Review on Waterproof White Shower Curtain With Mesh Window And Weighted Bottom Hem By UFRIDAY - Machine Washable, 72 X 72 Inches Ideal For Bathrooms by Keith Martin

Last year we moved into a smallish 2 bedroom 1 bath townhouse built in the 1940s in a major metropolitan area. My previous home was a 2-1 built in 1960s rural suburb Florida, and I thought the 5x7 bathroom there with a foot of counter space was tiny. Ha! It was just practice in learning how to downsize and be space efficient. Our shower tub is exactly 60” wide with an opening 65” high from the tub ledge to the originally installed stationary metal curtain rod. We don’t require all of these massively wide / long shower curtains. With the vanity cabinet two inches from the tub in such a cramped space, we also can’t get all fancy with a curtain / liner combo. This and the permanent curtain rod also nix installing a higher / curved rod. Colors are also out being that it would make the room claustrophobic, the only lighting is a few vanity bulbs above the sink, and the tile colors are ivory lined with a blue-green toned pukey gray. As a huge fan of color, especially the mid-century color tile bathrooms, what we’ve been gifted in style and lack of options hurts my soul. Basically we can do for this bathroom is merely a liner, somewhere in the exciting spectrum between clear and white, transparent to opaque. At first we went with clear plastic for cheap and to allow the most visual space and best lighting. Those are hard to keep looking clean from soap scum, and the first time we had house guests stay with us, the privacy factor became into play for the first time. Next, I had a spare fabric white liner to try out. Another issue with our tiny old bathroom, is lack of ventilation. There’s a heater for the few months of cold, but not anything to circulate and vent a steamy shower in an already very humid climate. As to not make the bathroom too steamy and mildewy gross, leaving the bathroom door open has now become part of our lives. With this, comes a certain vulnerability. You want to know when someone enters the bathroom, and a completely opaque shower curtain made for anxiety riddled bathing. I would be showering after work, when my SO would get home, and he’d have to make sure to announce himself as to not scare me half to death. Also, cats suddenly flinging themselves at the closed curtain, or sitting on the vanity and trying to tap at you through the curtain to get your attention, is enough to make you happy there is a drain there. I didn’t bother washing the white fabric curtain when it got a little mildewed, I tossed it. NEXT, we got frosted plastic liner. This worked fairly well for privacy and lighting, but I really preferred to not have my bathroom look like a bachelor pad / dorm room, and really prefer to not have to toss a liner every 6 months or so when it gets gross. I’d stayed in a few hotels which had the shower curtains with the window area at about face level, and I’d loved the idea. Privacy, the ability to allow light in, to fully see the bathroom, and options in plastic / fabric. Great! I was willing to pay $$ for one that would last, but most of these styles have the detachable / washable inner liners. I truly wish I could utilize that feature, but I just don’t have the space for a curtain that hangs outside the tub. I need just a single liner that stays inside. For some reason, it seemed like a lot of these were in darker colors, so it really narrowed down my options of needing just plain white. I settled for the standard 72x72 size because I couldn’t find anything a hair smaller, but with this in mind I also had to consider just where the mesh window area fell on the curtain for our needs. Many many of the curtains have just an inch or so of fabric at the top, then the viewing area. I’m a short person, and so is my SO. While some of those styles may be good for someone tall, or if someone just wanted to allow more light in through the top, that wasn’t for me. For us being short, in a little short tub, it needed to have the opening a bit lower so that we could actually see out of it. This particular curtain seemed to fit the bill: white, fabric, and a lower window. It’s a bit thin, simply stitched, and I don’t really see any real weights on the bottom, it’s just a regular seam, no magnets. I was worried about the standard size of 72x72, but it fits really well for our small shower tub. I haven’t measured the curtain, but the width is just right. I’m not sure how water fast this is yet, or how long it will really last as far as it seeming to be a bit delicate, but I’m definitely looking forward to giving it a shot!