Frameless Shower Doors

Simple elegance with a modern flair.

A single frameless shower door beckons one into a sleek tile or rustic, stone room, illuminating the walled enclosure with light. It's the simplest upgrade to increase value and a touch of luxury.

All of our frameless shower doors are made to order, giving every client the opportunity to customize their bathroom shower. Begin by choosing one configuration you think would work best for your shower space. To learn more about each configuration, just click the illustration.

Why Frameless Shower Doors...

Frameless shower enclosures from Dulles Glass and Mirror bring the ultimate in luxury to any bathroom, and represent the latest in bathroom design. Here is a quick analogy test for you: a plasma TV is to a living room, as a Viking range is to a kitchen, as what is to a bathroom? If you guessed frameless glass shower doors, you guessed right! (Well, maybe it's not exactly the perfect analogy, but you get the point.)

Not convinced? Consider how much of your life you spend in the bathroom. Between brushing, showering, bathing, shaving, applying makeup, and everything else, you're spending a LOT of time in the bathroom each week. No wonder the ancient Romans considered the bathroom one of the most important rooms in the house! And no wonder they were so willing to invest in it to make it a luxurious space...after all, if you're going to spend that much time in one room, why not at least make it as pleasant an experience as possible?

In the past, shower doors required metal frames around the edges to hold the glass in place.With such framed shower doors, metal surrounded the entire glass door, leaving no exposed edges. Because these doors were constructed of thin, relatively inexpensive glass ranging from 1/8" to 3/16" thickness, they required a metal frame to maintain their structural integrity. Durability was limited, however, and water and soap scum could easily gather in the metal crevices, leading to mildew and corrosion.

Enter frameless glass shower doors. Frameless shower doors do exactly what the name implies: they eliminate the need for metal framing entirely. These doors are made from tempered glass ranging from 3/8" to 1/2" thick, making the door sturdy and structurally sound, independent of any metal framing. Maximizing the use of glass and minimizing the use of metal adds light to the bathroom overall, creating a more open, inviting look. But beyond opening up a tight space, these enclosures add elegance and style to a room that is all-too-often overlooked.

And depending on your budget and your bathroom's design, the possibilities are limitless. These frameless glass showers can be used for both stand-alone showers and as frameless bathtub screens. Options include everything from an in-line shower doors covering one side of the shower, to four glass panels surrounding an entire shower or bathtub. You can even choose neo-angled panels, which fit in a corner and feature three sides of glass (the middle panel serving as the shower door). For the glass itself, you may opt for clear glass, low iron glass, frosted glass, rain glass, bronze glass or gray glass.

And that's just the beginning: with the frameless shower doors as the room's anchor, you are free to unleash your artistic side on the rest of the bathroom. Surround the doors with tile, marble, or granite to add depth and luxury. Add a stylish metal door handle and towel bar to create the illusion of structures floating in mid-air. Let your creativity run wild and design the perfect space to fit your lifestyle!

Concerned about costs? Don't be: while the initial cost may be greater, frameless glass doors actually work out to be less expensive than framed shower doors in the long run. For starters, they're more durable than framed shower doors and can easily be cleaned to like new condition. Thus, they hold their look and value for years. Moreover, whether you plan to sell your home in the near future or years down the line, you can likely expect an increase in its resale value, courtesy of the frameless glass doors.

Bathroom upgrades offer one of the greatest returns of investment on your home. According to Remodeling Magazine's 2010 Cost vs. Value Report, the national average rate of return is 64.1 percent. Translated, that means that if you spend $10,000 to update your bathroom, you can recoup on average $6,410 when you sell your house.

With this handy little piece of information, the cost seems marginal compared to the benefit; which probably helps explain the recent surge in popularity of frameless shower doors. As these frameless doors have increasingly been recognized as a sleek, innovative trend in home design, renowned architects have begun incorporating them into their projects. And homeowners have not lagged too far behind... Dulles Glass & Mirror reports that, while there wasn't much request for frameless shower doors a few years ago, today the demand has exponentially multiplied. Apparently, people are catching on to this little secret.

So why not turn your outdated wash room into a deliciously luxurious space where you can pamper yourself? It doesn't take much to turn your bathroom into a space where you'll actually want to spend more time: a space where you can retreat into a haven of relaxation and blissful solitude, from which you can emerge soothed, refreshed, and energized. Sound better than your moldy, not-so-fabulous shower curtain that is hiding some not-so-microscopic bacteria? You're probably right. It's time to upgrade. And when you are unwinding after a long day of work in your own private oasis that will put any spa to shame, you'll grow to have a little respect for the ancient Romans.

We want you to shop with the confidence of knowing that Dulles Glass & Mirror offers a comprehensive, straightforward warranty on all glass shower doors sold and installed by our technicians for a period of three years.

In most cases we install frameless shower doors in less than two weeks from the time of your approval. Call Dulles Glass & Mirror today for your free, no obligation estimate, or simply submit a request for Quote.