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Printer-friendly version (June 29, 2009) Visit the Best Shower Curtain website to begin discovering a simple way to dress up your bathroom lightning fast ! Now you can get a shower curtain curved selection that will accentuate the beautiful tub/shower that you have installed in your bathroom with a bit of help from the Best Shower Curtain website . Curved shower curtains are an ideal choice for round, rectangular, and oval tubs of all kinds, and the Best Shower Curtain website will introduce you to the various selections available to you. Getting a new shower curtain and some super attractive accessories is a less expensive alternative for today’s consumer looking to upgrade the appearance of the bathroom area. While tub installations and new sink or toilet installations are always nice and instantly beautify the bathroom while maximizing comfort, a low cost, fast affordable option for décor changes can be found in simply changing the shower curtain and its accessories. The Bes...

Overview Let’s face it. Showers are the bathing choice of just about everyone. So if your bathroom has become a family bottleneck because you don’t have enough shower stalls or the one you have is leaking, read on. We’ll show you how to replace a leaky base, replace a tub with a shower only or install an additional shower to handle demand. Preformed shower bases have vastly simplified the installation process. They’re virtually leakproof and are vastly easier to install than traditional solid mortar bases . Still, setting a base can be challenging, especially when you’re remodeling older plumbing . In this article, we’ll show you how to rip out an old tub and replace it with a one- piece fiberglass shower base . We’ll walk you through the tricky parts, first how to relocate the drain just right, then the necessary venting. Next, we’ll show how to set a rock-solid base—one that won’t crack or leak down the road. Our step-by- step instructions will take you right up to the point where ...

After Before The Original Floorplan Last June, Jeremy and I started the process of remodeling the second floor of our home. There were lots of things that bothered me about the original layout, and you can probably discern a lot of them from the “before” pictures, more of which you can see in West Elm’s post here. Originally, the second floor had a master bedroom , tiny master bathroom , and a weird tiny bedroom that could only fit a twin size bed and had a weird area where the eaves of the roof slanted down to the ground making it almost impossible to keep anything there. The master bathroom consisted of a small crappy plastic tube -shaped shower, a vanity, and the toilet. The shower was the bane of my existence, because the way it was built and assembled left all these little gaps in the plastic pieces  in it that were impossible to get to with cleaning brush, so mold would just grow between the cracks, and the rubber lining along the shower door where the plastic sheets touched k...