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How to Make a Barrier Free Shower NOT Look Institutional or be a Pain To Maintain

By Mike Foti on March 4, 2025. Leave a Comment

If you’ve been shopping for an accessible, ADA, roll in, or barrier free shower, by now I’ll bet a ‘dollar to donuts’ (yes, that’s a weird saying I know) you’re used to seeing pictures of boring, white plastic shower systems. YUCK! And while these institutional-looking white systems will ‘work’ (and... Continue reading

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How to help mom and dad get a safe shower

By Mike Foti on January 21, 2025. Leave a Comment

Maybe it’s your New Year’s resolution—or simply a must-do task you can’t put off any longer. You’ve decided it’s time to help mom and dad—or yourself—upgrade from an old bathtub to a safe, accessible roll-in or walk-in shower. This decision could be one of the smartest aging-in-place home improvements... Continue reading

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15 Insider Tips for a Safer, Simpler and Stylish Age in Place Shower

By Mike Foti on March 6, 2023. 8 Comments

Updated July 16, 2023 If the idea of an ‘age in place shower’ DOES NOT create a vision of a bathroom you’re excited to use, you’re not alone. When people think ‘age in place,’ their thoughts are locked on safety. And while safety is essential to stay in your home as long as possible (and steer clear... Continue reading

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13 Practical Design Tips to Make Your Small Bathroom Live Larger

By Mike Foti on June 6, 2022. Leave a Comment

Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have the humongous bathrooms you see in high-end interior design magazines? In those spaces there’s room for a freestanding tub, long double bowl sink AND an oversized walk-in shower. If only you had this much room. However, this IS NOT the world you’re living in. And while... Continue reading

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11 Smart Ideas to ‘Find’ Space in Your Small Bathroom…without busting your budget

By Mike Foti on January 12, 2021. Leave a Comment

You dream of the ‘drool-worthy’ pictures on Pinterest and Instagram. Expansive and opulent master bathrooms with free standing tubs and large walk in showers. The vanity countertops seem to stretch on for miles. Oh, how you would enjoy a large bathroom like this. Then you wake up. This IS NOT the... Continue reading

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How to Get a Bathroom Remodel Which is Built Around You

By Mike Foti on July 7, 2020. 2 Comments

Have you ever had a vision of a fabulous bathroom remodel inspired by binge-clicking through Pinterest and Houzz? Then you invited potential contractors into your home. You were so excited. Then they proceeded to throw cold water on your vision with statements like these: Statement #1 – Lady, we’re... Continue reading

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9 Dumb Mistakes You Can Avoid Choosing a Custom Shower Pan

By Mike Foti on December 10, 2019. 14 Comments

Unless you’re a remodeling contractor, buying a custom shower pan is a once-in-a-lifetime experience (or you might say, chore). However, here’s the problem. Making the wrong choice can not only be dangerous to your pocketbook but could cause you to ‘spring a leak’ into the floor below. If this happens,... Continue reading

7 Biggest blunders with walk in shower - how to avoid them | Innovate Building Solutions | #BathroomRemodeling #WalkInShower #RollInShower #ShowerAccessible

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7 Biggest Blunders with Walk in Showers (and How to Avoid Them)

By Mike Foti on March 29, 2019. 31 Comments

Updated October 24, 2021 Lisa was excited to tell me when she was on vacation, she experienced the neatest thing in the bathroom or her contemporary hotel room. It was a curbless, doorless walk in shower. It didn’t have a flimsy shower door to clean (like her tired bathroom at home). It was safer... Continue reading

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A Brutally Honest Guide to Choose the Perfect Shower Pan

By Mike Foti on February 8, 2019. 10 Comments

Updated March 31, 2019 Let’s get real. There’s no such thing as a perfect shower pan, just as there’s no perfect person. Shower pans are not a one-size-fits-all proposition. There can be, however, a perfect shower pan for your specific situation. Here’s the problem you’ve likely run into trying to... Continue reading

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7 Alternative Solutions to Ugly Shower Pans

By Mike Foti on January 25, 2019. 10 Comments

Updated October 23, 2021 The moment before you crank-up your reciprocating saw, rent the jackhammer or bring out the hand tools to demo your old fiberglass or tile shower pan do you look down and say to your shower base, “I’m going to miss you buddy. I’ve loved our time together.” If so, you may need... Continue reading

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