Our (It's Taking) Forever Home

In my attempts to functionally incorporate architectural pieces from places like INDIA, MEXICO, and the MIDDLE EAST into the exterior of New Moroxico, one of the unique challenges I became all too familiar with is that many of their traditional doors and windows — while stunningly beautiful — were NEVER INTENDED TO HOLD GLASS.

In Texas, neither permit nor preference would ever allow me to build an open air home, so any time I adapted one of these exotic architectural elements I paid dearly for it in both money and time.

The house took so long to design and build, that along the way my relationship status changed, and it became apparent that not one but two people would eventually be living in New Moroxico. The problem was, I didn’t design a house for a couple, I designed a house perfectly suited for one single man. And not just any man — a man with a singular and rather PROGRESSIVE VISSION.

A Poo for Two

Case in point, I have a very strong dislike of claustrophobic commodes that are sequestered away in dismal little closets, so there were to be no doors confining the toilet nook in the primary bathroom.

Considering how much I love hunting for cool doors, when my partner asked if I could please reconsider this and add a door to the toilet nook, I told him, “No problem!”

The doors I commissioned turned out beautifully, but when he saw them my partner said, “Ryan! These doors are MOSTLY SEE-THRU!”

Rather than be pedantic and point out he never said he wanted opaque doors, I simply showed him what to do with the gorgeous SARI-LIKE CURTAIN that drapes down from the ceiling.

I photograph toilets around the world; and while mine is tame compared to many of those, I will readily admit that this compromise did lead to something even better than what I originally conceived.