Ewwwww! Yesterday's Metro...

[boxtops]

Would you? I wouldn't!

http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/17/smallest-flat-in-the-world-go-to-the-toilet-while-cooking-your-dinner-4149889/

[Georgiesmum]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
What are they thinking of?

[tonyav]

Is there some law against that, if there isn't then there should be !.

[ClaryS]

photoshopped?

[mier]

It is a home for someone. We should not be snobby over it. Better than living on the street, surely?

[naomi24]

I think there used to be a building regulation that said something like there has to be two doors between a living area and a toilet? What happened to that?

[daffy654]

That flat is in France, they must have different building regs to us as what Naomi says is correct in this country as far as I am aware.

[LazyGun]

Saves time if you are a bad cook :)

[naomi24]

Oh, thanks Daffy. I didn't read the article so didn't realise it's in France.

[daffy654]

I hope they close the toilet lid when they flush! The spray of fecal matter onto cooking equipment and surfaces would be hazardous to health otherwise :-/ Possibly so even with the lid down.

[jno]

if the alternative is sleeping under the Pont Neuf [insert Reims equivalent if preferred] people might think it was worth it.

[ChillDoubt]

I believe UK regs are that there has to be at least one door(estate agent told me that after my Mum died and the house was being sold. My parents had a downstars bathroom built next to the kitchen, don't ask why!) but as this is France, anything goes I guess.
You only have to look at the sanitation in their motorway service stations to see that!

[boxtops]

I thought exactly the same - you'd never get away with that in the UK. Building regs ask for at least one door of separation between kitchen and bathroom, I thought you had to have a lobby but I could be wrong on that. The thought of having to leave the kitchen because someone needs to use the loo is pretty revolting.

[society]

Ewwwwwww is right ewww