Apparently,

if you live in Kaunas, Lithuania,

buildings like this can be seen, photographs © Gyva Grafika, a Soviet era apartment building, if you look carefully there are a number of apartment windows with people looking out from them, “Lithuania often neglects its public spaces,” Gyva Grafika stated,

 “A lot of people live in the cleanest apartments but once they step outside the situation changes completely. Stairwells, yards, and other public spaces are usually abandoned and ignored. For this reason, we have decided to balance these daily surroundings and introduced the outside to the inside.”

I like the washing in one of the panels, it gives the whole scene everyday domestic look, 

as does that chap looking on, but here is the thing, would  I like the thought of all of these windows and people looking down on me,

 when I use the bathroom? well Gyva Grafika, a creative design and décor studio designer did, when Galeria Urbana, a restaurant in Kaunas, Lithuania asked him to make new tiles for the restaurants bathroom,

the original idea was to print some of the photos of old apartment buildings on bathroom tiles, but because Galeria Urbana didn’t want its original tiles replaced, the designers had to come up with another solution. They found it in the form of high-definition stickers, they printed the photos in sticker form and stuck them on the bathroom tiles, creating the effect of a Soviet era apartment building inside the bathroom,

“WC for Architects” was a massive success, earning the Lithuanian design studio a lot of praise for originality and ingenuity. But that wasn’t the end of their original idea, people were so impressed with their idea that they overwhelmed the studio with requests to buy the same style stickers for their own homes. In the end, Gyva Grafika gave in and started selling the stickers on its website, so if you want to have a soviet era backdrop to your bathroom look no further than here, you can actually still buy these artistic tile stickers from the Gyva Grafika online shop for €3 per sticker, €24 per pack of nine, €34 per pack of eighteen, or €52 per pack of forty-eight stickers, for myself I will stick to what we already have.