4 Ways to Make a Shower Enclosure Work in a Bathroom

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Bathrooms aren’t always the easiest spaces to design into a build, especially where space is tight, but you’re unlikely to create that desirable spa-like space if your scheme feels awkward and clunky to move around. 

Shower enclosures can be the biggest offender in this arena, but fortunately modern shower brands like Kinedo now offer more styles of enclosure openings than ever before. And with thin profiles, slender handles and no visible screws, you can be sure you’re getting a contemporary style that will flatter every type of home. 

Kinedo’s Smart Design range has a variety of different configurations that can be adapted to all kinds of layouts, plus they’re easy to install and are backed with helpful support teams if you need assistance during installation. 

Here, we take a look at how different types of enclosures could benefit your space. 

 Specify the Right Pivot Doors 

If space is tight, choosing an enclosure that opens internally can make your design much more usable, especially when using something like a simple pivot door. 

Of course, this type of design does require some careful consideration, ensuring that the person using the shower has room to get into the enclosure and shut the door, while also keeping the showerhead and controls out of the way of the door.  

Where space allows, an external opening is a more traditional shower enclosure style. 

 Choose Saloon or Bifold Doors 

A pivot door has its benefits, but if it’s making your bathroom design awkward to use and creating pinch points in the space, consider instead how saloon or bifolding doors might benefit your design. 

These styles use smaller panels which don’t require as much of a radius in order to open easily in a small space. 

You’ll need to weigh up the visual considerations of pivot versus saloon and bifold doors, however. As they’re made up of more panels, these types of doors will use more frame than a pivot door, but with Kinedo’s Smart Design range, thin profiles create a much sleeker look than many competitors on the market. 

 Try Sliding Doors  

If you’ve got a wide enough enclosure, sliding doors can be a practical choice for a bathroom design. They’re a great choice of bathrooms of all sizes, but do rely on having an enclosure large enough to incorporate both sliding panes, so might not be the right choice for a smaller shower.  

Use a Corner Enclosure

Corner enclosures are an effective way of using space in the right bathroom, providing access to the shower enclosure from a corner. A curved design like Kinedo’s Quadrant enclosure is particularly useful for creating a showering space that feels luxuriously large, but that borrows back some of the enclosure space for doors that open out onto the bathroom.  

To find out more, explore Kinedo's full range of Smart Design shower enclosures