Shower ledge over bath to give elbow room

[Zengagoddess]

Hi, does anyone have a shower ledge like the one pictured? If so how do you find it? How was it built? What are the pitfalls? I have a narrow bath in a beach house.Shower is cramped but if we want to retain bath. Don’t want separate shower. I am thinking of moving bath forward and putting a std wall stopped by a 15cm ledge at just under an arms length from edge of bath. Possibly buying new 800 wide bath.This would give a place to put shampoo, glass of wine plus elbow room when standing. Particularly concerned about potential for leaks. Was thinking wood effect architrave floor tile for shelf with white subway/ grey grout on walls and bath panel

Is that middle picture your actual bathroom?

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Yes one of our old houses had a bath ledge like that. Loved it!

BUT I would say that your builders/tilers need to be very precise to make a slight incline so that water can run off. Ours used to gather water and you’d have to swipe off the puddle after every shower which was a) annoying b) yuck to put a glass of wine on a ledge wet with old shower water and c) a bit of a mould trap if we didn’t keep on top of it.

We have a small ledge and as Satsuma said you have got to have an incline, ours just collects water and it needs to be dried each time. I'd love a longer, properly designed shelf though!

Yes we have one. I like it. Again, built with a small incline.

Looks like you have plenty of room for an L shaped bath which would give much more shower room. A ledge would be good but lots of potential for leaks and mould.

Many thanks all- have pulled photos. There’s loads of space in front of the bath -ceiling height is problemI wonder if there is some sort of moulding you can buy to tile on?

I had one - it was great for storing shampoo bottles etc. but you need to get the angle right or water collects.

Also pick the surface carefully - my sister trashed ours (white tiles) by staining it with purple shampoo....

How about a separate corner bath something like this one in the low ceiling corner and a separate shower in the other one. Then you would get a bit more head height as the shower trays are lower than baths.

Forgot to post the picture

Unfortunately, there isn’t another corner to the right of the door so that’s the only space you can stand. But it’s sending me back to the drawing board as might be possible to put your plan into action in the other bathroom, thanks

O could you have a P shaped bath? Or one of those with one wider end?

Maybe that’s a good option- especially if you could put tongue and groove on an L shape (Beach cottage). Will look into it again