How walk-in shower rooms add a luxury feel to your home
A wet room can add a real sense of opulence to your home, and you don't need to worry if space is at a premium, as you will be surprised at the confined areas where you can have these showers fitted. Boasting both practical and aesthetic benefits, this feature is a must for modern pads.
Traditionally, a wet room consists of two showers - either side-by-side or on opposing walls - and is tiled from floor to ceiling, with no need for a shower tray. In addition to tiles, stone or marble are other popular materials.
A wet room can be just that - a separate room in your home where you go to shower, featuring a door and three walls. However, some people prefer to have it as a walkthrough space, leading from one area of the property to another.
For instance, it could be used as a route between the bedroom and dressing room, which is a design you may have seen in celebrity-owned properties. Remember, you can still keep a clear passage parallel with the wet room if you want to walk between one space and another, and fit a door at each end of the shower enclosure for added privacy.
However, if you're thinking that you need to have a large property to be able to fit in a wet room, you'll be surprised to learn this is not always the case.
Indeed, rather than an expansive double shower room, you could opt for a single option - which may take up no more space than a slim wardrobe.
As a result, you could have it fitted in the corner of a bedroom, or just outside on the landing.
If you live in an open-plan apartment where there are no internal walls upstairs, such as a loft conversion, shower rooms really can come into their own. You can have one constructed somewhere within the middle of the space to divide it up.
While one half of the storey can then be used as your bedroom, the other could be kept separate as a home office, or a dressing room. Whatever you do, you may find it is far more practical having this space divided up into separate, usable chunks.
Another advantage of having a dedicated showering space is that you are less likely to have to queue for a wash when you want one as you wait for other householders to finish. Furthermore, because the feature is separate from the bathroom, it means that the latter can be kept more as a room for relaxing in.
This means that you can remove the shower from the main bathroom and use the space left over for a larger tub or even a Jacuzzi bath, where you can enjoy a long soak, knowing that if any other household members need a quick wash they can use the separate shower space.
If all of this has convinced you to invest in a wet room for your property, you will find a variety of designers to choose from. For example, Mira showers produce reliable products, which have helped cement its reputation as a household name.
The brand's electric showers are easy to install and use, so they could be perfect in a small wet room.
Alternatively, for something a little more opulent you could consider Hans Grohe showers - a manufacturer that specialises in elegant and modern designs.
