So that you assume toilet seats are boring? I suppose you have not been purchasing for a substitute seat currently. It was a bit like that previous quote attributed to Henry Ford, “you’ll be able to have any coloration as long as it is black” I do not assume it was true in Fords case and it wasn’t fairly true within the case of toilet seats.
For a few years you had a selection of black, white or wooden. Previous to the usage of plastic for family items it was wooden or nothing, although you almost certainly had a selection of wooden however after all the extra enticing woods like mahogany had been costly.
With the appearance of plastic seats there got here a brand new technology of clean and glossy seats, often black in coloration. They had been regarded by many as extra hygienic than wooden, actually they had been simpler to clean, and the eradicated the hazard of splinters the place you least anticipated them squatty potty.
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than you had the selection of a white seat which lots of people clearly most well-liked, believing that it regarded extra aesthetically pleasing and probably “cleaner” in case you like. After all picket seats had been nonetheless accessible for individuals who most well-liked the look of wooden, to not point out the heat of a picket toilet seat when in comparison with the chilly plastic ones. Additionally there have been developments within the wooden finishes accessible which made picket seats simpler to clean with out the necessity for scrubbing naked wooden.
We’ve not but thought-about the {hardware} used to connect the seat to the toilet itself, often some kind of hinge association with bolts to repair the seat to the porcelain pan. These fittings would often be of brass for the dearer seats or iron or metal for the cheaper market. Metal after all rusts very simply, chrome plating may help delay this however sadly not without end, and to chrome plate metal means a sophisticated means of first coating the metal with different metals akin to zinc and brass. This additionally means the fittings value extra. The invention of stainless-steel meant you did not want the sophisticated plating progress to make rust roof {hardware}.
Now after all we’ve got a tremendous vary of plastic seats which regularly have plastic becoming {hardware} too. After all plastic is a reasonably fundamental description for a complete vary of artificial supplies from polypropylene to acrylic resin. There are additionally many picket seats which have a vinyl coating which makes them sturdy and straightforward to clean. Once I say wooden it will possibly imply some kind of wooden and resin compound like medium density fibreboard.
Acrylic resins have the added attraction of being accessible in clear or translucent colours; this implies you’ll be able to embed objects within the resin akin to sea shells, dried flowers, photos even items of barbed wire! So now there’s an enormous vary of novelty seats accessible to match the décor of your toilet regardless of the type you select and irrespective of how wild or outrageous. Bathroom seats boring, not any extra.