Antique Brass
London
Project · Leicester
Antique Brass Shower Door in Leicester
Frameless · Ultra Clear 10mm · Antique Brass
This antique brass shower door was fitted in a Leicester wet room — a deep marble enclosure with a 700mm frameless swing door, a 150mm inline fixed panel in antique brass U-channels, and a 250mm ventilation gap above. The bathroom's other antique brass items came from the client's coordinated specification; our hinges, U-channels and ladder handle were sourced from one batch to hold the tone.
Size · 850 × 2300 mm
Includes: Three Hinges, Ladder-style handle, Easy Clean Coating
01 · Door & Panel
Door and inline panel in U-channels
The main shower has a 700mm frameless swing door beside a 150mm fixed inline panel, both held against antique brass U-channels. Total opening is 850mm. The 2300mm glass stops just short of the ceiling for a 250mm ventilation gap — enough to clear steam without breaking the cocoon feel.
Antique brass varies between suppliers and even between batches, so we source the hinges, U-channels and ladder handle from one run. The bathroom's other antique brass items — controls, paper holder, towel heater — are the client's coordinated specification, and the tone holds across both sets.
02 · Slim Panel
Slim panel keeps the towel rail clear
From this angle the 150mm fixed panel earns its proportions. The towel rail sits very close to the shower opening, so a wider panel would have crowded the rail — only a small gap would have been left between the glass and the heated bars. We kept the door at its full 700mm swing width and shrank the inline panel just enough to fill the gap to the wall.
Shower doors don't need to match bathroom-door dimensions. You walk in undressed and the shower is the smaller of the two rooms — 700mm is generous for entry and lets the swing clear the floor finish without grazing the threshold. Forcing a wider door on a narrow wall would have cost the towel rail its position, which mattered more on a wet-room layout like this.
03 · Seal & Threshold
Minimalist bubble seal and threshold
Door half-open here shows the minimalist bubble seal running around its perimeter. It's flexible — seals against the fixed panel when shut, gives a little as the door comes in or out — and it stays visually quiet so the frameless lines of the door aren't broken by hardware running along its edge.
On the floor sits the acrylic threshold — almost invisible at this angle. It's the unsung piece of hardware on every well-fitted glass shower door: without it the bottom seal alone can't keep water in, especially on a wet-room floor where the run-off heads sideways before reaching the drain. Acrylic instead of metal keeps it visually quiet on marble.
04 · Door Swing
Swing-out and self-aligning close
The door has been swung outward here — it pivots a full 90° in either direction, then self-aligns to centre over the closing 15° arc, so it doesn't need babying back into position by hand. The antique brass towel heater sits within easy reach of the open door, so you can grab a towel from inside the shower, pull the door shut and wipe down without stepping back out onto the wet-room floor.
The room's palette pulls everything together — antique brass against cream-veined marble, warm-toned walls and underfloor heating beneath the marble slab. Antique brass particularly suits a room like this because it deepens with use rather than competing with the marble; the warm metal sits alongside the marble's brownish veins as if it always belonged there.
05 · Second Bathroom
Same family, different bathroom
A second bathroom in the same home received its own antique brass shower door — same hinge family, ladder-style handle and 10mm ultra clear glass with the easy-clean coating. The door here is also tall, so we specified three hinges instead of two: on a tall hinged shower door, two hinges would flex the top corner over years of use even with a careful user.
Instead of a tray, this shower sits on a raised section of floor — about a 100mm step up into the shower. That kind of riser is usually called for when the drain wants extra fall, but it's a clean visual choice on its own: no tray edge to break the marble line, and the rise sets the shower as its own zone within the room without a frame or threshold to mark the boundary.
06 · Glass Edge
Ultra clear edge against the marble
Door open a few degrees in the same second bathroom — past the 15° auto-close arc, so it stays parked at this angle on its own. This shot was taken just before the perimeter seal was fitted, which is why the cut edge of the glass is exposed. Even ultra clear glass shows a faint blue tone where light passes through that edge, especially on wider panels — with standard 10mm clear it would read dark green.
Look through the face of the glass and the marble barely shifts colour at all. The proof is simple — put a sheet of white paper behind ultra clear and it stays white; do the same behind standard 10mm clear glass and the paper picks up a green cast. Ultra clear (low-iron) is the priority specification on high-end bathrooms like this Leicester house, where the marble selection deserves to read true through every angle of the glass.
Dimensions
Width850mm
Height2300mm
Custom sizes available — contact us for fitted measurements.
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