Walk-In Shower with a Sliding Door in Moorestown, NJ

Ed’s family had just bought the house and were remodeling all of it before moving in, with about two months to get everything done. We started about three weeks after the first phone call and finished our part, two bathrooms, in about two and a half weeks.

This shower had real problems. Wooden wainscoting ran inside the shower area behind a curtain, so every shower splashed water onto wood, and a heating vent in the same spot was getting wet too. We widened the shower to the full width of the room, out to where the wainscoting had been, taking it from about four feet to about five. We moved the vent up to the ceiling and brought the whole area inside one continuous Schluter waterproofing system.

The window was the tricky part. It sat so close to the shower that no glass door, custom or barn-door style, could fit unless the shower crept into the window. So we built a short L-shaped wall at the back end, right beside the window. That made room for the door and still gave Ed a bigger shower.

Taj Mahal porcelain covers the walls, and Chianca Di Ostuni covers the shower floor and the main bathroom floor. The shelf, the curb and the entryway are capped in quartz, a modern Delta system brings a handheld, a rain head and a diverter, and our barn-door style glass door closes it in. Ed finished the rest of the bathroom himself.