Pull-down shower screen redux: who needs one?
hattysue
6 years ago
My challenge is the renovation of an 83" x 66" x 108" bathroom for which the 108" measure is the height. This
7' x 5.5' space previously held -- I am not making this up -- a 60"
cast iron bathtub with ceramic tile surround, a toilet, and a 48" double vanity, all in shiny black, with slate floor.
My general strategy now is to not chop
up this already tiny space is to avoid any barrier that is evident when no one is taking a shower. I have switched from a tub to a
shower only and replaced the inswinging entry door with a pocket door.
What had been the tub/surround/shower curtain installation on the right wall will be replaced by a tiled open shower. The piece de resistance
of the shower and the silo-like room as a whole is a big honking
exposed pipe shower that looks like a medieval battle instrument that
would need five draft horses to transport, with a soupcon of steampunk.
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When someone walks into the bathroom, I want the comment to be not, "Whoa, what a dinky bathroom" but rather "Whoa, what a kick-ass shower." Hence the need for no permanent shower barrier.
Next up: proposed solution, for analysis and critique.
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hattysue
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agohousequester
6 years agoroarah
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoSend the plan jpg to your photo gallery than post via photos not as a copy and paste.
Is this what you are thinking?
a German company, eco dur, makes some! http://craziestgadgets.com/2012/10/16/pull-down-ceiling-mounted-shower-curtains/
hattysue thanked roarahroarah
6 years agoThese showers with jets were used in the twenties and made to have a shower curtain but the ribbed showers are supper cool even with a visable shower curtain. But in a wet room no curtain is needed!
hattysue thanked roarah
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