Toilet Seat Art Gives Second Life to Old Fixtures

photo credit: Julie Gomoll on flickr.
Barney Smith, toilet seat artist

It all started when retired plumber Barney Smith of San Antonia was looking for something on which to mount a set antlers. Naturally he settled on a toilet seat lid, (The shield-like shape is perfect really, you'd have to agree.) and the rest is kitschy folk art history.

Mr. Smith did not sell his art but instead amassed a collection of hundreds of uniquely decorated seats and lids. His garage served as studio and museum where he received over a thousand visitors a year.

These kind of stories always get us thinking differently about our pile of defunct fixtures out back that are destined for recylcing. (see: Steampunk-style Lamps From Plumbing Parts on this blog)

And, if Barney Smith's toilet seat art gets you feeling a bit less nostalgic about your old but familiar toilet -- like maybe you could change it out after all, send it on to a new life in Art, well we can facilitate that.

Remember, Sonoma County is offering rebates and the Sonoma County Direct Install Program is back.

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Read more about toilet seat art:
Incredible Toilet Seat Art on Environmental Graffitti
King of the Toilet Seat Arts - Gone
The Toilet Seat Art Museum
Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum