Bathroom Shower Enclosures
And Design Ideas

Of course, “great” means various things to different people. Size, shape, and materials used all contribute to creating a shower space that revives your mind as well as your body.

The wide variety of bathroom shower enclosures available today range from molded, single piece stalls to separate components that allow you to create a shower enclosure in the size and shape of your choice.

Many manufacturers offer custom designs to help with the latter, and are a good resource for help in creating what some people consider the crown jewel of the bathroom.

Most people want to create the largest shower possible given the space limitations of their bathroom. As bathrooms become used for more than just cleaning up, using space wisely without compromising aesthetics is vital.

If you have a large enough bathroom, you can let your imagination run wild when choosing a shower enclosure. Multiple shower heads at varying heights, steam features, and benches for the physically challenged are some of the innovations you’ll discover as you browse displays, catalogs, and the Internet.

In addition to comfort features, you’ll find plenty of bathroom shower enclosure components that improve functionality, such as built-in dispensers for shampoo, conditioner and liquid soap.

A shower with no shampoo bottles to knock over, a caddy to bump into or bar soap to drop is a much more relaxing place.

While glass doors—frosted or clear—and good, old-fashioned shower curtains remain popular, some shower enclosures don’t include a door. Instead, these unique designs look a bit like a miniature labyrinth.

At the end of a very short passage, you turn a corner to find the shower behind a solid wall. All the water drains towards the middle, so as you exit you walk on dry flooring.

Since this type of bathroom shower enclosure takes up a lot of space, they are usually installed in only the largest bathrooms.

Not all luxury touches are restricted to large bathrooms, however. Some homeowners add special tube skylights over their bathroom shower enclosures.

This lets in lots of natural light, while models equipped with exhaust fans pull steam and moisture out. The result is a delightful hot shower in the sun, and less steam fogging up the bathroom mirror.