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Each week on the Bathonista Blog, we’ll feature some bathroom-related links from around the Web. If you have any links you’d like to submit, just send an email to editor@ibaths.com with “Weekly Links” in the headline.

On this tax day edition of the Weekly Web Links, here are some design ideas you can spend your refund on. Although you'll probably prefer to be a little more prudent with any extra money, or at least, not use your bathroom to pay homage to a comic book character. Onto the links:

• An open-plan kitchen (pictured above) can be a great way to keep your living space feeling large and free-flowing. An open-plan bathroom can be a great way to keep guests in your home feeling completely uncomfortable. But in some boutique hotels, bathrooms with clear walls and full exposure are in full bloom, as this NY Times article by Audrey Tempelsman points out. In residential homes it’s hard to see this trend catching on, but certain aspects of it are kind of fun for a weekend hotel romp, assuming you're not sharing a room with your parents. From the article:

“Indeed, some travelers appreciate the voyeuristic kick. Bryce Longton, who stayed with her boyfriend at the Tides in Miami late last year, is a fan.

‘I thought it was sexy,” Ms. Longton, a 29-year-old freelance writer from Los Angeles, said of the glass shower in their suite. “The steam from the shower obscured a lot, but showed a little. You could watch each other from the other room.’” (Read the whole article) 

• Now we go from bathroom’s that let the light (and prying eyes) in, to bathrooms that let no light out. Check out this post from Atticmag.com about all black bathrooms.

• More proof why young athletes shouldn’t be handed millions of dollars: a photo of NBA star Dwyane Wade’s Spiderman bathroom from his former home. We’ll give Wade the benefit of the doubt and assume this bathroom is for his children.