Curiously, the previous tenant must not have taken showers - or he must not have cared about getting water on the floor. There's no shower curtain rod or door arrangement at all. (No showerhead either - just a pipe stem jutting out of the wall.)
First what I can't have: no swinging frameless glass shower door for me. There's no place for it to swing to. One expensive purchase averted.
My glass door choices come down to sliding or folding. Sliding doors would need to be supported on the open end somehow (it's a corner tub, not set in an alcove), probably by at least a short wall. That would make my tiny bath tinier. Folding doors, which are really cool (they fold up like an accordion), don't need another support. But they get mixed reviews on actually keeping the water in, and they'd need somewhere to fold into - e.g. it would be a lot of bulk at the head of the tub, more decorative maybe when you're not using it, but interfering with taking a comfortable tub bath. And either way, you'd be putting your elbow through the glass whenever you used the loo .. and the room would look chopped-up and small.
So it's back to the shower curtain. Sigh. I've lived all my life with shower curtains. I wanted to try something different. Shower curtains blow in and stick to you rather than the to the tub wall. They can't be cleaned except by actually taking them down and washing them. And with a tub that has more than one open side and a high ceiling, you need an L-shaped bar, at least two curtains (sometimes three sewn together), the standard length comes out too short, and then you've got all this bulky curtain at both the head and foot of the tub ...
But wait! They've come out with a better mousetrap (or at least a better L-shaped shower curtain rod). You know how some draperies hang on rods with tracks? They've imported that concept into shower world -
Another version - which can be mounted to the ceiling (though that might look too hospital) -
The great thing about designing the bathroom from scratch is that the L-shaped curtain rod can actually be hung low enough to accommodate a standard-length curtain (instead of hanging it slightly too high and creating a problem).
If the curtain can flow freely around the corner, it can be bundled at the foot of the tub - next to the vanity - and not up by the window and toilet.
And they're an awful lot cheaper than shower doors. Better living through technology!
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