Custom Shower Doors in Clawson
Our showroom sits on Van Dyke Avenue in Sterling Heights, a short drive northeast of you. We measure, build, and install frameless, sliding, and swing glass shower enclosures, all made in-house.
Glass That Fits Your Clawson Home
Clawson is a tight, walkable city of established homes, from the bungalows and brick ranches near downtown to the updated mid-century houses on the quieter residential streets off Main and Rochester Road. Many of these bathrooms were framed decades ago, which means the openings are rarely perfectly square. That is exactly why we measure every enclosure on site rather than working from standard sizes.
From our showroom near 14 Mile and Van Dyke, reaching Clawson takes only a few minutes down 14 Mile or across on Rochester Road. You are close enough that we can come out, take precise measurements, and talk through glass and hardware in person, then return with an enclosure cut to your space and nobody else's.
One tub, one window, one curtain.
Clawson is a city of established homes, and most of what we walk into went up in the 1940s and 1950s. The hall bath repeats the same plan over and over: one alcove tub along a single wall, a window and a vanity fighting over whatever floor is left, and a curtain doing the only job that really matters.
Those rooms have had decades of Michigan freeze and thaw working on them. Put a level on the opening and you will often find it wider at the top than at the bottom, or leaning a half bubble off. Nothing alarming, just enough to matter once glass has to sit inside it. Space is tight in these mid-century baths, and the room is rarely a perfect box.
The tub is usually the good news. Plenty of the original alcove tubs here are still solid and worth keeping, so the job becomes what goes in front of the tub rather than a gut of the room. Where the layout is genuinely awkward, with corners, angles and a wall that never ran straight, the enclosure gets planned panel by panel.
- Postwar houses from the 1940s and 1950s, most with one hall bath to work with
- Original tubs still solid enough to build new glass in front of
- Openings that run wider at the top than the bottom after decades of freeze and thaw
- Compact tub and shower combinations in the bungalows and brick ranches around downtown Clawson
Three Ways to Enclose Your Shower
Frameless
Clean panels of 3/8" tempered glass with minimal hardware, a modern look that suits updated baths in older Clawson homes and shows off tile work without heavy metal framing.
Sliding (Barn-Style)
Glass panels that glide on an exposed track, a practical choice for the compact tub-and-shower combinations common in the city's bungalows and ranches where a swinging door needs room it may not have.
Swing (Hinged)
A single hinged door that opens out on solid hardware, ideal for walk-in showers and the kind of straightforward, lasting fit that works well in a remodel.
Clawson at a glance.
Measured at Your Home, Built by Our Family
It starts with a free in-home measure. We come to your Clawson bathroom, take exact dimensions, and check how the walls and floor actually sit, then you choose your glass and your metal with no pressure to decide on the spot.
From there, the same family that measured your space fabricates the enclosure and installs it. There is no sub-contracted glass and no handing the job to an outside crew. The people who take your measurements are the people who hang your door.
- Free in-home measure
- Frameless, sliding, or swing styles
- 3/8" tempered glass throughout
- Matte black, gold, chrome, or nickel
- Clear, low-iron, frosted, or rain glass
- Fabricated and installed in-house
The opening decides, not the showroom floor.
Start with whether the opening needs a frame. When a room has moved over the years, the frame carries the load and squares things back up, which is why framed shower doors in Clawson still make so much sense in these houses. In the compact tub and shower combinations around downtown, where the vanity crowds the tub, sliding shower doors take the swing arc out of the question entirely.
If the tub is staying, and here it usually is, bathtub shower doors put finished glass across the tub opening you already have. If you want the room to read larger, frameless shower doors strip out nearly all the visible metal and let the light carry, which is the biggest single change you can make in a small mid-century bath. For most of that look with a little more structure against an out-of-plumb wall, semi-frameless shower doors sit in the middle.
Awkward footprints get their own answer. Corners, angles and walls that never ran true are exactly what custom glass shower enclosures are for, planned panel by panel around the room you have. A walk-in with real clearance can take hinged shower doors. And if the unit in there is simply worn out, shower door replacement covers pulling the old one and hauling it away, with glass shower door installation handled by the same family that measured.
Freeze, thaw, and a door that binds.
The enclosure in a Clawson hall bath usually announces itself before anyone picks up the phone. A slider that drags because the track has packed with grit and mineral scale. A bottom rail caulked and recaulked until the seam is a gray rope. Glass gone hazy from years of hard water, which is etching rather than film, so no cleaner brings it back. Or a frame that was set square to a room that has since gone out of square, leaving a gap at one end that water finds every single time.
What that means for the new enclosure is simple. We measure the opening as it sits today, not as it was framed when the house went up, because the numbers have moved. Panels are cut to those numbers, in 3/8 inch tempered glass, so the glass follows your walls instead of fighting them. The old unit comes out and gets hauled away. If the wall behind the old frame turns out to be soft, that is tile and waterproofing work, and it belongs with those trades before new glass goes in.
Eight miles from the bench to your bath.
Clawson sits roughly eight miles from the shop, close enough that we are in and out of this part of Oakland County constantly. The measure happens at your house. We look at the real room, check how far the opening runs off, talk through glass and hardware, and give you honest numbers with no obligation.
Everything after that happens at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights, where the glass is cut and the enclosure is built by the same family that measured. There is no Clawson office and no subcontracted crew. To hold clear against low-iron, or see frosted and rain glass in daylight, we are open Mon to Fri 9 to 5 and Sat 10 to 2.
Around Clawson.
We cover Clawson as part of a tight Oakland County service area rather than a map with pins scattered across the state. The closest cities to you that we also serve are Berkley, Royal Oak, Birmingham and Madison Heights.
Everything runs out of one showroom, which is the point: the same family measures in Clawson, fabricates the glass in our own shop and installs it, whichever city the job is in. The full list of communities we cover is on the service area page, and if you do not see yours, call the showroom and ask.
Common questions.
Do you serve Clawson?
Yes. Clawson is roughly eight miles from our Sterling Heights showroom, an easy run down 14 Mile or Rochester Road, and it is a regular part of our service area.
What does a custom shower door cost?
Price depends on the size of the opening, the enclosure style, the glass, and the hardware finish you choose. Because every job is measured and built to your space, we give you a firm quote after the in-home measure rather than a guess up front.
How long does the process take?
After the free measure, we fabricate your enclosure and schedule installation. Timing varies with the glass and hardware you select, and we will give you a clear timeline once your order is set.
Do you install, or just supply the glass?
We do both, and we keep it in-house. The same family measures, fabricates, and installs your enclosure, so the work is never handed off to an outside contractor.
My bathroom has not been touched since the fifties. Can you still fit glass in it?
Yes, and that is most of what we do here. Houses from the 1940s and 1950s have openings that have shifted, so we measure the actual walls, account for what is out of plumb, and fabricate every panel to those numbers instead of ordering a stock size that will never sit right.
Is a framed door a downgrade?
No. The frame carries the load and squares up an opening that has moved over the years, which is exactly the situation in older Clawson houses. Plenty of bathrooms here get a framed door because it is the right fit for the room, not because anyone was cutting corners.
Can I keep the original alcove tub?
Often yes. Plenty of the original tubs in these houses are still solid and absolutely worth keeping. If yours is in good shape, we build the glass to the tub opening you already have and leave the tub exactly where it sits.
My walls are not square. Does that rule out glass?
Not at all. It is the normal condition here. After decades of freeze and thaw an opening can be wider at the top than the bottom or lean a half bubble off level. We measure it as it actually sits and cut to that, so the enclosure follows your walls.
Why not just buy a stock enclosure and be done?
Stock units come in fixed sizes and rarely match a real bathroom, especially the compact, irregular baths common around Clawson, Troy and Royal Oak. A made to measure enclosure solves fit problems a boxed door never could, and you are not staring at a shimmed gap for years.
What happens to the old enclosure when the new one goes in?
We take the old unit out and haul it away as part of the job, so you are not stacking bent frame and glass at the curb. Tile, waterproofing and plumbing stay with the trades that handle them, and we will flag anything behind the old frame that needs their attention first.
Ready to See It in Your Space
Book a free in-home measure and we will bring the options to you, from clear or low-iron glass to matte black, brushed gold, polished chrome, or brushed nickel hardware.