The 4 Very Best Shower Curtains

Quiet Town Home Sun Shower – Honey

Material: 12-gauge EVA | Size: 72 inches wide by 72 or 84 inches long

$52 AT QUIET TOWN

I’ve been using the amber colorway above for over a year and absolutely love it — it’s ideal for my small apartment bathroom. The Sun Shower’s transparency makes the room seem bigger than a matte curtain would, and the color creates a rich, warm cast as the light from a window filters through it. Laura Fenton, the author of The Little Book of Living Small, agrees: “For years, I used clear plastic shower liners as my ‘shower curtain’ because they made my small bathrooms look bigger,” she says, but the problem was that they “always looked like cheap shower liners.” She describes the Sun Shower curtain as “a fancy version of my budget solution”: the same transparency with thicker, higher-quality material.

Coyuchi Organic Waffle Shower Curtain

Material: Organic cotton | Size: 72 inches by 72 inches (pre-shrunk)

$128 AT NORDSTROOM

“I can’t resist anything waffle weave,” says Carrollo, “and I love this one.” It’s made of plush organic cotton and comes preshrunk, so you don’t have to worry about an awkward fit after the first wash cycle. She thinks it would be great to “balance out a bathroom with a more bold design on the walls or floor.”