Custom Shower Doors in Greater Seattle

A custom shower door starts from a different premise than anything in a catalog: the opening is the spec. We measure the actual geometry of your shower, including the parts that are not square, then fabricate heavy 3/8” or 1/2” tempered glass to match it. Nothing gets shimmed to hide a gap or trimmed on site. The panel arrives already correct, because it was cut for this bathroom and no other.

That matters most when the opening itself is the hard part. Stock and semi-custom doors assume a level curb, plumb walls, and one of a handful of standard widths. Puget Sound housing rarely cooperates, and higher-end remodels rarely want to.

When a stock door won’t work

Some showers simply have no catalog answer. A curbless walk-in where the floor slopes to a linear drain. An opening wider than any stock slider. A knee wall on one side and a full-height wall on the other. A 1920s Seattle bath where the walls lean a half inch over six feet, or a Clyde Hill estate where the architect drew the enclosure before anyone asked what glass comes in. Those are the projects this page is for.

We build to the condition, not around it. Out-of-plumb walls get called out at the measure and the glass is cut to follow them. Notches get cut for tile niches, benches, and half walls. Oversize panels move up to 1/2” glass so the door still feels planted at that scale. If the design calls for a configuration nobody sells, that is a normal Tuesday here, not a change order.

Bespoke enclosures for non-standard openings

The common custom requests, roughly in the order we see them: curbless walk-ins with a single fixed panel, oversized dual-sliding doors over wide openings or tubs, corner enclosures cut to angles that are not quite 90 degrees, and panels that land on a tiled pony or knee wall instead of the floor. Steam tops and transoms come up in newer luxury baths. Every one of them is measured in person by Tim, and every one is fabricated to the measured geometry rather than a nominal size.

If what you actually want is the classic frameless look on a conventional opening, the frameless shower doors page covers that product in depth. Custom work uses the same glass and hardware quality; the difference is that here, the shape of your bathroom drives the design.

Glass and hardware specified to the opening

Glass choice is part of the fabrication spec, not a finish decision bolted on at the end. Clear tempered is the default. Low-iron (Starphire) removes the green edge tint that shows on thick panels, which is why it earns its upcharge on large custom glass. Textured patterns like P516, Rain, and Barock add privacy without a curtain. Hardware comes in 14 finishes, and on custom work the hinge and clip placement is engineered around the panel weight and the anchoring the wall can offer, into studs where they exist and into substrate anchors where they do not.

From template to installed glass

The process runs in three steps. First the in-home measure: Tim checks plumb, square, and substrate, and walks through configuration, glass, and hardware with you. It is free and takes about 30 to 45 minutes. Second, fabrication: the glass is cut and tempered to your opening, typically 1.5 to 2 weeks for standard custom configurations, longer for oversize or specialty glass, and you hear about that at the measure rather than after the deposit. Third, install: a half day on site for most projects, sealed, aligned, and cleaned up. A 1-year adjustment warranty covers settling and hardware tweaks after the house does what houses do.

If the opening is unusual, that is the reason to call, not a reason to hesitate. Get a free quote and Tim will look at it in person.