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We have a small bathroom near a guest room. It has no tub, just a shower, which is about 3' x 3'. Yep, that small. It is currently a shower surround insert -- walls, floor, shelves all molded and installed as a single piece.
We want to update the shower. Not sure we want to spring for a custom tile installation, but I'd like something a little nicer than a single molded insert.
I've recently learned about a Kohler product, Choreograph, which comes in a kit with three walls and a floor. I can't find many opinions online, so if you're familiar with it I'd love to hear from you.
Also interested in any other non-tile solutions you've seen or have experience with.
We have a small bathroom near a guest room. It has no tub, just a shower, which is about 3' x 3'. Yep, that small. It is currently a shower surround insert -- walls, floor, shelves all molded and installed as a single piece.
We want to update the shower. Not sure we want to spring for a custom tile installation, but I'd like something a little nicer than a single molded insert.
I've recently learned about a Kohler product, Choreograph, which comes in a kit with three walls and a floor. I can't find many opinions online, so if you're familiar with it I'd love to hear from you.
Also interested in any other non-tile solutions you've seen or have experience with.
Thanks!
I put a 3 piece fiberglass surround in a tub/shower and regretted it ever after. Not sure what the brand actually was, but there was literally one product deemed safe to clean it with. House had well water...hard water stains and rust were constant. The only way to get rid of the buildup was hours of gentle hand rubbing because every cleaner that would remove it was verboten according to the manufacturer. Over time it just looked grimy. Just looking at it scratched, marred, or stained it. At least well-sealed ceramic tile is pretty hard to hurt.
We have a small bathroom near a guest room. It has no tub, just a shower, which is about 3' x 3'. Yep, that small. It is currently a shower surround insert -- walls, floor, shelves all molded and installed as a single piece.
We want to update the shower. Not sure we want to spring for a custom tile installation, but I'd like something a little nicer than a single molded insert.
I've recently learned about a Kohler product, Choreograph, which comes in a kit with three walls and a floor. I can't find many opinions online, so if you're familiar with it I'd love to hear from you.
Also interested in any other non-tile solutions you've seen or have experience with.
Thanks!
If you think about it...
...the "kit" is no different from what's there now! You're merely changing the esthetic- is it worth that much!?
We have a small bathroom near a guest room. It has no tub, just a shower, which is about 3' x 3'. Yep, that small. It is currently a shower surround insert -- walls, floor, shelves all molded and installed as a single piece.
We want to update the shower. Not sure we want to spring for a custom tile installation, but I'd like something a little nicer than a single molded insert.
I've recently learned about a Kohler product, Choreograph, which comes in a kit with three walls and a floor. I can't find many opinions online, so if you're familiar with it I'd love to hear from you.
Also interested in any other non-tile solutions you've seen or have experience with.
Thanks!
It is a functional, guest bathroom. Making it bigger is one issue versus making it "nicer". Want to make it so nice that guests want to overstay?
It works, be it fiberglass or hand made tiles. Leave it alone.
I have one piece fiberglas in both bathrooms, so a shower only and a tub with shower. I hate their guts beyond what I could possibly describe and nothing on this earth makes them look clean, so I don't even try any more. When the time comes, I would price out both options and take a look at the newer fiberglas stuff, which is worlds apart from even 20 years ago. If I could replace it every 5 years for what a lifetime of tile would cost, I'd consider it.
The materials to tile one that small would be cheap. You could use cheap 12x12 ceramic tiles, maybe 3 sheets of cement board, a bucket of red guard and a bag of grout....maybe $100 total. The expensive part is getting someone to do the install correctly. I had 3 or 4 “handymen” give me estimates and I could tell they didn’t really know what they were doing when they wanted to tile over drywall and not use any kind of waterproofing...they claimed the grout wouldn’t let any water through...one just wanted to use that purple faced drywall. Anyway, maybe you could find someone to complete it for around $1000 (give or take $300). Not THAT much more than those surrounds which are about $300 (plus maybe $200 to install) and tile probably looks good decades longer.
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