Most modern bathrooms are equipped with a shower enclosure.
Even if they include a bathtub already, most homeowners prefer to have an additional shower cabin.
They are somewhat standardized when it comes to their shape, but they also provide you with the ability to make a couple of individual choices.
Among these are the colors, the doors, the glass and the general design.
Therefore there is also some room to make mistakes.
I will show you some ways to easily avoid the most common mistakes.
Uncomfortable Atmosphere It is important to pay attention to the atmosphere that will eventually prevail in your shower enclosure.
If it is too dark you might feel uncomfortable and claustrophobic.
If your shower cabin is too bright on the other hand, it can easily be perceived as sterile and therefore uncomfortable as well.
It is important to reach a reasonable balance between the two.
Different choices that will affect this are the color of the tiles, the glass you use for your shower door and the general design of your shower door.
Too Small Lot of people, especially those living in older buildings, have to deal with small, or even tiny bathrooms.
It is very easy to get obsessed with saving space if your bathroom is very small, but let me assure you that making your shower enclosure smaller is the worst way to squeeze some additional space out of your bathroom.
Having a shower in a tiny shower enclosure feels awful, you constantly bump into the door and you barely have enough space to apply shower gel all over your body.
If you want to go as far as shaving your legs in the shower, this will be almost impossible.
Please take my advice and try to save space somewhere else.
You could get a smaller washbasin, add some hooks to your door, add a mirror cabinet or a little cupboard below your washbasin, just don't make your shower enclosure smaller.
Bad Work As with everything else that includes water pipes it is heavily recommended to let a tradesman do the necessary work, at least the part that concerns the faucet.
While it is not a problem if you decide to lay the tiles on your own and make some mistakes, damaging water pipes can have disastrous consequences.
Water damage is very hard and therefore costly to repair and if you did the work by yourself your insurance will most likely not cover the damage either.
Please make sure that the critical work is being done by a professional and spare yourself the trouble.
Wrong Door The choice of your shower door is a critical one that depends on various different factors.
As a rule of thumb it is safe to say, that swinging shower doors are the more comfortable ones and should be used if your bathroom is big enough for them.
They are more comfortable to open, usually sturdier and are made of a single piece, which makes them look better too.
The second choice you have to make is if you want frameless or framed shower doors.
This is the easier of the two decisions.
Get frameless doors if you can afford them.
They are easier to clean and look much more elegant.