Shower Flow Restrictor Change

Holly and I moved in June 2018. We like the new apartment. The shower head had a nice enough spray pattern and adjusted  to a location that we liked but it did not have sufficient water pressure. In a prior post I stated that one of my favorite things to improve a rental bathroom is change the shower head. In this case we like the shower head well enough, but not the flow rate.
We still have our Moem shower head but have not yet installed it (though, now that I look at its flow rate and consider how much I have liked it, maybe I should).
Initially we removed all flow restriction from our shower head, but it was a bit too much and also seemed quite wasteful in terms of water usage.
So we bought a flow restrictor kit. We then tried each restrictor from 2.0 gallons per minute (GPM) to 4.0 GPM which is what we currently have and are happy with.

We removed the shower head using Vise-Grip. We then laid out all the flow restrictors. It looks like the shower was using a 1.5 GPM restrictor by default.

Remodeled Bathroom

Friends of mine recently remodeled their bathroom and it came out gorgeous.
It was also my first chance to try out the Kohler WaterTile body sprays. They were very pleasant and relaxing.
More so than anything though I love having two shower heads (hand and fixed) to use at once but being off center from one another on a horizontal axis. This provided a wonderful coverage in terms of water and full body width spray, even more so than my current shower head, and where the two streams met there was wonderful outflow for washing shampoo and conditioner out of long hair.
Also, when using such setups you need to be much more careful with what valves you use so as to insure good pressure through all heads, this is a level of complexity not necessarily included in an ordinary single head shower or single head shower plus hand shower setup.
So, while I'm renting for now, these are definitely things to take note of for when I buy a home and design a shower.

Bathroom Improvements while Renting

So, first, I'll start with a mistake.

I bought these  InterDesign Axis Loop Shower Curtain Hooks from Bed Bath & Beyond because I really liked the look. And I still do like the look and there have been no rust issues or anything. It's just that if you're not careful when moving the shower curtain one or two has a tendency to fall off the bar and this annoys me. So, we'll probably replace these.