Forget old fashioned toilets, washlets are the way to go!

Yesterday I spent the afternoon looking at toilets. But these are no ordinary loos, these washlets are part of Japanese designers, TOTO’s campaign to revolutionise Europe with life enhancing clean technology.

Now the British don’t have a great record with equipment which bathes the nether regions. Remember bidets. Installed in their hundreds of thousand in bathrooms throughout the country in the 70s and 80s, many bidets have been left to languor as occasional and expensive footbaths.

But TOTO’s products which promise “previously unimaginable levels of cleanliness, relaxation and contentment” look set to change all that.

And they are beautiful.  Sleekly styled, elegant and modern, these toilets are fit to grace the most upmarket of bathrooms (and as architects and designers make a bee line for TOTO’s showroom in Clerkenwell, are doing so increasingly). And the features!  Automatic seat lift,  self cleaning washing wand using warm water, heated seat, deodoriser, Tornado Flush. The list goes on.

Have I convinced you yet? Another thought. Now, I know that we don’t like to dwell on these things but it did occur to me that a washlet would be a real luxury as we get older and ordinary activities like going to the toilet are not as straightforward as they once were. This is independence with real style!

And don’t get me started on the stunning illuminated washbasins..

For more information, go to eu.toto.com