Clawfoot Tub Shower Curtain Liner Weight Update

October 12, 2019 Allie Ellenbogen

Hi, Hi, Hi! Happy Saturday friends! I hope you’re having a great weekend - we’re leaving on a trip to Tokyo tomorrow and I couldn’t be more excited (hence all the exclamation points!) We’re going for vacation and will be gone for two weeks. Neither of us have been to Asia before and I’m excited for the visit. Everything is going to be so new and different and a little challenging I’m sure. But, I’m ready to eat my weight in sushi!

Before we go I wanted to share a little update about the clawfoot tub shower curtain liner. If you’ve read this post then you know we’ve been working on this for a while. The Cliffs Notes version is that our main shower is a clawfoot tub, which looks really lovely, but for various reasons is a bit of a pain to actually shower in. One of those reasons is that the shower curtain liner billows in from all angles and sticks to you non-stop. If you’re a regular shower user imagine that shower curtain coming at you from all sides instead of just one! While I’d love to go shower curtain free our bathroom is all original hardwood, so we really need to the protection of the shower curtain to keep it mint condish (aka mint condition. And by mint condition I mean 100+ year-old-wood-floor-that-someone-did-a-mediocre-job-of-taking-care-of condition 🤷).

The shower curtain liner situation is actually three liners that have been cut to fit the tub. Initially we thought we could get those weighted shower curtains with the little magnets on the bottom. But, we quickly learned those wouldn’t be strong enough. Then I super glued large washers to the curtain inside little pockets, but the super glue didn’t hold very well. Then, I tried Liquid Nail which did a great job but looked gross and smelled truly terrible when I was applying it. We recently needed to replace our shower curtain liners so it was a great time to also try a new approach to the washers. Several readers suggested sewing them on which I thought was brilliant! That’s what we tried this time around and not only do they look so much better - they also seem to do the trick. Of course they’ll really be put to the test when the temperature drops since the cold air in the bathroom mixed with the hot air in the shower causes much more billowing. (my other favorite trick for keeping it from happening is using a space heater when showering - it makes a huge difference I have one similar to this and it works so well!)

Clawfoot Tub Shower: Sticking Problem Solved!

January 15, 2018 Allie Ellenbogen

Happy Monday, friends! It’s been a while since I’ve shared any updates on the clawfoot tub shower combination situation. Now that I’ve been using it for a while I feel like I can confidently share my favorite secret with you.

Update: Clawfoot Tub Shower Curtain Liner Idea

November 20, 2017 Allie Ellenbogen

Hi there! Today I’m sharing an update on our clawfoot tub shower curtain liner idea. If you’ve been following along for a while now you know that we have a clawfoot tub as our primary shower. So, I’ve written several posts chronicling how we’re making that work. One of the first ones I did was about our shower curtain liner.

Clawfoot Tub Shower Combo: DIY Storage for Toiletries

November 9, 2017 Allie Ellenbogen

Hi friends, today I’m sharing another DIY for your clawfoot tub. Did you know that my posts about our clawfoot tub are some of my most popular? I think everyone who has to use them for showering is just as confused about where to start as I was! So if you’re one of those people, this one’s for you! And you’re going to love it because it’s so simple - I’m not exaggerating at all when I say that. (Plus, you might want to check out this one, this one, and this one.)

A DIY Clawfoot Tub Shower Curtain for Your Clawfoot tub Shower Combo

May 15, 2017 Allie Ellenbogen

Hi friend, happy Monday! Pretty much since my last post I’ve been firmly camped out in shower curtain land, and am happy to say I’ve made it out to the other side! If you’ve been following along since we bought the house you’ll remember that our main bathroom has a claw foot tub, which means it needs to function primarily as a shower instead of a tub. I searched far and wide for the best way to do this and came up with not a whole lot. I detailed the things I did find in this post and the next thing was to get a shower curtain liner in there so we could at least start using the bathroom. With a little DIY elbow grease I took care of that. And then the next thing the tub needed was an actual shower curtain. Because of a lot of the obstacles I talked through in the previous posts this was a bit of a challenge. Ultimately I figured out that I could use 2 regular sized shower curtains to get all the coverage we needed. We both agreed that it didn’t seem necessary to cover the back because as you can see in the photos it’s not at all visible. And another layer would just block more light from the window. But, I did want the curtains to wrap around the sides enough that you couldn’t tell the back wasn’t covered from the outside. Overall it seemed easy enough, just find a shower curtain we liked and buy two. Welllllll, that’s where I hit a road block. There really are just not many shower curtains out there that I like right now. The ones we did like we expensive. Like $120. Which, when you multiply it times two just felt crazy. To me a shower curtain is like a tablecloth. You don’t want to be too attached to it because it gets a lot of wear and tear and there’s a good chance it’s going to get stained. So spending nearly $300 on shower curtains was something I wasn’t ready to do.

Shower Curtain Liner for Your Clawfoot Tub

April 24, 2017 Allie Ellenbogen

A few weeks ago I posted a compilation of research I’d done about how to turn your claw foot tub into a useable shower. This particular subject happens to be the thorn in my side. It’s been hanging over my head for months now and every time I think I’m almost finished something else comes up that causes it all to come to a screeching halt.