The number of handgrips is very limited and if present on the wrong place. There was no house where the bath room is positioned next to the sleeping room. In many cases there is a far distance be tween bathroom and sleeping room, even via the stairs. Important issues for the bathroom Almost all interviewed persons think that functionality and hygiene are most important aspects. The demand for hygiene means that all products, places and edges in the bath room must be easy to clean.
Functionality is still more important than the esthetic factor.
Some of the interviewed still have a very old bathroom, but are still satisfied with it as long as they do not need to move or they must adapt it to physical limitations. But for her time has not come yet to invest in improvements. For other persons the cost of renovation is a limiting factor. A bathroom may be beautiful, but there is simply no money for buying nice things. Remarkable is that most of the interviewed think that their bathroom is too small, despite the fact that the children have left the house.