Preferring a bath shower instead of separates

sugar-walsh

greensalad said:

Doozergirl said:

I don't like small shower cubicles with lots of moving parts but I do love a wet room with clean lines.  I've managed to build a shower with three tiled sides and no glass in our house so I didn't even have to worry about water marks on the glass.  For me, that's perfection.  Life is too short for water marks!  

This is my dream, to have space for one. Like the old 1930s bathrooms in Hollywood houses (I follow a "Vintage Tile Enthusiast" instagram who posts them all the time).

I've been considering sacking off a screen when we do our wetroom en suite and instead going for a shower curtain. Everyone tells me I'm crazy but... high quality shower curtain will take up so much less room, and to clean it just needs slinging in the wash once a month.

I've had some really lovely shower curtains in the past, a parti ularly pretty one from h and m springs to mind. I found having 2 was good with a family so we could shove one in the wash and hang another straight away. Plus, different bathroom look.

Ectophile

When I got my bathroom refurbished, I had a "shower bath" installed.  It's wider at the taps end and thinner at the other.  So it makes for a better "shower cubicle" than a traditional shaped bath.

I also got a hinged glass screen, as plastic shower curtains are horrid.

greensalad

sugar-walsh said:

greensalad said:

Doozergirl said:

I don't like small shower cubicles with lots of moving parts but I do love a wet room with clean lines.  I've managed to build a shower with three tiled sides and no glass in our house so I didn't even have to worry about water marks on the glass.  For me, that's perfection.  Life is too short for water marks!  

This is my dream, to have space for one. Like the old 1930s bathrooms in Hollywood houses (I follow a "Vintage Tile Enthusiast" instagram who posts them all the time).

I've been considering sacking off a screen when we do our wetroom en suite and instead going for a shower curtain. Everyone tells me I'm crazy but... high quality shower curtain will take up so much less room, and to clean it just needs slinging in the wash once a month.

I've had some really lovely shower curtains in the past, a parti ularly pretty one from h and m springs to mind. I found having 2 was good with a family so we could shove one in the wash and hang another straight away. Plus, different bathroom look.

Yeah I think a really nice one can look sort of classic. I think a lot of people have horrible memories of them from dingy, mouldy bathrooms of the past. But a nice fresh shower curtain in a mid-modern bathroom I think is so much more appealing than glass.

Doozergirl

greensalad said:

sugar-walsh said:

greensalad said:

Doozergirl said:

I don't like small shower cubicles with lots of moving parts but I do love a wet room with clean lines.  I've managed to build a shower with three tiled sides and no glass in our house so I didn't even have to worry about water marks on the glass.  For me, that's perfection.  Life is too short for water marks!  

This is my dream, to have space for one. Like the old 1930s bathrooms in Hollywood houses (I follow a "Vintage Tile Enthusiast" instagram who posts them all the time).

I've been considering sacking off a screen when we do our wetroom en suite and instead going for a shower curtain. Everyone tells me I'm crazy but... high quality shower curtain will take up so much less room, and to clean it just needs slinging in the wash once a month.

I've had some really lovely shower curtains in the past, a parti ularly pretty one from h and m springs to mind. I found having 2 was good with a family so we could shove one in the wash and hang another straight away. Plus, different bathroom look.

Yeah I think a really nice one can look sort of classic. I think a lot of people have horrible memories of them from dingy, mouldy bathrooms of the past. But a nice fresh shower curtain in a mid-modern bathroom I think is so much more appealing than glass.

I've just googled and there are some lovely ones out there that would make a real design statement! 

I don't need one but now I kind of want one!  

mi-key

I've just googled and there are some lovely ones out there that would make a real design statement! 

I don't need one but now I kind of want one!  

Another vote for shower curtains. The screens are ok, but they get in the way of the bath, always seem to leak and never look clean. A curtain can easily be moved out of the way and are pretty cheap so if you change the colour scheme you can get a new one

PunkRoquefort

My glass screen is only several inches wide and is fixed to the wall at the tap end of my bath and to the bath itself. I have a decent quality curtain running the full length and width of the bath.

My curtains go right up to the inside of the shower rail, with no gaps showing.

No water at all has ever escaped the curtains or screen. 

jonnydeppiwish!

We got rid of our bath in favour of a larger walk-in shower. For us it’s so much better than soaking in one’s dirt.

PunkRoquefort

Would you be put off buying a house if the bathroom had no room for a separate shower cubicle?

sugar-walsh

No. But I would be put off of there isn't space for a bath.

mi-key

Same here, when I bought my house it only had a shower cubicle, but there was room for a bath. Within a week of moving in I had fitted the bath !