A couple of of chances are you’ll recall that we have a extremely pink, very traditional bathroom that we principally have left correctly ample alone. Earlier this 12 months though, I made one small change that’s made a fairly monumental distinction inside the small home. I modified our damaged plastic bathe curtain with a linen-only curtain made to go well with for our traditional tub that desires an l-shaped curtain.
I do not regret it. I might fully do it as soon as extra.
The linen curtain is ethereal and exquisite and glossy. It doesn’t ship a flood of water to the bathroom flooring as I feared it’d and it dries terribly quickly between showers. Presumably higher of all, on account of it’s light and versatile as compared with a plastic liner, it could be merely tied collectively and pushed to the aspect all through raucous tub events involving three children and one guardian in a tiny bathrooom. I do not know if a fabric bathe curtain is probably a small enchancment for you (and hopefully it obtained’t be a small disaster) nonetheless for me, the swap has been easy and nice.
Proper listed below are some issues to know:
+ We went with a linen bathe curtain on account of I was able to order it in a custom-made dimension to go well with our home and since I felt similar to the linen may very well be quickest to dry in very small bathroom that doesn’t have a window! Totally different selections for cloth-only are cotton canvas and hemp!
+ When ordering our linen bathe curtain I intentionally measured for a curtain that could be comparatively taut and by no means too prolonged, partially on account of I didn’t want an excessively flouncy making an attempt curtain, nonetheless further so on account of I didn’t want an entire lot of further materials to get moist or to get in the best way wherein in a cramped bathroom. I regret barely that I didn’t allow a bit further room for shrinkage. I paid a small further cost to have the fabric pre-washed by the use of the Etsy retailer that made it, in addition to, as soon as I washed and dried it on low temp, it shrunk a bit larger than I anticipated. It’s not drastic and nothing I can’t reside with, nonetheless I’d say the dimensions was glorious sooner than I washed it and ever so barely a lot much less glorious now. Do you have to care about these things, let my experience be a lesson and order a smidge greater than you need, even must you buy it pre-washed.
+ We protect our bathe curtain outside of the bath whereas we bathe (and typically tuck it once more into the bath as quickly because it’s dry). Certain, that’s reverse to what I’ve completed my full life and certain I assumed this may increasingly produce a waterfall influence outside the bath, nonetheless in distinction to a plastic bathe curtain, the fabric curtain absorbs any water that hits it and albeit, not rather a lot water does. (Even after an notably indulgent bathe, there’s in no way rather a lot water saturating the curtain that we’ve got to wring water out of it.)
+ Our bathe head is significantly unusually positioned on the prolonged stretch of tub wall instead of on the top of the bathe. After we moved in, we modified a plastic hand-held bathe head with a easier rain bathe. This bathe head means a lot much less outward spray and further downward spray (and no hose knocking us behind the highest whereas we try to wash). The jury’s out on whether or not or not this modification moreover makes the cloth-only curtain less complicated from a saturation perspective, nonetheless I’d hazard the guess that particulars of bathe head placement, water stream, tub-size, bathe habits, and lots of others. all play a job in how the experience could go. These aren’t points I personally obsessed over, nonetheless they is probably worth a second of consideration do you must decide to go this route.
+ After I first talked about making the swap to a cloth-only bathe curtain, I obtained a flurry of inquiries regarding mould and mildew and completely different streaks of black or pink which will require cleaning. I’ll say that we have had our cloth-only curtain hanging for a few months now and that it is doing beautifully. Plastic bathe curtains get dirty too, as everybody is aware of, and this one is rather a lot less complicated to take down and wash with oxygen brightener if need-be. (Our last plastic curtain wished to get changed after we washed it on the laundromat and it was badly damaged in a too-small machine.) That acknowledged, we do try to do all the points that mitigate cleaning factors cropping up inside the first place—leaving the bathroom door open after showering, working the ceiling fan, stretching the curtain out to dry, et cetera. (These steps actually really feel onerous in writing, nonetheless are second-nature in observe.)
Success with a cloth-only curtain little query comes proper all the way down to some specifics, nonetheless for us, it’s been a very seamless and actually stunning small enchancment which means a lot much less plastic, further loveliness, and less complicated cleaning. Win, win, win.
For the curious:
+ We wished a curtain of an unusual dimension, so I ordered a custom-made linen curtain by the use of 3HLinen on Etsy.
+ In our last home we used a Utility Canvas Bathe Curtain that I later grow to be a blackout shade for Calder). I wasn’t brave ample then to utilize the curtain with no liner, nonetheless I might be now and so they’re obtainable in loads of daring colors should anyone be looking out for a little bit of jolt.
+ Vermont Nation Retailer has been selling fundamental Duck Canvas Bathe Curtains for ages. They arrive in two-sizes and 4 materials picks.
+ As chances are you’ll uncover inside the photos above, for the last few months we’ve been using Acutely conscious secure shampoo and conditioner stones. They’ve been unimaginable and due to this I don’t assume our bathe caddy will ever see one different plastic bottle as soon as extra. Cheers to a (virtually) plastic-free bathroom.
What else? One thing I missed?