Bath Shower Home Design

See if We Have Top-RatedBathroom Contractors in Your Area Related Articles Related Topics Find Top-Rated Pros Shower design is the biggest issue for a lot of bathrooms. For smaller bathrooms, simply finding a viable way to fit in any kind of shower stall can be a problem. For larger bathrooms, choosing between separate bathtubs and shower stalls and a tub/shower combo can be a tough decision. Finding the shower design to match your needs and preferences isn't easy, but surveying the options and weighing the relative pros and cons will help to ensure you're making the best choice available. Small Bathrooms Obviously limited space usually prohibits installing a bathtub. Sometimes even a shower stall can be a problem. A curved quadrant shower is usually the smallest shower stall design available. Combined with a smaller toilet and sink, it can provide a viable shower in even the smallest bathrooms. A detachable shower head can enable you to take a manageable show...

Finnish cabinet ministers do it, Russian hockey players do it, Koreans do it on a first date. Social bathing—known as "naked communion" in Japan—is an integral part of several cultures, strengthening bonds between family members, colleagues, and heads of state. In many countries it's also considered the proper way to welcome a foreign guest. Whether sauna or sento, banya or hammam, the shared bath is society's great leveler, its group hug, its collective sigh. "Not sampling the local bathing culture would be like not trying the local cuisine," says Melisse Gelula, co-founder of Well&Good NYC, an online wellness guide . And like any other institution integral to a society, this one has its rules, the first of which is to behave with churchlike decorum. In Finland, the sauna is the church, says Joonas Berghäll, co-director of the Finnish documentary Steam of Life. (Statistics bear him out: With just over five million inhabitants, Finland has roughly...