I kinda feel like a lot of random commercial things are better than residential things:
Napkin dispensers at restaurants vs at home. I like how at restaurants you pull and only one comes out. At home it takes a bit of fine motor skill to pluck just one napkin from a bunch of stacked napkins.
Toilet paper holders in public have a serrated edge that makes it easy to tear.
Soap dispensers in public bathrooms and showers are attached to the wall. I like how that saves counter space.
I wonder why there’s this difference. I suspect people would find the commercial approaches at home to feel “too utilitarian” and “not homey”.
1. many commercial things actually are just better (and much more expensive) than residential things. This is because they are used much more by people who are less careful with them. A chair in a cafe will see many more hours of active use over a week than a chair in most peoples’ homes!
2. a huge amount of residential property these days is outfitted by landlords—that is, people who don’t actually have to live there—on the cheap, and with as little drilling into the walls (affecting the resale value) as possible.
You can buy shower soap dispensers like this. My roommate installed them in one apartment, although the kind that stick on are never as secure as I want.
I suspect the soap on the wall (I assume you’re talking about liquid soap?) it’s a fixture vs. furniture thing. You can use suction cups to attach a soap dispenser to the walls, but then again, would you trust it not to go splat? It needs a commitment to drill into the tile or wall to attach it.
I kinda feel like a lot of random commercial things are better than residential things:
Napkin dispensers at restaurants vs at home. I like how at restaurants you pull and only one comes out. At home it takes a bit of fine motor skill to pluck just one napkin from a bunch of stacked napkins.
Toilet paper holders in public have a serrated edge that makes it easy to tear.
Soap dispensers in public bathrooms and showers are attached to the wall. I like how that saves counter space.
I wonder why there’s this difference. I suspect people would find the commercial approaches at home to feel “too utilitarian” and “not homey”.
1. many commercial things actually are just better (and much more expensive) than residential things. This is because they are used much more by people who are less careful with them. A chair in a cafe will see many more hours of active use over a week than a chair in most peoples’ homes!
2. a huge amount of residential property these days is outfitted by landlords—that is, people who don’t actually have to live there—on the cheap, and with as little drilling into the walls (affecting the resale value) as possible.
You can buy shower soap dispensers like this. My roommate installed them in one apartment, although the kind that stick on are never as secure as I want.
I suspect the soap on the wall (I assume you’re talking about liquid soap?) it’s a fixture vs. furniture thing. You can use suction cups to attach a soap dispenser to the walls, but then again, would you trust it not to go splat? It needs a commitment to drill into the tile or wall to attach it.