Shower curtain versus shower door.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by look 171

Holy cow that looks just like my old shower!! Same tile, same design, pretty much the same size. I had a pony wall between the toilet and the shower but otherwise amazingly the same. I LOVED it!! DAMN I miss that thing!
I am looking to remodel the master bathroom in our new place with something similar. The house is 6000 square feet and the master bath has a little 36" by 36" California/euro/rental size corner shower. WTF? 6000 square feet and you couldn't spare an extra 20 square feet for a decent shower?? hate it.
Big shower, no door is the way to got IMHO.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Holy cow that looks just like my old shower!! Same tile, same design, pretty much the same size. I had a pony wall between the toilet and the shower but otherwise amazingly the same. I LOVED it!! DAMN I miss that thing!
I am looking to remodel the master bathroom in our new place with something similar. The house is 6000 square feet and the master bath has a little 36" by 36" California/euro/rental size corner shower. WTF? 6000 square feet and you couldn't spare an extra 20 square feet for a decent shower?? hate it.
Big shower, no door is the way to got IMHO.

That's a good size shower there. Its 6'x4' and the bath is about 14' long. I make sure the houses I sell or rent has a large kitchen and bath to get top dollars. This is a 1400+ sq house. Man, 6000 sq' is a monster, unheard of around here unless you are in Bev. Hill or someplace exclusive.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by look 171

I make sure the houses I sell or rent has a large kitchen and bath to get top dollars. This is a 1400+ sq house. Man, 6000 sq' is a monster, unheard of around here unless you are in Bev. Hill or someplace exclusive.

The kitchen and bathroom make the house for me. I wonder if it's a generational thing. I don't have a need for a lot of bedrooms any more. I don't care how many bedrooms it has, all I want to know is does it have a great master bath and a great kitchen.

[RKDinOKC]

Guest bath has typical tub with a curtain. Don't like it. Water flow alway makes the bottom of the curtain suck into the center of the shower. Master bath is much wider and has sliding door. Glass is frost just enough that there is no need to squeege. Like it much better.

[aigel]

Originally Posted by look 171

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I hate shower curtains. It feels so good having someone grabbing and rubbing my ass every time I am in the shower only to discovered its the damn shower curtain. If you can swing it, have no active door. 27-28" is ideal.

LOL!

My hallway bathroom had a door when I moved in. Water damage that came up in inspection because it leaked. Was fixed and a new door was installed. It fell apart in about a decade. When I redid the bathroom, I wanted to go buy another door but temporarily installed a curtain to get the kids using that bathroom again ASAP. It works so well that I have scratched the sliding door.

That said, Jeff and all, how about a no active door on a bath tub? Will it render it useless for bathing a child? No grownup can fit these joke 70s tubs anyway.

G

[look 171]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

The kitchen and bathroom make the house for me. I wonder if it's a generational thing. I don't have a need for a lot of bedrooms any more. I don't care how many bedrooms it has, all I want to know is does it have a great master bath and a great kitchen.

I am working on a house now where I kept insisting the architect make the master bedroom a little smaller. Owners almost had a heart attack upon hearing my suggestion. Use that extra space for the masterbath with a master closet within it. The combine space of the master bath and closet is larger then the bedroom itself. They seem to like it now once framed up. What the hell are most of us going to do with with a large bedroom? Sleep in it, get the hell out and go bath yourself in the large bathroom.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by aigel

LOL!

My hallway bathroom had a door when I moved in. Water damage that came up in inspection because it leaked. Was fixed and a new door was installed. It fell apart in about a decade. When I redid the bathroom, I wanted to go buy another door but temporarily installed a curtain to get the kids using that bathroom again ASAP. It works so well that I have scratched the sliding door.

That said, Jeff and all, how about a no active door on a bath tub? Will it render it useless for bathing a child? No grownup can fit these joke 70s tubs anyway.

G

it can be done George. Only thing is, if kids are in there, you may get a little splashing from the shower off the body. No different then having no tub. Its the same distance and same size opening. Angle the shower head toward the front. One thing, if you are redoing the shower, plumb the shower volume control on the opening side and have the shower head on the other to keep yourself from getting wet as you turn on, await the hot water to come through. Check them out in my pics.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by look 171

I am working on a house now where I kept insisting the architect make the master bedroom a little smaller. Owners almost had a heart attack upon hearing my suggestion. Use that extra space for the masterbath with a master closet within it. The combine space of the master bath and closet is larger then the bedroom itself. They seem to like it now once framed up. What the hell are most of us going to do with with a large bedroom? Sleep in it, get the hell out and go bath yourself in the large bathroom.

+1000
With you all the way on that. They will be glad for the extra space. Sleep space is just night time storage.

[vash]

Originally Posted by look 171

I am working on a house now where I kept insisting the architect make the master bedroom a little smaller. Owners almost had a heart attack upon hearing my suggestion. Use that extra space for the masterbath with a master closet within it. The combine space of the master bath and closet is larger then the bedroom itself. They seem to like it now once framed up. What the hell are most of us going to do with with a large bedroom? Sleep in it, get the hell out and go bath yourself in the large bathroom.

exactly. i am gonna eat up a closet and burn some masterbedroom sq footage to make it happen. i dont need a big bedroom. just the two of us. my master bedroom will end up smaller than my other two rooms. well it will be damn near close.

a bigger bathroom seems like better space spent.

i wish i could kidnap you Look171..you and four of your best workers and their worktrucks. hahaha..

[GH85Carrera]

We had a builder grade tile bathroom when we moved in. After a few years Mrs. Carrera decided we had to have all new tile on the floor (heated now) and new tile on the walls and granite counter tops. The guys that did the shower overhaul did it right. Tear it out down to the studs, and concrete floor. They poured a new drain pan, and put up the proper waterproof concrete wall boards and new porcelain tile. They did not do a shower door, as they were tile guys. So the door guy showed up and was stunned to announce the walls of the shower were perfectly square. He put in a new sliding glass door and it works great.

We do have just a curtain in the guest bathroom. It gets used once or twice per year. It too received the makeover and heated floor.



The closet door is on the right there. It goes in 8 feet, and then turns left 12 feet to the far wall behind the toilet area. That closet is the reason my wife fell in love with the house. The garage was my big thing.

[Evans, Marv]

We actually get along fine without a shower curtain or door. Kind of nice.

[vash]

NICE!!

btw, the science experiment i found under the shower door rails...whoof! scary.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by vash

exactly. i am gonna eat up a closet and burn some masterbedroom sq footage to make it happen. i dont need a big bedroom. just the two of us. my master bedroom will end up smaller than my other two rooms. well it will be damn near close.

a bigger bathroom seems like better space spent.

i wish i could kidnap you Look171..you and four of your best workers and their worktrucks. hahaha..

Take some measurements and get it to me and I will get a detail drawing out to you within a week or two.

You can have my workmen. They are ugly anyway. Their trucks however...