In an existing clawfoot tub, so no ability to add a drain to the bathroom floor, are there any creative ideas for showering without water going everywhere? Shower curtains cause a bit of claustrophobia as it billows inwardly. If one is careless with the curtain, water goes all over the floor. It seems like a dish drainer, like at the kitchen sink, could be a cool option. Are there any other creative choices anyone has seen?
Do you have the space to make that part of the bathroom a wet room? If so you can add a drain and a glass partition and not worry about the shower curtain.
If that’s not an option, I’ve seen all different sized hoops to hold curtain rods but you probably still will get some water on the floor.
Have you tried magnets at the bottom of the shower curtain?
The trouble with a floor drain is that your floor probably isn’t designed to be wet floor.
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An extra large oval ceiling mounted shower curtain rod with magnets/weights at the bottom of the extra long shower curtains, like others suggested, would help.
In order to keep the shower curtain from billowing in and touching the person showering, you may have to McGyver a solution. Off the top of my head (so this idea needs refining/replacing), maybe you could sew a channel into the shower curtain at about waist or hip height and insert light weight plastic tubing into it. Something like a few hula-hoops that have been cut apart or maybe the smallest diameter pool noodles you can find.
Perhaps there’s some way to create a pair of curved brackets to go at each end of the tub at 3’ - 4’ off the floor that the curtains would be looped behind and then back into the tub. That would keep them away from (most of) you and not allow them to billow with the air current.
I don’t recommend letting water (more than a few tiny splashes) get on the floor since it probably doesn’t have a waterproof membrane under the tile. Tile and grout aren’t meant to be waterproof and you’ll end up with damaged subfloor. Even if the bathroom is on a concrete slab, I’d be concerned about water soaking through the grout and creating a mold problem.
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Correct, the tile floor is new and does not have a drain, there is room for a wet room, but they are not going to redo a recently done room. And there is a ceiling mounted oval curtain rod and curtain with magnets, and it billows in toward you when showering.
I,too, have thought of MacGyver types of solutions, on the back wall, attach some sort of post or hook and then put something from there to the curtain rings to pull that side away, etc. Looking on Houzz, all the clawfoot tubs are pretty and displayed in appealing ways, but other that one with a plexiglass surround (cool) I have seen nothing about actually using them. This is in a friend’s new home and we are troubleshooting together.