Wetroom and a dry bath mat

[elm11]

We just bought a house and are re-building an en-suite bathroom. Our builders suggested to install a wet room.

I like the minimalistic look of wet rooms very much but stepping out on a clean dry bath mat is extremely important for me.

From experience of staying in a rented cottage, a bath mat outside of a wet room area, even behing a glass, was always wet.

I'm trying to figure out how can I get this minimalistic modern look and have a dry bath mat.

Would a low profile shower tray solve this issue or I would I rather need to install a shower door?

Will it still be the same minimalistic look if I installed a door and had a tiled shower floor instead of a shower tray?

Places I've stayed with wet rooms like this have often had a rail to hang up the bath mat - then when you are about to get out of the shower, you just grab the mat off the rail and put it down where you're about to step. Then you hang it up again when your feet are dry.

You can get a 'matt' made out of wooden slatts, so the water runs off between the slats and you stand on dry(ish) warm wood. That's definitely the scandi way for wetrooms/saunas etc. But yes, without a screen, the floor will get wet. I like those floating screens, clear glass, no frame, and you enter from the sides, which are open. You can then have a dry fluffy matt in front of the screen, which looks almost invisible.

Like this?

We just put a towel on the floor and step on to that. It also helps contain the water. We have a partial screen across too.

Wet rooms are fab! I would never go back.

We have a wet room in our rented house. It is awful. Maybe the camber isn't right on the floor or something but every time
Someone has a shower the whole bathroom floor gets wet and stays that way all day unless we mop it up with towels (which then means we are always washing sodden towels), or else we leave it to drain a bit through the day (which it barely does) and end up paddling in the wet bathroom to clean teeth in the evening, or basically sitting with feet in a cold puddle of water to have a wee. I hate the bastard thing tbh.

The wet room will need the floor tilted towards the drain hole behind the screen, which needs to be at the deepest point, so that the water runs off and doesn't spread across the room, if you don't want a shower tray. A shallow shower tray behind a floating screen will help to keep the floor dry, too, and is usually the (much) cheaper option to having the entire floor tanked and angled.

I have a wet room.

Ikea do amazing bath matts, albeit I replace once a day

I'm with you, need a bath Matt, a good wet room will drain towards the plug

We just had a wet room installed. There is a glass screen separating the shower area from the rest of the room and the water doesn't really go beyond it.
We have a mat in front of the sink that stays dry.