This shower promises not just to wash you but to change your mood, pummel your muscles and relax as you scrub by playing a range of ambient watery music - from a babbling brook to ocean surf. The Nereus 3000 shower enclosure is very much at the top end of the market with its £8,000 (10,160) price tag but the extras on offer for this double shower sound rather extraordinary. Depending on the model you choose you can opt for chromotherapy, which is the use of colour to evoke different emotions - for example, red and yellow to stimulate, or blue or green to relax. Once you've decided what mood you're in, you then select from one of the six ambient sound settings: rain, summer nights, waterfall, ocean surf, stream or wind.
Having made your selections, next on the menu is your choice of shower mood. Do you want sport, duo, vortex, refresh, reflex, stimulate, massage or natural - all coming at you from eight perfectly positioned sequencing body jets? Throw in the aromatherapy, foot spa, foot jets, variable climate steam feature, digital clock, integrated all-channel radio and you're off.
If you want your own space, opt for the Nereus 2000 with one seat for around £7,600 (9,650). Both are part of the Ideal Standard range available at Absolute Bathrooms, Glencormac Business Park, Kilmacanogue, Co Wicklow. Tel: 01-2765689.
