Client is asking about a door-less shower. Space is not a problem. Anybody have a design that works well? Actually, the husband want door-less, SWMBO is concerned about splash.
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"L" shaped with the head in the right place will work
Right. Now, do you have any basic dimensions? Like the door width, or placement of the head, etc?
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Very open question to design. Gym gang showers have no doors. Its a mater of you clients taste. It should be easy to figure out.
A client of mine had one installed and I am now installing a door. Her original design had the doorway located along side of the shower head. She wanted to be able to look into the bathroom while in the shower. Lots of splash fell on the bathroom floor. Now she gets to see the room but through a glass door.
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i dont care for the colors, but i do like the layout..
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I do too, but that shower area looks to be bigger than my entire bathroom.
Yeah, the colors are kind of interesting ... like they went to a tile store and bought a bunch of leftovers.
What keeps the splash in the shower area?
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
Seems like an open shower like that would get awfully drafty and cold during the winter here in the midwest.If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters.
aimless: agreed... them fancy ideas in the magazines tend to seem unrealistic in most peoples homes..
ed: i would guess there is some splash into the bathroom area... but with the shower head in the middle of the wide shower area, it may (or may not) be pretty limited... obvisioully the tub will get its fair share of water (but aren't tub supposed to get wet?)
boss: i lobbied to get my fiance to buy into this type of design, but she had the same concerns.. we are out here in silicon valley, so we dont get the harsh winters, but it still cold in the mornings during the winter. but her concern was that the warm steam of the shower wouldn't keep you warm in the winters... so her design won... a 4'x6' enclosed shower, similar to the one in the Dream Shower thread.
anyhow gentlemen... i came across that picture a while back in the following article..
take it easy...
http://magazines.ivillage.com/countryliving/decorate/rooms/photo/0,,167105_412228,00.html
Numbers in my head (eyah, theys crowdin' out the voices, oh my) are 3'-0" wide and 6-8' long with 7-0" being near ideal. Now, that's one shower head at the closed end of an elongated "J" with a 33-36" 'door' opening. The side wall has to be "rod" high (call it 78" AFF) for about 36" minimum, or, like the picture in the previous post, able to run off in a tub or the like.
Saw one in Austin that was a retrofit curbless. Whole end wall was rigged up. About 36" x 110" with full-height glass block wings on either side to leave a 36-42" wide opening. All in fancy granite tile too (and two shower heads, one to either side. Be interesting to see if it has a door by now (even better, I want to know where the towel bars went--oops <g>).
Fine Homebuilding #79 had an article about a walk in shower in a "small" bath that looked like it would work well.