Category: Trends

The hottest trends for decorating your home are all over the internet. You can even take a look at prime-time television shows who all offer inspirational and creative ways for updating, transforming and beautifying your home. Whether you are contemplating frameless sliding shower screens or hydroslide shower screens, frameless pool fences or frameless glass balustrades glass has proven itself to be a modern choice for interior designers.

Glass in modern homes is a prominent aspect which, thanks to home design shows, is growing ever popular. It is a luxury addition to home décor that is also as utilitarian as it is chic and modern. For many home DIY enthusiasts they simply overlook glass when customising their home interiors but by doing so they are missing out on the ideal way to brighten up a home.

The Reflective Trick

Glass itself is completely reflective and it is a popular designer trick to increase the presence of light in any room. Additional light makes a room feel larger, more open and emphasises other design accents of the room. Installing a frameless sliding shower screen in your bathroom, especially when it faces a window is a great way to enhance the room with added natural light. Ordinarily a bathroom is not a light filled room but by adding a frameless shower screen you are increasing the feel of the size of the room as well as its openness.

A Designer Tip

If you are deciding to redecorate your home to increase the modern feel and aspect of it glass is hard to go past. Modern home interiors are using glass in unique ways to enhance the natural light, sleek appeal and designer details of the property. Glass balustrades are creative alternatives to out dated handrails. Their use on stairways to replace traditional banisters is a great way to minimise the dampening of light through hardwood railings. Instead glass balustrades reflect light from neighbouring windows and doors to not only increase light on the stairwell but improve safety too. The glass balustrades also capture the feeling of modern appeal with their neutral aesthetic.

Clearly Glass Systems specialise in a range of customisable and modern appeal glass applications. With a creative and helpful team we can assist you in designing the home of your dreams. Our range of frameless shower screens, frameless pool fences, frameless glass balustrades and painted glass splashbacks will enhance and enliven the décor of your home.

Glass is reflecting the current look in bathroom styling for 2025. Imagine bespoke large mirrors, glass basins, glass splashbacks in coloured glass, frameless shower Screens and statement jars and vases full of fresh flowers.

The current trend is luxury in bathrooms. People want to feel like they’re going into a spa. Some Brisbane homeowners are even taking out partial shower walls, or all shower walls entirely and making the entire bathroom a shower – a high end European approach, that of course requires correct drainage.

The key to the glass look is marrying the timeless natural beauty of decorative elements in stone, timber and woven natural fibers, with the clean contemporary finishes of translucent glass, coloured glass splashbacks, ceramic tiles, polished chrome and vitreous china.

Perfect for the look is the coloured painted glass. You can build a luxurious shower recess wall that has no joints and more importantly nowhere for mould to grow.

Why not clad your bathroom walls from basin top to ceiling to give an easy clean and very dramatic back drop to your powder room.

Glass lends a timeless sense of luxury and indulgence to any bathroom.

Glass is perfect for bathrooms as the glass takes its cue from cut crystal with its many light reflective facets creating a constant play of light and shadow as the water enters the bowl.

Complete the look of a rich and deluxe lifestyle with thick, luxurious Egyptian cotton towels and wash cloths. And add dramatic and romantic mood lighting with an array of scented candle in heady scents like jasmine and camellia.

Soap scum and chalky streaks getting you down? Glass shower doors add a modern and stylish touch to any bathroom, but residue build-up can quickly cloud your shower’s shine. Keep your glass shower screen crystal clear with these cleaning tips.

Remove Water After Each Use

Prevention is key. Use a squeegee (or window cleaner) or a microfibre cloth to remove water from your shower screen after every use. This will help prevent hard-water streaks and cloudiness, and allow you to wait longer between cleans. Sure, it may seem like a bit of a hassle, but it’ll save you time scrubbing in the long run.

Go Natural

Who says you need harsh chemicals to tackle stubborn soap scum? You can get the same great results using inexpensive household ingredients.

Mix 1 cup of warm vinegar and 1 cup of dishwashing liquid soap in a spray bottle and soak your pivot or sliding glass shower doors. Leave for a few minutes then wipe off with a sponge or damp cloth. You shouldn’t have to use much elbow-grease with this tough concoction.

Consider Your Shower’s Materials

If your shower is made of stone, vinegar may cause damage. Lemon and baking soda make great natural alternatives. Simply cut a lemon in half, dip it in baking soda, wipe on your shower screen, and rinse with warm water.

For those more stubborn stains, mix baking soda with dishwashing liquid until it forms a paste, then scrub your glass shower door with a non-scratch scrub sponge.

Repel Water

Once your shower is sparkling, rub some lemon oil onto your shower screen. Apply a few drops (a little goes a long way!) to a lint-free cloth and rub on the inside of your glass shower doors, from top to bottom. This will help repel water and prevent build-up.

There’s only so much a good clean can do for an old and stained glass shower door. If your shower screen is getting beyond a clean, it might be time for a shower screen replacement. Get in touch with Clearly Glass and discover our range of quality glass shower screens today.

Nothing makes your backyard look more immaculate than a perfectly clear glass pool fence – but how do you keep it clean? Outside, your glass fence is exposed to many elements that want to leave their mark, and it can be tough to keep the glass spotless.

Follow our tips to make light work of your glass pool fence cleaning, and keep your fence looking as sharp as glass.

Prevention

The first thing to consider is how you can keep the elements away in the first place. Here are a couple ways you can increase your fence defence:

Out of reach: Keeping your gardens away from your glass fence will reduce the amount of soil and dirt blown onto it. If you’ve already got a beautiful garden by your pool, make sure there are plants that cover the soil or bark that spreads out over it.

Enduroshield: This protective glass coating product is designed to increase your glass’ defence to the elements. With its oily base, water beads up and runs straight off, keeping dirt and watermarks at bay.

Regular Cleaning

Before the age of dishwashers, we got our glass bowls sparkling clean with warm water and regular detergent. You can’t stick your fence in a dishwasher, but that warm water and detergent provides the same simple and effective solution to cleaning your glass pool fence. Here’s what you’ll need to do:

• Wipe off any excessive dirt
• Spot-clean any bird poo or excessively built-up areas of dirt and grime
• Use a sponge or gentle cloth to apply the warm water and detergent solution
• Wash off with clean water (you can use a hose)
• Let it air-dry or use a squeegee for a higher-quality finish, eliminating residue or drying marks.

You can use this cleaning method on the stainless steel bases and hinges of your fence, too.

Lazy-Day Cleaning

If you want a quicker clean for those lazy days, encourage the kids to splash away. Have a water-fight in the backyard and put the kids’ energy to good use. This won’t give you a sparkling finish, but it will help wash off any dirt and built-up grime. Just be sure to hose down the glass with clean water afterwards, to keep the pool water from leaving a mark.

If you’d like a more modern and elegantly styled fence around your pool, Clearly Glass have glass pool fences on offer that are built to fit in seamlessly and complement your whole backyard. Contact our friendly team today and discover the possibilities.