If you are tired of your old bathroom and wish to take out the bathtubs that you seldom use, then maybe it’s time to think of renovating your bathroom and put a walk in shower instead of bath. Don’t be afraid that it might lower the resale value of your home if you take out the bath and change it with shower. Most people now a day prefer to have spacious walk in showers.

Most people prefer to take shower than bath but don’t like to clean the water splash after they took a shower. They don’t want to walk on the bathroom floors all wet. With walk in shower enclosure you can have luxurious shower and protect the rest of your bathroom from water splash.

Walk in shower enclosure will surely enhance your bathroom design. There are different designs, shapes and materials you can choose your walk in shower enclosure.

Depending on your bathroom configuration you can choose from different basic design either alcove which your walk in shower is enclosed with two parallel tiled walls and have a glass enclosure for the door or screen, single screen or curved screen, you have a single glass screen across the wall where the shower head is installed, corner walk in shower enclosure, which the walk in shower is fixed in one corner of your bathroom. Walk in shower enclosure either have a door or just glass walls that will protect the other area of your bathroom. Some even have an attached drying area to keep the floor from getting wet.

Most common shape is the square or rectangular, but there are also other shapes like D-shape, pentagon, curve, B-shape and cylindrical which can fit any size, shape and configuration of a bathroom. Most enclosure is made with tempered glass either clear, frosted or etched, frameless or with frame, the walk in shower enclosure provides safety, function and style. It is also easy to clean especially if you opt for the frameless enclosures. But if you prefer a more usual enclosure, you can have a noncorrosive, aluminum frames. But with frames, it is usually harder to get it clean.

Adding a walk in shower enclosure not only is practical especially to those people who are not as physically able and elderly since there are no high bathtub wall to climb in and out of it but also it provides style. Most walk in shower enclosure is made with clear glass which provides a minimalistic, clean design and if your bathroom area is small, then having a glass enclosure provides an illusion of bigger space and will maximize the lighting of the bathroom which will save on electricity cost.

Depending on your budget, you can have a walk in shower with the enclosure for $300 to $2,000 depending on the fixtures you will use. So remodeling your bathroom need planning and attention but if you do it correct, you will enjoy your walk in shower for a very long time.