momto4kiddos
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Post by momto4kiddos on Jun 8, 2024 16:39:36 GMT
I don't know what the current trends are on showers/tubs. Only newish reno i've seen is my Aunt's build of 6 years ago. They have tile walk in shower in the master, tub tile in the 2nd bathroom.
We need to redo the one piece fiberglass shower that is 30 years old. I'm thinking tub/tile, honestly i'm conflicted. I have 2 baths, one up/one down. This is the downstairs one on a floor with just kitchen, living room and family room. Some of us do use that bathroom to shower so it's not just a guest bath.
The conflict, I know big open showers are popular. We don't need it to be a tub. I was considering if we did just a shower that being upstairs, but resale wise it would make sense for a tub for kids somewhere/upstairs?
Lastly Aunt's house had shower doors, not curtains. Again conflicted since the downstairs one is used and will have a small amount of product in there. We're getting to the point we may move within say the next 5-10 years so we want it to be as current as possible too.
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Post by katlady on Jun 8, 2024 17:17:09 GMT
If you are thinking about resale value, yes, a tub would be good, preferably upstairs near the kids bedrooms. You also need to consider what homes sell for in your area and if the expensive upgrades are worth it. If you get a tub/shower combo, I would do curtains. But I say go with what you want.
We plan to eventually redo our bathrooms. If we were to do it now, we would go with a big walk-in shower in the 2nd bathroom upstairs, taking out the tub. But we plan to live here for awhile, so we are not thinking of the resale value down the road. The master would still have a bathtub, along with a walk-in shower. I would also go with shower doors of some sort for the walk-in, maybe sliding doors instead of pull-out doors. Or, if the shower is big enough and deep enough, you could go with no doors or curtains. I also want tile, but not little tiles with a lot of grout to clean. I want the big tiles that don't show grout.
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mich5481
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Post by mich5481 on Jun 8, 2024 17:27:34 GMT
For your downstairs bathroom, I would do a walk in shower, possibly with a bench seat. That way, if someone was injured, they would be able to use that shower.
I would suggest trying to design things downstairs with an approach to aging in place. Maybe not to the extent of installing permanent grab bars in the bathroom, but something that would be useful for an older population.
Definitely keep a bathtub upstairs, especially if it is a hall/kids bath near their bedrooms.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 8, 2024 17:31:47 GMT
We have a main floor 3/4 bath like you described, and I will say I wish the previous owners who put it in when they renovated in 2000 would have done a few things differently.
One, there was space for a larger shower but they didn’t do that, so there is an extra foot of empty space in the bathroom behind the shower that *could* have been shower space, but isn’t. Bigger is definitely better, especially as people age. As a result, the shower is small, has tiny stupid sliding doors that I hate (second thing I would have done differently, either a curtain or zero entry walk in with nothing would be light years better than the doors), and that make it difficult to use if you need to hose off a dirty dog or a messy kid, or help a younger child wash their hair. Three, I would have gone with tile vs. the fiberglass insert that they used. I just like tile better.
As someone who has a kid and pets, honestly I have found it much easier to bathe any of them in a shower vs a tub you have to lean over especially if the shower is big enough so I can help them without getting wet myself. My very small pet gets a bath in the laundry room sink if she needs it between grooming sessions. My kid used to use the tub when she was really small, but she has always had very long hair so from an early age it was so much easier to help her in the shower than to try to wash her hair when she was in the tub. I would just do what works for you now and don’t worry too much about resale. Whether or not a house had a bathtub would not be a deciding factor for us.
We have a huge walk in shower at our lake cabin and I really love it. I bought a curtain rod to go along the short side and use that to hang up wet swimsuits, etc. It’s big enough that I can stand in there with Crocs on and wash down my big and small dogs with a handheld shower and not get totally wet myself. There are no doors or curtains to get moldy, dirty or gross. We added a built in corner seat so if I want to sit to shave my legs I can do that. There’s a higher fixed height shower head for DH because he’s taller, and the handheld is on a slide bar so DD and I have one that’s the right height for us.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 8, 2024 17:34:05 GMT
If you are thinking about resale value, yes, a tub would be good, preferably upstairs near the kids bedrooms. You also need to consider what homes sell for in your area and if the expensive upgrades are worth it. If you get a tub/shower combo, I would do curtains. But I say go with what you want. We plan to eventually redo our bathrooms. If we were to do it now, we would go with a big walk-in shower in the 2nd bathroom upstairs, taking out the tub. But we plan to live here for awhile, so we are not thinking of the resale value down the road. The master would still have a bathtub, along with a walk-in shower. I would also go with shower doors of some sort for the walk-in, maybe sliding doors instead of pull-out doors. Or, if the shower is big enough and deep enough, you could go with no doors or curtains. I also want tile, but not little tiles with a lot of grout to clean. I want the big tiles that don't show grout. As someone who has them, I have to respectfully disagree. I have sliding doors in two of my baths at home, and quite honestly I hate them. The sliding doors on the main 3/4 bath shower are really narrow and make it nearly impossible to help a kid or wash a pet in there, or even to put a basin for soaking laundry or whatever. When I had my foot surgery and couldn’t do stairs easily I used that shower, but even that was difficult because the doors were so small it made it hard to keep my injured limb out. We also have sliding doors on the standard bathtub in our second upstairs bath and I hate those too because it makes it so you can’t sit on the side of the tub if you needed to. I would help my kid wash her hair when she was little and it was so uncomfortable for me to have to lean into the tub. The shower doors just got in the way of me helping her, and the rail they slide on meant I couldn’t just sit on the side to help her. The shower in our master bath has a pull open door which is only slightly better than the other two. It’s hard to keep it clean with our hard well water, and the water that pools up in the corners where the door drips down get nasty and those areas are hard to keep clean. I would much rather have a curtain that could be washed or replaced, or best case scenario nothing at all that would need cleaning or care. |
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Post by katlady on Jun 8, 2024 17:52:49 GMT
If you are thinking about resale value, yes, a tub would be good, preferably upstairs near the kids bedrooms. You also need to consider what homes sell for in your area and if the expensive upgrades are worth it. If you get a tub/shower combo, I would do curtains. But I say go with what you want. We plan to eventually redo our bathrooms. If we were to do it now, we would go with a big walk-in shower in the 2nd bathroom upstairs, taking out the tub. But we plan to live here for awhile, so we are not thinking of the resale value down the road. The master would still have a bathtub, along with a walk-in shower. I would also go with shower doors of some sort for the walk-in, maybe sliding doors instead of pull-out doors. Or, if the shower is big enough and deep enough, you could go with no doors or curtains. I also want tile, but not little tiles with a lot of grout to clean. I want the big tiles that don't show grout. As someone who has them, I have to respectfully disagree. I have sliding doors in two of my baths at home, and quite honestly I hate them. The sliding doors on the main 3/4 bath shower are really narrow and make it nearly impossible to help a kid or wash a pet in there, or even to put a basin for soaking laundry or whatever. When I had my foot surgery and couldn’t do stairs easily I used that shower, but even that was difficult because the doors were so small it made it hard to keep my injured limb out. We also have sliding doors on the standard bathtub in our second upstairs bath and I hate those too because it makes it so you can’t sit on the side of the tub if you needed to. I would help my kid wash her hair when she was little and it was so uncomfortable for me to have to lean into the tub. The shower doors just got in the way of me helping her, and the rail they slide on meant I couldn’t just sit on the side to help her. The shower in our master bath has a pull open door which is only slightly better than the other two. It’s hard to keep it clean with our hard well water, and the water that pools up in the corners where the door drips down get nasty and those areas are hard to keep clean. I would much rather have a curtain that could be washed or replaced, or best case scenario nothing at all that would need cleaning or care. Yes, for a bathtub/shower combo, I agree about the sliding doors. They are a pain. But, for a walk-in shower (no tub), I love them! We stay in many hotels that have walk-in showers with sliding doors and I always say I want this when we renovate.  We have a pull-out door on our master walk-in shower and I hate how dirty the bottom area of the door gets. Always a pain to clean that. And the door makes so much noise when you open and close it. But our current shower is not big enough for a sliding door. |
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We have a pull-out door on our master walk-in shower and I hate how dirty the bottom area of the door gets. Always a pain to clean that. And the door makes so much noise when you open and close it. But our current shower is not big enough for a sliding door.