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this month: freestanding bathtubs l

THE TUB Stands Alone BATHROOM LIVING SPACE

by Kathryn Weber relax in the tub, and a double ended
tub, where both sides are shaped
your cares and relax? Look no “A freestanding tub similarly.
ooking for a place to melt away
But there’s still more choice in
Lfurther than a freestanding shape. Tubs today can be oval, square
tub. While once looked upon as is a wonderful or round. One freestanding tub that
old-fashioned, the freestanding tub is especially nice is a Japanese-style
has been updated and is no longer soaking tub. These tubs take up less
relegated to the sidelines. With sleek choice if you’re square footage, but they’re deeper
and contemporary lines, freestanding and enable the bather to soak up to
bathtubs have made a resurgence and their shoulders. It’s a unique shape
offer a chic and updated look to your considering a and style, but it’s perfect for small
bathroom. bathrooms or for a deeper soaking
experience.
NO MORE WALLFLOWER remodel or you
After decades of being built-in to DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS
the bathroom and integrated into the Getting your freestanding tub
walls, tubs have cut their ties and are want to add more into place will also require you to
holding their own. A freestanding consider the drain hole and where it
tub is a wonderful choice if you’re is located in relationship to the tub
considering a remodel or you want to emphasis to the placement. Plumbing should also be
add more emphasis to the bathroom. taken into account, as it will either
These tubs come in a variety of need to be freestanding or mounted
shapes, sizes and materials, and they bathroom.” on a wall to fill the tub.
take center stage, making a natural When determining where to place
focal point in your bathroom. your freestanding tub, think about it
as a focal point. It can be placed next
MATERIAL INTEREST one of these captures your heart, take variety. These tubs helped define tub to a window, such as a bay window,
Tubs in the past have generally into account whether the flooring can shape and style since the beginning or where there is a natural spot in
come in two materials: cast-iron or support the weight of the tub. Tubs of their appearance in the 1800s. your bathroom where your eye falls as
fiberglass. However, new freestanding made of fiberglass, acrylic or metal There is the most common, single you enter. This is a great way to take
tubs can run the gamut in materials. will have a lighter weight. end. This has a long oval at one end advantage of and play up the shape
They can still be found in cast-iron that allows the bather to lean against of your tub, and turn your bathroom
and fiberglass, but they can also be SHAPE AND STYLE the back of the tub comfortably. This into a bathing destination. n
found in metals, like stainless steel, There is a range of shapes to choose is followed by a single slipper, with
copper and brass, or wood, acrylic, from in freestanding tubs. One of the the lounging end sloped slightly, the ©2019 Kathryn Weber
resin or stone. Tubs made of stone most common and quintessential- double slipper, with two ends sloped Distributed by Tribune Content
and resin can be especially heavy, so if looking tubs is the old claw-footed allowing two bathers to comfortably Agency, LLC.
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