What is with the half shower doors?

I'd rather have a wet bar than a wet room....

I'd rather have a wet bar than a wet room....

 

I am not a fan of these.  I think they're best in bathrooms where people mostly take baths.

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For those plastic bits the bottom of the doors, slide them off and soak them in Milton's sterilising tablets or solution or, if you are lucky and live in a house with a hose, use a jet wash attachment to blast out the mould.

Wet rooms don't bother me, either.  They're common in many really hot climates so I guess I'm used to them.

Wet and or damp toilet seats are the worst.

I once stayed in a hostel in Edinburgh which had "wet rooms" but they were only the shower bit so it was really just an enclosed shower room.  I loved it.  I would not love it if the sink and toilet were in the same room though!

Ugh. Nope. I don't want my floors and sinks and toilet wet even if they are designed to be. Esp in the UK where I can never get the bathrooms to dry out properly. Just my experience though.

I HATE wet rooms more than I hate half doors, by far. But I'm willing to tolerate them when on holiday - not in my own home!

I agree with the above.  We just stayed at a self-catering place in the UK and I found the wet room to be totally annoying and a stupid idea! 

Fortunately I had the foresight to take all the rolls of toilet paper, the towels, and my clothes I was going to change into plus my toiletries bag out of the wet room before I took my shower.  I was very careful, but even so the *entire* room got wet!  Then we couldn't walk into the wet room without shoes on to use the toilet since it took nearly the entire day for the floor to dry out.  Very annoying when you get up in the middle of the night to pee and have to put your shoes on first. 

Wet and or damp toilet seats are the worst.

Me, too.  I almost slipped off one completely.  Just thinking about it is embarassing!

I had one of those wetrooms in my hotel in London last summer. The shower part was closest to the door of the bathroom. So the water went into the bedroom part and soaked the carpet. It was so gross. The room smelled heavily of mold. Who knows what was lurking in there. Yicks! I kept having to ask for extra towels to put in front of the bathroom entrance so I didn't walk on wet carpet. And I wore my shoes in the bathroom as well.

Good ol' fashioned shower curtain does fine for me! You can get them fairly cheap (change as often as you like) and can even wash the liners in your washing machine with bleach water! Stains/muckiness- bye bye!

Good ol' fashioned shower curtain does fine for me! You can get them fairly cheap (change as often as you like) and can even wash the liners in your washing machine with bleach water! Stains/muckiness- bye bye!

I did this over the weekend - washed our gross liner in the machine - and it worked perfectly!  DH was totally suspicious and thought it would get torn to shreds, but it was great.  I am so relieved it's all clean again!

What freaks me out is no door at all.  A lot of places in France and Spain don't have them at all... you just mop up the floor.  Though most of them had hand held showers which helped control splash.  One pension I stay in in Spain had a shower room that also had the sink and toilet in it.  Very odd indeed.  You had a shower and the whole thing got soaking wet.

We stayed somewhere in Amsterdam (self-catering) like that before.  I think it's called a 'wet room'.

It's an arrangement which seems to have started to become slightly more common in the U.K. too, although not one I would like.  It involves a lot more work to make sure that the floor is watertight, provided with a drain etc., then there are extra requirements for things like lights and switches as the whole room effectively becomes a wet area instead of just the zone which comprises the shower cubicle/bathtub.

I think that our tub is taller than what I am use to in the US, but MUCH smaller. I am use to a 6 foot claw footed tub, and my tub is short and narrow. We don't have a shower, but have installed a shower head on a hose so I can "hose off" in a hurry when necessary.

And it is so humid in our bath! There are four of us total, two are children, and I thought that they were splashing water all over the floor. Turns out it's the humidity. It settles on the walls and sides of the toilet, and then runs down and puddles on the floor. There is a major mildew problem that I am tackling as well. Of course, the problem has been going on for ages I guess, I just moved into it though and it's frustrating. I leave the bathroom window open 24/7, even when it's cold because I don't know what else to do to dry it out.

I think wet rooms are brilliant if done well...  If they are simply an excuse to fit in a shower where it doesn't belong that is a different story...  When we convert our loft, we will likely put in a wet room.  You really need enough space to ensure your toliet/sink/whatever gets wet...  The best we saw was in New Zealand where the whole end of the rather large bathroom was dedicated to the shower.  It felt very liberating.

The best we saw was in New Zealand where the whole end of the rather large bathroom was dedicated to the shower.  It felt very liberating.

One of my friends is an architect, and designed the master bathroom in his parents' house this way.  I agree, it's exceptionally cool if done well.

I did this over the weekend - washed our gross liner in the machine - and it worked perfectly!  DH was totally suspicious and thought it would get torn to shreds, but it was great.  I am so relieved it's all clean again!

Yay! Glad it worked for you! I should have mentioned that's it's best to put it on the delicate (or whatever yours is called) setting to prevent too much agitation.

In my parents house they have a wet room, they took the closet out of my childhood bedroom and built a HUGE shower room with shower heads on each (of the 3 walls) its pretty cool, but they have crap water pressure. Its self contained, so the toilet doesn't get wet. But its nice.