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If you live in a city where space is at a premium, or if you’ve bought a very old house that only contains a bathtub, you might be faced with the problem of installing a shower stall in a very small space. However, with a little innovation, you have some choices.
First of all, if there’s a bathtub in the bathroom right now, you have the choice to remove it. This will give you the space to install a shower and may even free up a little floor space for you, since your bathtub usually takes up more space than your new shower will. Of course, you’ll no longer be able to take baths, but if you’re someone who doesn’t take baths anyway, perhaps this is an option for you.
Keep in mind as well that you might be devaluing your property by taking out the tub if you ever decide to put your house or apartment up for sale. In this case, you could move the tub elsewhere, assuming you’ve got the space and capacity to do so, but again, that’s your choice.
If, in fact, you have a bathtub that you want to keep, like one of those beautiful old claw footed bathtubs that were so common in the early 20th century, or even if you just want to take a bath while still having the option to shower, it’s pretty easy to be able to do this by simply attaching either a fixed shower head or one on a flexible hose by mounting it on your wall in your bathtub. If space is a consideration, you can also simply attach a showerhead on a flexible hose right to your bathtub faucet. This is the easiest option, since installing it won’t even take a screwdriver. You can also just pop it off the faucet whenever you need to run the tap.
Finally, if you’re so inclined, you could even simply make part of the room a shower. It will take a little doing, since you’ll need to install stone and cement walls and floors, including a base and drain. It’s very expensive to do it this way, but it does remove the need to actually put a shower or tub in the bathroom. You can install Plexiglas or glass partitions that will protect the rest of the room from water damage.
Finally, you can install a prefabricated shower cubicle. This type of bathroom shower installs in a corner or as a freestanding unit. It’s basically like a very small closet and simply contains a showerhead and probably a little ledge for you to set soap, shampoo or other necessities in there. Shower doors themselves are also very space saving in these units, since they can open and close flush with the rest of the unit so that they don’t need to swing out into the room itself.