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Glass Shower Doors or Shower Curtains?
by Expert Contributors David Gura & Lew Gura, Owners of Bryn Mawr Glass
When it comes to choosing between a shower curtain or a glass door enclosure for your bath and shower, budget and beauty will always be deciding factors, but so too should be thoughts of bathroom cleaning. Yet, the design and layout of your bathroom may need to be considered before matching your desired style preference.
For a walk-in shower, most people prefer frame-less glass doors and panels. Framed or semi-frameless door are also an option offered by great manufacturers like Century Bathworks.
A tub-and-shower combination involves other considerations. Once you install a glass shower door, you won’t have to replace it for many years. If cleaned regularly, you can keep it in flawless condition and looking like new, which can also make your bathroom appear to be more modern. Using a glass shower door cleaning tool can take only minutes, allowing for a modern decor that’s preferred over a shower curtain, which still may have a few of its own advantages, mainly initial cost.
A fabric shower curtain costs far less than a glass door shower enclosure. And a plastic shower curtain costs even less. But how many shower curtains will be purchased over 25 years? While shower curtains allow for decor change more frequently, they must be regularly taken down for thorough cleaning. That could be avoided with a fabric shower curtain that can be taken down and simply cleaned in a washing machine.
Sometimes bathroom size is also a consideration. A glass shower door may create too tight a space or perhaps prevent desired ease of leaning over the tub to bathe a child or wash objects. In that case, the choice of a shower curtain offers a quick, space-saving answer while allowing it to still be part of a bathroom decor. Shower curtains can look elegant when made from fabric or plastic, and ideas for mounting shower curtains abound, with an array of fasteners matching any size budget.
When budget, bathroom space and decor preference align, glass shower enclosures usually win the day. They offer many options, from framed to semi-frameless or frameless.. And it’s generally accepted that glass shower doors always increase the value of a home, perhaps because they’re viewed as being more easily cleaned and more modern.
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