If you don't mind sharing, what are the bamboo platforms for?
Do you like the wood bath "mats"? Where did you get them?
Also curious about the wood bath mats! Does water drip onto the floor underneath? Do you have to wipe it up or is it negligible enough that it can just evaporate?
I do like them a lot; my bathroom is where the kitty litterbox lives, so it tends to get kind of a dirty floor, and when I had a carpet down, the carpet just clung to whatever dust, cat hair, litter etc. came in and was a pain to vacuum. When I didn’t have a carpet down, it just went everywhere. Either way, getting out of the shower every morning, my wet feet would step on the floor/carpet and pick up all kinds of unpleasantness.
My first time at the Korean spa up in Niles, I saw them using a similar mat to these to elevate peoples’ feet off the floors a little, which kept their feet cleaner (because the slats have holes any debris can fall through) and also make cleaning easier (just lift the mats and sweep underneath). So I bought one to replace my “getting out of the shower” mat, and it worked great. I knew I wanted to replace the rug in the bathroom with more mats, but I held off because pulling up the rug, cleaning up the adhesive under it, ordering the mats etc. seemed like a good chore for November.
These are Gobam, a Chinese brand, which I like because they’re built very sturdily; other brands tend to have much thinner slats and fewer supports, and Gobam also have little rubber feet that keep them from skidding. They aren’t cheap, but they’re worth the extra cost in my opinion. The only place you can really get them retail in the US is from Amazon, although once I found them on Amazon I checked eBay and was able to buy them there for a comparable price.
They’re very stable, smooth on the feet, with narrow gaps so the gaps don’t hurt your feet either, and they’re relatively lightweight so easy to lift and move if you want to sweep under them. I used the mat by the bathtub for about six months without bothering to sweep or mop up underneath it, and it was actually quite clean when I checked it -- no mildew from the water, very little dirt under it. It depends on how much water you like to shed when coming out of the shower (I dry myself off while standing in the shower and only then exit) but I haven’t had any concerns about water collecting underneath them.
