So long as you realise it's going to be much more costly setting the glass right on the bench and fabricating the glass to conform to it, I don't see a problem with it.

Thanks so much for responding Bill. I've read so much of your advice on other issues already. Thanks for helping all of us novices here.

I hadn't anticipated that the glass would be more expensive--my GC had already said that the glass would be custom measured and fit to the space once it was built, so I assumed I'd be fitting a slightly different size space. I'm guessing here, but is it more expensive because the bench will likely be sloped slightly to allow water to drain making the cut/fit more difficult?

The primary reason to avoid the half wall is that the shower is located on a wall that is bumped into the room 6" (to accommodate a built-in look fridge in the adjacent kitchen). No two designers could agree on whether I would tile or dry wall the outside of the half wall and where the tile should end---just at the edge of the shower, straight across to the wall including the 6" bump-in, or all the way up the 6" bump in wall. Also, there's a glass mosaic feature panel designed for the back wall of the shower and visually, I didn't want a half wall competing with it for attention. Any advice?

Thanks!!!!!

Custom fit to fit the space is a whole lot more difficult when it goes from straight cut panes of glass to something that will mold around a bench.

No two designers could agree on whether I would tile or dry wall the outside of the half wall and where the tile should end

I've done this once, and what we did (this was with glass block on top of the half wall instead of frameless glass) was waterproof the top and inside of the wall, and then tiled the entire wall, top front and back. We then brought the wall tile out to where the glass block was going to be. Had it not been glass block, my recommendation would have been to bring the wall tile out so as to be flush with the front of the FINISHED wall (where the face of the tile on the front of the wall will be).

In my mind, the only other possibility would be to obviously tile the inside of the half wall, but then cap the top with bullnose, on both edges, bringing the tile out to the front edge of the top (of course, AFTER waterproofing the top and inside of the wall), and then end the wall tile at the outside edge of the half wall.

Unfortunately, my laptop's in being worked on and the pic that shows the one that I did is not in my photobucket account.

Bill,

Thanks for all the information. It's very clear. As an aside, I love your work! That hex shower is a masterpiece!