Choosing a Shower Screen in Your Bathroom

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 mold 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.