Luxury And Custom Home Shower Doors In Troy, MI
Big openings, heavy panels, steam, and geometry that does not repeat. On a custom Troy home the glass answers to a drawing, a finish schedule and a designer, so we would rather be in the conversation while all three are still moving.
Working To A Drawing, Not A Catalog
A custom home does not shop for a shower door. It has an elevation, a finish schedule, and someone whose job is making the whole house agree with itself. That changes what we do. We read the shower elevations before tile, tell you what the glass can and cannot do as drawn, and flag the few details that decide whether the finished enclosure looks designed or looks added afterward.
Those details are rarely the glass itself. They are the bench that ends where a panel wants to land, the niche the door swing crosses, the knee wall that needs a solid top to carry a panel, the ceiling over a steam room, and the header a very wide opening will want. Every one of them is nearly free to move on paper and painful to move once it is in tile. That is the whole argument for having us at the drawing stage instead of at the punch list.
For most custom Troy baths the answer is frameless shower doors in the primary and a custom glass shower enclosure anywhere the room stops behaving like a box. If the drawing calls for a wet room that closes at the top, that is a steam shower enclosure, and it drives decisions well upstream of the glass.
What We Need From The Design Team
Elevations, Early
Send the shower elevations and the plan while tile is still a drawing. We mark what the glass will need: where a panel lands, where a header helps, how tall the door can reasonably hang, and whether the swing clears the vanity. Marked up on paper it costs nothing to change.
One Finish Schedule, All Baths
If a house is meant to read as one house, the baths should be specified together against one schedule. We work from the spec sheet or a physical sample rather than a finish name, because the same word means different things from different makers. Bring the actual trim to the showroom and compare it in real light.
Access And Protection
Heavy glass has to physically reach the room. Before install day we want to know the stair turn, the door widths, whether the floor is finished stone or wood, and what has to be covered. In a finished custom home the path to the bathroom deserves as much planning as the opening does.
Geometry, Steam And The Things That Get Decided Once
Unusual is normal on this kind of house. Angled walls, sloped ceilings, a curbless entry with a linear drain, glass returning past a bench, a panel that runs to the ceiling. None of that troubles the glass. It troubles the sequence. A curbless entry decides where the water goes, which decides where the sweep and the gap sit, which decides how the door hangs. Change one of those after the tile is set and the others do not follow along.
Steam is the clearest case. A steam enclosure closes at the top, so the shower ceiling has to be finished and sloped by the tile setter, and the generator with its plumbing and power is other trades' work that gets roughed in long before we are on site. Steam is decided at the drawing, never at the tile. Where the room wants a true weighted door rather than a slider, hinged shower doors carry that feel, and the clearance for the swing gets confirmed on the drawing as well.
- Shower elevations reviewed before tile starts
- Backing and headers marked at framing
- Steam decided at the drawing stage
- One finish schedule across every bath
- Samples compared in real showroom light
- Access path and floor protection planned
Common questions.
Will you work from our architect's drawings?
Yes, and we would much rather see them early than late. We read the elevations, tell you what the glass needs from the framing and the tile, and note anything the drawing asks for that hardware cannot hold. We still field measure the finished opening before anything is cut, because a custom house is never exactly what was drawn.
How do you match a hardware finish across a whole house?
By working from the real thing. Send the spec sheet, or better, bring a piece of the faucet trim into the showroom so we can hold it against our hardware under real light. Finish names are not standardized between makers. A house specified against one schedule stays consistent in a way that ordering bath by bath never manages.
Can the glass run all the way to the ceiling?
Often, and on a tall custom bath it is worth raising early. It needs walls and a ceiling prepared for it: solid backing where the hardware lands, a plane close to true, and the decision made before the tile setter starts. Panels that tall also change the access question, so we talk the delivery path through at the same time.
Who handles the steam generator?
Another trade. We build and install the enclosure, including how it closes at the top, while the generator, its plumbing and its electrical belong to your mechanical trades, and the sloped shower ceiling belongs to the tile setter. A steam room works when all three were planned together, which is why that decision cannot wait for the glass stage.
The bathroom is already tiled. Is it too late to change the glass layout?
Not necessarily, but the options narrow. Once tile is set, the glass has to work with what exists: the walls, the curb, the niche and whatever backing is behind them. Most of what a designer wants is still reachable. What is gone is the chance to shift a bench an inch or add backing behind a wall.
Bring Us The Drawing
Call (586) 315-8900, text (586) 800-9481, or send the shower elevations to [email protected]. Free in-home measure in Troy and a no-pressure quote once we have stood in the room.