The Eternal Question: Baths or Showers?

It's March 2015 and it's time to start the bathroom.

I call it a bathroom but it's not going to have a bath. It's going to have a shower. Why does "shower room" sound so pokey? This is not going to be a pokey shower room. It's going to be awesome!

OK - maybe not as awesome as this, but a woman can dream!

Some people say they can't manage without a bath. We can! Our bath at the Vicarage is so rarely used that I have to dust it!

Thinking ahead, the development of Sunny Acre as an asset is aimed at the retirement bungalow market. With age comes mobility issues and then a walk-in shower with enough room for a seat is a much better option than a bath that you need to adapt. Our shower will have a small step to get in because we don't want to excavate the floor but a small step and wide access is the plan.

I do not want glass screens around the shower. Some people love them. We're usually too tall for the standard heights but the main reason I hate glass screens and doors is that the edges always get black with mould and are impossible to clean. You also have more joints with sealant that gets mouldy.

Euw - see how gross this is!
And this isn't as bad as it gets in unventilated places!

The plan is to have half-walls around the shower with an opening and then a shower curtain to contain the splashing. Some people hate shower curtains which don't look very elegant and have a tendency to cling, wetly to you. With a big enough shower, I'm hoping to avoid the clinging. My favourite part of shower curtains is that, when they get mouldy, you can just throw them in the wash and don't even need to wait for them to dry before re-hanging them.

A bit like this but with another
half-wall on the right

If it all goes pear-shaped and we hate the curtains, we can always get glass panels fitted to the tops of the half-walls plus a door. I will die a little on that day!

Those are my thought's on "bathroom" choices. The next post will have photos of building the shower studding.