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Seamless Shower Doors
Seamless shower doors, often also called frameless shower doors, are a great addition for almost any bathroom. If you are planning on refurbishing your bathroom you should certainly consider them. Maybe this article will even inspire you to renovate it, even if you didn’t consider it before. I am a big fan of that kind of door and hope to be able to share with you my passion for them. The most important reasons for having them are therefore laid out in this article.
They Look Great
This is the main motive to buy seamless shower doors for almost anyone. They just look good. The lack of a frame results in a much brighter shower enclosure. And a brighter one of those results in a lot more well-being for its user. Long gone are the days were a shower stall was hidden in a dark corner. Today, many people favor an open, well-lit and scenic enclosure. Seamless, also called, frameless doors are the perfect way to achieve that.
They Improve The Hygiene In Your Bathroom
The transitions between frame and the actual glass of a door is the part that catches dirt the easiest, and it is the toughest to clean. It is virtually impossible to get rid of the sediments in said transitions with a sponge or any other common cleaning utility. As a result, they are a dangerous breeding place for all kinds of bacteria. And believe me, even in the cleanest bathroom, there are many. A seamless door eliminates this problem by simply not having any transitions or edges that could catch the dirt. You can clean it with some anti-bacterial spray-on cleaning agent, wipe it off and you are done.
They Are Easier To Clean
As I have already begun to point out in the previous paragraph, cleaning is laughably easier. Much easier than cleaning a window, or let alone a regular shower door with all its edges. Spray on an anti-bacterial window cleaning, wipe it off with whatever you like. I recommend window wiper, and, last but not least, don’t forget to wash it down using the water jet from your shower head, because you do not want to stand in cleaning agent the next time you have a shower. That was it. Cleaning seamless doors really is not more than a 2-minute effort. And if you do it regularly, it will stay that easy.
They Are More Sturdy
I bet you have been annoyed by low-quality, poor manufactured shower doors before. They are often made of extremely cheap plastic, are not fitted properly, and if you slide them they make all kinds of funny noises. Well, that will not happen with frameless doors. Why not? Because they are more sturdy and the reason for that is that they have to be manufactured properly, because they need to be able to carry their own weight. They are also attached to your walls with hinge that need to carry all the door’s weight. For this purpose those need to be fairly stable as well.
Add Vessel Sinks to Transform Your Bathroom
Adding a new bathroom vanity or bathroom cabinet to your home can transfer the look and feel of the master bath or powder room. The fall and winter seasons can be a very advantageous time of year to accomplish this too with seasonal sales on bathroom furniture and cabinets, as well as the fact that contractors tend to be slower so your potential to land a good deal in a remodeling contract is pretty high. There is one more accessory that can help transform your bathroom in the remodeling process which is adding vessel sinks.
Bathroom vanities typically come with the cabinet assembled, but there are other options to customize your furniture piece. These include changing out the countertop material such as marble, granite, travertine, or even tempered surgical glass for more modern pieces. You always have the option for a single post or 3 piece faucet set of your choosing to properly match the bath faucets and towel bars. Lastly there is the option for more modern or contemporary vanities to add a vessel sink or two if it’s a double vanity.
The option to add vessel sinks to your bathroom vanity is present for those units that do not have under mount porcelain sinks already installed in the countertop and when there is a single hole in the center of the counter as a connection point. Typically the above mount vessel sinks are for modern or contemporary vanities, and also come in a variety of materials, sizes, styles, shapes, and designs.
You can find porcelain sinks that are rounded or square, tempered glass sinks, and stone sinks made of marble, granite, or travertine. Oftentimes there are designs etched in the sinks or colors within the glass to give a truly ornate and unique design perspective. You can also find options where the sink bowls are made of clay and are painted with southwestern designs for those in desert areas.
When purchasing and installing vessel sinks for your vanity, be sure that the faucets you choose are either high post, high arch, or stem from the wall so you can ensure the faucet is high enough to bring water overtop the rim of the above mount sink. Make sure there is plenty of clearance here and that you can get your hands comfortably under the faucet and in the sink. Adding vessel sinks can liven up your bathroom and help transform into a modern or contemporary paradise.
Recessed Lighting – The Best Way To Enhance Any Room
If you’re looking for the best way to enhance any room in your home whether it be your entrance hall, kitchen, bathroom or entertainment room the best type of lighting to select would be recessed lighting fixtures.
There are many benefits to using this style of accent lighting for ambience and mood setting in rooms. One of these benefits is the fact that many recessed lights are adjustable. This provides you with the ability to direct lighting to specific areas of a wall or section of a room in order to create a specific atmosphere or highlight objects or artwork. It is easy to change the light dispersal throughout the room by exchanging the bulb size from a spotlight to a floodlight bulb.
You can also further accent or create desired lighting effects by adding dimmer switches to your lighting fixtures. Whenever you add any type of accent lights to a room the size of the room will always dictate your lighting requirements. For instance large rooms won’t require a more general lighting scheme while smaller rooms are better accented with fewer fixtures space strategically to highlight and accent the elements of the room that you want featured. One rule of thumb to follow when adding lighting fixtures is that one fixture should be provided for approximately 50 ft. of space that needs to be that.
An important safety feature to keep in mind is that if you intend to use any type of lighting in any damp location make sure that the fixture itself has been certified and approved for a damp location install. It’s always best to consult your local building codes as well as have your lighting fixtures installed by a professional electrician. The requirements do vary from state to state so it’s very important to check before you do your layout and purchase your lights. Doing so can save you a lot of headaches as well is a lot of wasted time and money.
The standard placement for recessed lighting in the kitchen areas anywhere from 6 to 8 feet apart. You can use this rough estimate to calculate approximately how many lights you will need based on the size of your kitchen. Today many of the recessed lighting fixtures work just as well with incandescent bulbs as they do with fluorescent bulbs. The fluorescent is really the best choice as they tend to last many times longer and deliver 3 to 4 times more light per watt than your standard incandescent bulb.
How to buy accent lighting
Accent lighting fixtures have basically three different parts. The fixtures themselves consist of the housing the trim that goes around the outside of the housing and a bulb. Each of these parts are needed to complete a recessed lighting fixture.When you start the process of looking for any type of recessed lighting it’s best to stick out the trim accent that you want first before you decide on the type of bold or the housing of the fixture itself.
One important note is to make sure that the trim that you pick is compatible with the type of lighting fixture that you will be using to install the lighting for your room. There are basically three choices when it comes to these types of lighting fixtures. You can purchase these items in either fluorescence fixtures, standard incandescent fixtures and also low voltage recessed lighting which is relatively new to the market but is extremely safe and becoming more popular all the time.
