The Rise of Doorless Showers: What Works and What Leaks

They look effortless. Sleek. Sculptural. Spa-like. But a doorless shower done wrong? It becomes a beautiful mistake—one that soaks your vanity, warps your millwork, and invites daily regret.

At Stake Home Renovations, we build doorless showers that actually work—and still take your breath away. Because in Manhattan, design has to be more than pretty. It has to perform.

This Isn’t a Resort in Tulum. It’s Your Fifth Floor Walk-Up.We’ve built open showers in Chelsea lofts, Park Avenue co-ops, and Brooklyn brownstones. Every one required customized drainage, reworked joists, and a few hours convincing building management this wouldn’t leak into the downstairs neighbor’s kitchen. And guess what? It didn’t.

No Curb. No Door. No Excuses.We engineer precise floor pitches—often to the millimeter—so that water never wanders. We specify hidden linear drains that blend into the stone, and waterproof behind the walls like your apartment depends on it (because it does).

We Think About Steam So You Don’t Have ToYou won’t miss the glass door if you’re not shivering. Our design team calibrates ceiling height, venting, radiant floor heating, and fixture placement to preserve warmth and eliminate splash. It’s why a Stake shower doesn’t feel exposed—it feels indulgent.

One Slab. One Shot. No Second Chances.Large-format stone makes a doorless shower sing—but it also punishes imprecision. Our installers plan every cut, every seam, every drain slope before a single tile is set. Because once the slab is in, the margin for error is zero.

What We Build Is Invisible… Until It Isn’tYou don’t see the waterproofing membrane, the Schluter profiles, the structural reinforcement below. But you will see what happens when someone else skips them. Our team handles all the silent systems that make a shower perform flawlessly for decades.

Why Stake?Because we don't build "bathrooms." We build environments. Experiences. Design solutions that carry the weight of luxury expectations—and exceed them. Minimal on glass. Maximum on craft. Zero leaks.

If you’re dreaming of a doorless shower in your NYC home, we’ll show you what’s possible—and then we’ll make it real.