Apparently, Kim Kardashian once had gold plated toilets installed in her Bel-Air home. (I only know because I was searching for something fun and gold to write about)
Gold-plated. Not solid gold.
The price was somewhere around $750,000. -wow!
And I have to admit… I’m almost surprised it wasn’t a full million.
She’s a billionaire. Come on, Kim. If you’re going to do it, do it properly. Be like the Guggenheim artist who made the solid 18k one. Make it a few million and get a solid gold toilet!
But here’s the distinction…
Gold-plated means there’s only a thin layer of gold over another metal. It looks dramatic. It photographs well. It says something.
But it’s not the same as sitting on thousands of ounces of real gold.
If it were solid 18k gold, we’d be talking about literal weight. Thousands of ounces. Something that, could be melted down into bars and stacked in a vault.
And that’s where my brain went.
I’ve been stacking for about twelve years now, and once you’ve handled enough coins and bars, you start thinking in weight automatically. You see something “gold” and you wonder: how many ounces is that really?
Gold plating is more about the statement.
Solid gold is about the substance.
If someone handed me a $750,000 “bathroom budget,” I probably wouldn’t call a contractor. I’d be browsing something like this instead → AFFILIATE LINK
Because I if I was going to waste $750,000, it would not be on a toilet!
Still, I appreciate the spectacle. Gold has always been used to signal power… from crowns to cathedrals to celebrity bathrooms.
Even when it’s just a thin layer. And it is pretty.
