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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 andHaving a place to hang your hat is the motivation behind what most people work for throughout their lives. While many people strive to buy a house, sometimes it is not something that is possible to do right now, so you find yourself renting a place to live instead. Unfortunately when you do not own your residence, you may have some restrictions that you have to follow when you want to decorate your space. 

The types of restrictions that you run into are frequently rather limiting, so you will have to come up with some creative solutions to get around living in a barren space that looks impersonal and generic. But don’t worry – even if you cannot paint the walls in your space there are many different things that you can do to make your rented space your home.

Wall Art
A great way to bring color to your walls is simply to cover your walls with artwork. You may choose photos, wall sculptures, paintings, prints or posters, and when you are done, you will not even notice the plain white walls in your room. If you have large pieces of art or posters, hang them first to create focal points in your rooms. Then take your smaller pictures and group them together in some way that they relate to each other.  Match the frames, colors within the pieces or subject matter, and then form them into groupings so that they make a larger impact than if they are just strewn across your walls.
 
Curtains
Another way to get a lot of color into your room in an apartment is to hang ceiling to floor curtains on your wall. The beauty of this solution is that you can flank a window or sliding glass door with the curtains, or you may simply hang them on your wall to create the illusion of a window. You may even want to hang a large mirror on your wall and hang your curtains on either side of it. Use bright or bold colors to add energy to your room, or you can use a more neutral palette to simply create interest and texture on your walls.

Embrace Neutrals
If, like most apartments, your walls are painted white, then you may simply wish to embrace the white as the main component of your room. Choose a few pieces of large furniture to saturate the room with your favorite colors. For example, a couch and an area rug and a large glass bowl if rendered in the same bold color will pop out of the room at you. By creating a truly neutral backdrop keeping your walls, curtains and the balance of your furniture in pale tones, you draw the eye directly to your boldly colored pieces of furniture and accents, and you have long since forgotten about any white wall restrictions that you may have in your apartment.

Just because you are renting does not mean that you have to suffer a bland environment. Go ahead and get creative!

Debra Haynes is a staff writer and decorating specialist with Metal-Wall-Art.com and she offers stylish suggestions for decorating with abstract metal art and tropical metal art.