Yeah, I don’t get this new trend of doorless showers. One of the many modern interior designs I think are bad/ugly. What’s the deal with modern minimalism? Shit is ugly.
Also, this kind of design is gonna make for cold ass showers in the winter unless you pump your heat all day and night.
As a disabled person who can’t sit or stand up doorless showers are my holy grail I could finally feel fucking clean instead of relying on sponge baths.
I could never afford it though and being severely disabled means I’m poor so yay capitalism.
No offense intended, but isn’t that why shower rooms were invented? Waterproof the walls/floor with that cheap plastic stuff, curved edges on the walls for easy cleaning, plastic curtain on rails on the ceiling for blocking most of the water. Slope it down into the floor drain. No steps or doors. Is there really no safety net to get this sort of thing installed where you live? I would happily contribute a bit to a gofundme link for this, and I’m sure there’s plenty of others who would too. Example https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ric-live-safely-in-his-later-years?cp_src=m . Ideally social services should have grants for this sort of thing though. There may be one you can access depending on where you live, DM me and I’d happily put in a bit of research to help you find out if this is an option.
Edit: UK example https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants/what-youll-get
Yeah can’t afford that either. Can’t install anything because I’m renting, can’t be anything but renting because I’m poor.
And the legal system I live under doesn’t have any law to make landlords follow accommodations…
That’s completely fair! Sorry, I underestimated the cost and the problem of getting permission as a renter. I looked into it properly and, although the plastic covering and curtain are cheap, constructing the drainage, sloped floor and waterproofing can still cost around £6,000–£8,500 here. If you’re comfortable saying which country or state you’re in, I’d still be happy to check whether there are any local grants, charities or tenant protections that might help. No need to give your precise location.
What does a doorless shower offer that the same design with a door for that opening doesn’t? I would think there’s some accessible compromise that keeps the floor dry. Of course, the true holy grail would be the showers you sometimes see overseas where there’s a whole compartment built on a drain pan so the open door isn’t an inconvenience.
need to be able to lay in the shower. Elevated threshold makes that impossible.
I’m guessing the difference is the threshold height for the doors. Easier to get a wheelchair over a low or non-existent threshold
Perpetually wet bathroom
They shouldn’t. If this is new enough construction, the contractor needs to fix this.
Every hotel ever these days it seems. I guess it’s cheaper than replacing a curtain, or the curtain rod every jackass seems to have to yank on and bend for some reason.
That is not enough clearance, the door needed to be way longer
This is becoming a staple in cheap and mid-price hotels. I have to use half my towels to keep the floor from being wet.
Well that’s just bad design. The opening is wrong so of course it’ll splash and the floor needs to be one level and tilted to the drain.
I’ve seen some really good ones that work
we have one at work that doesn’t have any glass at all, just the plastic fixture. we installed a curtain rod because it felt strange but yeah drain in the shower basin and a decent floor grade, followed up by non-slip tile. Works a treat the whole 2 times I used it.
Came here to say this, if don’t right they’re pretty sweet
Design is fine but it should be placed in the bathroom with tiles not in the midle of living room with wood floor… 😅
I think you dropped this --> /s
Looks like plastic to me. Or ceramic in style of wood.
I was just about to say, that looks like the wood grain patterned ceramic tiles that are often put in new construction. They’re cheap and trendy(ish). Plus it comes in millennial gray, the landlord/contractor special.
I’m guessing (hoping) that’s not actual wood
Impractical stuff that looks nice gets some buyers. Especially in kitchen.
Use a mop to dry the floor #NotDifficult
Or put a door on it. Easier
Yes let’s keep an ugly ass dank mop in the bathroom at all times.
Wait you serious? Please tell me you’re not serious
Get a spring-loaded window curtain rod, and notch the end that goes against the glass, so it doesn’t slip. Throw on a shower curtain liner (they’re cheap) and call it a day.
Pretty sure that is a hotel room, nothing a customer could fix. Been to rooms like that and hated the shower.
People want doorless showers but most of them don’t have the space in their bathroom that would be required to build one that works properly.
Some of them can’t accept that fact and try to build one that relies entirely on the delusion that water respects boundaries.
the delusion that water respects boundaries.
Water, the anarchist.
The Conquest of Wet
They’re terrible. Everything you said is true, but I’ll add that unless you crank up the heat in the room, they’re miserable on cold days. The enclosed showers trap the steam and warmth from the how water in with you, but with no door it’s just cold.
Thought that heat lamps might get rid of the chill factor?
I have 3+ meter ceilings in all rooms including the bathroom, and the heat lamps are a godsend in winter.
I’m looking to renovate the bathroom over the coming years and thought that an open space shower might be a great addition but maybe we will reconsider.
I do like the Japanese prefab wet bathroom units, but not sure if they are available here, nor if the other half would approve.
What you saved on not installing a door you just blew threw by using a heat lamp
Well, they do, but they’re giant energy hogs. Just have a door on the shower and that stuff isn’t needed.
Hm. My bathroom is always 23°C or warmer, no matter the weather. When is colder outside, my heat pump delivers more warm water to the heating circuits. Does heating in the US work differently?
Look at this high and mighty European with a heat pump and everything… /s
Most of the heat in the US is electric or gas. In areas where the temps get freezing and below outside, people don’t tend to run it to get the temps into the mid 20s like that.
Does that really make a difference on the bill, are the houses so badly insulated? I always thought that style of building with wooden walls and insulation foam should make heating extremely cheap.
Insulation varies, but even a well insulated house is going to get cold if it’s freezing outside, and it takes energy to get them up to a toasty temp.
That’s 100% a hotel, though.
Hotels love installing these things. They’re cheaper than two large shower doors, they make the room look bigger, and guests think it looks modern.
That said, you’re kind of supposed to pair this with a rain shower head in the ceiling to reduce splash. This looks like a remodeled hotel that didn’t want to move the plumbing. They just did a cheap refresh to make people feel like they were staying in a modern room.
I’ve never once chosen one hotel over another because I saw pictures and said “Oh look, this one has a doorless shower! It looks so modern and spacious.”
I stayed at a hotel in Vegas (of course) that had no doors on theirs. Just an open, locker-room-style shower. And the floor was barely level enough to not flood the bathroom if the shower head was pointed directly at the corner. It was not pointing the right way when I turned it on.
Who wants one, and why?
I do. But a proper one. All tiled. No glass that is a PITA to keep clean. No curtain that gets disgusting. Just step in, shower, step out.
But that stuff is out of reach to most people, including myself. And to be brutally honest, it is pure excess. But some people are still trying to imitate that with those crappy compact ones but it just ends up being stupid and worse than a normal shower.
That shower is larger than my entire bathroom
I want a public shower someday too
I prefer a pubic shower myself.
You can save water and shower with a bunch of people in that thing.
My dream shower is about that size but also has rain ceiling from 3 stories up. No water saving tho
I do and I have one. The downstairs shower next to the sauna is just an entire tiled room so I don’t feel like I’m in a cramped space. I always use that one, even in the winter when it’s basically freezing down there, because I hate the cramped booth upstairs, I have very broad shoulders and can always feel like I’m going to hit the walls.
The one in the OP is the worst of both worlds though. Still cramped, but doesn’t keep water in like a regular shower booth… and it’s installed in a bathroom without a proper tiled floor…
The opening is too wide, the shower head should be a rainfall shower, not the Commando 450.
Nah. Ours is a rainfall shower but the floor still gets wet.
I think you’re dead-on. I had a 5’ wide doorless shower, 3’ of glass, and a rainfall showerhead and it was fine. Minimal leakage
I’ve built three doorless showers.
Mine was fine till the kids grew up and wanted showers not baths. Water everywhere. Had to replace it with a sliding door
You can wash an elephant with that thing.
Why even have a doorless/curtainless shower? I don’t understand the appeal. How is the warmth supposed to stay in so you’re not shaving off the tips of goosebumps?
Shower doors are difficult to clean well, shower curtains stick to the body, space is limited (problem if you’re bigger), steam can make it harder to breathe…
Finns have figured out doorleess showers: they waterproof the whole room and equip it with a squeegee on a long stick. The floor is flat with a slight slope towards the drain. After you’re done you just wipe the floor with the squeegee (takes 10 seconds) and that’s it.
I have had this style once. The shower head even reached around near the toilet, so when cleaning I could just hose the whole thing over, and then squidgee. Very convenient.
The Japanese did it right. Essentially the same thing you’re describing and in a way that mitigates anything commenters below you blurted out.
Unfamiliar with Finnish techniques.
Does the Japanese one have a shower that can turn into a soaking bath? Because that’s what i want.
That’s still worse than just having a door. The squeegee helps, but it’s not perfect, and I hate stepping on wet/damp floor after drying my feet. I mostly see that style in hotels or bathrooms which are too tiny to fit a proper shower. Whenever not space constrained, I’m pretty sure they’re just there to save money.
Building code in most if not all of northern Europe require bathrooms to be a proper wet room, meaning waterproofing and a drain for all parts of the bathroom. This means either having two drains, or to allow water to flow from the rest of the bathroom to the shower. Guess which alternative is easier and cheaper to do?
Dude, why do you think this is the code in Northern Europe?
I haven’t checked the code in every country, but I do know it’s code in Norway, and you see a lot of the same building techniques in the rest of northern Europe.
Why do you think it is not code?
I’m not saying it’s not code, I know it’s code. And it’s code because they’re all doing the open shower thing. Why else would they want the whole room waterproofed if not because the whole room routinely gets wet?
It’s still code if your shower has a door. It’s not unusual to stick your washing machine in the bathroom, and even if you don’t, the toilet could always overflow.
North America is really the only place I know of where bathrooms are not required to be waterproofed throughout.
Yeah, I’m saying they made it code because the doorless showers are the standard, not that putting door there would somehow invalidate the code.
I come from another European country and the law only requires waterproofing the floor + wet areas (shower, around the bath etc.)
I’ve got a staff shower at work with no door or curtain, and two drains. It’s in a one person bathroom, with a toilet and sink and place to hang up items.
If anyone takes a shower, there is water all over the floor for the next person… because without a door, the water doesn’t stay in the shower zone.
But your towel would get damp. And your poor toothbrush is gonna taste like your brother’s shampoo!
your brother’s shampoo!
Have you met the brother? That’s scampoo for sure.
What if I like the taste of shampoo?
But seriously, doorless doesn’t have to mean completely open, for example I have a glass divider wall in my bathroom, towels and toothbrushes stay safely behind the wall.
That just looks like an unfinished shower, or a sliding door set with a missing half. Maybe you could get a little shower curtain to hang up across the hole
I encountered this exact setup at a hotel recently. This seems like a hotel as well with how those bottles are attached to the wall
I’m fairly certain it’s a Marriott.
Looks like a hotel. Best just to ask the front desk for extra towels.
Peak aesthetics
