Patrick, even though our shower is of a decent size, I wanted the ability to completely remove/flip up which ever seat I finally chose, both for cleaning, and for space, should you not want to bang our knees on said corner bench if we became physically less adept. The bench I chose has stood up well, is warm when wet, not slippery, and is sturdy enough to use to stand on to change lightbulbs in the bathroom ceiling! I will say that originally I wanted a teak flip up bench/seat, but the costs were astronomical for the interior wall bracing, brackets, and teak seat. I'm of a heavier weight, and didn't want to pull the darn thing out of the wall, hence the extra bracing I refer to. The seat and brackets (stainless, and hinged brackets were what I was considering) were only going to be available to me from a boat building/marine grade store, and they saw me coming with my wallet open! As you've read, I finally just purchased a really nice, sturdy bench, which is perfect height for washing dogs, shaving human legs, and just sitting to towel dry hair etc after showering. Take your time, give this some thought, and realize that propping one's butt up on a slippery bit of granite should you choose it, gets old as you get old! :) I did use a cardboard box to generally get the idea of size and height I wanted for my bench...give it a try! Good luck with your project! You'll love the new shower, regardless of seating!

Hopefully this works. I have two baths we just finished. The master is Daltile Brancacci with the resin chair rail and floral listello Fastfloors.com had this for 1/2 the price as special order from home depot. You have to call them though after you get your order set up to fix any shipping issues (they do each type of tile as a seperate order so shipping looks much worse than it really is until you call them). The other is our kids bath with 4 1/4" plain white tile and 2" cobalt blue glass from mirage tile. Note that the glass tile is thicker so you will have to put down more thinset behind the remaining tile and the grout joints around the glass will be larger due to difference in tile sizes. Here is a link that might be useful: fastfloors

I'll make this easy on both of us-- here's the link to my bathrooms gallery: Here is a link that might be useful: My gallery's bathrooms section

Especially your tiled showers that used a rock tile for the floor. It's most appreciated. And I can not believe I'm starting up another remodel. We've been in this house for two and a half years and have redone every room but the master bath. The kitchen was a year long project and looks gorgeous. This bathroom was supposed to be one of those rip out the tile, replace the toilet and vanity types of deals. $1500 cost, maximum. Now we're talking about tiling the floor in carerra marble (any cheap sources welcomed, PLEASE), tiling halfways up the wall, tiling the shower. Building in some linen cabinets. Granite topped cherry wood vanity. Someone please save me. I'm cheap by nature (entire kitchen remodel should've cost about $30k, I whittled it down, with the same materials, to $12) so another remodel may do me in.