Shower Frameless Doors

Hello. I can still remember seeing my first pictures of shower frameless doors. Immediately, I could understand why some people would want to install them in their bathrooms, as opposed to the usual framed shower doors. When I think about how the frameless versions look, almost completely in glass, allowing a person to more or less look through them since they're transparent, or perhaps the doors aren't transparent but are instead more translucent or opaque, it makes me think of a bathroom that's more modern, more elegant, and a little bit more airy or spacious. I'm thinking that that's why many people are into this particular type of door. There's an aesthetic appeal here where the use of this type of door can make an entire bathroom feel larger, look nicer, and just generally seem like a better bathroom. Now, of course, other people will have other opinions, and the people who are interested in this product may be into them for completely different reasons. Perhaps they're trying to make a bathroom match the more modern rooms already outside. Maybe the person really isn't into the whole frameless thing, but perhaps his or her significant other is, so that person is willing to give in on that particular design choice. It really could be any number of reasons.

But anyway, let me discuss some of the shower frameless doors which are available on the market. Even as I discuss some of them, their particular designs or looks, their features and so on, I can at the same time go into why certain products work really well, and why perhaps some others could be improved on. For instance, there is a particular product available right now, which is rather similar to most other products out there. When you look at this particular door, as it has been installed, the main thing that stands out is that it is one the whole made up of large sections of glass, and this glass is transparent. Now the fact that the glass is clear is something that a potential buyer will have to make a decision on immediately. There are of course certain areas of the door which are made of polished chrome, but these portions are quite small, and are located at the very edges of the door, where it attaches to the wall, and where the portion of the door either swings out or slides. Again, the polished chrome areas are very small, and the door itself is made up almost completely of clear glass. This means that it can be quite easy for someone on the outside to look into the shower. Now this isn't much of a problem when the shower is not being used, unless of course the inside of the shower is rather dirty or disorganized in such a way that the owners of the house might feel a little embarrassed having guests use the bathroom, and see all the clutter.

When someone is actually in the shower though, certain other factors need to be taken into consideration. For instance, it's very possible that when a person is taking a bath, the warmth of the water being used, the condensation and the mist, will act to make what is usually clear glass, more translucent or even opaque. Differences in temperature between the area where the person is bathing, and the outside, could very well cause the glass to fog up so that anyone inside the bathroom but outside the shower, won't be able to see the person inside, or at the very most, maybe just a vague outline of that person's body. So when a person is taking a bath, the concerns regarding people being able to look straight into the shower area become less pronounced. That doesn't mean though that they're no longer there entirely. After all, what happens between the time that the person enters the shower but before the warm water has had enough time to fog up the glass? For some time at the beginning of the bath, the glass remains quite clear, so if someone else happens to step into the bathroom during this period, that person will be able to clearly see the person inside. Also, what happens after the bath ends? Depending on temperature again, it may be possible for the glass to clear up quite quickly, or this process might take some time. If there's a fairly long delay between the end of the bath and the clearing up of the shower door, then this isn't so much of a problem. But if it happens rather quickly, then the person inside may be in for a rather quick and not so pleasant surprise, if someone is outside.

The situation will also depend on where exactly the bathroom is used, and who uses it. After all, if the bathroom is located inside the masters bedroom, and is only used by the couple of the house, then there's less of an issue and fewer things to worry about. In most cases, one individual probably won't mind so much if the other person is outside, and is perhaps able to either partially or completely see what's happening. Then again, even here there are limits after all. One or both of them might still feel rather self-conscious knowing that they are more or less in full view of the other person while taking a bath. After all, the act of bathing isn't always exactly glamorous. And when a person is scrubbing or soaping or reaching here or there, that person may not always look particularly poised or that person's position might not always be particularly flattering. So there's still something to be said for at least some degree of privacy between the two individuals who make up a couple, and if those two or at least one of them has a particularly acute sense of privacy, then the installation of frameless shower doors composed mostly of clear glass might not be the best idea after all. So before any shower frameless doors are installed in a bathroom, these are some of the things that must be kept in mind.