Ways to Customise Glass Shower Screens

Once you've decided to install new glass shower screens, you'll face various alternatives in framing and glass types. Your choices will depend on your priorities. Are you more interested in evoking a spacious feel in the room, or is privacy paramount? Or do you want to splash out with a decorative shower? To help you customise your enclosure, read on.

Openness

If you're mainly interested in creating an open and spacious feel in the bathroom, consider installing a frameless shower. The screens on these enclosures are held together with minimal hinges and brackets that don't disturb the flow of smooth glass. Because the shower is relatively invisible and you can see through the screens, the bathroom will feel large and spacious.

Additionally, the shiny glass will reflect light around the room, giving it a brighter ambience. If your bathroom is compact or features small windows, it will especially benefit from clear, frameless shower screens.

Privacy

While transparent glass screens help to evoke spaciousness, this means that you won't have much solitude when in the shower. If your concern is privacy, you could install frosted panels that obscure the view. You can choose between various transparency levels, ranging from glass that clouds the view slightly to those that almost block it completely.

To modify the privacy effect, you can install screens with frosting on selected sections, such as a horizontal border along the middle of the panels. That way, the light can freely flow through the top and bottom parts, but you'll have a more private shower because of the horizontal section.

Decoration

The beauty of transparent glass showers is the sleek effect they produce. You may, though, want something more decorative. Frosted screens are available in diverse designs. They may be covered in fluffy clouds, foliage and leaves or intricate geometric motifs. You could have custom screens made with a unique design to match your bathroom.

Another way to add decoration to the shower is to use patterned glass screens, which are moulded to give a three-dimensional appearance. The patterns can mimic falling rain or long grass or timber and brickwork textures.

You can also tone the glass screens in various shades such as bronze, blue, green and grey to give your bathroom a unique look. Why not combine a pattern with a tint to create beautiful and subtle effects?

Thus, you'll need to think about your priorities when personalising the shower. Do you want to open up your bathroom and make it feel larger? Or are you more interested in creating a secluded enclosure? You then need to consider whether you want to incorporate some beautiful decorative glass effects into the room.

Contact a company that installs glass shower screens to learn more about your options.