Newbury covers two quite different worlds: the Route 1A farmland and the historic Upper Green, where antique houses date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Plum Island, where a dense community of beach cottages and rebuilt year-round homes sits on a barrier island. The bath projects in each are almost nothing alike.
On the mainland, the antique houses set the classic custom-glass problem. First Period and colonial framing has settled for centuries; bathrooms were inserted into rooms that never anticipated them; openings lean, walls bow, and ceilings slope steeply under old rooflines. An enclosure for a room like that has to be cut to the geometry that exists — angled top cuts, notches around casings, beams, and chimney chases, and panels sized to a wall's actual taper. Every Oasis enclosure is measured in your home to 1/16" after the tile is finished, which is what makes those fits work.
Plum Island is a different exercise. Cottage bathrooms there are small, sometimes very small, and the constraint is usually that a swinging door has nowhere to go. Compact solutions matter: a single fixed panel with an open entry where the layout allows it, or glass sized precisely so a door clears the vanity and the toilet. Many island houses have also been rebuilt or lifted in recent years, which means brand-new, properly square framing and a genuine opportunity to get the enclosure right from the start.
Salt air is a real consideration on the island and along the marsh edge. Hardware finishes weather differently near open water, and which line makes sense depends on exposure — worth discussing during the measurement visit rather than discovering later. Where a house sits directly on the beach side, that conversation matters more than the color choice.
Glass thickness follows the room: 3/8" for compact cottage and antique-house openings, 1/2" where a mainland renovation produces a wide fixed run or a large door. Low-iron ultra-clear glass is worth the upgrade against white marble or pale stone, where standard tempered glass shows a green edge cast.
Hardware in the antique houses runs traditional — polished nickel, unlacquered brass, oil-rubbed bronze. Newer island rebuilds go toward brushed nickel and matte black, with corrosion resistance weighted heavily.
Our Peabody showroom at 47 Newbury St is about 20 miles from Newbury, roughly a 30-minute drive down Route 1 or Route 95. Worth one thorough visit with your tile sample in hand.
Oasis employees do all of it for Newbury customers — the measurement, the Massachusetts fabrication, the installation — with no change to the quoted price.
