A shower screen is a thing that is very
often overlooked in interior decoration
schemes. Bathroom interior design is especially challenging because there
is an extra level of functionality to fulfill. Of course, all design has to be
functional. If there were no functional element it wouldn't be design, it would
simply be art. But in living room design, for instance, you have license to be
more ornamental and to forget the necessity of fittings a bit more. Too often
people settle for the fallback option of a plastic curtain held up by a bar and
plastic rings. These are cheap, but that's about their only advantage.
First of all, they have very short life
spans meaning that you have to replace them often and they are very wasteful.
Secondly, they rot, which is unhygienic and difficult to clean. Thirdly, they
are often not aesthetically pleasing, and tend to cut the space up in your bathroom
making it appear smaller rather than bigger.
The most beautiful option for
protect your shower or bath stall is a frameless glass screen from a company
like Frameless Impressions.
These screens started out as elegant pool and sauna protectors and then became
adapted to shower and bath barriers.
These shower screens are beautifully
simple. They are made with rectangular toughened glass, and don't have the
normal rubber and metal frames that invite rot and mould to accumulate around
the edges. Instead, they are installed and attached to tiled walls with brass
hinges. The
glass is 10mm thick, meaning that it's strong but without being so thick as to
be difficult to see through. These frameless screens are easy to clean, all
that is required is a simple wipe down with a cleaning product, because they
are just a smooth glass surface there are no difficult grooves to clean. It's a
blissfully easy process of dampening a cloth and running it over the glass
surface. Compared with trying to hand wash and scrub a plastic shower curtain,
it's a revolution.
Using a frameless glass screen is
advantageous also, because it opens up the space in your bathroom rather than
closing it off. Because bathrooms are usually small spaces, this is a really
important design feature. You can position your shower stall so as to capture
as much light as possible from your bathroom window, which will mean that
taking your shower in the morning in summer will be an absolute joy.
Any sort of drainage can be engineered with
these doors, and a removable brush seal is provided along the clear glazed
acrylic half round on the underside of the door on all installations. This
means that pools of water won't leak out from under your shower door onto your
bathroom floor.
Guest author, Ivy Delfin
