This bathroom will make or break your relationship

By
Orana Durney-Benson
October 5, 2025

If you have ever wanted to test your anxiety, this bathroom might be the ultimate challenge. 

The powder room is on a mezzanine floor in a rustic timber cabin in the US. 

It has all the crucial components of a bathroom: a toilet, a sink and a small mirror. 

But one important element is missing: the walls.

The mezzanine bathroom. Photo: Coldwell Banker Homes

A low partition is the only thing separating the bathroom from the open-plan living and dining room below. 

It’s sure to add some excitement to dinner party conversations. 

Thankfully, the mezzanine powder room is not the only toilet in the property. 

On the ground floor is a full bathroom with a shower, tub and four solid walls. 

An additional toilet is available in the basement laundry room. 

The cabin is set on 10 beautiful acres of woodland on the shores of a lake in Washington state. 

The one-bedroom hideaway is on the market for $US699,000 ($1.06 million). 

But those with an exhibitionist streak need not travel overseas – there are plenty of eyebrow-raising bathrooms here in Australia.

A Hobart house takes his-and-hers living to the next level with a pair of twin toilets. 

The loos are arranged back to back, and are separated by a dividing wall. 

In fact, everything in the ensuite comes in twos, from the sinks to the dual shower heads. 

Across the water in Adelaide is one of the strangest bathrooms in Australia.

Eye-catching ensuite in Adelaide. Photo: Toop+Toop

Anyone who uses it will be forced to make intense eye contact with the former owner, thanks to wallpaper bearing floating images of his head. 

Vendor Maggie Miles told Domain she “wanted [the bathroom] to be quirky” and make people laugh. 

Her husband – the novelist Gary N. Lines – was happy to take part in the joke. 

For a more pared-back experience, Australia’s rental market has plenty of bathroom gems. 

One property for rent features an outdoor toilet hidden behind a pink curtain. 

The only thing separating the toilet from the elements are a couple of pieces of corrugated metal. 

Not to your taste? Check out these houses for sale in Australia with amazing bathrooms

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Sea views and rustling trees give this Tasmanian bathroom a holiday feel.

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