The Bathroom is flooded with light through its many windows which have a sunny southern exposure. This is one of the first indoor bathrooms in all of Victoria. It was built in order to aid Mrs. Carr who was ill at the time.

built a beautiful bathroom. Two sides of it were of glass. It was built over the verandah and he trained his grape-vine round the windows. The perfume of the vine in spring poured through the open windows deliciously. Father had tried to build several bathrooms before Beaver Lake came to town, but none of them had been any good. First he used a small north room and had a cistern put in the attic to fill the bathtub. But hot water had to be lugged upstairs in a bucket and the cistern froze every winter; so that bathroom was a failure. Father tried a bathroom off the wash-house across the yard. A long tin pipe hung under the chin of the washhouse pump and carried cold water, but hot water had to be dipped out of the wash boiler on the stove....It was glorious having Beaver Lake pour out of taps in your kitchen and we gloated at being plumbed."

--The Book of Small By Emily Carr.

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