To get a non-green tint in thick glass, you need to use Starfire glass. It's a lot more expensive.

I happen to prefer the green tint to clear, but that's just me.

Did you order regular glass or starphire glass? For white tiled showers or white marble showers, you need to use starphire glass.

Also the thickness of the glass matters. So for thicker glass, the starphire glass becomes more important so as not to ruin the tile color.

Oh no...I didn't know about the difference!! It's probably not staphire glass then.

I think it looks gorgeous...

Wow! It's stunning, redroze. Any green tint is very subtle and I think it suits the vintage look.

Well thank you. But argh, I'm still really annoyed that the glass shower company didn't tell us that there was another option of getting a clearer glass. We could have at least found out the cost difference...truthfully we would have gone with the clearer starfire glass due to our white tiles.

What kind of price diff are we talking about?

Dont know how much more starphire is but i suspect it has gotten cheaper as its use gets widespread.

Most people will not notice it unless you see the starphire side by side. But once you have seen the difference, you always notice the green tint in regular glass.

Here is my shower with starphire (3/8") against pure white marble. Most people dont notice anything special about the glass.

My contractor mentioned the two different types too and said that the starfire was significantly more...but he would have said something different if it was double. It's probably like 20-30% more.

I think they look totally beautiful!

We did get the starfire, but nobody offered it up front, and we kept having to remind folks we were getting bids from that we wanted it. It was A LOT A LOT more for us, especially with our glass being 1/2" as it was large.

I do happen to love the look of green glass and wanted a green bubble glass, but I always come up with strange ideas, and not once did I see such a glass (like the mexican glasswear). We have a lot going on in a relatively tight space, needed the invisibility of the very LARGE shower glass not to stand like a giant box in the room.

Did I mention it was A LOT more? I think it was almost double. So yours looks really lovely, the bathrooms are great, and you can still pay for a vacation!

Well thank you Pepperidge Farm for consoling me. We've been using the showers now and I must say, it's a joy to be in them. So I can wait and maybe replace them in a few years.

Red your showers look wonderful. Makes me even more anxious for ours to get done...supposedly that will be this next week. Congrats!

I LOVE the green tint with your tile. A pale green is classic with white marble. Adds just a hit of color to the bath. Why do you want it all completely white? Too cold looking. Pick up the green elsewhere in the bath with some framed botanical prints and some plants.. Your bath is lovely. I PREFER the green to the clear.

Really?? You prefer the green? Wow, that's great. We just showed it to our cousin and she loves it too. It's one of those thigns where you expect it to look a certain way and it doesn't. Good idea in picking up the green elsewhere. I think it looks nice with the bluish tint of the paint colours.

Good luck with the glass shower install Lukkirish. I hope you absolutely love them!

Oh and Pharoah, I love your clear glass showers. They are sparkly and stunning.

Thanks Red! Of course ours isn't as nice as yours, it's just a by pass..but still..it will mean it's almost done!

In regards to your doors, I think the green actually lends to more of a spa feel. Add some plush white towels and a basket of spa goodies and you'll be set to go! I love it, it's very inviting!

Another fan of a green tint in glass. To me it just makes it read as glass, which is what it is, and I like it. I like that glass is a material and don't view it as absence of color, texture etc. I also adore the old wavy glass windows on my ca1880 home.

The bathroom looks beautiful! I wouldn't worry a bit about the glass color. Actually, the greenish tint goes perfectly with the somewhat vintage-y look you've got! Embrace it as a happy result of "meant to be!"

yes it looks green but love it

I think the green looks fabulous, much better than completely clear would. Gorgeous bathrooms!

It does look green but it also looks great! I agree with Cat Mom that it compliments the vintage vibe in the bathroom.

Re the increase for clear glass: we've only gotten one glass quote thus far, but the upcharge to 'Starphire' was 35%.

We had this EXACT same experience. all white tile shower, so beautiful, and then the installers came and put up blue/green glass. I was so bummed. I couldn’t let it go, I knew it would bug me. Same here- they never mentioned there were other options. I called them and asked about it being so blue and they told me about Starfire. I’m a penny pincher and it was more expensive but not too outrageous because we did it! And it’s something I never regret, I LOVE the clear glass.

Same experience with the unexpected greenish tint to the glass! 😢 I have this beautiful glossy Cloe tile in varying shades of white that I absolutely love. I waited excitedly for the glass installers to finish, and when I walked in & saw the shower doors, I almost cried. They were beautiful…but they muted the whiteness of the tile. I had no idea there were different “shades” of glass! I will say that when all the lights are on, it’s not very noticeable, so I’m trying to get over the disappointment & enjoy the fact that I have a beautiful new shower.

I Google “why does my glass look tinted” and landed here. I am going through the same thing. We spent a fortune on tile from Spain for the back of the shower for a spa look, then shower glass for installed yesterday and it looks smoky or greenish grey which I was not expecting, especially since the previous glass was clear. I am trying not to let it bother me and hanging on to some of the comments here but jeez, I wish I would have known.

I learned about Starphire glass on these forums a long time ago. When I remodeled the 4 bathrooms in my previous house and when I built a new house last year, I used the Starphire glass for all of them.

You spend so much time picking the perfect tile for your shower and then the whole look gets altered by the regular tinted glass, specially if you used white tiles. The additional cost for the Starphire glass was not that much, specially when compared to the whole cost of a bathroom project.

Master shower in my previous house. The white tile and white quartz (bench, threshold & door frame) stay white with the Starphire glass.

Standard glass has a greenish hue because of its iron content, the iron in the glass makes it look green.

Starphire is a low iron glass manufactured by Vitro (formerly PPG), but the name has become somewhat synonymous for low iron glass in general; kind of like asking for coke when wanting a cola.

When viewed from the edge, Starphire appears slightly cyan to blue depending on lighting. This is intentional and is due to adding cobalt to the raw glass formula which helps to ensure visual uniformity, and it's also a very appealing color.

Most other glass companies, but not all, do manufacture their own low iron glass with edge color ranging from crystal clear (in a product called krystal klear) to a slight yellowish tint, but only starphire (that I am aware of) has the slightly blue edge color.

Possibly because Starphire is the most widely known, and is often specifically requested, it's also one of the more, if not the most, expensive option. And while commercial glass companies and glaziers have access to options other than Starphire, I suspect that Starphire is pretty much a given for residential low iron projects, but cost and availability might vary considerably depending at least in part on location and fabricator and/or dealer volume.

Also since Starphire is somewhat synonymous with low iron glass, I suspect that it's entirely possible to ask for "starphire" by name, but the glass used in the final product, while still low iron, might be something other than actual Starphire, once again based on location and fabricator and/or dealer volume..

I am also very disappointed with the glass looking so green. It takes away from the white tiles I put in. If I’d known that it would look green, I would have gone with different tile.

@Christine Rolleston Clear Glass has a natural green hue to is, you need to order Low Iron Glass to get crystal clear.

It would have been better if my contractor would have mentioned it right away.