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If you had your own personal sauna, you can enjoy your own spa like environment right in your own home. The new sauna shower can bring this experience right into your bathroom. If you are comfortable working with plumbing and working with electricity, you can retrofit a sauna shower into your current shower, but if the idea of electricity and water is a little unnerving for you, then you may want to hire a professional to do the job for you.

Upgrade Current Shower
If you are simply upgrading your current shower to be a shower sauna, then the first thing that you will want to do is to completely waterproof and seal your shower stall. Most regular showers are not waterproof all the way up to and including the ceiling. Painted drywall is no match for the hot, steamy vapors of a sauna shower. The moisture will cause the drywall to soften and crumble in no time at all. So the first thing that you will want to do in your shower stall is to waterproof everything.

As you are covering your ceiling with tile or a prefab shower enclosure shell, you may want to consider adding some slope to the ceiling. As the steam from the sauna condenses and clings to the ceiling, a flat ceiling will allow the big drops of condensation to drip on you, which is not particularly pleasant. However, by adding a slight slope to the stall ceiling, the drips of water will slide down the walls and instead of dripping on your head offering you a much more pleasant sauna experience.

Then the next thing that you will need to do to your existing shower stall is to install a sauna shower door. These doors are sealed to keep and steam or water vapor from escaping into the rest of your bathroom. And finally you are ready to install the steam generator. This is where you may want to have a plumber or electrician help you with the project.

Install Sauna Shower Unit
If you are doing a major remodel on your home, or if you are building a new one, then you may wish to install a sauna shower unit instead of trying to update you old shower enclosure to work for steam. You can buy the complete unit, and then you can install it directly into the bathroom. The units come in all shapes, colors and sizes, so you will be able to find the perfect unit for your bathroom. You can find different accoutrements in the sauna shower units as well. For example, some units have built in stereo systems, and others have built in massage units. So depending on what features you want included in you sauna shower unit, you can find more affordable or more expensive units.

As you are planning your new sauna shower addition to your bathroom, you have to determine how you want to configure your new room. If you want to create a spa like experience, you may want your sauna and shower to be separate. However, if space is an issue, you may want to combine you sauna and shower in one combination unit.

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Using black and white in your bathroom design can create any look that you choose.  As surprising as it may sound, black and white actually create a fairly neutral backdrop, but add any single bold color to your room and you have instant drama.  By designing a black and white room, you can redecorate it on a whim by simply switching out your décor.  Another great thing about decorating in black and white is that white is a common fixture color, so half of your work is already done for you, and it is budget friendly. 

Opposites Attract

By combining black and white when you design you bathroom, you can create any mood that you want.  Of course white reflects the light beautifully to create a sense of visual space in the room, and black adds the much needed contrast to keep the room from feeling too medicinal.  Depending on how you combine the two colors you can create a retro look, a classic look, a modern look or even and elegant look for your bathroom.  You can add interest and drama by working black and white into patterns either intricate or simple.  You can make the room look graphic or tailored simply by changing the black and white patterns that you use.

Big and Bold

If you choose to go bold with this color combination it is certainly possible.  You can use black for a focal wall, and then mount a large mirror to brighten it back up.  You can create your wall with paint or with tile.  Shiny black tile creates a very dramatic space.  However, if this is too much black for your taste you can leave the walls white, and perhaps add some black tile as a border at chair rail height or maybe as an edging on the floor.  Then do not forget the classic black and white checkerboard tile in the bathroom.  You can add it to the floor, the walls or even the ceiling.  You can stencil black borders on white walls or vice versa.  You can add black trim to your white tile, or you can add a black pattern in your countertop.

Accessories

You can stay right in the color palette, and if your bathroom is predominantly white with maybe a black and white checkerboard floor, you may opt to dress it with all black accessories.  By adding floating shelves, a shower curtain, a bathmat and other accessories in black, you are taking an extremely simple color palette and pulling a lot of drama out of it.  You can also pattern your accessories.  For example, instead of a black shower curtain, you may choose a black and white striped shower curtain.  For a more country look, you may opt for a toile design in black and white creating a crisp graphic nod to the French countryside.  Add a wrought iron fleur de lis and abstract wall hangings, and you have yourself an elegant, black and white bathroom.