Flush America splashes out on bathrooms

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1814518,00.html

If the old adage holds true and one's home is one's castle, in America at least one's bathroom is a palace where showers are kitted out with iPods and there are plasma screen televisions in the spa bath.

Americans will spend $22bn (£11.9bn) on luxury bathrooms this year - 10 times more than the United States government will devote to Aids research, the Washington Post pointed out yesterday. Flush homeowners looking for the ultimate in luxury bathrooms will find no problem in running up a $100,000 tab on showers, tubs and toilets.

"They are making this into their retreat, their home spa. It's like a mini living room now," said Arlene Hirst, for Metropolitan Home, an upmarket design magazine.

Over the past seven or eight years the focus of home design has shifted from the luxury kitchen to the bathroom, with Americans eager to spend as much money on private luxuries as on public spaces.

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history.

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3. The Internationale...

Unites the huma....

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6. Money really is going down the toilet in this country..

or rather is being spent on the toilet.