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There are several things to learn in my Scottish hotel room.

Do not put a light directly over the shower. It may look fine if you are standing outside the shower, but actually in the shower it means that you feel as if a light is shining directly in your eyes All The Time.
Large showers are nice. Potential for sharing a shower?
Small tiles cover the walls of the large shower look very nice. Discuss with other house owners to see if this increases the cleaning difficulty.
Explore shower head possibilities. This one has a regular shower head, then the shower unit has pairs of metal... nipples going down the wall. Yes, nipples. I don't know how else to describe them. Four pairs of them. And with the turn of a nipple-specific knob, they spray water. Now I would want the pairs of nipples to start about an inch lower on the wall (spraying my face is not cool), but otherwise... they are intriguing. I do appreciate that the nipple heads have a small amount of direction adjustment.
Towel warming rack. Very nice for warmer climates, though not necessary in Texas. Though, in this particular hotel, it would be handy if it worked.
Storage. The French hotel was very pretty to look at, but had no drawer space and only tall narrow shelves. This is not convenient for people staying a week in a hotel. I'm thinking that our guest room should have at least two empty drawers for our guests.

In France I have learned several things that I plan to implement on any future building I build.

A bed with artistically arranged pillows will never be as comfortable for sitting as a proper couch.
Stools, while space-efficient, will not substitute for proper chairs.
Never ever include saloon-style doors, no matter how cool they look. Stupid things don't allow you to carry anything through, and shake the building as they flap back and forth.
Think hard about line of sight and location of bathroom doors. It should be impossible, for instance, to stand outside any building and see through the glass front wall, through the glass foyer wall, as someone walks into the women's bathroom to get a good look at the entire length of six sinks. (Yes, seriously. As I stand at a bathroom sink, the line of sight goes through two walls, beyond the parking lot to the road. People actually driving by can see me standing in the bathroom. This is just wrong.)

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