Talented Interior Designer Los Angeles: Decorating Pet Peeves
Tis the season for holiday entertaining, and as an already reluctant guest, I hate being faced with a “used” bar of soap. It’s almost as bad as the rubber-backed rugs and the MIA guest towels. I would venture to say that few things can cause so much indigestion (and on a perfectly empty stomach) as the sight of a slimy, bubbly bar of soap, no matter how lovely the brand or how delicious the dish.
It’s unsightly. It’s unsanitary (maybe not technically, but somehow it’s just icky) and (most dear to our hearts) it’s just not beautiful. Let’s take a stroll down retail alley. Pick a store. Any store. From small chi-chi boutiques to perfectly delightful mid-size regional retailers, to the big boy, box stores you can’t sling a cat in without hitting a major display of lovely soap products.
Loads of lavender. Carts full of cardamom. Piles of patchouli….you get the picture. They are all lined up in beautiful and useful gentle-action pump containers just waiting to squirt their way into your heart. And, best of all, they come with coordinating bar soaps marvelously wrapped in the most delightful ways. This allows you to display the wrapped bars (because THESE are beautiful).
It also allows you to provide your guests with the sanitary and stylish use of the liquid as they scrub the mud off their whatever or wherever without having to pick-up that nasty glob of scented slime. And dear guest; twenty lashes with a scented noodle should you opt to strip bare one of those delicately wrapped bars when the liquid version is yours for the taking.
If you ask me, your hostess should present you with a bill on your departure for such thoughtlessly rude behavior. Were you born in a barn?
