Glass shower door vs shower curtain - reality check

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Anonymous wrote:If it helps, when we were selling our last house the real estate agent sent a designer who gave us a tip for making the curtain look better. Use double layers: vinyl inside and a textile outside. She suggested go to a place like Marshalls or Homegoods and find a white textile one with texture. She insisted on white - no color. It did look nice!

Um, no offense, but that’s why the plastic ones are called shower curtain liners. You needed a designer for that?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Also, having to keep the glass clean is a bigger drag than you might think.

(I love the look, but for practical reasons, no.)

+1. I love the look of glass, but they're a pain. We squeegee after every shower, but they still get etched over time.

That's odd. We have 5 bathrooms, all glass shower or tub enclosures, 6 people living in the house bathing. Granted we don't clean our own bathrooms, but I've never seen etching. Maybe our housekeeper just does a great job. Did you get your glass from one of those prefab kits from Lowes or Home.Depot, or sis you have a glass company come in and do frameless with thick guage glass?

I live in a liquid rocks hard water area. Everything etches here. DP

[Anonymous]

If I had two full baths I would make one (most likely in or near the master bedroom) a walk-in shower without a tub. Probably with a glass door, although I had a tub with sliding glass door once and hated it. Hard to clean all the apparatus involved and harder to clean the tub. But not too bad with a walk in shower.

A large (tub sized) walk in shower would be so much better than tub/shower, you could have a bench seat, and it works way better if someone in your family has an injury such as a broken leg. Being able to easily walk in the shower and sit down while showering is valuable. It's also easier to wash a dog in that kind of shower than in a tub.