Designing your own walk in shower stalls and wet rooms can be done very easily in three basic steps.
- Choose your wet rooms basic color design and theme by selecting stone or tile or wood that goes with your home’s style. The stone or tile will be the basis for deciding other elements, but you need to know what style is being sought after. Is it ultra modern, retro, rustic, classic or a spa with steam and sauna?
- Look at the walk in shower stalls that are at home improvement centers and online to choose a set of glass doors or panels that will be in keeping with your theme. The most modern designs will require large glass doors or panels with chrome accents, the rustic ones may be frosted glass with gold or rustic finished accent hardware.
- Measure your space, keep as much open as possible, decide how much square footage of tile or stone or teak wood you will need to completely cover the floor and walls.
The last part is to have the glass door design you have chosen printed off, the samples of tile or stone ready and the measurements decided and give them to your contractor who will be an expert in wet rooms, and will therefore know how to slant the floor, place the appropriate drains where required and install the showerheads where they will be best suited to the room.
Remember that walk in shower stalls are all about tile or stone or wood that covers the floor and walls so that the room can get wet. Wet rooms get wet, so the bathroom fixtures, like toilet, wash basin and mirror should not be directly facing the shower unless you have closed off the shower with glass panels. Most walk in shower rooms are open, the glass doors need not go to the floor or seal of the room, they simply act as a partial barrier to heavy splashing.
A good place to start getting ideas for walk in shower stalls and custom built wet rooms is to take a virtual tour of the Basco showers that have glass panels and glass door options. The custom features that you see, like tiles, stone, wood and other items are not part of the kits, but can give you an idea of what you will need to complete your project.