Design genius, or design disaster?
By badbadivyYesterday, I traveled to the famous Mothership BBQ, home of Nashville's best BBQ and also home to the most photographed bathroom in Nashville history.
Jim Reams, owner of Mothership BBQ, did not have a huge budget for decorating whhen he opened his restaurant, so he used creative methods for decorating. He posted album covers all over the walls, and a life sized Rod Stewart cutout graces the front room:
photo credit: Kerry Woo Model: Sista Smiff
But the coup de grace is the ladies' restroom.
This is about as full of a view as I could get of this extremely small bathroom. I figured getting the toilet and sink the the picture was unnecessary.
The ubiquitous album covers grace the walls, all of them of shirtless men.
This is the view from the toilet. It's almost enough to make me just wait until I can get to a less clean, but far less scary gas station for bathroom business.
10 naked Ken dolls in a cage and naked Burt Reynolds? It might be a bit too much.
Just in case you didn't catch the full glory of the Ken doll cage, here's a close-up.
I have never been able to decide whether I find this bathroom absolutely fabulous or way over the edge of good taste. So, Curbly readers, I'm leaving this up to you. Is it design genuis, or design disaster? Leave me a comment and tell me what you think.
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Gruffydd
balubalu
Holy mother of pink.
That's all I'm going to say
DIY Maven
Genius! Anything that gets people talking is good!!!
badbadivy
:::dies laughing @ Keter:::::
You KNOW that Rod Bling Belt is hawt! We all want one! :D
newscoma
Fun. Just darned fun.
I think this is brilliant.
Keter
A pink room filled with anatomically incorrect dolls in a disco-deathmatch-cage, so-70s Burt Reynolds lardcake and Rod Stewart in a pose that simultaneously makes him look like Shirley Jones and as if he's writing his name in the snow...would for sure make me lose my appetite, if not sing my lunch right away.
Disaster implies that it was ill-fated, unfortunately, this must have been deliberate. If Dante was alive today, it might even inspire a level of Hell, one this designer no doubt would be condemned to redecorate for eternity.
But I want Rod's bling-belt for myself. ;o)
KatNap
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