Shower wall on an old 3207 aft cabin

kthoennes

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Just spent the weekend as a guest on a SeaRay 56 foot sedan bridge. I'm generally not a SeaRay fan, but wow. The shower enclosures were curved lexan, made everything feel so spacious and open. The shower in our 32' aft cabin (1983) is enclosed with solid walls and opaque, frosted glass folding doors. It feels tiny and dark and claustrophobic in the shower, even though by measurement it's almost as big as the SeaRay's shower. This might be a stupid question and a stupid idea, but does anybody know if that shower wall is a "bearing wall" to use a house/residential term? It would be the wall just to the left as you're facing the sink, the wall where the soap dish is mounted. I wonder if anyone has ever torn out that wall and I wonder what's in there. I'm thinking of installing a large window or glass/lexan panel in that wall so the shower stall and head/bathroom in general feels more open and spacious.

I'm thinking of a window from just above the height of the counter to a few inches from the ceiling, maybe plate glass with a big cursive "C" frosted into the glass or something like that to really spiff things up, and replacing the shower door's frosted glass with clear.

Might be a stupid idea, but those crystal clear shower enclosures on the SeaRay made a huge difference in how spacious the showers and the heads/bathrooms felt. Anybody ever done anything like that on a 3207 aft cabin from the 80's? Thanks.
 
Your wall is just a partition and is not "load bearing". The bad news is that the plumbing comes from under the sink and through that wall so you would have to reroute it. Interesting idea though.

Jim
 
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