Polished Nickel Framed Shower Enclosure

13 days ago

I’ve been looking for this type of fully framed shower enclosure with no luck. We are building a house and need two of these. In my area (TN), even up to a two hour radius, no one offers polished nickel for a framed shower. It’s always brushed nickel. I’ve found some beautiful enclosures from a company in California and New Jersey that look like what I want. I called them up but obviously we are too far. They are solid brass finished with polished nickel (I guess?). I was hoping someone on Houzz could point me in the right direction. I’ve looked everywhere. No one sells the look I’m wanting and every single glass company around does frameless or it’s not polished nickel finish. Any ideas on where to look? Or any companies in the southeast that do this? Thanks

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Mark Bischak, Architect
13 days ago
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I designed a house near Knoxville, but their shower glass was frameless. Personally I dislike cleaning shower glass and would dislike it even more with a frame.

I designed the guest bath (where I occasionally stay) for a shower curtain, but they installed a glass shower door. I have to squeegee the ¡™£¢∞§¶ shower door.
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Minardi
13 days ago
last modified: 13 days ago
That is fully high end custom, for a steam shower. The transoms should be operable. Probably 9K for the whole door system. Or more. Plus the 20K steam shower vapor proofing upgrade. You will need a vapor proof lighting and fan, inside the shower. Not damp rated. Vapor proof rated. For everything. With the proper ceiling slope. Otherwise its's a giant petri dish of mold.
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It was around $1800. It's more than normal because I got the glass extra tall, extra thick and got the Shower Guard treatment. I probably could have just got the standard height. The main reason I had extra height on the old doors was so I didn't bump my head on the top rail. Since there is no longer a top rail, this doesn't matter any more. Maybe the extra height will cut down on any overspray outside the shower. The Shower Guard doesn't work the way I expected it would. I expected the water to just run off in sheets with no beading or spots, but their is plenty of beading. There are no spots "sticking" to the glass, and they guarantee that water spots will never etch permanently into the glass and it won't develop pitting that makes the shower door glass get harder to clean as it ages. it still takes some elbow grease to get it spotless. I am just not super impressed yet because I thought it would be easier to keep clean than it is. If it doesn't get any harder to clean in a few years than it is today, then I'll be impressed with it at that time since I'm not going to squeegee the glass between cleanings since it isn't supposed to be needed as long as you clean it regularly (scrub it clean of soap scum on weekends etc.) I don't have any more tracks to clean and it's also easier to clean since I not longer have a section of the doors that overlap each other, so I like it much better overall.
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millworkman
13 days ago
@MInardi the OP never said she wanted a steam shower, only the framed look like that.
dani_m08
12 days ago
I didn’t know that they made framed shower glass that looks like the above - very cool looking!

I would definitely want to have someone come in and clean that for me every week - because I don’t enjoy using a squeegee on a frameless shower enclosure - can’t imagine the extra work needed to keep that type looking nice!

But it is really an interesting look!
millworkman
12 days ago
"I didn’t know that they made framed shower glass that looks like the above - very cool looking!"

If you find someone to make then for you, definitely custom, they will not be inexpensive I guarantee you that.
dani_m08
12 days ago
I can only imagine!! I’m currently looking into having some custom black metal divided glass cabinet doors fabricated. They are quite a bit smaller than the above shower enclosures - and are still expensive! Guess I will have to just live with my plain ’ol frameless glass shower door. . .
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Minardi
12 days ago
A shower fully enclosed like that, has to be built as a steam shower, even if it is not. The open at the top glass enclosures allow air movement that the closed up petri dishes do not.
agbhw
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10 days ago
Thanks everyone for the feedback, as always I appreciate it. Even if I just wanted a simple glass shower door with polished nickel frame, I can’t find that! I’m not sure why none of the glass companies offer polished nickel. I guess that is my biggest question at this point - why is everyone only offering brushed nickel and chrome?

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