waste of space. It's tough trying to reach down the side by the wall and clean down to the floor, and any speck of dust shows up in it.

The other day Smack was sore from lifting, and I said, "Hey, now's the perfect time for one of us to try out that monster tub!" He agreed, but opted for a long hot shower instead.

I even tried using it to wash the cat just so I could say that someone in our house had at least used it once. Total nightmare. Too deep to easily reach in and clean her, and not tall enough to keep her from standing up on her hind legs and latching her claws around the rolled edge and splashing water everywhere, and the sprayer freaked her out.

I look at that picture of the shower/tub room, and I see a perpetually grimy wall/floor around the tub, a sharp-edged seating shelf that's slippery when wet, freezing cold tile everywhere, no storage to keep anything useful handy (where do you put your favorite shower gel?), only one shower head, and an area that's so big that it only finally starts to get comfortably warm right when you're finished and ready to get out (unless you're in the tub, in which case it never gets warm).

At least the picture shows enough wall space to hang a towel bar and bathrobe hook just outside the shower door, but I've seen remodels where they were so pressed for space they didn't leave enough blank wall for those things.

IDK, though. I told my mom and sisters I was planned on getting rid of the tub, and they all immediately jumped in about I must be crazy and how that was the best thing and they all wished they had one, so I guess it depends on what you want.