Bathtub pony wall glass installation advice!!
Looking for suggestions and advice!
We are installing a glass panel on the pony wall side and going with a shower curtain on tub entry side. I am expecting 🤰🏻 and this is our only tub so we do not want to go full glass.
The pony wall opens up at our vanity with 8ft ceilings.
Glass sketches are added…
Option 1 leaves a gap of 5 inches space between ceiling and glass panel
Option 2 brings glass panel all the way to the ceiling for sturdiness (contractors recommendation)
Ventilation is not a huge concern since it’s partial glass and we have a shower curtain planned.
I see many more glass panels that aren’t touching the ceiling but now that my contractor recommends this, I’m wondering! What would you do?
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8 months ago- 8 months ago
Not looking to finish the wall. It would be too tight. It’s a small master bath. We’re doing what we have to do for now considering we need an accessible tub for the baby. It will be fine :) just looking for advice on option 1 or 2, thx!!
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Comments (11)Alina - we didn't do a careful job at all. I just asked a kinda slap-dash guy to throw together a bookshelf made of 3/4" pine I think. maybe even 5/8". I'm not recommending this, certainly not over what am actual cabinet maker constructs. Only, this is just not something I fussed about at all. Course, this happened early on in the experience when I knew -8b. I know more now and might be more careful about all this. And I'll show pictures because I want folks to see but ... it doesn't look very good in pictures, neither of my bathrooms does! The colors are wrong and you just can't get a sense of the feel of the room *at all*. One of my bathrooms I posted because of a problem with the vanity top and I got a little sub-enthusiasm because I know my "Style" is no way-no how GW's! I wish I *could* convey with a photo what the room actually looks like because I do really like both and think you-all would too if only I could depict it fairly! As well, over in kitchens I once set off a mild scandal-storm by showing a picture of another bathroom that contained wet footprints in it, and of my kitchen once all overflowing with a typical day's worth of chaos from a really, really busy household. I am just not living the GW life here. So - all those mea culpas aside, please understand that I do recognize my life style is perhaps a little shocking to some on this forum. As they say on the net, no one knows that you're a dog. All I can say is -- it works in person! So here's a closeup of the shelves that are smaller because of the room's configuration in one of the bathrooms. This is unfinished and unused, but we're getting closer! Darn it, I should have removed the offending personal items and put the toilet seat down for this photo, but it's now beyond a waking person's reach, if you follow: And here's an overview of the space if it helps. Please know this wall is no way so blue in reality. I'm thinking the glossiness might have caused the flash to bounce and change the color a lot? It is a little bit blue but in there it looks grey-blue: The serpentine in the niches was supposed to go on the floor, but when I went to order it, the warehouse said a hotel chain in Arizona had just bought hundreds of thousands of sqft of the stuff and it was now all gone. I was really disappointed! But I got to keep the sample and that's where it ended up. The replacement floor is more muted but it's OK, particularly given the top I was therefore able to "afford" (in the wild-stone expense account that is). For your interest, here's a shot of that wild-stone: And here's the shelf in the other bathroom. These shelves are bigger but obviously not being used to great affect at the moment. If you cared about use, appearance, efficiency, etc, you should just build the pony wall to a height that will give your bookshelves the height they want or you need. I didn't do that, just sort of fit them into a random height built to contain the tub. That was silly I suppose, but designing this was not on my mind at all at the time: Here's a shot of that space for reference: And because I posted about this problem sink of mine earlier and showed some shots of the bathroom at the time, I'll show the other wall and the new top to that problem vanity. The old problem sink is, sadly, gone (broken) and everything works *way* better. BTW, at the time someone (well-meaningly) criticized the diagonal tiling backsplash as not representing a angularity anywhere else in the room. That's not actually true, but you cannot really make it out in the photo; the entire white tiling behind the tub is on an angle and the spots are set in, therefore, at their junctions, also as an angle, a sort of "diamond on the side", as it were. What can I say -- I think it works in person. If you stare hard you can just make out the white-on-white diamond pattern of the tub. So that has white grout, the sink area blue to pick up the transluscent tiles. That luminescence also doesn't photograph well: And finally, because there was a discussion of "boob lights" elsewhere which I personally found just hilarious, I show here a shot of my decidedly not-boob lights. I can't get what they look like when turned on, they emit a slightly red and blue-green streaky white color -- it's pretty wild. Unanticipated, but really looks very cool. I picked them in large part because they worked to the *left* of the electrical box. Those got put in in the wrong place and I just didn't feel like moving them. Decorating-by-sloth. :) OK, please understand this all works better in person than in photos. I know it's a real faux pas around here to show traces of life-with-teens but I just don't have the energy to clean up behind them or for a photograph. Mea culpa!!!!...See MoreBathtub Glass Screen - Advice, Pictures, Etc.
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I like the idea from @jlc712 to do a ceiling mounted track for the whole tub - enables you live in the bath before committing to a glass wall behind that vanity
- 8 months ago
Instead of a shower curtain, explore the idea of a panel of glass mounted on the right wall that has an Arced glass panel on it with hinges that enable it to be swung out to accommodate bathing your child, yet allows showering as well.
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8 months agolast modified: 8 months agoOkay - maybe this can’t be fabricated for some reason - but not sure why it wouldn’t work.
You need to be able to access the valve to turn water off and on + be able to reach baby/toddler/small child while bathing-
Why couldn’t this type of door be used with a stationary glass panel over the pony wall + another stationary glass panel covering the back half of the side of the tub?
This first one is a frameless swing door (shape would need to be modified to look like the next one):
This is a semi frameless swing door:
Both doors can be opened all the way so that you can easily bathe your baby/child.
I looked at these and some pivot glass doors for bathtubs - I renovated my bathrooms - and while I have a freestanding tub in my master, I wanted to be able to bathe my grandson in the regular alcove tub. I currently have a shower curtain (tub is in an alcove) - but I would like glass since I spent $$ on my new tile.I’ve seen many showers with pony walls on one side + a swing door with stationary panel on the adjacent side. Seems like the same could be done for your tub.
Maybe I will get blasted for this idea - but it would allow you access + no need to modify glass for a shower curtain rod that you eventually want to replace.
Of course, it will be custom - so, not sure how much it would cost (unless the second door could be used and you just would need the stationary panels fabricated).
- 7 months ago
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