The Bathroom Bench
Everything made for the bathroom these days looks like it came from a hospital.
This doesn't.
It's a bench for the shower. That's all it is. White, curved, properly made, with a small shelf underneath for the shampoo and the soap. No arms bolted on the side, no grey rubber feet, none of that.
Most people walking into your bathroom would take it for a stool and think no more of it, which is rather the point. You sit down when you want to, and it isn't announcing anything to anyone.
A few honest things, since you'll want to know them before you decide. Yes, it does sit a little lower than a kitchen chair — one lady told us as much, and she was quite right, so we'll not pretend otherwise. It's meant to go at the end of the shower, or just outside it, so there's somewhere to sit while you dry off and dress — that being the part where a wet floor and standing on one leg stop being much fun. It holds [WEIGHT]kg, the rubber feet hold fast on wet tiles so it won't slide about, and it won't rust or go mouldy on you. If you've had one of the cheap plastic ones, you'll remember the wobble. This isn't that.
It hasn't any arms, and that is on purpose. If you need to push up on handles to get to your feet, then in all honesty this isn't the one for you — a proper chair with arms would suit you better, and we'd sooner say so than sell you the wrong thing. This is for someone still fairly steady who simply wants somewhere decent to sit, and would rather it weren't one of those grim plastic contraptions.
The people who have one tend to say much the same, and plainly. One woman has had hers nine months — a good height for sitting on while you dry yourself, she said, at eighty. Another said only that she has one and loves it, and left it there. A gentleman bought one and told us the main reason was that it doesn't look like it belongs in a retirement village, which puts it better than we could.
It comes in the one size — [WIDTH] wide, [DEPTH] deep, [HEIGHT] high — and suits most bathrooms with room for a seat at the edge of the shower. If yours is on the smaller side, it's worth measuring first. It goes together in about ten minutes with an ordinary screwdriver from the drawer; most people manage it at the kitchen table.
Line drawing or photo with the three measurements marked.
Plain and legible.
One last thing, and we'll be straight about it: it takes a few weeks to reach you. We send tracking and keep you posted, so you're not left wondering where it's got to — one customer took the slowness for a scam before it turned up, and was glad of it in the end, and we'd rather you knew from the start than sat there worrying. It's an Australian business, the shipping is free, and you have thirty days to change your mind and send it back for your money if it isn't right. The risk sits with us, not with you.
That's about the whole of it. Have a proper look on the next page, and if it isn't for you, no harm done.
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— Michael, The Bathroom Bench.
Artarmon, Sydney, Australia.