alfredo Ranch. During the adult lifetime of Ludwig de Alfredo and his wife Mia, the western side served as a "project room" for the couple to take advantage of late afternoon sunlight. Ludwig liked to experiment with knitting and large-fiber weaving; Mia enjoyed embroidery and making mosaic pieces from small bits of colored glass. The eastern half of the room was partitioned into his-and-her dressing chambers, mostly where off-season clothing hung until it would be needed.
After their parents' passing, Ludovicus 'Big Lui' de Alfredo persuaded his older brother Mauricio 'Big Mauri' de Alfredo that a family tempest would brew up if the siblings had to settle inheritance of the owners' suite among them. Instead, he proposed, the southwest bedroom should be refurnished with nice beds for the three live-in servants -- moving them out of the Alfredo attic in the process -- and the private room of the suite could become a household washroom. Big Lui showed the written solicitation he had received to purchase a townhouse in Thysbee. Most of the place in question was in terrible condition, but he liked the sample he had been sent of slate tiles supposedly used in both indoor washrooms. And Big Lui's representative said that enough could be salvaged from the two washrooms to make one grand washroom, complete with a lot of sturdy pipes and a few ingenious Devices to keep the water flowing. "We could wash in the driest part of summer, in the most miserable part of winter, without setting a toe toward the outhouses," Big Lui suggested. "What a good way to honor Mama Mia's legacy!"
Big Mauri was not that difficult to persuade.
So they bought the townhouse, had it carefully dismantled and all that was worth salvaging they had shipped south to Alfredo House. Work crews worked hard over the space of a month to refurbish the former "southwest suite" into two separate rooms and to install the new plumbing within the strong walls of the House. They even put a doorframe and door between the new washroom and the upper hallway so that none of the siblings would have to traipse through the southwest bedroom.
Architecture
When Big Lui picked out materials for his grand Indoor Washroom project, he really did not expect it to turn out looking so unsettling. The rhodonite mixed into the supposed slate tiles was a lovely purple-pink highlight.
So he ordered it for the bathroom floor and wall tiles, the great big bathtub, the washbasin, the WC, even to frame the built in radiator.
At best, it looks like someone decorated this entire room in a Classic Murderer pattern. If the window above the radiator gets direct sun from the south, this effect is particularly garish.
Type
Room, Common, Bathroom
Parent Location
Connected Rooms
Owning Organization
