We've always relied on showers to wake us up in the morning, and tend to reserve baths for nice, long evenings when we can make the time to relax. We love both for different reasons, but definitely fall into the shower category more often than not.
Depending on your work schedule, personality type, and who knows what else, you are more than likely drawn to one or the other (we'll be curious to see if there are any 50/50 votes out there). So...
shower 95% of the time - bath a few times a year when i really need to relax, or what i call my semi-bath (for leg-shaving so i don't kill myself standing up in the shower).
I'm too tall (6') to fit in a bath tub, or at least the standard size one that is in my tiny apartment. Baths are only relaxing if I can be totally submerged... and that's just not happening in my place!
Always take a shower. Haven't taken a bath in literally decades.
Baths almost always, showers only after a workout. But thats probably because I've lived in Europe for a while...
Standard bathtubs are too tiny and shallow. I am also 6' tall, and haven't been able to take a decent tub bath for at least 20 years. My knees always stick up above the water and are cold.
Who thought up the idea that 7" of depth in a 5' long tub was enough?
I'm only 5' and yet I have the same complaint that most of the vintage tubs available in apartments / brick bungalows are too small to be able to take a relaxing bath. I also only enjoy a bath when i can submerge everything but my head. Oddly, my husband who is 6'2" has no complaints about our tub and takes baths that sometimes last for an hour.
i miss having a bathtub of my own.
i currently live in an apartment with 4 boys. there's no way in hell i'm ever sitting down in that thing.
thank god the lease is up in may.
no time for baths in the morning, but in the evening I'm all about the power of hot water, baby oil and red wine for de-knotting tense shoulders and de-furrowing furrowed brows. Sadly, the tub is your standard 5 feet long basin, but someday that deep clawfoot tub will be mine. . .
"amen" to tall folks (just under 6'3"), but i've got a different problem: my vintage tub is an oddly adorable 3 1/2 foot square. i can manage to get about 4' diagonally, but that's about it. the best part, when i bought the place it was touted as a "two person tub"... i guess anything can be a "two person" something if you try hard enough, but let's be honest. as for a two person shower: absolutely.
so would any of you buy a place with just a shower - a lovely, large, beautifully tiled shower enclosure - no tub?
My husband and I are adding on a master addition: closet, bedroom and bath, and we've decided due to space and practicality that we'll do just a large shower, no bath and one sink we'll share for more counter space versus two sinks and little counter. I've polled a lot of friends and they all admit to rarely using the tub. Some only use it for laundry overspill.
As long as I can occassionaly have a bath in our other bathroom, I'm fine and glad to use that space for better things, like a bigger closet.
I would definitely buy a place with only a shower, except it might affect resale. I've not taken a bath in years. How do you feel clean soaking in the same water you just cleaned up in?? I would need to shower again.
We're about to buy a place with two showers but no tubs at our request -- bathrooms are customized for us. No one in our household takes baths, we won't have children and we won't have a dog. There's just no need to have a bath that requires extra cleaning!
But if we ever did resell, one of the showers is an extra-large stall that can easily be converted into a shower/tub combo.