Accessible Shower with Grab Bars and a Fold-Down Seat in Hainesport, NJ

Colleen’s old tub enclosure, an acrylic all-in-one unit that had been painted at some point, had started to leak. The family kept re-caulking the joints to stop it, but the patches peeled and flaked and never really held. It was a band-aid at best. She wanted something simple, safe and easy to clean, with no grout to keep up with.

We built a porcelain slab shower with a very low curb, so stepping in is barely a step at all. Grab bars are placed where she needs them, and a Moen seat folds down from the wall whenever she wants to sit. The Delta system pairs a regular shower head with a handheld on a slide bar that doubles as a grab bar.

A recessed stainless steel niche keeps bottles off the floor, the curb is capped in plain white quartz and a frameless barn-door style glass door closes it in. Underneath it all is a Schluter waterproofing system.