Each principal bedroom (three in number) has its own bathroom, completely fitted, adjoining, so that we have no washstands in the house.
Washstands are used in each bedroom, and hot water taken to these rooms three or four times a day.
These are preferable, I think, to fitted washstands in the bedrooms.
These washstands should be placed back to back, as it were, in every two rooms, having only the partition-wall between them, so that the same pipe would supply two taps.
Some one of Minton's vases or jardinieres would answer the purpose very well; but unless it had a plug and a pipe for letting off the water, like many washstands have, it would be heavy to lift with water in it.
If, instead of our ordinary washstands with their jugs and basins, we had fixed basins with plugs in them and taps above, much of the water-bearing difficulty would be obviated.
All these different basins are fitted into marble washstands with dishes for soap and tooth-brushes hollowed in the marble, with holes for drainage connected with the waste-pipe below.
There were two washstands in the room, and one dressing-table.
The whole place was scrupulously neat and exquisitely clean, for the white dimity curtains rivalled the snow in winter, and the deal washstands and the deal dressing-table were as white as the scrubbing of honest hands could make them.
When a house party is in progress, for instance, and every one comes in from tennis or golf or what not, eager for a bath and fresh clothes, washstands are most convenient.
In the Colony Club there are a number of bathrooms, but there are also washstands in those rooms that have no private bath.
Whether the care of washstands is difficult or easy depends on the water used, and on whether the work is done nicely every day.
If there are washstands in the rooms, now remove the waste water and put the stands in order.
The washstands are put in order next because this gives the beds a longer time to air, and because it is desirable to get the waste water out of the rooms as soon as possible.
Waste water should be carried away, pitchers filled, washstands tidied and beds opened.
Specimens of ancient pottery found on these washstands are now in the British Museum, and are reckoned among the finest of Layard's collections at Nineveh.
Some of the apartments exhibit a glaring splendor; the rest show beds, bureaus, and washstands which hard and long usage has polished to a sort of newness.
It was melancholy to see the spoiled and demolished furniture which would be of so much use to us now, bureaus without drawers, sofas with only the frames, and those all broken, pieces of washstands and bedsteads, etc.
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