Recently built a shower w/ glass door, wish I put in a small tub instead. Think the greatest shower pan is a small cast iron tub. I like the ease of washing a shower curtain, and the decorating style and softening of the room that a shower curtain provides. Yes, showers w/ glass doors are very "in," but I wish that I resisted. jmho

The only concern I would have is for resale. A young family would want a tub to bathe small children.

LOL, DS uses her tub to give her dogs a bath. Also, patients are often advised to soak body parts, most easily done in a tub.

There are decent 60 inch deeper tubs, Kohler Greek comes to mind, so one option is to replace with a better tub/ shower combo and possibly this is a safer option if you might need to sell within ten years. If resale is not a worry, do what you will enjoy the most, your house, your money, your desires! My in laws, with only 1.5 baths did a walk in shower and removed the only tub in the house a few years ago. At resale they were prepared to offer money to have a bath reinstalled but it was a non issue with buyers! They sold for full asking price to a family with a young child...

I love not having a shower curtain in my master bath. I feel so much warmer, am never attacked by an icky shower curtain any more and find the two minute squeegee so much easier than taking my shower curtains off and putting back on each month to launder. The view while showering is so much brighter too. YMMV though. I skeeve curtains with all their folds where mold will grow and sneezes or worse body fluids will cling to and will not stay in hotels with them so it may just be my own idiosyncrasy...

Agree wth Eld. We had a 60" shower /tub combo in our master and I was worried about converting it to a shower only but the designer assured me that since we had a tub in the hall bath it was fine. That one is also 60"......fine for kids.

60" is actually standard length. It depends upon where you live and the size of your house. There are plenty of small houses here (very small) with only a shower or showers because the bathrooms are so small, but most houses with two bathrooms will have one bathtub.

Thanks, everyone. I forgot to mention we only have 1.5 baths. Our master is only a half bath. They are very small so no room to add another shower without renovation.

I wold love a claw foot tub but I don't know if I will ever get one.

No move likely unless something perfect comes up or job relocation.

I would do it in a heartbeat.

I would never put a claw foot tub in a very small bathroom. The bathrooms in some of the houses I referenced about have bathrooms 5x7 and under and when three sides of a clawfoot tub have inches or so to the wall, and the room is small, there is no way to clean under or around the tub except getting down on your hands and knees or even getting your face down by the floor to see underneath.
They are great if they have breathing room around them and room to get a mop underneath. Imagine trying to clean this bathroom:

Versus this, where there is a big approach from two sides:

(These are both from local houses for sale in 2016-2017 by the way)

Keep in mind as you age a tub with high sides (deep) will be hard to get in and out of compared to a more shallow one.

dretutz, you are so right. My sister and BIL put in a jet tub in their only bathroom and with both of them having knee replacements it was so high I wonder what they were thinking? They do have grab bars. I would insist on a grab bar on any new shower/tub.

Pal, the bathroom is about 5 x 7' with the tub on the back wall.

Would you use a deeper tub? Do you have a hard time getting into your only shower. Honestly , if you would not even soak in a deeper tub, hate climbing in and out of a tub to shower daily , and there is no other shower in the house I would not hesitate to change it out for a walkin shower to make my life better for today and I would worry about resale when the time comes. I like your bath above and it works with your kitchen aesthetic as well.

if you like soaking than I think you can find better tubs at sixty inches to meet your needs and also be an accessible shower too.

Thanks, Roarah, it's not a problem at all now to get in and out as it's very shallow. I finally got my photobucket password right so here is a photo of when we updated the floor tile a couple years ago.

I have not taken a bath all winter since it was so mild.

Love your bathroom! I loved this Americh tub and was seriously considering using it as a shower combo in my master bath but decided one tub in my house was enough and opted to go for a walkin shower instead. But this tub is very similar looking to my orginal 1920 curved corner tub shower combo. It is a 21 ft step into the shower and it is acrylic not porcelain but looks retro to me and deep enough to soak. It comes in an air bath option too.

https://www.americh.com/details.php?product_id=181

For reference here is my 90 year old tub

I debated the same with my renovation and decided to keep the tub. I don't take baths often, but I decided that I wanted to have the option. Also resale.

Hi Gsciencechick --

Love your bathroom!

I have the Americh Roarah shared above (plain vs jetted) and love it, but then I was sadly tub-free and *looking* to put in a deep soaker with a vintage vibe.

I did have space for the 66" inch but the design is ergonomic enough that a 60" would probably be more comfortable than your current bath of the same length. And Americh makes 3-sided alcove tubs too.

If you're not a bath person, though, I think changing to a shower makes sense -- aside from the potential push-back at resale time, which it sounds like isn't much of an issue for you.

[Trying not to have bathroom envy of you and Roarah...and failing! So nice to have decent original/mostly original rooms.]

I would talk to a realtor, but pretty sure for resale--one day far far away even-a tub would be expected and if your house is the only one on the block without it--you will lose the sale.

We have 3 full baths in our home, and the first floor bath has a tub with a shower. I wouldn't want to be without it. I have never taken a bath in it, but we do need the tub to wash our dogs, fill buckets with water, and also in the event of a storm with possible power outages we fill the tub so we can flush our toilet since we have a well and a septic system. We also have had house guests with small children who used the tub to bathe them. I would not buy a house without a bathtub.

Sorry to hijack, Jmc do you have a pivot glass door out of frame? Or just a fixed glass screen? How is water containment?

Thanks!

I dont want to give up our tub bc of the promise it holds. "Maybe one day I'll take the time for a relaxing soak rather than a rushed rinse."

No.

I've looked at several one-bath houses for sale recently, but if they ditched the tub, I move on. I realize a lot of people would be happy with just a shower, but I'm not one of them.

I actually like taking a shower in a bathtub.

No pivot door out of frame, jmarino. Our glass is a 28" wide partition x 6' tall. Because the shower head pretty much points downward, water containment isn't a problem at all. We get a few drips on the 2" border partition and that's all.

If DH showers before me, his exiting the shower when soaking wet causes more floor water than does splashing.

In the couple of years since the bathroom was redone, I have never missed having a tub. To me, this is much easier to keep clean as well.

I would never do this as I hate showers and love a tub! From a resale standpoint, one must have a tub for young children so you will limit who buys your house someday if you remove the tub.

We have bathtubs with showers in both of our bathrooms, and we both mostly take baths instead of showers. We also have a hot tub outdoors, although I would rather have a swimming pool. A shower alone would not do it for me, and I am fine taking showers in the bathtub, when I want a shower.

When I lived in San Francisco in my 20s, I remember having bathtubs with showers, but the bathrooms were always somewhat cold, and so I mostly took showers so that I could get out quickly. One of the main reasons I left SF was the cold weather.

We have three bathrooms and removed one tub. The "hall" bath is being redone right now and we're putting in a tub for resale.

If there is more than one bedroom, I think it's safe to assume your home might be attractive to a family and you'll want to make sure there's at least one tub.

We did a fixed, frameless panel in our first bathroom remodel, too! Love it for the washing the dog! :)

Jmc101 and Jeannine, I love those looks but can I convince DH? I think, Jeanine, we have the same toilet, Kohler Memoirs. our layouts are pretty much identical.

Although I recall Jay Leno making a joke about a toilet named Memoirs, LOL. I would consider the Memoirs drop-in sink for a new vanity. We have another Memoirs in our half/master bath. We've had them about 10 years.