Problem Solving

If you watched the tour of our apartment, you saw our awesome clawfoot tub.  I absolutely love how it looks (painted claws and all). It warms up super quickly for baths and it's remarkably easy to clean too, since it's set off the ground and has no tile walls surrounding it.  The one issue it has is with the shower curtains.

Because it's independent from the wall we need to use two of the plastic shower curtain/liner things.  We have one for the wall side, and one for the curtain side.  This dual curtain thing leaves a "small" gap  (or gaping hole, however you choose to define it) at either end of the tub.  The end opposite the shower head isn't a problem since it rarely gets wet.  But the side by the shower head is a different story.  Every time we shower, a large puddle develops on the floor where the pipes enter the floor.  Sometimes it's more like a small pond than a puddle.


I still can't determine if I naturally came up with this idea on my own, or if I gleaned it from somewhere else and forgot where, but at any rate: I have solved our problem!

Binder clips!  The photo is slightly blurry (apologies, my camera has never worked well after it got dropped in the Andes Mountains...oops!), but you get the idea.  

There's another one for good measure, haha.  It is such a simple fix!  I've put 5 or 6 of these little guys on the seam of the two curtains.  And it works, yay!  The floors have stayed MUCH drier and I'm sure the downstairs neighbors are happy about that.