Low-curb showers are a go-to choice for homeowners who want a bathroom that feels modern, safe and easy to use — without the construction costs or complexities that often come with a fully curbless design. In these nine bathrooms, design and construction pros show how a small curb can deliver big style and functional benefits.
1. Rustic Charm
Designer: Wendy Glaister Interiors
Location: Bass Lake, California
Size: 81 square feet (7.5 square meters)
Homeowners’ request. “This bathroom is in my clients’ second home,” says designer Wendy Glaister, whose clients found her on Houzz for a previous project. “It’s a cabin on Bass Lake and it needed to fulfill several functions, but most of all it had to be charming and easy to use. This is the downstairs guest bath, so it gets most of the traffic and it’s also the laundry room. We enlarged the footprint by about 12 feet and spun the former corner shower around so that it could be located under a new window. The stackable laundry is to the left of the shower, tucked behind a custom metal screen door with a woodland scene cut out by a CNC — computer numerical control — machine.”
Low-curb shower details. “I chose to lower the threshold because chunky thresholds just aren’t very safe and they’re honestly not necessary anymore,” Glaister says. “A zero-threshold shower wasn’t really practical because my client didn’t want to have to battle with water on the floors with kids in and out of the shower and it being such a high-use restroom. I used a neutral porcelain square tile for the shower floor so as to not interfere with the fun colors being applied elsewhere in the bathroom and shower.”
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