# Toilet seat heights in Amsterdam

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2022-05-04
**Categories:** amsterdam, architecture, architecture-school, design, funny-post, matthew-rolston, photographer, toilet-heights, toilet-seats, travel, uncategorized
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/toilet-seat-heights-in-amsterdam

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I am in Amsterdam right now for the very first time. And after I took in all the bicycles, the beautifully tilting buildings, and its iconic canals, the first thing that struck me was — get this — the height of its toilet seats. Now don’t get me wrong, I am a reasonably tall guy. So it’s not that the bowl in my hotel room isn’t comfortable or anything like that. It actually feels quite luxurious. I just know that this thing has got to be taller than your average bowl. A typical toilet seat height can be anywhere from 15 to 19” when measuring from the floor to the top of the seat. But I think 17-19” is the most typical range. So how much taller is my Dutch bowl? Sadly, I forgot to pack my tape measure on this trip. So I instead used the tallest book I could find in the room as a measuring stick. It happenend to be the above book by Hollywood photographer Matthew Rolston. Matthew’s book is 36cm tall and so, by using everything I ever learned in architecture school, I am now fairly confident that my seat is currently sitting at around 21-22” off the ground. Dutch people are tall. And so too are the bowls, it would seem.

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